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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><b><span>A nation of immigrants</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>JFK wrote an article
with our title but this is not about the book posthumously published after his
assassination. It is about the nation we
call the US of A and how its story stands in contrast to its immigration history.
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>The peopling of the New
World by Europeans was a muzzling on native folks. Migration was not the issue naturalization
was, dealt with through residency rules in 1795, 1798, and 1802. In 1868, we protected the citizenship of sovereign
born children, interpreted in 1898 as applicable "regardless of parents'
citizenship" though it favored European roots. We allowed Afro-Americans to be naturalized in
1872 defied by Jim Crow. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>The 1882 Chinese
Exclusion Act confirmed the "Yellow Peril" xenophobia changing the
focus from US naturalization to immigration; we barred additional Chinese to cast
their shadows on US soil. The Act was
repealed only in 1943. Literacy was
added in the 1917 qualifications. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>In 1923, Indo-Aryans
were declassified as whites; we limited in 1924 eastern European and southern
Mediterranean immigrants (read, Jewish and Italian), and the quota system was introduced. Distinction by race was eliminated in 1952 but
implementation favored Brits, Irish, Slav and German. 1965 abolished the quota system of
national-origin and ushered family preferences resulting in "chain
immigration" where kin sponsored kin. Pinoys led the horde.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>In 1970, married to
a US citizen, I traveled from the East Coast to Manila on a student visa. I returned through Seattle and was subjected
to a thorough body check that took longer to peer through nooks and crannies than
usual. I was told to secure a green
card.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>I was in
Brownsville, Texas in 1978 and invited colleagues to lunch in Mexico. Already a 7-yr green card holder, it took me
four hours to cross back. A
three-piece-suited Pinoy going through Matamoros was a known <i>modus operandi</i> of illegal crossing. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>I entered Honolulu with
a green card in 1982; was held back while my white wife and daughters waited hours
outside. For a Pilipino to not apply for
citizenship more than a decade after he had a green card was suspect. I naturalized in 1984.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>A revamp of the
whole immigration system in the 90s was intended to be credible policy measured
by people who needed to get in to get in, people who were not needed kept out,
and people who were judged deportable banished.
1996 </span><span>enacted harsh policies.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>September 11, 2001 shocked the system and began
a curb on immigration. It is in this context
that BHO's executive order to delay deportation of illegals particularly from NAFTA
south must be understood. He is stemming
a climate of fearful frenzy and injects rationality on a system that awaits a
thorough overhaul. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, though more
of a melting pot with a creamy white top than a mosaic of diverse cultures. When we sent BHO to the White House, coloration
of being stuck its ugly head. Historically, immigration was not that
friendly to begin with, deselecting non-Europeans from crossing over. In our time, it does not bode well to be of
color. The racial card is on the table
again.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>November Turkey Day was a Puritan celebration
of the migration to the New World. I
commented on a collegial listserv that Garth Barth nixed his TV appearance in
light of the riots in Ferguson MO. </span><span>A Caucasian
friend <span style="color:#1C1C1C;">responded: "</span>I'm sorry to
disagree, but this kid was bad news and brought about his own demise." Rather blunt but truthful of her kneejerk
response.<span style="color:#1C1C1C;"></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>I have had five Michael Browns lean their bulk to my face,
two of them, Afro Americans. I might
have been pissed off as a consequence but their action was their choice and to
respond in kind would have made their action mine, too. I need no defense of power status, unlike Ferguson's
Darren Wilson who might have considered his official badge dishonored by a
disrespectful teen and decided to use his firearm. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>I bid America adieu this summer after almost fifty years of dipping
my toes on its Gulf, Atlantic, great Lakes and Pacific shores. I was glad to see BHO and Raul Castro open
diplomatic relations across the Gulf. On
the other hand, NYC's finest are insolent re the Mayor and Police Commissioner
at a Latino and Oriental colleague's funeral, not baffling of mostly whitey in
uniform, my East Coast classmate claims!</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 16px;">I once took three hours to get out of London's Heathrow for
fish and chips at Piccadilly on a half-day transit while heading to Africa from
Chicago. That year debated </span><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">whether </font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 16px;">Maid in the
Philippines qualified <i>Filipina = </i>nanny
in OED. The same Pinoy passport that made
English immigration</span><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">'s</font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 16px;"> pause got automatic 45-days in Hispanic America, so Ravel's
<i>Bolero </i>con SMU Texas Latinos was more
memorable than Gringos no touch line dancing that had us tolerated rather than
engaged.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><span>I travel with the American blue book across borders. Now resident of Hawaii<span style="color: #1C1C1C;"> </span></span><span style="color:#1C1C1C;">where
folks are born beautifully brown, I see a handsome person of color in the
mirror, proud in a nation of colorful immigrants.</span></div>
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<div style="color: black;font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;"><i>j'aime la vie</i><br>
<div><i>yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. in all, celebrate!</i></div>
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