An Illegal Immigrant's Odyssey

By cosmic - Posted on October 12th, 2008 Tagged: Illegal Immigration • Better future My writings are almost always political or philosophical, and this blog will not be different in that regard. However, I am going to tell a little story about this particular political issue, rather than just make dry ruminations. This is a story about an illegal immigrant from Greece who left his country to find a new life for himself: an immigrant who became my father. My father, whom I'll call Zorba, was born in a secluded mountain village in the northwest Peloponnesus, not far from the town of Kalavryta, the flashpoint of the 1821 Greek war for independence. Greeks have always detested the Turks for holding them down. Apparently, that yearning for freedom- perhaps a vestige of Socrates or Pericles- was in all Greeks' blood, and Zorba was... [read full story]