wow. 500,000 people marched in l.a to protest restrictive immigration laws.
i really don’t want to piss people off, but i’m of the opinion that anyone who wants to come to live and work in america should be allowed to.
america is a country of immigrants, and for americans to restrict immigration is profoundly anti-american.
america is supposed to be a beacon for people around the world who want to, for whatever reason, leave the country of their birth and start anew.
people come here for economic or political or religious or cultural reasons.
and we should welcome them, whatever their motive for coming here(as long as their motive is benign).
immigrants are what have made america great, and we should be proud to be a nation of immigrants. america is a country without definition, and one of the ways in which america is constantly reinvented and reinvigorated is through immigration.
i’ll end this update with some of my favorite words from the emma lazarus poem on the statue of liberty:
“give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’
-moby