Missing Data

No one has all the data that is available. So we base our decisions on what we do know. Does that make us wrong? It just gives us a partial picture of what is out there.

Recently I have witnessed people making decisions like this and I wonder if they remember their history classes. (And they thought history was a waste of time.) Our lives thrive for such a short space of time that we think this is all that there is. We don’t remember the people who were put out of their homes to make room for “Better” or for “Modern”. We think that the people we have inconvenienced are not using good judgment but perhaps they have a lot more information than we do? Their information has been handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years.

So what am I trying to say? Have you figured it out yet? No, it isn’t about the Indian population in this country but it could be if we hadn’t beaten them into apathy as a race of people. No, what I am talking about is the Hispanic population in the United States.

People think that they are here because they came from the south and occupied OUR country illegally when in fact it is just the opposite. How about the parts of this country that were original occupied by Hispanics, and we moved in and took over. Doesn’t anyone remember the Alamo? It is located 150 miles north of the border, the line that we think of as the dividing line between the USA and Mexico. We lost that battle when we tried to take more land for the USA. They fought us like cats and dogs to keep us out of THEIR country. Like good Americans, we did it anyway!!!!

Even the name of Los Angeles was first given to that settlement by the Spanish, (A settlement that was already there even before the Spanish came) El Pueblo De La Reina De Los Angeles = “The town of the Queen of the Angeles.” It did not belonging to any Europeans. It didn’t belong to the Russians who were invading the northern territories of the west or even the British who were sailing in from the west to claim it as theirs. It belonged to the Mexican Indians, not even the Mexican Spanish and for the most part it should still be that way but it isn’t.

It is easy to see the difference between the Mexican Indians and the Spanish Mexicans. The Spanish Mexicans have history in the southwest going back to grants of land given to them by the Spanish kings. (I forget, did we fight Spain for that land too? Why do I not think so?) Their relatives live (present time) on both sides of an invisible line that has changed over the decades. The Spanish took everything away from the Mexican Indians just like we did in North America. Europeans have a history of doing what they want to do. Now the Americans are on that same program. What do I mean by now? We always do.

One of the fun things to do while living in California was to find Spanish grant lines. They were usually lined with Eucalyptus trees and roads A lot of present time roads were built along these lines. Some of these grants were rather large.

Most of the people upset with the invasion do not have any connection with the southwest or the West, much less know of its history. They are basing their judgments on the Hispanics that have made their way to Chicago or New York.

Hey, I have another fact that I found out about within the last year. The Roman Catholic Church is in the process of helping people to get to the USA through Mexico, legally or illegally. Most of these people are not Mexicans but come from Central America and when they get to Mexico, the Priests are the keepers of the secrets. (The safe houses) The law in Mexico looks the other way.

I saw a booklet that spoke of this, published by the Catholic Bishops. It said something like---a man has the right to fight for his family and if he can’t support his family in his country, he has every right to cross borders to do so. I saw it while sitting in on an interest lecture given by a person who went to Mexico to find out the truth. We are back to Data.

The Russians did it all over the north western part of this country. The Chinese came as freight to work for us but the Spanish owned all the area long before we decided that it was ours.

It is my belief that we can all live here. We can support each other in some form or another. A border is just an imaginary line that says you have to stay on your side of the fence but when your neighbor’s dog runs over, you don’t shoot it.

What most people dislike is that these people are getting services that the government supplies to anyone in the USA that decides it is too hard to work. Hey, I have a lot of friends who could work but have found a reason not to and are getting government support. Perhaps if the government changes some of its policies, things wouldn't be so upsetting?

Does anyone have the data on how much land in the USA is uninhabited? Do you want your grandson to grow up and pick apples in the State of Washington for a living or work on the California Delmonte farms? Someone has to do it.

The problem seems to be when they come illegally, wanting to better themselves, but they don’t have the money that it would take to do it legally. Are you going to sponsor someone so that their family can eat? Do you have any idea what it takes to get a Visa to come here legally to work? Boy, there is a lot of missing data here but a lot of judgments being made.

I have Hispanic friends. I find that they are more reliable than the car salesman that I bought my car from. They are harder workers than the people who are standing at the water cooler all the time.

We have to replace the word “They” with the words He or She. Once we go to first person, the rules change. How about the Senator who has a Hispanic person watching her children all day long? The trust is great when you can do this. This person becomes valuable.

It is time to value people of every nation, race, color and religion. Life is short as I have recently been reminded so instead of fighting back, reach out. Become a friend to one person of another race, nation, or religion. I think that you will be surprised to find out that they are just like you in a lot of ways.