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General
notes on the following essays
- Mr.
O’Malley wrote of the trials and tribulations he endured to legally
enter Mexico with his wife, in order for him to work for a limited
amount of time. He was NOT trying to become a Mexican
citizen. He was going only to perform his job for a company that
owned a satellite office in Mexico. He was warned to obey all
Mexican laws or risk imprisonment.
- In
contrast, Mr. Mes discusses his experiences in coming to the United
States from Canada. Although Mrs. Mes was born in the United
States, had full U.S. citizenship, and suffered health issues that
necessitated her move back to the U.S., it took effort and money and
seven month for this U.S. citizen to gain permission to enter the U.S.
with her Canadian husband of 10 years.
- Finally,
Ms. Cloven recants the circumstances surrounding her American family’s
temporary move to Germany (just one of many other countries visited,
mostly at the request of Uncle Sam) and the tremendous burden placed
squarely on the shoulders of her parents for them – and their children
– to comply with the laws of the foreign lands; laws set forth to
ensure the protection of the host countries.
These stories are
offered as points of reference in our current ongoing struggle to
justify – or reject – the mass injection of between eleven and twelve
million people into the USA who have never had to endure any of these
processes but who now claim, regardless the fact that they’ve willingly
and repeatedly broken the laws of the U.S., they should be exempt from
undertaking the same procedures as those who have come before them; as
those who’ve attempted to enter ANY foreign country legally.
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