Title: Coming To America (Neil Diamond's Anthem) Source:
utoob URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTHdC7k4uY Published:Apr 18, 2015 Author:Johnny Kim Post Date:2015-04-18 10:33:52 by Liberator Keywords:Immigration, legal, NeilDiamond Views:11954 Comments:36
Poster Comment:
As a school project, some students honor America's welcoming arm to immigrants -- presumably, LEGAL ones. Excellent job with their photos as choice of song. Pretty touching tribute....
My ancestors all entered through Ellis Island. Must have been daunting but at the same time absolutely awesome entering New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty as a symbolic of hope for the future.
And isn't it revealing how the dialogue has been subtly changed in public discourse? Now, if you're having problems with open borders and people coming into the country from who knows where with a who knows what agenda, YOU are the one with the problem.
But since their arrival advances the aims of the Ruling Class (providing cheap labor for the R branch and reliable votes for the D branch), it's all cool.
How do you differentiate the corporate-collective state-established tyranny my family of refugees was fleeing, circa 1917, from that which is being fled TODAY in Central and South America?
My family didn't get a visa at the embassy to ask for permission to come to the U.S.A. they crammed themselves into a cattle boat so they could survive.
If your home was burned by thugs and your wife and children in danger of being murdered - wouldn't you do everything in your power to see them safely elsewhere El Norte?