“My name is Greisa Martinez Rosas,……I am an immigrant; I am undocumented, unafraid, queer, and unashamed!”
So said Greisa Martinez Rosas at a recent rally protesting the administration’s deportation policies. And judging by the response, those attending were enthusiastically supportive. Now pretty much everyone in the country has ancestors who came from someplace else. Originally, my own were Prussian, but since 1945 I guess I am Polish. Anyway, my people came to the U.S. legally around 1888, and my great-grandfather worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He also may have poisoned his first wife with arsenic and married her sister. But that’s another story.
Regardless, there are a few differences between my own ancestral history and Ms. Rosas’. My people immigrated, they were legal, and they were straight. I’m glad of that last one because if…
