[Vision2020] Concerning children and families migrating to the United States (the Nifty Fifty) . . .

[Ron Force]

More info on the border situation:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/18/child-migrants-us-mexico-border-what-happening-and-why/4721672001/

For now, Mr. Biden has left in place a Trump-era pandemic emergency rule
that empowers agents to rapidly turn away most migrants other than
unaccompanied minors without providing them the chance to have their asylum
claims heard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/politics/biden-immigration.html?searchResultPosition=4
Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:40 AM Roger Hayes <rhayesmoscowid at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Letter to the editor...
> I am a second generation American. Well, at least on my mother's side of
> the family. On my father's side it is a bit less clear. I suspect that his
> family fled Ireland during the horrible potato famine in the 1840's,
> 1850's. In any case, both sides left their homelands to escape extreme
> poverty and possibly violence there. I marvel at the bravery it took and
> the intelligence it required to make the long journey to America to make a
> better life for themselves. When they got to America they were not
> necessarily greeted by open arms and changed the family names to sound more
> "American." They found jobs that a lot of "landed" people didn't want to
> do. Dirty, and dangerous jobs. And they sent their kids to school and some
> off to college. My grandmother could not speak English. My cousin, who
> incidentally helped design the lenses that went into space and the moon and
> who was a professor at UCLA, well, his father could not speak a word of
> English. But they made a life of it here and helped this nation become what
> it is today.
> In travels to Central America I have seen poverty and violence that is
> beyond description and human despair. No wonder people, our brothers,
> sisters, and children try to escape to America. And frankly the United
> States is no innocent actor in much of this.
> We need to recognize that many of these immigrants pick our food, roof our
> houses in sweltering heat, work in terrible conditions in slaughterhouses
> and do jobs that no "American" would want to do. It's all in an effort to
> realize a better life for themselves and their children. No more detention
> facilities. No more deportations. No more hatred. Isn't that what America
> is all about?
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:37 AM Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> . . . perhaps Neil Diamond expressed it best . . .
>>
>>
>> http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Immigration/Coming_to_America.mp3
>>
>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>
>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>> http://www.moscowcares.com/
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> “A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”
>> - Roy E. Stolworthy
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