I beleive that I'm not alone in that myy first reading of the recent signing of legislation by the Governor of Arizona which targets and profiles immigrants in that state, and seems to threaten the freedom of many law abiding persons. I received word a few days ago that one of my nieces – a U.S. citizen, born, raised and educated as a part of a a multicultural American family, and traveling “legally” to and from Guatemala for her job, upon returning was retained for a very long period of time in an airport Arizona – apparently because she looked like an “immigrant.”
The fact of the matter is that we should all be reminded that that there are very few of us in America - other than our Native American sisters adn brothers - who don't have family root's planted in another land. We are all - in some way - sojourners.
I pray that as we think and talk about persons who are so-called "illegal" or "undocumented", we realize that we are all affected by the strictures that we as a society place on one another.
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