All Hail to the Immigrants

Toni Morrison died this week.  A lioness of literature, who we should mourn by reading the works she wrote that we have yet to open.  She is painful to hear at times, but always beautifully put together and eye opening.
The current rage against immigrants really baffles me on a number of levels.  The thing I love about the United States, a country that my family came to in the 1600's in order to escape persecution at home (sound familiar) with a vision of a more perfect union.  A city on the hill, where the needs of the many are more important than the wealth of the few.  Of course, that vision was a bit distorted to begin with, but our nation has grown, in size and stature, through the richness that diverse cultures bring to us.  So putting people in cages at the border is not only inhumane and cruel, it also weakens us as a nation in every way.  We are becoming the people we historically loathed.  The terrorists on our soil that I fear the most are angry white men and we are doing nothing to stop them.