In the beginning — and in many ways it was before there was light — this nation needed to be built. And to build it, it needed people.
Any clear eyed person can see the need for immigrants. They can also see why people aren’t flooding our shores with pockets full of cash. They come with what they have and they work with what they find. We need to help them get established. That means social services. Not as charity. As investment in the people who are going to harvest the apples and build the houses and pay into the system.
This is not about rapists, grifters, or predators. We don’t have to look at immigrants to find those.
Now the social services argument — and here is where the two threads become one.
What about your neighbor? The kids next door who look hungry. The single mother. The children who need vaccinations or fell and broke an arm. The family whose father was just laid off. The farmer who lost his crops because someone in power decided to take away his fertilizer subsidy to settle a political score.
