A re-reading of Little House on the Prairie and a discovery:
But now, we don’t call those who work hard and risk everything to build a better life for their children pioneers. Now we are told to call them illegal aliens and violent criminals. According to contemporary political rhetoric, Ma and Pa Ingalls were national security threats and should have been separated from their children, thrown in prison and deported. Can you imagine ICE agents rounding up the men of Walnut Grove as they plowed the fields and disappearing them?