lagilman | Rant: there's none of us here who hasn't once been the stranger somewhere.

Warning: rant ahead, wherein I pull no punches even if I don't name names.

The most terrifying thing about reading US immigration discussions online is seeing utterly gleeful lack of compassion some people are displaying.

To those people (to everyone) I say, go read (not reread because clearly you haven't before) Emma Lazarus' inscription on the Statue of Liberty, and think about your casual 'send 'em back to be killed/ dump them off the boats' comment.

And then ask yourselves how the fuck you think your family was any better, ESPECIALLY if you can trace your family back to the original settlements, who were assuredly undocumented, uninvited, and unwanted by the original inhabitants. Nobody here, unless they're 100% Native American, did not avail themselves of an open gate. This is a country, for better or worse, built not only on immigration, but immigration based on the dream of making a better life, away from persecution and fear. Not a country so afraid that they would advocate violence against those seeking what our grandparents and great-grandparents found...

If that's your thing, you nauseate me.

And before anyone comes in to counter-rant, I'm not advocating unfettered immigration. But compassion rather than absolutism when deciding cases? Absofuckinglutely. And with at least an ATTEMPT to rein in the "but then whites will be the minority" scream you can hear rising from certain people. Maybe we will. Maybe that's not such a terrible thing. GTFOY.