The immigrants -- these are the pioneers of today.
I imagine someone reading what I just said, and answering, "Not. A pioneer is a first settler, a first to the valley, a first to explore. The immigrants, on the other hand, enter a land so much already populated that we have no room for them."
Still, there are likenesses. The LDS fled persecution. So do the immigrants. The LDS pioneers dredged across a nation on foot. Even so, immigrants often cross all of Mexico on foot in order to get here. The LDS pioneers were people of faith and religion. Likewise, many of the immigrants come clinching their Bibles and gathering in morning prayer circles.
Now, get this -- if you will: The LDS pioneers crossed the borders into a foreign land without permission. The area was Mexican territory. I could be wrong, not being studied, but, I do not think the LDS received permission from Mexico to come here.
I do not even need to point out the likeness there.
Today, we worry of the immigrants becoming so numerous, they will become the dominant culture. It will become their land, not ours, is the fear. Even so, the LDS people did become the dominant people. The land ended up belonging to the nation they came from, becoming part of the U.S., instead of any more belonging to Mexico.
People worry about sharia law taking over. Even so, many non-LDS in Utah are upset at the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
They might not be pioneers, but the similarities are many.
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