It's been a long summer. I have been caregiver for all of my grandchildren, busy with the garden, children, the little dog, and friends to do any writing or much painting.

I have completed more than my share of summer reading projects and most days hauled my butt out of bed early so I would have time to read the online news papers and keep up with what's going on in the outside world.

I have questions. More questions than answers, and many thoughts about how the world is going to hell in a hand basket.

NOTE TO "THOSE" CYBER STALKERS, If you don't like what I have to say, don't read my blog.

Why are so many folks bound and determined to close "our" borders?

Don't they understand that this will effectively keep "us" in, rather than keep "them" out?

One rational off times used, is the criminal intent of illegal immigrants, along with some horror story or another about a crime committed by an undocumented alien. These crime reports feature people of color, albeit light color, of Mexican, or Central / South American persuasion.

Do Canadians who come here ever commit crimes?

Maybe not, Canadians are so polite. (And are mostly white.) I can't think of a single reason why a Canadian would want to become an illegal immigrant. Their government, laws, health care, education, are all better than ours. Even their money is pretty.

Now that the exchange rate is at par, we hardly have anyone from Canada coming down to shop. A loss for the local economy, but with closing borders, they might get stuck here and be forced to break our laws in order to survive.

It's all about the crime of wanting to work and provide a better life for family and being on a ten year waiting list to be granted a green card. These people risk life and limb in a desperate bid for the things we take for granted. Most of these people are hard working, honest and good loving parents. They do the best they can to provide for their own and are forced by our laws to not pay into the system.

Yet they keep the system running smoothly. Pickles and popcorn get to the table, beds get changed in the motel you will rest in on your vacation or business trip, Lawns are groomed at the golf course and in the high rent districts everywhere. Trucks are loaded and unloaded, offices cleaned, houses roofed and painted, trash gets hauled, babies bathed, chickens cleaned, and all things packaged and sold. Illegal immigrants do the work we can't or won't do for ourselves. They do it for less money, because they can't argue in a work to live situation.

My personal favorite illegal immigrant, a lovely woman named Rita, came here on a visitor visa and just stayed a few years longer than her original plan. Rita is British and her home is in Spain.

She started a small landscaping business while she lived in the states, paid into the system, money she will never see again, and left for England when she developed bone cancer.

I'm happy to say that she has survived, has turned her little Spanish farm into a rustic B&B and is prospering.

The bottom line is this. All the uproar over illegal immigrants is a feat of prestidigitation.

It's about this government turning the focus off the nasty little wars that are killing our young men and women, watering down the gene pool, draining this country's resources, and putting cash in the privet coffers of the elite, and giving those racists and haters a group to hate and still remain politically correct.

Hide and watch, as soon as the elections are over, this immigration thing will fade away and it will be business as usual.