The woman pinned my mother and me outside a Florida grocery store and began to talk. She told us all about the three children she’d fostered to adopt, the husband who was 10 years her senior, and every medical diagnosis each one had ever had.
The one-sided conversation with this person we never met before made me wildly uncomfortable. When she finally took a break to ask if we lived in Florida, my mom mentioned that she spends her winters there.
“I don’t like ice,” my mom said.
The woman wrinkled her nose and walked away.
The abrupt end to that endless conversation relieved us both, and I laughed as we walked away.
“You know, that woman thought you were talking about a different kind of ICE,” I told my mom.
My mom looked at me as it dawned on her what that woman had thought.
“I meant I worry about falling on the ice,” my mom said. “But, I don’t like what that other ICE is doing either.”
Honestly, who does?
Who thinks it’s a good idea to terrorize and detain people based on the color of their skin? The party of Abraham Lincoln?
Who thinks it’s sound policy to barge into homes, schools, vehicles and private businesses without a warrant? The party of small government?
Who think it makes sense to authorize billions of dollars to hastily inflate a single agency? The party of fiscal responsibility?
I, like most Americans, believe in a strong vetting process at our borders. I support law enforcement efforts to apprehend and, where appropriate, to deport violent offenders.
But that’s not what’s happening in Minnesota.
My heart breaks for our immigrant community right now and for our country as a whole. We’re better than this.
We’re a country founded on due process. We have inalienable rights here and it is incumbent on those of us who move freely through this country to stand up for them.
So, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his eloquent legacy, I stand in opposition to the unprecedented ICE actions in Minneapolis and throughout this beautiful country.
May we all see better days ahead.
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Hi Laura
You are able to articulate what I am thinking so well. THANK YOU!
Hereâs to hopefully better days ahead
Happy New Year too!
Love,
Holly Smith
Thank you! Here’s to better days!
I love the innocence of your mother’s comments. You are right. This country is better than what we appear to be. The people who believe ICE is doing the right thing are giving everyone a black eye. But it is that innocence of us older folks, who still believe that God ( the real God, not the one the TV evangelists talk about) will guide our lives through the toughest times and restore this crazy old world. God Bless us all.☮️❤️
Thank you for this thoughtful comment. Belief in God is a powerful motivator.
I stand with you, Laura.
Thank you!
Who think it made sense to authorize billions of dollars to hastily import so many illegal aliens during the Biden administation opening the boarders and flying them in during the night? It certainly was not out of the kindness of their hearts. It was a political goal for a future permanent power grab. Let ICE do their job as they did under Clinton and Obama.
I appreciate you taking the time to comment but that is a widely debunked characterization of immigration policy.
Flying them in during the night? First class, I bet too.
Believe what you see with your own eyes not what is spoon fed to you by people who profit from and sow division
Eloquently said!
Thank you!