Julissa Arce @julissaarce Mar 2Julissa Arce came on a CNN interview show this morning (she tweets about it here, but no link yet to the interview) as an expert on immigration.
#ToImmigrantsWithLove I will use my voice and my power
until the day we are free like the Monarch butterflies.
Acer's story is that she came into the United States as a young child illegally with her parents. She has lived almost twenty years illegally. Since her entry into the country, she "graduated" from college with honors, "contributes" to the society, "pays" taxes, "works" in a high profile company, is an exemplary "employee," got married (from what I could discern, just to become "legal"), and now has written her memoir telling this tale.
It is incredible. An illegal and wrong act, which sets a domino effect of all the other wrong acts, is deemed an inconvenient incident so far back in the past with no bearing on this woman's present and future. Legal and illegal become irrelevant terms as long as the person is a "good" person.
This is the society that this woman is building and without a single pang of guilt, or a sliver of doubt over her wrong doing.
Such is the state of our brave new world.