“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.” Helen Keller Toleration of the stranger is difficult. But it has to be one of the cornerstones of a humane immigration policy. Photo is courtesy ...Read More
“Have patience, all things are difficult before they become easy.” Saadi Persian Poet Another painting that I took a photo of in the New Mexico Capital Museum. Immigration policy is an exa...Read More
“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.” Thomas Huxley A painting from an art gallery in Santa Fe. I failed to get the name of the gallery or the artist. You cou...Read More
“People are generally too much attached to their native countries to leave it and dissolve all their connections, unless they are driven to it by necessity.” Alexander Hamilton From Hamilton by Ro...Read More
The case for allowing people to move is simple; openness to newcomers is morally right, economically beneficial and culturally enriching. Philippe LeGrain LeGrain is a writer who wrote, among other th...Read More
“Once I thought to write a history of immigrants in America. Then I discovered that immigrants were American history.” Oscar Handlin, as quoted in A Nation of Immigrants by John F Kennedy ...Read More
Last year eight million people moved from one state to another in the USA. We accept that as the way things are and adjust. But a half million people move here from Mexico and we get so mad we can’t...Read More
Controlling Immigration Following is what I wrote about immigration in 2006. My opinion has moderated a bit in the years since. My hope is that President Trump will solve enough of the undocumented im...Read More
“We truly are blessed to live in America.” Nikki Haley A lamp work glass chair at the Imagine Museum in St Petersburg, FL When you read this we will be traveling home from Italy. I like travel but...Read More