My best friend in the world (maybe even the universe!) got his Green Card last week, and so no longer lives in fear of having his life upended by suddenly being abducted and shipped out of the country. I'm so relieved and excited! Thank you, Joe Biden.
The cover of this 1978 single by French disco band Voyage isn't very exciting, granted, and so it may seem like my celebration is muted...but I think actually it's supposed to look like the side of one of those big wooden boxes that gets loaded onto a ship, stamped with its international destination on the side: LADY AMERICA! But since my friend is already in Lady America, his wooden box will have something more thrilling stamped on the side, like LADY TURKEY!
This, of course, brings up the question of undocumented astronauts. If someone is in the USA without documents and they leave the country, they aren't allowed back in. So if someone without documents becomes an astronaut and they leave the planet, are they likewise barred from returning?
Hence the need for the Space Force; the former guy wasn't going to let anyone in without papers.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the Green Card news. Surely we can all join in on a chorus of "Celebrate good times, C'mon!"
Today's press conference with Alejandro Mayorkas was such a blistering, devastating indictment of an administration that simply did not care about the lives of the undocumented that I am thankful to be reminded that "these are better days". Reuniting families is "a moral imperative". Migrant families can come to the US to be reunited with their children. In the first month, we have located the parents of more than 100 of the children who were intentionally separated from their families. (It's almost as if the other guys weren't trying at all.) Elections matter.
I'll have to check out that press conference. That's GREAT news that already so many parents and kids that were separated at our border have now been reunited! My friend is already making plans to visit "close" relatives that he hasn't seen in decades. These are better days, indeed...but it's frustrating and frightening that the pendulum keeps swinging so far in both directions.
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