Will Your Star Student Get Accepted to College? Probably not, if he or she wasn't born on U.S. soil (or via U.S. citizens), even if he/she has lived the life of an American, and knows nothing else!
Usually, I avoid videos, probably because I do almost all of my browsing and work from my phone. I saw this appear via so many respected pages, though, that I finally listened to it. It's amazing.
Way back in 1985/96, I attended high school in Southern California, and I remember two boys who were in choir who declined to attend a choir conference in San Diego because we would have to pass through Border Patrol.
You see, even though all these boys' memories were of being part of the U.S.A., technically, they were illegal immigrants subject to deportation - to a country they knew little about and had never even been to (imagine your child being forced to live in another country!).
Did you think I meant Mexico? What if it was Canada?
A simple choir trip of 60 miles could mean they'd be exposing themselves and their family to horrors unimaginable to those of us who've always been legal.
But that's part of this teacher's point. ALL OF US came from elsewhere, and our ancestors (most of them, anyway) underwent unbelievable circumstances to cement our futures here in the United States. Both sides of my family fought in the Revolutionary War, so it's particularly shocking to me when a second, third, or ANY American is so callously unaware of the advantages of finding ways to embrace the immigrants who have risked life and limb to join us, and their progeny who ARE us, just not under the law.
Much is made of the English tromping upon the Native Americans and taking their land. But the Native Americans weren't always here either. Science (particularly Anthropology) has shown that our deepest origins are in the African continent; humankind had migrated throughout the world over millenniums and centuries.
It's time to get over this "first come, entitled to repel or imprison you for entering OUR country (check into who profits by that for an eye-opener, by the way) and start acting like humans instead of animals. Use your brains and help us figure out how to include those already here and how to manage things so that our country had clear definitions and standards for future immigration.
Just one more note. Forget trying to batten down the borders; you're wasting time, effort, and money. Really, if you think if we can afford to implement and manage REAL border patrol with the massive amount of manpower, equipment, law enforcement, support services, etc. that would require along the Mexico and Canada borders, then there's this bridge in Brooklyn...
Seriously, though, people, wake up and THINK!
Oh, and here's the video that inspired this diatribe :-)
His Star Student Wants To Go To College. She's No…:
~ Pamela
