Undocumented immigrants have a lower crime rate than US citizens

Today we celebrate the event in which undocumented immigrants arrived in this land and were welcomed and fed by the native peoples. We all know what the immigrants did next. 

 

I am grateful that today's undocumented immigrants act with more respect toward folks already here than those who arrived 400 years ago.

On Thanksgiving

I heard a recent radio essay about Thanksgiving. The commentator talked about how the holiday, or at least its myth, represented a shining example of a group of natives welcoming illegal immigrants and how it's an example from which open-minded people should take inspiration.

I heard somewhere that it's estimated that something like 90 percent of all Native Americans in North America had already died before the Pilgrims landed due primarily to disease by previous European settlers.

Of course, this was even before the 19th century's messianic Manifest Destiny and its genocidal destruction of the 10 percent that remained.

This is how the natives were thanked for their hospitality at that mythical dinner.

Let's hope that the Mexicans who come to this country are more civilized than their predecessors.