A specific gentlemen used to service an area of my house months ago until the route that included my area was shifted by his company to someone else but he came back today and, having been friendly previously, we had an extended conversation that included his life background.
He is originally from Honduras and had a bunch of tales of run-ins with immigration ranging from outrunning an overweight Immigration Officer who caught him and was yelling at him to stop, to just playing it cool on a Greyhound bus that was boarded by Immigration to crossing the border by covering himself with plants and dirt and slowly crawling under the noses of the tower watchers and drones (who can be avoided all together by border-crossing on rainy, windy or even cloudy days). But one of the important staples of his tales was how harsh Immigration is everywhere and how the Central American countries treat the issue and its offenders less compassionately than America’s.
The U.S. gets all the heat because hippies who live here in the closest-to-perfect Governmental structure and system that exists thus feel twice as outraged on the gaps between that level and perfection while ignoring the far larger gaps elsewhere but it’s important to note.
I mentioned to him my long held annoyance with our immigration system that makes it so damn hard to just enter to work or enter as a candidate for citizenship and was surprised to hear that met with caution from my friend with years more experience dealing with the various systems. He said that there are a lot of bad people trying to get in and that the security makes a lot of sense. This – from a guy who had to cover himself in dirt and plants to crawl into this country at more than one point. Something to consider.