Sunday, May 23, 2010
Oh, the humanity!
I was pondering to myself the awkward situation Michelle Obama recently found herself in while doing P.R. event in a second grade class in Washington D.C. She had gone to promote her anti-obesity campaign with the first lady of Mexico. And was confronted with the innocent concern of a child no more than 7 years old. She told her that she heard that Barak Obama wanted to send everyone without papers home. The first lady rather diplomatically replied that this was something that congress needed to work on, while other students hands shot into the air to ask her other questions. We can hear her ever so softly say, "but my mom doesn't have papers".
Out of the mouths of them babies... This honestly couldn't be anymore heartbreaking to me. Her worry is only for her parent-- that she might be taken away from her, because of something she doesn't have any control over. Right or wrong, these are people--not statistics. They have children, who are probably citizens, who they shouldn't be separated from. I am not a politician. I do not proclaim to hold the answers to all immigration issues. I am just certain that there is a tendency for the villagers to become unruly and attack the issue with pitchforks without a shred of compassion or human decency. Let's remember that these are people (and mostly of the hard-working, tax-paying variety) and that they should be treated with some basic human dignity.
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