Immigration?

Migration is as old as humanity. It is what all carbon-based life forms do. It is as natural as breathing.

Migration is how Europeans including the Anglo-Saxon arrived on these shores. When exactly depends on whose anthropological forensics you believe. But no matter whose historical detective work you accept one thing is certain---there were indigenous people here when the invaders arrived from five centuries ago.

Just as we call those who came from Europe, England, Africa by their continent’s identifier those who were here were “The First Americans.” Everyone else is---well, something else. Now a hyphenated something else.

To the “First Americans” the indigenous people of this hemisphere---whether North America or South America those stepping on these shores from somewhere else were invaders, terrorists (or in “w” speak “terrists”) gods or just plain unknowns. Since then those invading “terrists” have also become occupiers or squatters.

The steps to becoming occupiers or squatters were ugly. Those brutal, inhumane steps included genocide (intended and not), slavery, repression, wholesale theft of land, mistreatment, discrimination and imposed poverty.

During the first three or four centuries of their brutal history European-Anglo migrants used Africans they enslaved to clear land, kill natives and establish outposts. Mesoamericans meanwhile were migrating their ancestral lands, just as they always did. Those ancestral lands included everything west of the Mississippi River and stretched from the Yucatan Peninsula through Canada or a span of land encompassing half the Western Hemisphere.

For at least the entire 20th Century migrating Mesoamericans were pressed into service by the occupying European-Anglo busy setting up the “White Male System” imported from Europe, England and even the Middle East. (More on that another time)

Mesoamericans from the nation of Mexico and further south have been victimized and for all intents enslaved by Europeans in their own lands. Later those lands were parsed by the ever territorial squatting European-Anglo occupiers. So for almost two centuries Mesoamericans have had the distinction of being pressed into service, of being treated in savage, brutal and de-humanizing ways by European-Anglos on both sides of that border.

These artificial borders defined by the occupier were maintained in an intentionally porous manner. When work required plentiful amounts of labor the artificial border was opened. The artificial borders functioned not unlike a flood gate or the control-nob on a burner limiting or increasing the flame under a boiling pot.

Most people are almost completely ignorant of “history.” Even those who consider themselves “historians” have a parallax-view of history. That is the view of history as told by those who have conquered. Think of it as a dramatization of the concept that “Dead Men Don’t Tell Tales.”

The expression being reality consequently, a repackaged version of the facts is sold as “history.” This repackaged version of history is repeated and over time creates a very different world from what some term “reality.”

Thus, to the average person the world view they have imprinted on them as they emerge from the womb is their understanding of “reality.” Only then can it be that blond, blue-eyed European-Anglos can even remotely---ignorantly---but plausibly consider themselves “Native Texans” for example. This is a hubris as absurd as it is insincere. The unmendable misfortune is that when the majority population is comprised of European-Anglos this twisted, tortured and tormented worldview is a mostly unchallenged one. That only serves to further distort the picture.





This “immigration” issue is as complex as it is combative.

(To be continued)

Hasta Siempre,


Immigration?
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Latino USA
http://latinousa.kut.org/

Two Characters in Search of an Author
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Court Hears Challenge To Arizona's Immigration Law
July 16, 2010
A federal judge in Phoenix heard the first arguments in a case challenging Arizona's tough immigration law Thursday. A police officer is asking for an injunction blocking the law -- saying it's unconstitutional. There are more suits -- including one by the Department of Justice that will be heard next week.
Court Hears Challenge To Arizona's Immigration Law
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128556711

Meet Doctor Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa. Some might consider him an “illegal.”
From Farmhand to Brain Surgeon
Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa's first step towards becoming a renowned brain surgeon was more like a leap—at 19 years old, he hopped the border fence from Mexico to become a migrant farmworker in southern California.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/brain-surgeon.html

American Dreamer: Sam’s Story
June 23, 2010
Sam, an honors student from Indiana, is about as American as they come. But Sam isn’t American—his family immigrated here illegally when he was four years old. Since the country’s public school systems can’t turn away students for being undocumented, going to school had never been a problem for Sam. With just a few weeks to go before high school graduation, Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister of Long Haul Productions took a look at Sam’s dilemma
http://latinousa.kut.org/899/

The First Illegal Immigrants **MUST SEE** Howard Zinn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7AGI94Hu3Q