Another nighttime rant (I have nothing better to do):
I may be wrong (my sister Kathleen Boynton will call me on it if I am wrong) but as far as I know not one single one of my ancestral lines came to what is now America after the American Revolution.
It is a damned good thing that families like ours, after the founding of the country, did not establish and enforce the racist, xenophobic restrictions on immigration that are in place now. Otherwise, most everyone’s ass would be on the other side of the fence looking in. And that includes damned near everyone who opposes immigration. Most Americans can only date their families coming to America to the Late 19th or Early 20th Century. In some cases, that includes all branches of their family. Hypocrisy is not too strong a word.
Side observation: I will always wonder how the Canadian Senator from Texas can be so anti-immigration when he has benefited from it, and a generous interpretation of “native born”. It would seem he would be understanding. But that is probably too much to ask.
