DACA - my thoughts

I try to stay neutral when it comes to politics and FB but here is another fine example of "fake news", well, maybe not fake but at least altered to suit the narrative.

Some US state attorney generals are of course, suing the President over his decision on DACA. And I quote: "they alleged Mr. Trump’s shift was driven by racial animus toward Mexican Americans and that the Trump administration failed to follow federal rules governing executive policy making.”
I point out that the DACA participants are not Mexican/American. They are not natural citizens i.e.: being born here or naturalized by citizenship.

 I could have been taken to France as a child, been raised there to adulthood but never be considered a French citizen. I would always be an American citizen living in a foreign land and have to follow the laws of the "host" country. One must go through that countries steps to become a citizen if that is even allowed in said country. And if France told me I have to go back to the U.S., then that's the way it would have to be. No amount of crying or protesting would change the outcome.

Nor are all the DACA folks even Mexican born, some are from other countries. President Obama did state that this executive order was not amnesty or a path to citizenship and was a temporary fix as he could not convince Congress to create a law on these kids, so he did a run around and signed the executive order which can be annulled by any future President and was.
 So, Trump punted it back to Congress. Can they create a law to offer these young people a path to citizenship? Is that fair to the waiting lists of aliens who have been waiting months and years to enter the U.S. legally? Who knows, only time will tell. It's an ugly mess but lets be clear... this was created by Obama and Trump is left with having to try and fix the problem.
 Unfortunately, its real people stuck in the middle with little to no recourse on how their future in the USA will turn out. Illegal immigrants do not have rights under the laws of USA and unfortunately neither do their children. But this is a humanitarian and ethical issue. How can we send back to unstable and unsafe countries these people who have lived here most of their lives? I don't have the answer and neither does the President. Let's see what Congress can come up with.

LABOR DAY MUSING

Labor Day in the United States is a public holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. It honors the American labor movement and the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, laws and well-being of the country. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

However, Labor Day was the final result of many movements involving workers and management. I refer to the Haymarket Affair in 1886. Basically the workers organized into labor unions and forced the adaptation of the 8 hour work day. Up until the movement, most workers, mainly immigrant labor force worked typically 60 hours, six days a week.

Without the uprising of America's workers some 130 years ago, imagine where we might be today. Think of all the sacrifices our forefathers made, both in blood and protesting peacefully.

From wiki: No single event has influenced the history of labor in Illinois, the United States, and even the world, more than the Chicago Haymarket Affair. It began with a rally on May 4, 1886, but the consequences are still being felt today. Although the rally is included in American history textbooks, very few present the event accurately or point out its significance," according to labor studies professor William J. Adelman.

Following the Civil War, particularly following the Depression of 1873–79, there was a rapid expansion of industrial production in the United States. Chicago was a major industrial center and tens of thousands of German and Bohemian immigrants were employed at about $1.50 a day. American workers worked on average slightly over 60 hours, during a six-day work week.^[12]The city became a center for many attempts to organize labor's demands for better working conditions.^[13]Employers responded with anti-union measures, such as firing and blacklisting union members, locking out workers, recruiting strikebreakers; employing spies, thugs, and private security forces and exacerbating ethnic tensions in order to divide the workers.^[14]Mainstream newspapers supported business interests, and were opposed by the labor and immigrant press.^[15]During the economic slowdown between 1882 and 1886, socialist and anarchist organizations were active. Membership of the Knights of Labor, which rejected socialism and radicalism, but supported the 8-hour work day, grew from 70,000 in 1884 to over 700,000 by 1886.^[16]In Chicago, the anarchist movement of several thousand, mostly immigrant, workers centered about the German-language newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung("Workers' Times"), edited by August Spies. Other anarchists operated a militant revolutionary force with an armed section that was equipped with guns and explosives. Its revolutionary strategy centered around the belief that successful operations against the police and the seizure of major industrial centers would result in massive public support by workers, start a revolution, destroy capitalism, and establish a socialist economy.^[17]

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Sound familiar? Today's millennials think they invented the anarcharist's movement, antifa, and or the peaceful demonstrations against our government and its leaders. But no, dear reader, resistance harkens back to the beginning of our country and continues today and into tomorrow. So, tomorrow while you are enjoying your Labor Day festivities, take a moment to reflect on the heros of 1886 and beyond. We are fortunate to live in such a diverse and wonderful country despite its flaws and growing pains.

HAPPY LABOR DAY ALL.