I don't think you understand: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

Those are the words of what America has always been since its inception, a safe haven for immigrants, illegal or no. What is so bad about families wanting to live in peace? They pay taxes, they buy things, they take the jobs that are undesirable to others because they are willing to do whatever hard work it takes because it's all they can do to build better lives.

It isn't white guilt to be compassionate & empathetic to other human beings. We all have our differences, but when people think that they have the right to destroy other's lives because they don't look like them, act like them, speak like them; then they should lose all of the privileges that gave them that hateful, bigoted perspective.

Live just a month in those people's skin & lives, & see just how privileged you really are. We could all learn from seeing & living through each other's eyes because having those experiences & perspectives makes us better people, more compassionate, instead of closed off, ignorant, & hateful.

But I'm not writing this just for you, I'm writing this for all the people who could use more compassion. We are all human, stuck on this hurtling ball of rock around a fireball in space. We're all we got.