Happy New Year

I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

You can’t stop progress, but sometimes we all wish we could. I know that the good old days weren’t always as much fun and good as we say they were, but in our minds they were. Life was both simpler and harder in many ways.

Today many people in the USA are struggling just to have a roof over their heads and be able to put food on the table not to mention being without a job, worrying about medical insurance and many other of life’s problems like ICE pounding on their door. As an immigrant myself I can say that without the immigrants this country would not be what it is today. This country was built by immigrants that worked their butts off and fought to protect this country in many war’s and yet now we treat them like outsiders that don’t belong. They are rounded up by mask-wearing ICE, breaking up their families and being shipped out of this country without a fair hearing. That is not the principles this country was built on.

Granted many of them arrived here through illegal means but since they arrived they have become hard-working people just trying to make a living like everyone else. Many of them have served this country in the armed forces, paid taxes and helped build the communities they live in. Maybe we should just stop this BS and face facts. Sure, some of the immigrants are criminals but so are many of our citizens. They should all be judged in front of their peers, not shipped out of this country in the dark of night in unmarked planes.

This country needs to wake up and smell the roses, without immigrants this country will not remain the great country it has been when it welcomed immigrants. There are jobs that go unfilled without immigrants. You say you lost your job because of the immigrants, prove it, show me and tell me how it happened, I would really like to know.

It is time for Congress to come up with a plan that allows the immigrants that are here now to stay here under some type of plan that will allow them to earn legal citizen status over a reasonable period of time. It is time to suck it up and say you have earned the right to stay here. Don’t give me that “they are here illegally crap”. What about all the people that have the dollars to buy their way in to become citizens, is that fair? So you are saying if you are rich you can become a citizen? That is pure BS .

I have ranted long enough here and I will close by saying that this too will pass and we need to look out for each other and take care of each other. If you don’t agree with what I have said here, so be it, that is why we have free speech in this free country.

Have a good day now,

Stoke