Архив переписки - неделя 5, 2026 год
- 4 мин. чтения - количество слов: 649At Last
It matters not which border crossed, From desert dry or tempest tossed, To waves of grain and freedom’s sigh, From womb’s dark hold to first-light’s cry— You’re here, you’re here, at last.
It matters not what age you came, Eight months or eighty years the same, What color skin your parents’ face, What faith from which they fled to grace— You’re here, you’re here, at last.
Now eye to eye, measuring minds, The hopeful search for justice finds No honest man can blindly curse One more like he in chorus and verse Than different—yes, in essence we Are species same, from nose to knee— As equals born with equal right To live and work and dream the night Where best we may, and here you are, Your place of birth be near or far, Your life and loves as dear to you As mine to me—and this is true: As innocent till guilty proved, Against you none are justly moved.
So come, let’s toast to freedom’s song, And may someday you pass along— It matters not which border crossed, To nurse’s hands or shoreline lost— You’re here, you’re here, at last.
~ Quent Cordair My Kingdom, 2019
An HBL member ex-policeman justifies deportation of non-citizen offenders:
I personally arrested a guy for robbery who fled in a stolen car, crashed it fleeing, and had multiple IDs from people he had robbed on his person; in custody he bragged about beating his wife with an extension cord while we were waiting for a Detective to talk to him. He was not a nice guy. He was later deported, and I doubt anyone loses sleep over him being gone.
This is indeed a cause to lose sleep. First, this man had never paid for his crimes, for he was merely deported. Don’t the laws apply to him? Shouldn’t he answer for his crimes proportionally, to the same extend as a citizen would?
Second, in the country he is deported to he has more opportunity for crime, because countries with lesser protection of rights have a black market and anarchy through bribing police and judges.
He adds,
I have seen many, many repeat violent offenders walk for very serious crimes that could have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The system drops strong cases all the time; because they are overwhelmed, incompetent, overly sympathetic to criminals’ claims to sympathy, or some combination of all of the above. … In that context, when immigration laws can actually remove a dangerous person, I don’t think it’s a bad thing.
The fact that criminals walk free because of an inefficient court system, is not a justification to deport them to have a modicum of peace. This pragmatism sweeps the problem under the carpet. All that funding that now goes to fund the illegitimate ICE should be funding the legitimate and necessary court system.
