In this eve of the US Presidential Elections,
concentrating on the abrasive character of Donald Trump it is useful to know that
he also came from IMPOVERISHED STOCK http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/02/politics/donald-trump-ancestry-scotland/index.html
His mother who was the youngest of a family
of 10 went to the US in 1930 from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland
at the age of 17 to be a MAID. She gave birth to the DONALD in 1946, sixteen years
later. She went on to live till 2000 to see her son get to the top in his real estate
business, a far cry from the abject poverty she grew up in.
So
what if an underage maid from Sri Lanka goes to say Italy, and then her son becomes
the PM there, that would be wonderful wouldn’t it? However she could never be the
mother of a President of Sri Lanka, due to the various prejudices that people in
Sri Lanka carry with them, make it extremely difficult for one born into poverty
to make it to the top.
It is also important to know that his father’s
ancestors came from Germany. Nevertheless his immigrant roots are clear and it is
NOT ironic that he wishes to stifle immigration, because many people who have actually
made it big in the US, feel they have had to go up the hard way, and today’s immigrants
are only coming not out of poverty, but to compete for jobs and take jobs away from
local people. Back then it was the labor shortage that encouraged them to come to
the US from a very sick and poor Europe that could not employ their people.
America was DESPERATE for labor to run their
industries, and even as in this case to work as housemaids. If today’s circumstances
are also considered, Sri Lanka is desperate for people to do the work locals refuse
to do. We will not only have to import construction labor from India to fill the
vacancies, but even maids from wherever they can come due to the shortage of over
50,000 maids just in Colombo to say nothing of the other domestic labor, and factory
labor etc.
Isn’t it ironic that there are millions of
people in refugee camps in the Middle East in countries such as Lebanon and Jordan,
and we will not permit anyone here to take the jobs that we have, and instead send
workers to Jordan and Lebanon. There is some human mismatch when that occurs, presumably
the Jordanian refugees are NOT allowed to work in Jordan, or are so well looked
after by the refugee agencies that they don’t want to do the jobs our people go
for! All quite confusing!
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