Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Immigration Reform


Why should Obama stop deportations?  If you violate a law then you should be punished, and the punishment is being deported.  We all know someone who has come to America illegally.  Most of them did it without getting caught, but there is that small percentage that goes through the long process of being a citizen.  The others when caught and deported will just pay a coyote to bring them back.  So if people want to stay America then they should be given two options:  1. Go through the path to citizenship. 2. Go home to your country from which you were born in.

Immigration has been an ongoing topic for decades and the Border States are the ones feeling the impact of the undocumented immigrants.  Yes, undocumented immigrants are throughout the country, but the most heavily concentration of them are in Texas, California, Nevada, and Arizona.  What happens when they break a law, what about the ones that are rapist, murderers, child molesters, or identity thief's.  Do we really want them to be able to work and be free while we incarcerate men and women for these same crimes?  Yet so many of them are hard workers and are not only trying to better their life, but the lives of their families too. They are willing to work long hours, do manual labor, and work for pennies on the dollar. So for many undocumented immigrants they come illegally out of a necessity to be able to provide for their families because the pay is so little in their home country.   

On Monday November 25, 2013 Obama was in San Francisco discussing the immigration reform when he was abruptly interrupted by a young man that claims that Obama “has the power to end deportations.” Well, Obama doesn’t, the law(s) have to go through the Congress.  Congress is the branch of government with people that we elect to make decisions for us.  If the president were able to make and pass any law then that would defy what the founding fathers had strategized.  Obama was calm and listened to what this young man was saying and with great conviction was trying to get him to understand that yelling wasn’t going to get the immigration reform to pass any faster. 

We are in need of an immigration reform and the undocumented immigrants need to understand that just because they may be good and will help our economy that they need to do so in the correct manner.  That is following the laws and become a citizen, even if it takes many years you can still get a work visa and continue to live here.  If these undocumented immigrants can’t complete these simple tasks then why should they just be pardoned, they should be deported.

1 comment:

Claudio Flores said...

I am Mexican and I don’t have a problem with deporting people who come here illegally. I am very thankful for my parents taking the risks but I can’t legally defend them. To be fair my parents came and immediately filed the paper work to become citizens. But initially they did it illegally but later became legal.

The problem is that people keep coming over undocumented. It hurts everyone. Immigrants get paid a lot less and are exploited. Actual citizens get hurt because jobs, as a result, become scarce. There are rules in place to keep things as balanced as possible.

I don’t understand how people do no understand there are rules. They might not be fair but they are still rules. Breaking them is just going to make people enforce them harder instead of changing them. This isn’t a movie or a fairy tale where something just isn’t fair and the rules are going to change just because. This is the real world and still people act as if they can do whatever they please.
There are good intentions behind it all most of the time. But that still doesn’t change the fact that it’s still illegal.

I cannot fathom the shock and awe when people get deported because they were illegal. What did they expect? Did they expect a party?
There isn’t a lot to say about the subject. People on both sides are wrong for crossing and accepting.
I say we just make it easy for them to become citizens. Being stingy never helped anyone.

I completely agree with you No Bull In America blog!