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By Marcello Rollando The Reasonable Voice
Migration for most animals, birds and humans is a search for "mo better" places, opportunities, resources, new beginnings, better job, laws, housing, income, peace, freedom, air -- LIFE. Immigration expands hopes and dreams by expansion of horizons.
Americans have been migrating since Columbus missed Miami Florida, docking the Santa Maria in the Bahamas, resplendently dressed proclaiming and claiming San Salvador for God and Country he enslaved natives for Queen Isabella. We rejoice with parades for he who did not discover the home of the "Red Skins," but undoubtedly, some other Immigrant did.
Seems German immigrant, Martin Waldseemuller labeled us America, after reading travelogues about some wandering curiosity seeking pre-pilgrim Italian immigrant named Amerigo Vespucci. To K.I.S.S., we just mix them all up together in a melting pot of pretend history texts.
Even our first Thanksgiving Day was invaded by Immigrants, and with not so much as a genuflect of gratitude for our invasion of their country with guns, forts, alcohol, naturally followed by a wide variety of sexual diseases and millions of smallpox deaths, the natives invited themselves to dinner. Though perfectly capable of shooting, probably dinner was provided by "red" American Natives, and not European Immigrants.
In the 21st century Immigration, the Mother and Father of America, has become as dirty a word as "Liberal," but that's what America is made of, a mixture of "sugar and spice and everything nice," except for the invasive pre-emptive strikes of "f rogs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails."
Slippery slope is the dope on yellow brick road from rewarding immigrant Andrew Jackson with the Presidency for illegally invading Florida and declaring Native Americans, "children in need of guidance," as President he guided them right across the Mississippi River with his "Indian Removal Act;" perhaps Jacksonian interpretation of "go west young man."
Black immigrants were the only invited immigrants, 300 years before Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, because white immigrants banning red natives to golden west (where yellow immigrants were assimilating in railroad, mining, citrus & laundry industries), needed some colorful assistance maintaining top 1% plantation economy.
Motivation of Immigrants remains suspect: Immigrant Tyler annexed Republic of Texas from native Mexicans; Immigrant Polk Iraqed Mexicans who, forgetting the Alamo, didn't like Tyler's immigrating move into neighborhoods of Tex-Mex.
Preambling Adolf, America's Manifest Destiny assumed American racial superiority for McKinley who made the Philippines an offer they couldn't refuse: to be feelessly protected.
Thus we were sailing along, as Japanese intimidating, "Great White Fleet, captained by "Trust (as in Corporation) Busting" Teddy Roosevelt. Though failing to charge up San Juan Hill, TR defended Panama Canal, by invading, as immigrants are known to do, a foreign country (Mexico), and blessed most of South America & Caribbean with special "satellite" status, while alienating Britain over Canada. Viceroy & handpicked successor, Taft, welcomed "our little brown brothers" into the American Dream for America's Alliance of South American Nations.
Still wonder why they hate us?
We are either Alabama and Arizona's headless desert of Brewer privatized prisons for minorities or "Liberals" trying to fulfill the exceptional ideals and promise of our Statue of Liberty.
Those of the 1% who attached controlling corporate strings onto Reagan and all branches and levels of government since 1980 are the problem we need OCCUPY for Nation Building.
