Hello and welcome back to the Tiny Pod.
This week is all about immigrant, illegal alien, and
inalienable rights. The word immigrant comes from
the Latin immigrare, meaning to move into from the verb migrare,
to move to wonder. It is the natural, neutral,
fluid, cyclical movement of life.
Humans have been migrating since the dawn of time, from field to
field, region to region. Agriculture depended on seasonal
movement and ancient civilizations existed because
they moved. Humanity evolved as ideas,
culture, and genes spread. There was lots of immigration in
the Bible. Abraham migrates, Moses
migrates. The entire Old Testament is
movement, exile, return, and wandering.
Jesus was a refugee as a child. So anyone using Christianity to
justify hostility to migrants hasn't read the Bible.
Immigrant is a new word for ancient, utterly normal human
behaviour. Just life doing what life does,
People. Were travellers, settlers,
pilgrims, traders, refugees, nomads or just people?
The neutrality of immigrant became lost in the 19th century
when anxiety over borders and ownership fuelled bureaucratic
categorising. When Europeans were moving
around the world, it was described as settlement,
civilization, exploration and empire.
When the poor started moving towards Europe and America,
migration became about poverty, race and labour.
It's linguistic gymnastics, like when white wealthy Brits abroad
are expats and expat communities are aspirational and chic and
everyone else is an immigrant or illegal alien.
The word alien comes from the Latin alias meaning other, and
the verb alien RA meaning to transfer, to remove, to make
other. When something is moved, sold,
handed over, exiled, or separated, it becomes alien.
Not because it's strange or bad, it is just no longer mine.
Alien became charged in the 1920s when it started being
applied to human beings. Calling someone an illegal alien
both criminalised their existence and stripped them of
their humanity. It is cold, administrative,
dehumanising political language designed to shut down empathy.
The person on the boat walking across a border or arriving in a
new city is often acting from love, protection and survival,
all of which are pure sovereign human qualities, a universal
truth. Humans move becomes a crime,
weaponized by fragile power structures projecting their
internal chaos. Externally, systems dependent on
fear need dehumanising words to function.
Regulated power doesn't Illegal alien creates fear and
separation, Mine versus not mine, inside versus outside,
safe versus dangerous. When leaders dehumanise with
language, it's not about policy. It's about soothing their own
terror of losing control. It makes cruelty and violence
legal instead of violent. Law emerged as a collective
agreement to civilise society, to make society safe, to give it
boundaries and to protect life. It was about containment of harm
so people could live together without killing each other.
Labelling a human being illegal is using language to bypass
morality because once someone is illegal, anything can be done to
them. Detention, disappearance, family
separation, violence. Language did the same thing in
the 17th century Caribbean and slave codes make people and
property mean the same thing. The law redefined reality and
legalised brutality by changing the category of the human being.
Law without morality changes from a civilising force into a
weapon and breaks the moral laws.
It was created to serve leaders justifying violence and
exclusion as law while violating international law.
Human rights law and constitutional laws are not
lawful. When politicians call human
beings illegal aliens, that is not constitutional language.
The American Constitution was founded by people who were
themselves aliens, declaring independence from a crown and
claiming inalienable rights, rights that cannot be made other
they belong to you by virtue of being human.
The people most obsessed with calling others foreign, alien,
or illegal are surrounded by immigration, benefit from it,
marry it, exploit it, and weaponize it.
Trump, his wives, his kids, his ancestry are all layers of
immigration, and yet he weaponizes the word illegal
alien as if it has nothing to do with him.
That is the absurdity, the ultimate hypocrisy.
The people holding the power to define illegal are themselves
breaking every principle of law, fairness, and truth.
The term illegal alien is a smokescreen to make people feel
that the threat comes from outsiders, while the real
lawbreakers sit comfortably in power rewriting the rules for
themselves. The rules aren't about law,
fairness, or safety. They're about power, image, and
control. It's a system built on
hierarchy, not justice. Countries aren't suffering from
immigrants, they're suffering from men terrified of losing
dominance. Nothing is ever enough when
you're empty internally. Elon Musk, with over 700 billion
able to cure world poverty twice, wants trillions more.
And to fly to another planet escaping Earth instead of
repairing it, where the nervous system never learns safety.
Nothing is ever enough. There's only more.
More control, more territory, more extraction, more noise to
drown out the emptiness of disconnection from humanity,
dignity, divinity, and God. It is relentless, senseless,
mindless, and endless. Stopping would require contact
with consequence, with grief, with responsibility, with
limits. So it keeps going.
Enforcement instead of reflection, Escalation instead
of repair. Empathy requires regulation and
feeling grief, shame, fear, guilt, all the things
disregulated people have spent a lifetime trying to outrun.
It is a toddler's nervous system with adult weapons.
Regulated people don't need to conquer or erase others.
Real strength is built internally, framing immigrants
as predators using media, political constructions like
Pakistani rape gangs, collapses, migration, grooming, crime and
race. Grooming and sexual violence
exist across all ethnicities, classes and nationalities.
Politicians invent monsters elsewhere, but sexual abuse
statistics are consistent across countries.
Most abuse happens in private, by someone known within
families, institutions, churches, schools and
overwhelmingly by powerful men with social cover.
Documented associations, allegations, settlements, flight
logs, sealed files and decades of testimony are far more
threatening than a man freezing in the channel.
Power plus impunity is where harm actually hides.
In homes, in elite circles, in positions of trust.
The immigrant criminal keeps the spotlight off the familiar man
in the room. Donald Trump, Epstein, Nigel
Farage. Sexual offenders and paedophiles
cannot tolerate shame, limitation or moral
contradiction, so they project their deceit, aggression and
cruelty onto immigrants. Aliens politicians position
themselves as protector, defender, and voice of the
people against a corrupt or dangerous other, when the real
danger is a world that mistakes domination for regulation,
projection for truth, and control for safety.
People who have built their entire identity on control,
dominance, productivity, conquest or being right cannot
retire because retirement would mean silence and silence wood
forest them to meet themselves. Stillness would allow grief,
regret, fear and the truth of impermanence to surface.
Old age is the evening of life, a season of reconciliation,
humility, handing things back. Men like Donald Trump,
Netanyahu, Nigel Farage are doing the opposite.
Instead of wisdom, there is escalation, Instead of legacy
there is hoarding. And instead of blessing the next
generation, there is sabotage. They never became whole.
So ageing doesn't bring peace, it brings existential threat.
Every reminder of time, relevance, Mortality feels like
annihilation, the terror of death meeting an unexamined
life. It is running from death instead
of preparing for it. Boys who never became men
trapped in ageing bodies with no idea how to soften, terrified of
rest because rest would mean feeling, trying to outpace
mortality with noise, avoiding humility, surrender and love.
The only things that being peace at the end.
Fear of death isn't about death, it's about an unlived life.
A regulated integrated elder doesn't need enemies or more.
They're present, generous and able to feel without becoming
cruel, see weakness without needing to dominate it, and
aligned in body, heart, mind and soul.
Separation. Cutting a human off from
belonging, from land, from community, from dignity and
telling them they belong elsewhere.
It is psychological before it's political.
White supremacy is people trying to belong to a group that does
not exist. There is no original pure static
white. It's a mix of migrations,
invasions, famines, plagues, border changes, stolen land, and
rebranded ancestry. Immigration is biblical,
biological and ecological. Birds do it.
Seeds do it. Humans have always done it.
Movement is life. Alienation is the sickness, not
migration, people alienated from their own humanity.
It is how power sits unchallenged by pitting
neighbours against neighbours, immigrants against immigrants.
Migration is courage, adaptability and survival.
It is not alien or other. We are all immigrants from town
to town, from emotional state to emotional state, from life to
life. Immigration is ancient.
The planet has been moving forever.
To criminalise movement is to deny truth.
Humans belong to 1 human race, one humanity.
Everything else is theatre. I'll see you next week.