Dooley A Dusty Lady

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-0983-7030-5
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten

This is the story of two 75 year old retired persons - a detective and high school teacher - interested in civic matters. They are especially interested in the plight of immigrant families that were ripped apart by the zero-tolerance border policies of the Trump administration. They became so involved with this cause, they created a corporation they called Salva La Familia (meaning, Save The Family). Abbey Tutt, the police officer, recruited several of his well heeled friends in financing this corporation with an initial investment of $1,000,000. They also teamed up with another friend, the CEO of Algonquin Free Native American University, who was interested in creating a correspondence course that appealed to any undocumented immigrant in the US, entitled Pathway to Citizenship. This course was a major success and helped to recruit hundreds of undocumented persons, helping them on their way to citizenship. Unfortunately the Homeland Security Department of the US Government called upon Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE) to carry out heavy-handed enforcement of deportation. ICE attempted to use Salva La Familia to help locate unsuspecting undocumented immigrants throughout the US. Surprisingly, Abbey finds that the opposition to immigration by the Administration is only a smoke screen to cover up the President's plot to engineer a coup d'etat, similar to what Adolph Hitler pulled off in Germany in 1930.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dooley, John

Leseproben

Chapter TWO “Okay, Phoebe, you and I will lead this new Pathway to Citizenship. Let’s hope that we can find enough followers. We can be successful in making Citizenship possible for the thousands upon thousands of people that are here, proven they have earned it and require it. The Pathway to Citizenship then will be followed and recommended to others. It shall be led by women who are interested in protecting the Families of the Migrants from Separation and Deportation. It shall also include those women who are Refugees seeking Asylum in the United States. The families will be treated with every respect, not incarceration without prejudice. Respect due their race, creed, color, nation of origin, level of sophistication and education. It has been discussed at length in Congress and supported by Senators and Congressmen as well as the churches and labor unions of this country since Washington’s time. If we can get the women behind this movement, I think it will create sufficient pressure on the Congress to pass the appropriate Legislation.” Abby and Phoebe agreed on a day three weeks from the time they started the research. They would sit down in the quiet of the library at the Painted Lady and lay out a Plan of Organization. On the appointed day, Abby sat opposite Phoebe at the table in the library, opened his folder, and said, “I’ll make my suggestions as brief as possible. Phoebe, I’ve learned Immigration is a long and historical subject in America and has been given a great deal of attention, both pro and con. Furthermore, it has been oversimplified by many who would use it to further their own programs. “Even in Colonial Times there was a serious difference of opinion. In 1782 John J called for just one united people with the Same Ancestors, the same language, and Religion. There are volumes written on the subject of Immigration but in many cases, oversimplified. The oversimplification gave the General Public a feeling of confidence in going forward believing in Nativism. I believe that our program should be a clear Pathway to Citizenship for all those who desire it. But it must also protect the existing Body Politic. I wonder whether or not you have come to the same general conclusions.” He looked across the table with the question on his face. Phoebe had been pleasantly surprised that there was so much on the Nativism movement in America. The colonial times confusing it as it wandered about between restrictions or freedom of race, creed, or color. One or the other was never clearly spelled out by many later generations. The ebb and flow of migrants from Europe in 1879 and the 1880s, from China through 1783 and the other lower European countries were putting a great deal of pressure on the American body politic at that time. Especially the flood from Northern and Southern Europe, it also brought different cultures and language into the Americas to be assimilated. “The people came for jobs and the free land that was available at the time. They did not come, in many cases, to assimilate into the culture but to keep their own customs and cultures. Often even critical of the new American ways. By 1882 the Chinese population had increased to 39,579. They came from Absolute Monarchies, with little public education, and no tradition of social interaction and equality. They were motivated to work for money to send back home. All the while, the people in the social organization called Nativists were driving hard to restrict the migrants’ opportunities and their Democratic participation. The Nativists apparently were working with very closed minds.” Abby added, “The Jews in Europe, Eastern Europe, and in Russia were being heavily abused and driven out by totalitarian Pogroms. They were made to be the scapegoats by desires and waves of anti-Semitism that swept across most of Eastern Europe They were fleeing to the New World to escape from the persecution.” Phoebe added in agreement, “They swept into American cities by the thousands as a result of the pressure in Europe. They were accepted by many, especially in the big cities like New York, who acknowledged their problem and worked to assist them. Many of the new immigrants were welcomed because the mixed population in the large cities began to realize we are all immigrants of one generation or another. “Herman Melville, a writer at the time, wrote, ‘you cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world. We are not Natives; we are a whole new world.’ Our documents and our books include the members of virtually every international ethnic group of the time.” Phoebe’s research, in addition, included more of the same recent past, starts in 1790 up to the present time. She also included a part about what was called Castle Garden, in lower Manhattan, which was New York State’s attempt to control the influx of immigrants into the New York area, always short of funds and full beyond its capacity. However, in 1881 an estimated 455,000 were processed through the Garden. It increased 10% in each succeeding year even though there were other States who attempted to pattern the same kind of reception area such as in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Key West, New Orleans, and Galveston, in Texas, even a great large one in San Francisco. Abby added, “I have learned that the Federal Government had taken over Ellis Island. And Legal protection of the migrants is offered by the ACLU. They have filed many lawsuits, over 200 nationally. They are protesting the infringement of the rights of Immigrants and Refugees who have been under attack and are protected by our own laws. In November 2018, Vermont-based Migrant Justice, an organization that advances Vermont’s undocumented farm workers, was subjugated to the systematic campaign of surveillance, harassment, arrest, and detention for their Constitution protected behavior.” Abby continued by saying, “John F. Kennedy spoke to all of us when he said, ‘the nation was founded by men of many nations and background. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. The heart of the question is whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated ourselves.” Phoebe went on to say, “Oftentimes it is said that Americans have the versatility and ability to improvise, do what works, because we have always been doing what hasn’t been done before. Winging it doesn’t frighten us but intrigues us with all the unknown potential possibilities. We need to know who we are, and where we’re headed. We need to know who we are going to work with. We have to value our forbearers, not disguise them or disagree with them necessarily; not even to agree with them on many occasions because our melding together depends upon our developing new ways. “David McCullough once said, “There has been no absence of pointless on stage preaching...No shortage of self-serving blather and endless clogs taking up matters unbearably dull. We have the power to be damn well whatever we please whenever we want to and we seem to do it every two minutes.’ Abby, we have always been a well-read people.” Abby said, “Phoebe, I have noticed that more of our American early history was written in France or in England than in the Americas of the time. It was also illustrated many times at the time of Lafayette who revisited our country in 1824 and visited all 24 states at the time. In the two world wars 57,000 Americans served and died in many cases supporting the war in France and the French people. One of our most proud possessions is the Statue of Liberty, which was given to us by the French and we proudly installed it on a prominent New York island so that all of the world could see it and enjoy it. A standing lady holding the torch of welcome to all of the people of the world. It honors our willingness to offer freedom to all that managed to reach our shores. We have strived to live up to her call. Those who have reached us have not found it easy, but a crowded molten melting pot of humanity scalding in the Eastern Cities. The freedom they wanted demanded hard work, and sacrifice. “The cauldron boiled and melded Nationality with Nationality until a new Nationality was formed. A developing freedom to live the way they pleased together. Like molten lava it overflowed the mountains in the east and exposed the open West Plains to all of us. We demanded most from ourselves. But respected those who worked with us to raise our homes and our barns. They widened our ideas as they widened our roads and bridges. We are proud of our heritage but also proud of and have accepted our neighbors who stood and worked with us. We are a new people melded from many kinds of Americans. We honor ourselves and each other. “George Washington said on meeting the New Englanders in Boston in 1775, ‘They have very leveling ways.’ We are not subservient to titles or social classes. We have new standards of our own, hard work, honesty, fair play, the Rule of law as expressed in our Constitution and in our Bill of Rights. “FDR, when faced with the patriotic audience of the DAR, greeted them proudly with ‘my fellow immigrants.’ We are all immigrants you know, except for those indigenous Native Americans. Our law-abiding hard work and willingness to contribute has earned our rights to citizenship and nothing more need be required. “Bill Gates told Congress for every migrant tech worker there are five new jobs created. Immigrants or their children founded 43% of the 2017 Fortune 500 companies; they...