Contextualizing Immigration

THE PROBLEM BEGINS, or began, with "manifest diestny". This phrase was invented in the early nineteenth century to justify and glorify genocidal conquest, of the native population by European invaders. From the earliest times in colonial American history, it was obvious that the European settlers in the immigration which began in 1607 and 1620 were not going to be confined to the east coast, but were going to multiply and expand westward. It would amount to an invasion and conquest, and indeed, genocide. Glorifying it, as was done in school when I was growing up, completely disguised the brutality of it. Mexico was in the way as much as native Amerian "Indians". To expidite its invitable, God ordained expansion to the Pacific Ocean, the United States expediently provoked a war with Mexico, quickly won the war, and stole the northern half of Mexico by extortion, including today's Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, among other areas. Thus millions of Hispanic people became citizens of the United States. It was inevitable that over the years, there would be a great deal of commerce at the Rio Grande, including a constant flow of thousands of people back and forth across the river for various reasons, often economic. Throughout most of ensuing American history, nineteenth and twentieth centuty, this constant, vigorous influx and egress of people was largely tolerated, accepted as normal, and generally ignored by the United States and the American people. Then too, there have always been issues, issues with what goods and services, including guns and drugs and stolen money, were being brought into the country, and what ones were leaving it. There have been times, recent times, when the number of Mexicans leaving the United States and returning to Mexico was greater than the number entering the U.S... Large scale deportations occurred during the Franklin Roosevelt administration, and again during the Eisenhower administration. To date, the absolute king of deportation is none oher than Barack Hussein Obama, who kicked roughly two point five million people out of the country. Although there is no accurate record keeping, one of the greatest surges in history of Hispanics illegally entering the United States is happening at the present time. Hence all the fuss, and the sense of urgency about immigration policy reform in the U.S.. It is worth noting that the current great surge in mass migration is happening all over the world, not merely across the Rio Grande. Millions of Asians and Africans ave been flooding into western Europe in the past couple of years, escaping poverty and famine, much of it related to drought and climate change. Humans are currently mass migrating more than at any time since World War Two. Just as the mass migration of desperate people has reached crisis proportions in North America, so it is a crisis world wide. Climate change will continue to drive mass migration over the next few decades, as rising sea levels force about half the human race to retreat from their beloved beach front life. Humans are nomadic by nature; we stop moving and settle down because we can get richer that way. The mass relocations of the near future will be staggering in extent, costly, and disruptive. To survive the coming chaos, large scale cooperative will be vital.