The Fields of Immigration

America’s fields are ripe with crisis and issues of significance. Yes, the harvest appears to be in abundance at last glance. Let me digress on a domestic crisis that is currently taking place. A country of immigrants knows the value of immigration; it knows, nonetheless, at this time in history that the conditions for non-regulated right of entry are not as they were in the 1800-1900’s. We are not in the same place. At one time we could take in anyone’s tired and poor. We no longer can do it with the ease we once did. Restrictions have to be relevant to the situation as it is, not as it once was. So one might ask; what restrictions? Powerless to present such a politically loaded question, far less answer it, we vacillate, we drivel, we sort of look aslant at the results of our vacillation. Where is the federal leadership when needed? I, as others before me, question our elected president’s inability to reach a decision. The border crisis is a mess. Instead of America’s Chief Executive taking corrective action to stop the humanitarian crisis along our southern borders, Texas Governor Rick Perry has stepped in to fill the leadership vacuum created by Obama’s inaction.  Many liberals will attack his motives, question his sense of compassion etc. But you know what? He is doing something. A very nice change in this era of political indecision and correctness. Action, even if insufficient to solve the problem, beats doing nothing in my mind and those of most tax paying Americans. Most Americans I speak to are disgusted with their dysfunctional federal government.

Oh, by the way, as hundreds and thousands of illegal immigrants cross our border and are given benefits, an American Marine rots in a Mexican Jail cell. What kind of commander-in-chief lets illegal immigrants come across the border, but does not demand the Mexican government release our veteran? Do you not think it is a miss-carriage of justice that the only person not allowed to cross our border with Mexico is a United States Marine? I most certainly do.