Immigration
Immigration reform in the United
States was thought to be a lost topic until post government shut down. Both political parties feel they have shed a
bad light on themselves and now republicans have shifted toward providing a
route to citizenship for undocumented citizens, in an effort to gain new voters
and rebuild their image. Democrats are
now willing to work with Republicans because they don’t want to be seen as the
bad parent that said no. To Latin
Americans or shall we say,” Mexicano’s, Cubano’s Puerto Rican’s” and the latter
this is great news but mostly for Mexican undocumented immigrants. There are an estimated over 11 million
undocumented citizens in the United
States, a good portion from Latin American countries. 11 million is no small number and most feel
citizenship is a right. There are opposing sides to reform: those who feel
Sympathy for these the used, abuse and underappreciated immigrants and those
who feel these undocumented immigrants brought it on themselves by breaking the
law. There is another side who just feel
it would be detrimental to the economy.
So, the question is what should we do?
The first question is, are you
sympathetic? The majority of Western
America originally belonged to Mexico before it was acquired by the U.S after
the Mexican American war, through spoils of war. That western territory was opened to U.S
settlement and Mexicans were slowly kicked off their own land in places such as
Arizona, New Mexico and California. The
boarder was left unpatrolled for decades, which allowed immigration to freely
pass to and from, which was fine, but when the U.S began patrolling the boarder
and implementing immigration laws, families became divided. Mexico has been in an economic struggle and
government disarray since its birth and America has taken advantage of that and
at times has limited the countries growth. America toyed with Mexican immigrants bringing
them into the country for cheap labor, then when the job is done deporting them. America has used various immigrants to build
the country into the power that it is today, a lot of those immigrants still
reside in the United States today as undocumented immigrants, evading
deportation. Those undocumented people
feel they deserve citizenship within the U.S.
On the other foot due mostly to
stereotyping, It is believed that most of these Latin American immigrants are
lazy, uneducated, drug dealers, catholic praising, temper flaring people and
they have large families holding all of these traits too. It’s thought that undocumented immigrants
came here illegally and broke the law, therefore they should not be given
citizenship and any hard ship they’ve had is their own doing and that includes
hardship received from deportation. The overall mind set is that why should we
pass immigration reform allowing undocumented people citizenship when this is
what the majority bring. Not only that
but those new citizens would also be competing for jobs which is one thing this
country is lacking in its current state.
My personal feelings hold sympathy
for Latin Americans; awarding citizenship for those people who helped build our
country would make me feel all warm inside. But I’m impartial to just awarding an
approximated 11 million people citizenship because I am logical, I’m American
and I believe the majority of information put out defending opposing sides is biased
and blown out of proportion. Yes, it’s
probable that the majority of drugs come Mexico, if you don’t count the drugs
that we make right here in the United States.
Plus, if 11 million people were bringing drugs over the boarder you
would think people could get a dime at a decent price (I’m just being funny
here). I do believe that immigrants did
build this country from the ground up because everyone here is technically an
immigrant. The exception is Native
Americans who owned it before the U.S and before Mexico so I feel no sympathy
for who’s land it used to be in terms of immigration, all though we are all
complete assholes. Yet, for building
this country I do think some type of reform should be passed, but not for
everybody. Anybody can tell me that most
of the undocumented individuals crossing the border a very well educated and I’d
ask where’d you get your information from?
I’m not saying immigrants are uneducated but a hundred people you know
in one area do not represent 11 million people spread throughout the United
States. My personal opinion, through
traveling to 2nd and 3rd world countries, and Living with
Hispanic and Asian families in Texas and California for a few weeks at a time,
is that most immigrants have some level of education. Most immigrants move to a location containing
large populations of people speaking their native tongue and become secluded
from the majority of society. Those who
become secluded have a pattern were the grandparents and parents speak little
to no English the kids are bilingual and their kids only speak English. That’s not everybody but this is not what I
like to see. If you are going to become
an American citizen you should make an effort to become one an adopt customs
and at least the language. Things like
this divide a nation making factions and take away from national pride. I mean in some areas of cities I’ve had to
travel with buddies affiliated with gangs to avoid getting shanked, but then I’m
allowed to meet some of these guys and their cool as hell even though half of
the conversations need to be translated.
Back to the point, we should filter current undocumented immigrants and
those who are already successfully sustaining themselves, maintaining work and
making an effort to learn American customs grant them citizenship. Current immigration laws should be maintained
within the process accepting certain skill sets and successful immigrants. Those not contributing to society should be
given a grace period to fix the issue and then face deportment if it goes unchecked. A limited number should be allowed
citizenship, a number in the millions but nowhere near 11 million; mainly
because if they are direct family of one immigrant that receives citizenship,
odds are they will receive citizenship too and it will not count towards the
cutoff number. If they don’t make the
cutoff number, it most likely means they are too far out of touch with society. I already have issues with Americans being
out of the loop and being uninformed, why should I humor more people who have
no idea what’s going on. I still don’t
believe it will help the economy however, because these formerly undocumented
immigrants will be able to openly compete for jobs at a higher level than what
they were doing before. This is not a
thought of holding someone down, this is logical thought, higher level jobs
require at least a visa and a background check.
Of those gaining citizenship sign an affidavit and offer to support
somebody, go get married have a baby there’s loop wholes to the system. Just be glad nobodies asking for all of those
unpaid taxes, cause taxes suck, that would literally be billions of dollars.
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