Southern Neighbors

Another assignment about immigration found here http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52eec360e4b0c81c80749630/t/53f5507de4b0a7a51b04cf9b/1408586169565/AoW+1415_01+Border+Crisis.pdf.

Reading the this report about the living conditions in Hounduras is heart breaking, especially involving children. As I read the paper and the more I reflect about the United States role I came to realize what place the US has in the world. The US has their hand in the affairs of many foreign countries. Granted that the United States causes problems and has problems of their own; the US seems to be asked frequently to clean up messes of other countries.

You can’t blame anyone from wanting to get away from threat of death or worse loss of human dignity. Anyone in the US would feel the same about saving themselves or their family if situations in the United States were as bad. Any US citizen would consider leaving and going to a new less corrupt place. The United States has fought for its freedom though,  taxation without representation in the revolutionary war, Abolishment of slavery in the civil war and the right to maintain a United Nation and Even the resistance of communism. Not every conflict was through military action though. Gangs ruled for a while in the US , the “mobsters” and gangs during the 20^th century but where suppressed to a less overt means of conducting affairs though government action.

Where do you draw the line at cleaning up other counties messes? Is it up to our government to create comittees and government gran organizations to deal with the problems of other countries for humanitarian purposes? Or perhaps it should be left to grass root organizations like the red cross, religious organization relief efforts or non-profits organizations?

Illegal immigration is a complex issue. In my opinion I don’t think the answer will come easy and I don’t think the answer is turning your back on refugees especial children. I do think in the long run it will not be the United States that solves the issue of illegal immigration but countries like Hounduras. When those countries work-out their growing pains, who knows what the future will hold. Perhaps one day the stability and security of the United States will collapse and we will be looking to our southern neighbors for sanctuary from whatever corruption ruined our nation.

In the end it nature and heart of mankind that must change. Fear, greed, hate, intolerance and the need to control your environment and others to create security for yourself. But the heart or instincts of man if you will has not changed sense recorded history. People still kill, rape, steal and impose their own will onto others. For now we will have to work with the broken heart of man by making laws and policies that shabbily work.

                                                                                                                Jacob Hollar