“My name is Greisa Martinez Rosas,......I am an immigrant; I am undocumented, unafraid, queer, and unashamed!”

So said Greisa Martinez Rosas at a recent rally protesting the administration's deportation policies. And judging by the response, those attending were enthusiastically supportive. Now pretty much everyone in the country has ancestors who came from someplace else. Originally, my own were Prussian, but since 1945 I guess I am Polish. Anyway, my people came to the U.S. legally around 1888, and my great-grandfather worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He also may have poisoned his first wife with arsenic and married her sister. But that's another story.

Regardless, there are a few differences between my own ancestral history and Ms. Rosas'. My people immigrated, they were legal, and they were straight. I'm glad of that last one because if they'd been queer I probably wouldn't be here. But they also shared a few of the things that Rosas mentioned about herself. Josef Zoernig wasn't afraid and he wasn't ashamed. Or if he was afraid, his courage to leave home overcame the fear to get on a ship and come here. He and Francezka had a son who served on a destroyer in WWI, built a solid real estate business that lasted for decades after he got home, and had two sons of his own. All lived normal, productive lives.

So I think immigration can be a good thing. I like immigrants. And I'm very supportive of immigrants. Legal immigrants, that is. There is a process in place to come here according to our laws, and if you want to stick around and be a citizen, you can do that too. It takes some time, but it should. And it should, because you have to take the time to learn about the country and the society you want to become a part of. It's critical to integrate into the social fabric so that you can assimilate into the cultural tapestry of America.

If you don't, then you not only miss out on being part of that, you don't contribute to it either because the first thing you learn by coming here illegally is that our law doesn't matter. If you came here as a child, then you've learned this from your parents, and as in the case of Ms. Rosas, it's become one of your convictions. So a main pillar of the American value system that keeps the roof from falling in is that we are a nation based on law. The founders set things up that way because they were Englishmen. And Englishmen had the shared legal tradition of the Magna Carta since way back in 1215. Long history with a law that essentially made the King subject to the law as was any peasant tilling the land. And because of that shared history, all Democratic politicians today will proudly tell you that "No one is above the law," unless...unless you're Joe Biden and one of the 12 million friends he invited over for dinner and extended stay, that is. Those guys float above the law like Zeppelins. I think when Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) says something demonstrably untrue, like no one is above the law, someone in the press should borrow a Trump Card from the president's stack and stick it in her face.

Another thing about illegal immigrants is that they jumped the line. Nobody likes cutting. It's blatantly unfair and it puts you in the awkward position of having to decide if you're going to do something about it or not. Hypothetically, we'd all like to say "I'd stand up and confront!" because we come from a country that codifies fair play into its legal system. But sometimes, that's just not prudent. When I was in the high school seminary, the upperclassmen would cut in front of you for dinner service. All year. If as a freshman you protested, which one guy did in the first week of school, you might get a piece of chocolate cake mashed into your face for your impudence...which one guy did...in the first week of school. If you think that's just dumb kid stuff, I have another example. Shortly after the George Floyd business, I was at one of those Pick Your Own family farms with the kids during Halloween. They were giving hayrides. We had been waiting in line for 20 minutes when a large group of folks (15-20, I'd guess) just walked up and parked themselves at the head of the line to wait for the next tractor. The guy in front of me called over one of the workers, who was probably about 40 or so, and quietly complained. And the worker quietly answered back, "I know. It's wrong but I don't need a riot. I can't do anything about it." Pour encourager les autres. That was then, this is now. Tesla is now. Pour encourager les autres. See how that works? 

Anyway, I have a friend who married a Salvadoran woman. When he got out of the Navy, they moved here and married. She spent the next few years studying to become an American citizen. After she took the oath, she became very vocal and critical about the line jumpers. And she should have because she was right. Illegal aliens don't put any effort into the American experience. They might hold jobs and some might pay some taxes, but I bet if I asked one of the numerous landscape workers that visit the same Quik Trip I do each morning, "Hey, I forget, was it the Germans or the San Franciscans who bombed Pearl Harbor?" I know I'd get "¿Que?" for an answer. At least being aware of stuff like that is important to our collective experience because a lot of it explains how we occupy time and space right now. But if you're here illegally, and not in high school, you probably don't know it was the Japanese. And if you are in public high school, you still probably don't know it was the Japanese. When I was in college, I had a history professor who taught us the acronym SCRAPE, which stood for Social, Cultural, Religion, Art, Political, and Economic. These were the threads that held the tapestry together. They were the glues that made up what a society was and ensured cohesion. Doesn't mean that everybody has to be Methodist and like Picasso, but it does give definition to a people who have many of these things in common. It's patently true. Look at the Middle East. Most of those guys are Muslim and most of those guys stick together. Even hating Israel more than they love their own kids. But when you don't have enough common beliefs, virtues or experiences among your population, then your culture fractures and your country Balkanizes. Some of the Nordic countries are learning this painful lesson right now.

So, I mean, there's a lot of other bad stuff that illegal immigration does to a country. Especially when so much of it happens overnight. Remittances that go out which are less than tax revenue coming in. Actual citizens having to pay for services that support fake citizens. Drug trafficking, sex trafficking, children trafficking...fake citizens that have no reason to assimilate because they neither care to or there's no economic reason for them to. The list keeps going. But most of you know what those are, and there's no reason to take them all on here. Suffice to say that people like Rosas who are here illegally think that they're entitled to be here because they're queer and progressive. They intend to stay here and think that defiance of a basic tenet of U.S. law makes them 'bold and beautiful" enough to demand that other such entitled nobles jump the fence and run to the racist, homophobic and xenophobic place called America. 

I hope Tom Homan puts her on the next bus out of here. Pour encourager les autres.

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