Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Illegal immigration

Again, I'm not politically charged but I do think there is a serious problem with illegal immigration. All these student protestors are saying shit like my parents work hard and pay taxes and blah, blah, blah but what they don't realize is that IF their parents ARE paying taxes, I really don't think they should worry because they probably aren't ILLEGAL. If they are paying taxes AND are illegal, then I'd have to say that our government is even more jacked up than we think!

I understand their fears for the possibility of their parents or whatever relative they have that is illegal could be deported (I'm assuming deportation because why the hell would we want to house these illegal immigrants in prisons when they haven't committed a heinous crime) but if these students are law-abiding CITIZENS, they should know that it's called ILLEGAL immigration because it's...well...ILLEGAL!

Now granted, if they deport these illegal immigrants how are homes or office buildings going to be built or the rich people's lawns mowed and cared for? I'm not saying that these illegal immigrants shouldn't be given a chance to become legal immigrants. Depending on how long they have been here and if they can prove it, then I think they should be given a chance.

But how many of them do you think are going to actually take the time and effort to try to become "legal"? Are these student protestors going to lend a hand to their relative(s) to help them obtain and fill out the necessary documents or would it cut into their socializing teenager time? They can protest all they want but are they truly willing to help by putting forth the effort.

I'm not sure most of these students even know what they are "protesting" against. I think to most it is more about getting a free day out of school. For the others - the 'smart ones', I think they would know that it's not a good idea to skip school and risk their futures after the Superintendent said Tuesday was the final "free" day. The student that said this obviously have their shit straight...
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"It was dangerous, what we did today," said Briceida Villaruel, a student at W.T. White High School. "We said everything we wanted to. Now we need to stay in school in order to get our educations."



Some students are just plain stupid. The Superintendent had already stated yesterday that further protesting by students would result in harsher penalties. Get a freakin' clue...
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"All of our parents know we're here," he said. "We were more calm, more respectful than those other students - and we're getting issued tickets."

I guess I'm done. Sorry for the rant but I can't stand when people can't see that some things the government wants to make policy of are truly, real problems in society. With the attacks on American soil, the hatred of America (generalized) and the fighting by American soldiers abroad, it is time that the "free country" tightens its borders for the safety of all "legal" people within those borders. The American government has realized it's become too laid back and worthless. How many people do you think are in this country - undocumented - because the La Migra hasn't been proficient enough to do its job? These are just Mexicans but they could be future planners of terroristic activities. Be lucky that I'm not the dictator, er, uh, President. Everyone coming into the country that isn't a citizen would be tagged and bar-coded and they would have to pay a fee every two weeks for them to check in at an immigration office. I'd bring in money for the budget deficit to dwindle and at the same time would be maintaining (somewhat) having immigration on a leash of sorts. All in theory of course but it couldn't be any worse than the current situation.

Update: I happened upon this web site that has a pretty decent description of the proposed immigration bill. Check it here: http://migramatters.blogspot.com/. If you looke at the fourth bullet, it pretty much covers the point I made about helping the illegals become legals.

I'm out!

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