This Gleaner story of January 18, 2024, under the headline; “Football
dream fading, Second denial of US visa puts Munro
graduate’s scholarship goal in jeopardy," only caught my attention because it involved my ‘brother’ school. ”
I am surprised how little comment this story has elicited
though, since it depicts so vividly, the popular experience with bureaucracies can cause, summed up thus; He /she who plays by the rules get, shafted.”
According to the report; The
dream of 20-year-old Munro College graduate Oral Thompson to pursue football
internationally appears to be fading after his efforts to pick up a university
scholarship in the United States were halted with his second denial of a
student visa four months apart. Thompson, who has been offered a partial
scholarship to attend the University of Northwestern Ohio, has until the second
week in March to settle and begin classes at the private institution in Lima,
Ohio. Football dream fading."
Most of us appreciate that America is a country of
immigrants, (the only non-immigrants being the Native Americans) so most
residents there are not intolerant of others trying to gain better
opportunities by traveling to that country.
However, the Republican Party tends to be
outrightly anti-immigrant and their current leader never fails to
denigrate us, to the point of saying immigrants contaminate their blood.
On the other hand, the current policy being pursued by
the Democratic Party is one that encourages chaos and illegality.
Over the years, I have heard tragic stories about
families being torn apart for years and sometimes even decades, because of the difficulty, the exasperating legal process and the long time it takes to obtain legal visas, whether to migrate or even just
visit.
I am sure this tiresome experience has not just frustrated Jamaicans over the decades, but indeed people from all over the world, who are trying to get to
the USA.
Now, under the present Biden administration however, all you have to be able to do is learn to climb a wall or squeeze through
barbed wire, to enter the USA.
Don’t waste your time trying to enter
through the legal process, as young Thompson is now learning!
To make it even better for those who favor illegality
over going through legal processes, they can get numerous benefits that not
even those who were born there are able to!
For example, California is giving the law-breakers free
health care, while thousands of those persons born in the USA or who
migrated there legally but don’t qualify
for Medicaid or Medicare, get left without health coverage, if they cannot
afford a policy through Obama Care.
Recently too, children in New York were deprived of in-person education, because their classrooms were given to illegal immigrants. In cities like NY, LA, San Francisco, Chicago etc, while citizens live on the streets because
they cannot afford the rent, illegals can get free accommodation!
Because it’s now a free for all too, terrorists, criminals
and smugglers can enter, no problem while aspirants who play by the rules, can't.
No wonder Biden is seeing a massive fall-off in support from most categories
of his voters in poll after poll, for most people are law-abiding and
prefer due-process to a policy that victimizes the law-abiding people while
rewarding law-breakers!
Biden’s immigration policy will go a far way in encouraging voters to turn away from the Democrats in the upcoming elections.
His policies can only benefit Trump and his Maga supporters.
For no reasonable person supports policies that victimize honest people while rewarding law breakers.
