Grumpa Joe's Place

It is the fourth day of the new year, and I realized I still need to post something. I didn’t make any resolutions because I would only break them. Instead, I am getting up earlier and heading for my workshop sooner. My latest intarsia work is coming along, but I haven’t been inspired to name it yet.

I am in a phase of work where patience is an absolute necessity, and I lose it after a couple of hours. Today was a perfect example. I began to lose interest, and my back ached from standing. I removed my apron and headed for a nice, comfortable chair. I want to visit my daughter this afternoon and make a pot of beef stroganoff before tipping the vodka and changing chairs. The daughter’s hip is healing well. The screws holding her hip bone together have been removed, and she is walking with assistance. She is still a long way from coming home.

The news about current large sanctuary cities all crying to Uncle that they don’t have resources to pay for housing new migrants is disturbing to me. Whatever happened to live up to the sentiment expressed by the poem on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. . .” ? It seems to me that we love to recite these words whenever we speak about accepting immigrants into the United States. Very often, it is by guys like me whose parents were immigrants who passed through Ellis Island. When it comes to helping immigrants, we often forget we are wearing big-boy pants and zipp up the purse in our pockets. I admit that I support immigration that follows the immigration laws of the USA, but I don’t support migrants coming into the country illegally. The rules were enacted for valid reasons: migrants need time to assimilate into the population, migrants need time to find jobs to support themselves, and migrants need housing, food, and safety. We, the people, prefer that migrants allowed in are healthy and not bring diseases with them. We lawfully admit one million new people every year. The current President has violated his oath of office to defend and honor the Constitution by adopting the open borders policy. He has deliberately exposed himself to impeachment. Over six million migrants have crossed the border into America since he has been in office. In his term, the law has allowed three million people in, but he has allowed an additional six point two million more. No wonder the mayors of Sanctuary cities are protesting. The government is quietly shipping these migrants around the country and dropping them off to fend for themselves. The receiving cities often are not even aware of what is happening. The governors and mayors of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, all border states with points of entry, are overwhelmed by the influx of strangers invading their cities. For example, El Paso, Texas, with a population of 680,000 people, receives as many as sixty thousand new people each month, or ten percent. Imagine if your town had ten percent more new people every month. In my town of Frankfort, it would mean adding 2000 new migrants monthly. When I moved here thirty years ago, the population was at 4000, and now it is up to 20,000. There has been a constant growth of new neighborhoods, shopping centers, schools, and services added all along the way. The only way we could house two thousand extra people every month is to take them into our homes. We do not have a surplus of housing. Tent cities would be another way to accept them. We, too, would be crying Uncle for money to provide their needed services

When I began writing this article, I intended to criticize the sanctuary cities that are crying that they don’t want any more migrants. Now, I have convinced myself that they have a point. If they get new people in proportion to their population, they will be overwhelmed, and if the faucet stays on, they will all go bankrupt. Assimilation in these numbers will be a dream rather than a reality. Migrants will cluster together to form neighborhoods that the rest of the population will fear entering. Most likely, new cities will be formed to deal with the situation, and we will no doubt encounter situations similar to that of Israel and Palestine scattered all around the country.

This problem will take decades to solve, but it may take centuries if we don’t close the borders and deal with the inclusion of six million more people in so short time.

Filed under: Conservative, Government, Immigration | Tagged: Assimilation, Open Borders, Tent cities |