As a prelude to this brilliant article, please endeavour to listen to the 4 minutes 26, seconds amazing speech of Ronald Reagan (in an attached video clip to this article), former President of the United States of America of blessed memory. I strongly hope it will forever resonate with many with common sense, that the greatness of America lies in the strength and talent of immigrants who continue to troop into the country from different parts of the world to add great values......CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE>>>>>
Suffice it to say, it is truly the mass inflow of migrants both through voluntary (mass inflow of Irish and Jewish populations; many people from third world countries through the diversity visa lottery called green card, refugees from many war torn countries, asylum seekers, illegal immigrants and others) and involuntary (millions of Africans trapped in the slavery system) that changed the course of the history of America to a country of immigrants, not the deadly invasion of Christopher Columbus that saw to the genocide (ethnic cleansing of the aborigines, American indians). This is truly against the erroneous claim that America was discovered by Christopher Columbus. It is simply so called another version of a “white supremacist” narrative that had for a long time permeated across the length and breadth of the country. Say it to the marines that America belongs to the invasionists from Western Europe led by Christopher Columbus. Let the truth be told.
The drive to remain free to enjoy the fruit of the land is the key that unlocks the many brains at work to make America the richest and greatest country in the world. It is imperative to say that more than 60 per cent of the world’s billionaires have their wealth situated in the economy of the United States, including many generations of Chinese Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, German Americans, Irish Americans, Russian Americans, African Americans and others.
Is this not the strong reason why America will issue a threat to impose economic sanctions on any country that dares to cross the line against its national interest? Did President Donald J Trump not recently threaten to impose a 30 per cent tariff on any goods from Columbia if the country refuses to allow the deported Columbia Immigrants to land in the country?
However, all of these political brouhaha will not change the fact of history that America is truly a country of immigrants.
For many Americans who have forgotten that the fabrics of our liberty as a people lies not in colour, creed, race or ethnicity but in the foothold of freedom, human dignity and economic prosperity to respect and assimilate each others culture and value for a true nation building, they are just only been shortsighted not to read between the lines that America is indeed a land of the free to enjoy the liberty of the great wealth abound in the country. It is on this note, that the spirit of freedom that has spanned for centuries will not be negotiated or broken on a four year warranty tenure of President Trump.
Also, for many protagonists of Trump who are bent to subvert the will of freedom to rewrite the history of God’s own country (America we love, dearly), buildeth by the sweat of immigrants, time will tell as power is transient.
Also, it is of a great note that from the ancient history of mankind, any country that closes its economic door to the advent of migrant workers coming with vigor, talents and wealth of knowledge to add great value to its economy will eventually decline in human capacity. This is coupled with the fact that such anti-immigrant policy will militate against the increase in its gross domestic products, GDP.
In the ancient days of the great Egyptian Empire, the mass exodus of the Jewish people from the Egyptian Empire in the days of the Great Pharaoh despoiled and turned the land to a place of desolate; and it eventually marked the end of the Empire.
Again, power is transient and tells President Trump that his four years tenure of office will not be decisive enough to change both the course of history and the conscience of America as a country of immigrants.
In summary, will Trump change his family’s historical fact as second generation immigrants that migrated to the United States of America from Germany (Patriarch) and Scotland (Matriarch)? Moreover, is Melania Trump, first lady, not a migrant from Slovenia, Eastern Europe in 1996 (less than 30 years ago)?
Also, is Trump or Melania Trump (first lady) not truly a metaphor shadow of America as a country of immigrants?
Lastly, Tell Trump to be more discreet in his deportation of migrant workers. It is going to be counterproductive because of its strong economic effects on productivity. Yes, this isn’t taking us nowhere in a technically recession economy. Time will tell!
– David Adenekan (A voluntary Immigrant From Nigeria, West Africa) is The Editor Of Shekinah International Magazine and a Media Consultant. He writes from Chicago, Illinois.
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