Hackers' Pub

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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) @susankayequinn@wandering.shop

2/16/2026, 11:39:21 PM

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My family, like most, has an immigrant background — I don't even know all of it, just that my great-grandfather came over on the boat from Poland.

The countries who will best survive in the 21st Century will be those who welcome immigrants, esp climate refugees. People are what make a country strong. Diversity is strength.

Feb 19, 2020
Immigrants make America work.
My great-grandfather, Karol Durlak, got off the boat from Poland in 1905. Left his wife, Mary, and two children behind, likely because she was pregnant with the third. Mary followed the next year. Karol applied for citizenship in 1929. Karol (who took the name Charles in the US) and Mary had nine children, one of which died while still small. One was my grandfather, Edward A. Durlak, who had four
children, one of which was my father, Edward R. Durlak. My brother is Edward N. Durlak,apparently that name is irresistible.
That's a lotta poles, invading the land and doing terrible things like being laborers and factory workers and engineers and managers. My father was the first of his family to go to college—worked on the engines for the Saturn V. I was the *second* in my family (after my mother) to get a Ph.D. I've done a few things with my time on the planet—engineer, scientist, politician,author—raising three boys who will be engineers and physicists and biologists.
They came "the right way" because back then there was no "wrong way" they simply showed up if they could manage passage to get here. When we cage the children of people trying to come to America for whatever reason, but especially asylum—we're cutting off the lifeblood that's made our country strong for hundreds of years. It's idiocy, hurting ourselves like this, and it's atrocity what we're doing to those families at the border.
It's a stain that will be with us forever.

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