Immigrants

Sitting in a car dealer's waiting room, I was interested to hear the topics of conversation between 2 older men and an an elderly lady there. They covered their pains, the weather, the state of hospitals, the trouble our schools and students are in, and finally got around to the headline of the day: The marching of the immigrants against the Congress fiasco with the immigration bill.

While they generally agreed that Congress is on its way to perdition and has fallen apart, they also began talking about kicking out all illegal immigrants who "are taking our jobs and using our tax money." Curiously, they then began to discuss the geneology of their families and decided that they were the recipients of the survival of their immigrant forebearers in this country. Those Irish, Scotch, and English folks who braved the ocean, settled in ghettos in the East and then moved gradually out to God's country in the West and the South. But they didn't seem to see the connection with today's immigrants who are virtually trying to do the same things our forebearers did--pass along a better life to their children.

Personally, I do not mind paying taxes to educate children--ANY CHILDREN. As children are educated, they can only make life in the U. S. better when they grow up.
And they will be the ones living with my grandchildren. It is beyond me how people can be so nearsighted and isolationist and so historically ignorant.

So I hope Congress comes to its senses (if it has any) and helps make a better life for all who come. This is the country where dreams come true; one only has to look at the life we lead to see that.

There were so many commandments to the Israelites to treat the "aliens" who joined them well. And then there is that one that says, "love your neighbor."