A Chilling Tale

I get in my email…nearly daily now…someone having a fit over illegal immigration. I am not for illegal anything, but immigration is of course not only a hot topic, a fad topic, and a very difficult and hard to resolve topic, but it is becoming something of a hate issue. I get things in the mail saying there are so many illegal aliens in our prisons, so many have violent history, only so many really pick the crops (not as much as you would think), but then there are no sources, or just a general source saying such and such a newspaper has these facts. No one is going to check those unless they are involved in some way in the policymaking. Therefore, I can only hope they are somewhat accurate. Of course, the other word that always accompanies such emails is “chilling.”
This will chill you to the bones. If this is not chilling information, I do not know what is. These chilling facts are going to open your eyes. Send this email to all your friends and relatives so they can learn these chilling facts. I almost feel like its Eskimos who are doing the illegal immigration, and they are bringing chilly weather with them. The truth is of course they are coming from the other direction; the south instead of the north, so there is not much chilly about them…perhaps chili is what we are all supposed to feel. However, that gives you a nice warm fuzzy feeling, so I doubt that is the context.
No the real context is bigotry I am afraid. As much as the loud mouths want to make it, otherwise they really just hate Latinos. I have many friends and acquaintances from south of the border and quite honestly find them a lot better people than some of the white folk I know, who can’t stand the thought of someone else trying to better themselves. Now I am not here to endorse illegal immigration, far from it, but it is a reality and until wiser folks than I can figure out how to stop it, I am not going to participate in the bashing. It is a serious problem and it needs immediate attention.
I for one would like to see companies stop providing services in Spanish, and the Government needs to lead the way. I understand there is a need in some respects for some forms to be in Spanish, but if a company in the United States has to provide Spanish language services, and then they are not doing the country a favor. Should we expect people to learn English? Yes. Should we expect them to follow the law when coming to this country? Yes. However, until we have the national will to enforce such actions, we will continue to have the problem. I think the will is there among the electorate, but not with the politicians who have to cater to the Latino vote. Congress is where the backbone is weakest, and needs some type of brace to sure it up. However, bashing illegal immigrants and painting them as the villains of our time, is not the way to go about this. Instead of sending your bigoted emails to me, send them to your Congressperson. Let them sort out the will of the country. The problem is you are going to have to be rational and credible. So far, you are not showing that to me, and I do not even matter!
We are all children of the same God and we should treat each other with the type of respect that deserves. Helping them stay home and providing for their families is probably the best resolution. How that is accomplished, I do not know. We need to calm down our bigotry and bigots or we are going to see something akin to the 1960s riots or worse, a civil war.