In January, 2022 congressperson Nancy Pelosi announced she was running for another term in Congress. There were reports circulating through the media that she was “running for the children.”  

Matthew 19 verse 14 of the King James version of the Bible quotes Jesus as saying:  “…Suffer little children, and forbid them not to come unto me.”  A common application to this in daily living is that little children are supposed to be precious.  We are not to hurt them.  We are to love , guide, and nurture them to the absolute best of our abilities.  So on the surface opening up the borders to bring children in from impoverished countries to America would seem to be following the Lord‘s directives.  Take a look at that from another angle.  How is uprooting a three-year-old from their home land with agrarian or rural roots and taking them along on a forced prisoners march, subjecting them to cartels and gangs, dragging them through rivers and over fences and then losing them at a boundary station where they are then sold into sexual exile in apartment buildings?   I don’t quite see that as Jesus’s intent here?   And you know it’s a real shame that in all of this rhetoric bouncing around on all sides of this issue nobody says, where is the free birth control why are these babies having babies and why are they forced through poverty to bring them here? The day that I heard that announcement from Nancy Pelosi? I wrote the following poem.

In another article, I will soon speak of the relationship to the open border policies of Mayorkas, Harris and Biden in reference to the administrative procedures act of 1954 and the national environmental policy act of 1970, but those issues are too lengthy to discuss adequately herein.  Look for that in a following post.  So what, you say?  Well, I used to live in the east.  I had good friends who lived on the water. They would occasionally invite me down for weekends. They owned quite a bit of land and the land extended out into the beautiful brackish waters of the Potomac Title basin.  They had a private road that extended down to the lands edge there.  It was wooded and remote and the kind of place old Henry David Thoreau himself would’ve liked.  It came to be that there were several families seemingly of South American origin that had discovered that particular spot and went out there to fish and recreate.  They just showed up out there late one Friday evening.  They started showing up on a regular basis most weekends. Their crowd grew from just a few to several families.  My friend had a gate which he could’ve locked them out and prevented access a good half mile away from the water, but he left it open because he was compassionate and enjoyed the water and knew they did too, and he knew how important it was for agrarian or rural people to be able to enjoy nature and to get out of the city. Unfortunately, those people’s upbringing had them behaving in a manner where they would leave all sorts of rubbish and trash all over the place in the water and on the land.  They would sometimes leave fires burning. They really made a mess, but my friend refused to lock them out, and I think he’s a saint for being that way.  A lot of things in the media and the Internet want you to believe that the open borders is a Christian or just a fellow human being compassion thing by saying how could you possibly not let people in that are starving and poor and have little children and you know those are sort of valid points but how many people can you put in a lifeboat?  North America burns up every summer, evidence of a climate crisis facing us, and we don’t have a clue what it means or what to do about it. We have an economy in shambles and we have a lot of angst and we have so many poor people here already. This doesn’t seem to help out any of those situations.  Who it does help are the owners of McDonald’s and Burger Kings and the CEOs of corporate America that depend on wage level workers and they don’t wanna pay American workers enough to live either.  And now it looks like a lot of those people are gonna be sent back home and get to repeat their journey in the opposite direction.  Guess what’s waiting for them when they get there?  Their stuff’s been sold.  Their parents may be dead. The locals may be hostile to them.   So how did this not “suffer the little children” and why isn’t that really looked at from a lot of different angles.  One more point to be made from a story of my life on the East Coast. I rode a bus to work and back every day. Most of the people on that bus were construction, janitorial or service workers. Most of them did not speak English. One particularly dreary, rainy day when it was just pouring like it does there, everybody sat silently looking out the window as the bus went through the route. There was this cool little kid about six years old of Hispanic origin and he was running up and down the aisle singing out in great English as loud as he could saying “rain on the roof 123 rain on the roof, but there ain’t no rain on me.” He was the coolest kid. If somebody deports him that’s bullshit. He’s every bit of an American as Ty Cobb. You know we need compassion in everything we do, but we sometimes have to rectify situations that should never have occurred. An important side note of this that nobody seems to speak about while they are lamenting on the plights of refugees is – wait a minute, why are so many people seeking asylum from persecution?  If that is the case, why isn’t something being done about all that persecution like maybe giving those people money and ammunition and arming them and sending them home to defend their country and their homeland. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of that going around these days. Now i’m not a policy guy. I don’t know the solution. Maybe go back some years and say OK if you were in here legally then you stay even if it was a temporary legal gig you can become permanent? Whatever, if they’re decent in government, they could enact stuff like that, but the real solution is to take our habitat this planet we call the Earth seriously and start treating one another accordingly. More talk on the environment and impact of ever burdening human population levels in articles to come.