Home Grown Xenophobia

There's a growing movement towards xenophobia in this country and it's a little disturbing. All of a sudden, immigration is all that anyone wants to talk about. We keep hearing about illegal immigrants getting licenses or being banned from speaking any other language besides English in government buildings. There's even legislation in Taneytown, Carroll County that is aggressively trying to eliminate non-English speaking immigrants from their town.

Now, here's my issue. Whenever we hear about illegals, we always here about those immigrants to our south (i.e. from Mexico, Central and South America). Here's the problem. English speaking Canadians walk over our borders everyday and no one says a thing about that. People turn a blind eye to that. It all seems like blatant racism to me. Of course, I'm not saying this because of any negative feelings about Canadians. My point is that because they look American in many cases and if they are English speaking, they just blend right in. On the other hand, Spanish speaking immigrants stand out and because of that they are targeted by politicians trying to get elected.

Let's not forget that all of us come from somewhere else.