Immigration

Hello All! My name is GlorpZorp, but my friends call me Glorpy!

I was surfing through my feed on my new instagram page, @GlorpZorp (follow me if you have an account as well!), when I saw a very sad video posted by an account that showed a child getting separated from her parents. The caption, which read “this young girl, who was born in the country, has been separated from her parents after they were deported because of their illegal immigration into the United States,” lead me to do some light research on what the word “immigrant” meant. An immigrant is someone who enters a new country to live there permanently―this can be done legally, with a lot of patience and the right papers, or illegally, without papers and more travel. I came to wonder why someone would want to leave their home to enter a new country, but then I realized that even on Kawakatawk people would leave their homes because of religious persecution, for better opportunities or even in the case of natural disasters. On Kawakatawk, though, anyone is allowed to leave and emigrate/immigrate anywhere on the planet as they please. I understand also that people who were born in the country feel as though their homes and jobs are being taken, but they do not understand how much luck was associated with them being born in a privileged country. If they were born in a third-world country, they would also want the opportunity to move to the United States as well. What I believe is even worse, however, is that there are people who want people deported so badly that they would be alright with purposely separating a family and leaving a child alone in a completely different country without their parents, which I recently learned would put them in a foster home. Foster homes, as I have seen in multiple movies, do not always end up treating a child properly. Kids may have to bounce from home to home for years before they find somewhere that they feel at home, if they even find a place at all. Otherwise, as soon as a child becomes eighteen years of age, they are no longer required to be in the foster care system and can roam the streets alone, attempting to find their way in the world. I think that, although illegal immigration causes problems with jobs, there should be an easier and quicker way for those who want to come to the United States to get here legally, as long as their intentions are valid and clear. I heard that the wait can sometimes be more than ten years to have proper paperwork to enter this country legally; who wouldn’t rather take the risk and just enter illegally for the sake of their families and future? Technically, I, too, am an illegal immigrant, but my parents and the rulers of Kawakatawk made an agreement with the rulers of Earth, so I have all my papers in order―if only it were that easy for the actual residents of this planet.

There needs to be someone in charge who takes care of the people instead of the rules. The election is this year, so we will see what becomes of that. I cannot wait to vote; see you all soon! 

written by: GlorpZorp Katawk February 28, 2020 (4:10 p.m.)