An Immigration Story, Close to Home

David Hogan
Leeds, AL

Let's say you run a water distribution company out of your home and your basement is FILLED with pallets of bottled water. You even sell to a lot of your neighbors in town. THEN one day the city water supply is poisoned by a train that spills poison chemicals in the local lake water supply in a derailment, and it also blocks off the only road coming into the town as well. Authorities are struggling with the poison chemical because trying to right the derailed train may spill more and this has now moved into 4 days, and people have been without water for four days. YOU, owning a bottled water distribution center put a pallet of bottled water out in your driveway asking everyone to please take only 5 bottles a day and you'll put more out each day. In no time the pallet is emptied and the next day you hear the front door opening and people are pouring in your living room telling you they demand the water NOW. The first thing you have to do is get them out of the house and close the front door to get a hold of the situation. You want to help, but this is dangerous now. Welcome to immigration in America! So how dare you close the door, even if temporarily.