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I’d like to remind people of the simple need to acknowledge that we’re failing our immigrant present and future by ignoring the immigration story of the past. In other words, we continue the mistakes we’ve made before.

As members of our government snatch the undocumented, the illegals and more than a few law-abiding citizens, why not flip the script and work to document the undocumented in a legal way, without recrimination. MAGA loyalists argue that our laws allow for the arrest and deportation of people who have not complied with our (broken) immigration system. 

“Let ICE and the Border Patrol do their job to stem the problem of illegal immigration,” they say. “Illegals have broken the law. We will stop this tide.”

That’s once and for all-forever-if we don’t wise up and fix the system. Who is more at fault, Congress that refuses to fix the problem or the individual who seeks admission without permission knowing the odds are stacked against them? Immigration has been a dark political tool throughout our history, a familiar rallying cry for those who prefer to claim nativism as some kind of divine right. The fact is, the immigration system hasn’t been able to keep up with the flow of people seeking to come to the country for work or citizenship for decades.

It is far more effective as a political tool, to stir fear and resentment and gather votes, than it is a law and orderly way to address the fact that millions of undocumented people are here now.

I will try to wring some sense out of masked men marching around our country arresting and detaining people who might fit the profile of illegal immigrants when simple solutions are at hand. Instead of spending billions building walls and a police state bent on “hitting the numbers” to appease the gullible half that wants to cleanse the country of the undocumented, why don’t we simply document the undocumented and ask a couple of questions without threat of arrest and deportation.

Would you want to become an American citizen? Would you rather simply be a worker in the American economy?

You decide and we’ll figure out the details of how to accomplish those tasks in a republic free of a knucklehead who lives in the White House, a knucklehead who has hired more anti-immigrant knuckleheads to bear down on a problem that should be ironed out by Congress not masked men wrestling people from their homes, cars and places of work.

This message has been approved by the National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) and the NUFA Anti-Deportation League.