Illegal Immigrants Need A Clear Path To Citizenship
Our cities — and our nation — depend on it
As we prepare to move to Spain in two months, I keep one eye on the sociopolitical scene in the country. Something I have done for a while. No doubt, more progressive leadership and policies are one of the many driving forces behind our decision to leave America and migrate to Spain.
Some of the stuff that gets said about immigration — (legal and illegal) — here in America — and there, in Spain, to be fair — just blows my mind.
If it isn’t flat-out racist, it’s xenophobic (ends up being kind of the same thing). If — in some world I haven’t lived in yet — it’s neither of those two things, it’s ignorant and reflects a lack of experience with other cultures, not to mention a dismissal of the history of immigration in the United States of America and the world.
That said — I’m sad that we’re even debating this at all.
I won’t even enter the inane discussion about illegal immigrants rampantly committing crimes. It’s moronic. The data reveals that we’re approaching the subject the same way we do the broader matter of immigration.
Misguidedly. Pathetically.
False and outrageous narratives get created. People believe them. They get…
