Well…with trump’s immoral crackdown and rounding up of immigrants since his Russian fueled election, I have a few thoughts on the day that many cities are seeing an “immigrant strike” where many places that depend on immigrant labor are closing for the day to emphasize how much immigrants contribute to this society. Unless you are Native American, you and your family are immigrants and came here for the very same reasons that current immigrants do…for opportunity and to make a better life for their families…many escaping the prospect of death in their home countries. When my family emigrated to the US in the late 1800′s, we were demonized for being Irish, and were relegated to slums and the worst jobs as were most immigrants at the time…but there was significant difference then…as soon as immigrants set foot on US soil, they were on the path to citizenship and a way to integrate themselves into the US society, something that immigrants in this society can’t do with the current “hate the immigrants” culture that has been fanned by trump and that was instrumental in his hate filled campaign. Over the course of this country, immigrants have been reviled and scapegoated over and over again…and their contributions ignored…I hope this day of resistance does something to end that….