ISSUE: “U.S. Revokes Wole Soyinka's Visa.” And my thoughts.

Response to a Facebook post. 

WOLE Soyinka is 91 years old. He has nothing to prove anymore. If I am that age and a Nobel winner, I will just spend the rest of my life in a quiet idyll in my country with my family and grandkids. Meanwhile, I am not really young. I have seen and experienced life yet I am cool with my imperfect journey. 

       The worst years that I lived in America were during the first term of Barack Obama's leadership. I had to hire new immigration lawyers in Las Vegas as Mr Obama sent home a record 400,000 average each year; the highest number since 1954's removals (Dwight Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback). ICE did pounce on illegal migrants in President Obama's first 4 years but the media wasn't as loud as these days (Donald Trump removed less than 200,000 so far after Joe Biden let in record numbers of undocumented migrants from 2021 to early 2024 via the southern border). 

       Also in Obama I, recession hit hard. And I reeled as did many. The worst economic downturn since the 1970s or Great Depression. Mr Trump? Current economy? I am cool. Resilience is an understatement. Anyhow, The D ended the Afghanistan war that Jimmy Carter fueled (via Operation Cyclone) and Barack prolonged it to 20 years and $2 trillion of taxpayer money wasted. Mr Trump just forged a ceasefire in Gaza and is working hard to end the tempest in Ukraine. I have been anti-war all my life and I haven't known a POTUS who worked this hard to end these wars in favor of trade handshakes. 

       Those who are against Trump’s funding cuts and shake-ups? Drug proliferation and crime? (I live in Asheville NC and I will tell you as a former newspaper publisher here how crime spiked from 2000 to these days.) Corruption seems not a fact in America? Think again. I covered those as a journalist. Etc etcetera. Back home I protested USAID. Why? Figure that one out. (Long discussion. I favor fair trade treatment over foreign aid vis a vis quid pro quo that invites government and NGO corruption.) 

       Anyhow, if Trump deports me for some reason, I don't care as long as he ends more wars. Then I will die happy in my own country. BTW, how many Filipinos here are illegals or visa overstays? Around 4 million. Why are many not sent home the way the Latino are? Hint: Asians are the top household earners in America and the most educated (legal or illegal), and obedient of the law. That'd be more than whites. 🏛🗽🏛