A honest look at the immigration issue
Josimar Salum
It’s clear now! The question of not backing up the cause of the immigrants, goes beyond the circle of Republicans. It includes the service areas of apartments and mansions of the Democrats and their business offices badly unlighted.
What I mean is about the decision of the Democrats State Senators in Massachusetts by the end of May (2010) to squeeze the immigrant community who are without documents, passing laws and more rigid measures without addressing the solution of the matter.
Like the Arizona controversial law, instead of showing and providing any solution to the country regarding the immigrants problems, these new laws make it harder to thousands of American young people and children, whose family parents have not yet American citizenship.
The borders with Mexico, the offices of the urban cities away from the borders and the political leaders for all aisles are getting nearer one another.
They meet any hour or day, preferring during the night, to pervert the cause of the needy ones, just to pursue votes of the Americans in the next Elections.
The leadership of the immigrant community, especially the Brazilians, will learn the hard way that neither Republicans or Democrats can honestly solve their problems.
Noble friends of the Immigrant Press should not let their preferences for the Democrats blind with empty words of rhetoric these coward acts of these Democrats in the State Senate of Massachusetts, acting like many Republicans from the rest of the territory .
These are facts – politicians don’t care unless they can get votes from it - now are confirmed by everybody, in spite of some preferring the illusion of fantasy, than reality, that this President will really keep his promises.
Our Governor Deval Patrick and our President who were backed up by the majority of the immigrant communities and their leadership, are not willing to back up the immigrant communities cause, because they don’t want to lose the election of their representatives in the State or Congress.
Neither Republicans! But we have known about them long time ago because at least they have always showed their positions.
To be a coward, is not only to omit before the injustice.
From the immigrant point of view, to be a coward is to pass by a sick man on the road and go on their way without showing mercy, when you could do, you could help!
However this issue is not only about mercy. It is about Justice. Millions of migrants without having the means to legally get a visa to move to America have found our broken borders and passed through them and here they have been working for many years.
The nonsense words from many now are: Thrown them away. Deport them all.
My friends of the Immigrant Press, community leaders, social activists, radio communicators, get united!
The voices of injustice are growing, invading the whole country, against the “illegal”, “invaders” and “the out of law ones” as if those who moved from their own countries to another land to get a better life is a crime.
They are also called “the deportable”, as if this word could be applied to a human being (immigrants), as if deportable means disposable like felt cups of the “dunking donuts” and paper towels in the restaurants, where the coffee and meals that everybody has been served most come from them.
Get united to tell the truth!
The truth is that the majority of the Republicans and Democrats politicians make a choir with the voices of injustice, to prejudice and persecute the immigrant community as they look now at them as mere statistics, numbers out of the broken system the same politicians have produced.
Even many who called themselves Christians don’t really care if a family is separated by some injustice law the economy gets better as they think if all immigrants leave the country.
These politicians are cowards, ignorant and blind.
They don’t want to see that the same pen used for signing a law to persecute the immigrant and make them be treated like criminals, is the same pen that can be used to sign an amnesty! It’s a question of wanting to do it, whatever the cost! The pen usually was manufactured by a Chinese in China employed by an American business man.
The truth is: the amnesty that we defend, is not to back up crimes, drug traffic, robbery, acts of terrorism betraying the country or any illegal criminal activities!
It is the amnesty for those who had the courage to cross the country’s borders to work with dignity to support their families and give a better education and life to their children.
Amnesty in favor of those who come in illegally, because the doors were never opened to immigration on laws with reality, justice and honesty.
The reality is that the human being feeling hungry, wanting to grow and prosper, having dreams, face anything like crossing rivers, jumping walls in order to obtain his realization! Unfortunately the laws don’t give them the right to come and go.
This is the history of civilizations. The Portuguese crossed the seas, so did the Spanish, the British colonized America, the Americans brought Chinese, Europeans to work in the country, and alike many other nations, forced the immigration of many and the darkest fact in human history, imported slaves from Africa and forced them to work in their land!
The difference between one another (those who say they belong to the land today) and others (who come to occupy the land) is in the dignity and justice as they do things.
All the immigrants… As they live and establish themselves when they arrive is because they have chosen this distant land to live in. Who can stop them?
Justice is to be above the law. Always when injustice prevailed, good men broke laws in their own land and where else. Countries were invaded by other nations, kings have been dethroned and in any way all the nations were established.
This is the history of America. America wasn’t built by Americans only to the Americans, but for all who became Americans and for all their descendants, and for all others who still arrive.
They have the same right to become Americans, because they arrived here like our ascendants did, and as our forefathers decided to live here they also can. And now their children were born here and their friends are among those who came first or were born here. America is a home for all the human beings who live in the land. This is what our Constitution says. And our Constitution is the best of all in the world.
Amnesty! How pleased I was to hear of a President called Reagan who passed a proper Amnesty law in the Congress! It was done long ago!
We need men and women who are prepared to defend the cause of the immigrants, not only with words and promises, but with attitudes any time and any day!
We need men and women wherever they are, to defend the immigrants and their descendants, who are responsible for cleaning many yards and service areas every day in this land and thousands of other jobs.
The same blood run in their veins either in whose who were born here or those called foreign, because God gives life and breath to all without distinction.
We need to look at one another as our brothers and sisters.
In spite of speaking a different language, we are similar, because we are humans. May be the color of our skin is different or we were born in different places around the world, but we are all human beings, and the distance only exists inside the hearts.
When our hearts one day stop beating and our eyes are closed, we will all face eternity and without any discussion, and finally after all, we will be equal and we will have no doubt about it!
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