House of Representatives Passes the Dream Act

L.A. Now had a news article claiming that the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly approved the Dream Act. The Dream Act barley passed with a 216 to 198 vote. Now it is time for the Senate to vote on the bill on Thursday. Senator Harry Reid even said that the bill probably wouldn't pass in the Senate with the needed 60 votes. Republican leaders are against the DREAM Act saying that it is just another form of amnesty for young generation and would be too costly to the taxpayers.

I was actually surprised to hear that the DREAM Act actually passed in the House of Representatives! There has been so much controversy and the act being changed all of the time trying to favor the Republican party, I thought that the legislation would have voted against it for not staying consistent.  I guess we will just have to see if Senator Harry Reid is right with his predictions for the Senate. To read more click here

DREAM Act Rewards Illegal Behavior

Fox news wrote an article saying

"With just a few weeks until the end of the year, Congress has a full plate of legislative issues left to tackle, among them, the controversial DREAM Act proposal. Calling the act "poorly drafted, filled with loopholes" and something that "rewards illegal behavior," Senator Jeff Sessions R-Al., told Fox News on Sunday the U.S. must "confront the massive illegality [occurring] in the immigration process." When asked if its fair to enforce the law on children who were illegally brought into the U.S. by their parents, Sessions said the country needs to find a way to "deal with [all] people entering the country illegally" before attempting to enact legislation such as the DREAM Act. The Act, which seeks to provide provisions for people between the ages of 12 and 35 currently living in the U.S, is especially relevant for illegals living in the U.S. who were brought here as minor children."

I understand where the Senator is coming from to an extent. With this act I think that it would give more of an incentive for illegal immigrants to try to immigrate into this country to get their child one step closer to being a citizen of this country. Just like the law stating that if a child is born in this country it is a U.S. citizen, it in a way encouraged pregnant mothers to try to come in illegal and birth their child at an American hospital. On the other hand, I think that the DREAM Act is a good idea, just because it really wasn't the child's idea to move to the U.S. when they were just babies. If we give them citizenship of this country, than we can give them an opportunity to have a successful life (hopefully) and then in return hopefully they will pay LOTS of taxes to support our failing economy! In the long run, the DREAM Act does seem like an excellent idea to me, and plus, how fair would it be to have to kick them out of the only country they know and send them back to an unfamiliar land? Also, maybe people complain about the language barrier and how the Mexicans are unwilling to learn English. Well the reality of it is, is that it is more of the older immigrants that are less willing to learn English than the younger immigrants- especially if a child has been living in the U.S. since birth, you can pretty much guarantee that they will learn English and speak it as well. All in all, the people we should be worried out abusing the DREAM Act and the people we would be "rewarding for illegal behavior" would be the parents trying to give their child citizenship to the U.S.; not the child- so why punish them?

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While immigration drops, businesses are crying out for more staff

Australia seems to be having an opposite problem as us- their immigration rate is dropping and not enough people in the workforce. In October, just 9370 overseas arrivals settled on Australian shores, the lowest total since March 2004.


It's kind of weird to think that in this country we don't have enough jobs to give to everyone but just across the ocean, they dont have enough people to fill their jobs! The sad thing is that more people are migrating out of Australia than migrating into the country. Maybe we should just send some of our immigrants over there?!

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Tequila Party?

Well, there might be a Tequila party but it isn't the type of parties that we are used to... Instead, this Tequila party is in the midst of formation, inspired by the success of the Tea party, but this party is a boycott against the democratic party from the Latino voters. The idea of the Tequila party is floating around be the Latino voters are tired of the democratic party not delivering or putting aside Latinos are top priority. Robert de Posada, the man behind this fall's controverial "Don't Vote" ads said "The Tequila Party is a great concept to basically say, 'You know what? This blind support for you is coming to an end'. If you are perceived as someone who will never vote for a Republican, then you're screwed," because Democrats will take you for granted."

I think that it's about time that the Latino voters stand up for themselves! It always seems like they are getting pushed around from one political party to another just to gain votes that are needed, and then tossed out once they have done what was expected. There have been so many false promises made to the Latinos to gain their vote, but with no outcome once the elections are over. It isn't fair what is happening to them, and even though I don't necessarily agree with everything the Latinos are in favor for, I don't think that it's right that they get tricked and lied to just to gain their vote. I know that elections are basically a pleasing game, just promising anything to gain as many votes but then not acting on what was promised, but it seems like Latinos are targeted wwwaaaayyyyy more than other other ethnic, or religious groups out there! I say go Tequila Party! It's time to stand up and actually be heard (Just not pretended to be heard)! The only think I would change is the name- it's a little hard to take a political party seriously when the name they want to be called by is known to make clothes come off.... hmmmmm....


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U.K. imposes new permanent immigration quota

Britain has decided to cap their work visas starting in April 2011 to 22,000 non- EU workers allowed in the country, reserving 1,000 of those visas to talented scientists, academics and artists. This is about one-fifth smaller than the amount of visas given in the year 2009.  This new decision came after growing pressure from the public and the burden on public services. Along with the cap,  no staff member who earn under 40,000 pounds (US$63,500) per year will be eligible to stay for longer than 12 months.

It seems like the whole world always complains about the United States closing their borders to immigrant workers. Now, with Britain capping their visas, countries shouldn't be complaining about us anymore! Especially since in the future, Britain will "kick out" visa holders making less than $63,500. That seems a little excessive to me. If our country created an outrageous rule like that for our visas, people everywhere would be having a cow and complaining about how we do not support the poor or the underprivileged BUT it would certainly solve our issues with illegal immigrants "taking our jobs" because we could just kick them out, oooorrrrrr they would actually start taking our real jobs such as medical or law practices, than we would really see the true meaning of taking our jobs!

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Only in Prescott....

So there's an elementary school in Prescott called Miller Valley Elementary School and last semester they started to paint a mural on one of the sides of the building that has a "darker" colored boy as the main focal point. Well, that did not sit well with the citizens of Prescott. Many were outraged that someone would even think about painting an African American boy on the side that faces one of the busiest intersections in the town, and to make it better, the painter tried to defend himself and say that the boy was not African American but was instead Hispanic. Like that made it any better!! So the painter decided to lighten the skin of the boy because "Jeff Lane, the school's principal, insisted his request for the faces in the mural to be lightened had nothing to do with race, but was intended to make them appear happier and brighter." Soooooooo does that mean that darker skinned people aren't happy and bright?! Interesting choice of words. This event was so big that it even made news in the U.K. where I found an article talking about it. AWESOME!! So not only do we hold up the ignorant stereotype claiming that white people are happier and brighter BUT we officially have been openly racist, especially after SB 1070.

For more information:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7807030/Artist-attacked-over-childrens-skin-tone-in-Arizona-school-mural.html

Arizona takes a hard hit economically because of SB 1070

Yahoo! News reported that since Arizona passed the immigration bill just four months ago, the state has lost about 141 millions dollars in visitor spending. Meetings and conferences that are canceled as a protest against the immigration bill will also cost the state nearly 2,800 thousand jobs and would trigger over a quarter billion dollars in lost economic output and more than 86 million in lost wages over the next three years.

I knew of Arizona being boycotted because of the immigration bill, but I never realized that this state would be taking such a hard hit economincally. It seems a little drastic that people are boycotting all of the state by canceling meetings and conferences, especially because they are lumping everyone living in Arizona in just a single group and punishing the voters or people against the immigration bill. I feel like people should boycott our government and not the state as a whole. It isn't fair that we are getting punished for what out government wants to do. It also is unfortunate for the tourists that are boycotting this state because that means they get to miss out on some pretty awesome places like the Grand Canyon, Sedona, Fossil Creek, Walnut Canyon, Meteor Crater, Flagstaff/ San Francisco Peaks, and don't forget Route 66!!

Arizona is already suffering economically, it will be interesting how hard we will get hit in the next two or three years and how long the effects will last.


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California Supreme Court upholds law allowing illegal immigrants in-state tuition at universities

The Court in California has decided to uphold a law that lets illegal immigrants who have attended at least three years of high school and graduated from  a high school in California can now get the same tuition breaks as U.S. in-state students. The ruling reversed a decision by the state Court of Appeals that students who have illegal immigration status should pay out-of state costs. This gives students who are unable to apply for federal education grants or loans a break of more than $22,000.

Some people are having problems with this, claiming that it isn't fair that illegals are getting a tuition break while students who are citizens of this country that live out of state are having to pay overpriced tuition just because they aren't from California. Honestly, it wasn't like it was the illegal immigrant students are the ones that wanted to cross the border and live in California- it was their parents that decided to come across in search of a better life. So if they attended at least 3 years of high school in California AND graduated, why not give them in-state tuition? In the long run it would probably be better for the U.S. because then with their higher education they can start helping California and their economy instead of relying on the government welfare program. This is seems like a good plan to me! If people have such a problem with it, then maybe they should just move to California and attend high school for 3 years like the illegal immigrants.

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Desperate Housewives actually makes you think!

Last Sunday, I was watching the newest episode of Deperate Housewives called "Sorry Grateful". It might seem irrelevant to immigration, but actually, Desperate Housewives touched on a very touchy subject. I don't know if you have been following the story or not, but here is the jist of it: a family living on Westeria Lane, Gabby and Carlos found out that their oldest daughter isn't actually theirs, and was actually switched at birth with another family's daughter. So Gabby and Carlos sought out this family and decided to become family friends with them and were going to spend Thanksgiving together. Now that we are all caught up, here is where ABC brings in the issue about immigration: Gabby and the other father go to the bakery to pick up the Thanksgiving pies. They get stuck in traffic where Gabby convinces the father to drive on the shoulder where he then gets pulled over. The police ask for his Driver's License, but since he is an illegal immigrant he does not have a Driver's License. Therefore, the police arrest the father and Gabby is left to drive back by herself to inform Carlos and the other mother. The mother freaks out and take Gabby's biological daughter so that they can pack up as much of their belongings as possible before the police find out where they live and deport the mother also.

It seems like the whole nation is on the topic about illegal immigration- from supporting or not supporting SB 1070 or creating illegal immigration laws, it seems like that is all I hear in the news! Even though it's everywhere, never before have I actually heard or seen this topic discussed in a primetime show. I was shocked first of all, that the writers of Desperate Housewives had the guts to actually "go there" and write a storyline on such a controversial topic in a popular T.V. show, but also that ABC would allow it to air! I give them mad props for having the guts to go where no T.V. show like them has gone before, but it also made me think about the deportation of illegal immigrants. When I hear of deportation of illegal immigrants, my focus usually goes to them and how they got caught, or what they were doing before they got deported, but I never thought about what actually happened to the families of the immigrants that got deported. For example, after watching Desperate Housewives I think, that is going to happen to the mother and daughter, where are they going to go live? How are they going to be able to support themselves? Will they follow the father's lead and just go back to Mexico so that they can all stay together? Will the mother get deported also? If the mother gets deported what will happen to the little girl who is actually a U.S. citizen? Hmmm.... Who knew a show like Desperate Housewives could actually make you think!

Desperate Housewives: 'Sorry Grateful' Episode

An Interactive Map Showing the Migration Patterns Since 1880's

I found this interactive map on New York Times that shows the percentage of demographics living in the country during a certain year starting at the year 1880. You can move the "time clock" which is in 10- year intervals and see the different races migrate based on the color coding. It's really interesting to move the dial and see how the different migration patterns of races have changed over time. One of the surprising things is in the 1920's, the southwest was predominantly Latin American, but for some reason in the 1930's it switches suddenly and the southwest becomes predominantly Western European. Then in the 1940's it reverts back to being predominantly Latin American. It's fun going through all of the decades and seeing how the colors change across the country. Another interesting thing is, until the 1980's there weren't very many Canadian immigrants, and even now, the Canadian immigrants are mostly populated along the U.S.- Canada border where as the Latin American immigrants have migrated to pretty much all of the southern and western parts of the country.

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Smugglers Stow Immigrants on Deserted Island

A local station did a report of a small island off of San Diego that smugglers are using to hid illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. Channel 10 news traveled with a a humanitarian group called Desert Angels to the island where they leave food and water for the immigrantst. The group told reporters that the immigrants are sometimes stranded on the island for days without food or water if smugglers are getting caught by the Coast Guard or due to bad weather. After the immigrants have been on the island, they get transported on small panga boats across San Diego at night. Researchers say that the immigration into the U.S. is down overall, but the number of immigration from water is rising.

This just shows how depserate people are to get into this country. Even though going by sea seems to give a better chance of not getting caught, I think that it is way more dangerous. The smugglers don't care about the people, as long as they have the money, they could care less about what happened to them. What's more dangerous with this, is that they are stranded on an island- which means there's really no way for them to get out of a scarey situation; unless they wanted to swim in the ocean! The report even talks about being stranded on the island if there was bad weather. I'm sure there aren't any sturdy buildings or shelters that the immigrants could hide under to stay away from the storm or to keep warm. This all just seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

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Tunnel smuggling 30 Tons of Marijuana Found

CNN.com had a news video of a tunnel that was 6 football fields long along with 30 tons of marijuana! This tunnel connected a warehouse in Tijuana to another warehouse in Otay Mesa, California. Officials say that this tunnel is less than a month old, and parts of the wall are still wet clay. This just proves that the myth about illegal immigration contributing to the drug cartel is false. It isn't the illegal immigrants that are smuggling the drugs- it's the smart drug cartels that build tunnels UNDER the border that are able to bring in about 30 large cars or 60 small cars worth of marijuana into this country! This just shows that with determination, anything can get over the border and whatever we won't really prevent anything from happening. The good thing for officials on the U.S. side is that we are getting better are catching these culprits considering that this tunnel was only a month old. Either we got really lucky or we are just getting better at catching these smugglers- I'll go with the second choice!

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GOP's Plan For Non-Hispanic Voting Backfires

On November 2nd, many U.S. citizens did their citizen duty and voted for Governor, Senator, State Senate and Representative along with many other things. A few weeks ago, the GOPs in Nevada created an ad campaign encouraging Hispanic voters not to vote because they would have a bigger impact not voting than voting. Specifically, there was a 16% Hispanic turnout and out of those 16%, Reid had won 2/3 of those votes. Well, that plan failed. I don't understand how the GOPs could've thought that trying to convince Hispanics not to vote because they mean more not voting than voting could have possibly upset them! I mean who honestly thought that Hispanics would just listen to someone pretty much telling them that they don't matter and not vote! That same someone probably should have came up with a 'Plan B' JUST in case their brilliant plan backfired. Now Sharon Angle lost to Harry Reid and the Hispanics proved that they do mean more voting than not voting!

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Support for Arizona

Fox News had an article that said that over 42,000 people have donated over $3.6 million dollars to help defend SB 1070.  One contributor, Timothy Mellon donated $1.5 million! This just shows that even though there have been tons of negative press surrounding SB 1070 and that non-supporters largely out- weigh the supporters, this just shows how much the supporters support the bill.  The donations started arriving after President Obama filed a  lawsuit against Arizona because "The state had 'crossed a constitutional line' and was interfering with federal authority over immigration."

It's nice to know that not EVERYONE in the U.S. hates Arizona, just the President- who you would think would be our strongest supporter, especially with such a crucial issue like immigration. 

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Shoot to Kill

I found this article on wonkroom.thinkprogress.org about and interview between Georgia State Representative John Yates and Atlanta's Fox5 and his views on illegal immigration:

Georgia state Rep. John Yates (R) was asked for his recommendations on what to do about illegal immigration. Yates replied that troops on the border should be given “shoot to kill” orders and that flyers should be dropped in Mexico warning of the new immigration policy. “They ought to be armed and if warned leaflets dropped all over Mexico says that we will shoot to kill if anybody crosses and be serious about this and if they do that then there won’t be anybody killed [sic],” reasoned Yates.

In an interview with Atlanta’s Fox5, Yates stood by his comments:
Some have questioned Yates’ comments. When asked if he could see why people would be upset with his comments Yates, “No, I don’t think they’d be upset with what I’d say.”
“If they come over here, on these raids killing ranchers and everything, you got to stop them some way,” said Yates.
Yates likened illegal immigrants to enemies of the country.
“Stopping Hitler was worth the price,” Yates said. “It’s our border, they’re invading us.”


When I read this article I started laughing at how extreme not only people but high profile political people are taking illegal immigration. Not only does Yates take it to a whole new level saying that it is ok to "shoot to kill" an illegal immigrant trying to cross the border, but he also brings Hilter into it but doesn't really do a good job connecting illegal immigration and Hilter together. When the interviewer asked Yates about how illegal immigration  relates to Hilter, all he says is "It's our border and they're invading us." Huh, I don't really recall learning about Hitler and his invasion of our border. Very interesting...
Looking at it from a positive side, I guess you can't really call Yates cold hearted for his comment since he does suggest that we drop fliers all over northern Mexico warning them of the new "shoot to kill" policy. At least they had a fair warning? Also, what better way to make environmentalist become upset than not only killing trees for these fliers but also littering all of northern Mexico! Brillian idea.

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Secure Communities

In Texas, a federal program that scans local jails for illegal immigrants is bieng expanded to the whole state. This program, known as Secure Communities was designed to intercept and remove illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes such as homicide rape and kidnapping. Critics say that Secure Communities, just like the Arizona Immigration bill will single out immigrants with no serious criminal record and as a result clog up court system.

I think that this is a great idea to solve our illegal immigration problem because it seems like problem most people have with illegal immigram is security. This way we let people that actually work and are good citizens stay here because they aren't harming the community, and send the criminals back and then their government deal with it and stop wasting our tax dollars on them! As for the critics, all I can say is that obviously if they have a criminal record, it's pretty serious; so they should be deported anyways.

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Arizona Illegal Immigration "Facts" And Opinions

I found this video called Arizona Illegal Immigration Facts and Opinions thinking that it would give me actual facts and opinions. During the video, I kept waiting for the facts to appear, but it only seemed to be opinions that showed up. This video seems to only show the negative aspects of illegal immigration and it made the immigrants look like criminals that are mad at the U.S. for "taking their land"; and pregnant women come into the U.S. to have anchor babies and that they are so desperate that they migrate into this country while in labor. Like most of the citizens in this country that are for anti-immigration laws, they only pick the criminals and or the "gangsters" that put a negative taste in our mouth about immigration. I wouldn't be surprised if this wasan add campaign to support SB 1070 because "we need to protect this country and keep the criminals out".

A 101 Year Woman Finally Becomes a U.S. Citizen

On October 12th, 1909, Garcia Maturey, who was just a baby crossed the border with her single mother into Brownsville, Texas. Maturey and her mother lived a quiet life in Texas. In 1940, Congress passed the World War II Alien Registration Act, which  required noncitizens already in the country to register with the government. Just before the start of World War II, Maturey received a "Certificate of Lawful Entry" card from the U.S. government issued to her on April 4, 1941. She never imagined that little document would make it possible for her to become a U.S. citizen. She figured it came with an expiration date. She never really knew the status of her citizenship in the U.S. but would frequently cross the border to visit her family back in Mexico. In 2008, the U.S. started requiring everyone to show Passports for crossing the border. Worried of being deprted Maturey had her niece, Yolanda Ovalle, take her to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Brownsville, and that's where they met Sheila Lucio, a 29-year veteran of the government agency. When Lucio tried finding Eulalia Maturey's name in the computer system, she couldn't find it. "If you came to us before we entered the computer age, we didn't have your records," said Lucio. So Maturey pulled out that 69-year-old "Lawful Entry" card. Her niece says she took care of that little piece of paper for decades. With that document, government officials were able to find her Legal Permanent Resident documents in the archives in Washington. "We would never have been able to establish her registration status without that document," said Maria Elena Garcia-Upson, a public affairs officer with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. "It would have been hard to prove."  Maturey explains "I want to spend the rest of my days in this life living legally in the United States," Maturey told CNN this week. "I was raised here, and I want to die here."


This just shows that not everyone that immigrates into this country is out to do this country harm. Obviously this is an example of someone that lived a peaceful life and just wanted to get her citizenship just to finally say, after 101 years that she a citizen of the country she had lived in her whole life.  The "Certificate of Lawful Entry" reminds me of the DREAM Act that was unfortunately unable to pass last month. If we had done this type of actually before, and nothing traumatic resulted from it, why can't we just pass the DREAM Act?


http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/10/11/101woman.citizen.document/

How Many Illegals Can You Fit In A Van?

This video from CNN is crazy!! At least 28 people jump out of the van, after it crashed into another car and flips over!!! The things that people do to try to stay in this country is crazy. What's even more outrageous is that everyone in the van has a "every man for their own" mentality and no one tries to help anyone out. Not matter what, it seems like once they're out they make a run for it before the police come! I guess I would do the same in this situation.. How cramped do you think it was in that van? I guess camped enough to save 28 lives!

Is Arizona a Trend Setter?

Omaha World Harald wrote an article on Tuesday that Governor Heineman expects every state in the union to consider Arizona- type proposals for next year. The article states "Six other states considered Arizona-like laws this spring, including Minnesota, although none passed them, according to the national conference." The good thing about other states trying  to create immigration bills now, is that they get to see what works and what doesn't work, by looking at the messes Arizona has seem to have gotten into because of SB 1070. Nebraska's State Senator Charlie Janssen, who is trying to create a Nebraska version of the Arizona-style law claims “This isn’t certainly something I want to throw out to just make a political statement. It’s something that needs to be passed,” he said. “We’ve waited long enough.”

Huh. Interesting how so many people hated Arizona and boycotted us for SB 1070, yet states are now considering creating bills and laws that follow SB 1070.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20101005/NEWS01/710059914/810

U.N. Comes to Save the Day!!!

The U.N. is having sympathy for the immigrants and taking a shot at SB 1070. They made a statement saying, "deeply concerned about international migrants. Migrants in an irregular situation are more likely to face discrimination, exclusion, exploitation and abuse and more likely to be targeted... by racists... and victimized by unscrupulous employers."

I feel like this is ridiulous for a foreign organization to get involved in something like this. Don't they have something else better to worry about than SB1070? Especially since this bill doesn't exactly directly affect them.  There is enough people standing up for the immigrants already, that the U.N. doesn't need to act like a super hero and stick of for them too. Maybe they should go be a super hero for another country like... Africa? Maybe they could stand up for the child labor or the blood diamonds. There are a million things the U.N. has to worry about... and I feel SB 1070 shouldn't be one of them.

For more info: http://www.kpho.com/politics/25234797/detail.html

More Immigration Politcal Cartoon

Honestly, how true is this cartoon? I feel like we always "claim" that we want to keep out illegal immigration, but in all reality, how hard are we really trying to keep it out? I understand that we need immigrants to do the jobs that no one else will want to do, and this is evident with the 'Take Our Jobs' campaign, but why can't we just admit that we need these immigrants and let them in? Now, I'm not saying let the flood gates open and let all of immigrants that want to come in come in, but why can't we just a) approve the DREAM Act and b) revise the visa or citizenship process and get on with our lives?! I think that cartoon is a perfect representation of what is going on right now... and we all know it's true!

I found this while browsing through different cartoons on the Internet. I thought it is hilarious because it calls us out on what we are doing today and I think it's ironic that we are making such a big fuss about it when we did it to the Native Americans. On the topic of immigration, citizens always point out the fact that our country was built on immigration, referring to the Irish immigration, the Chinese immigration, or Ellis Island, but the only immigration that people always tend to leave out is OUR immigration in 1607. Huh. Funny how we always bring up what other people do but never own up to what we do also.

Joke of the Day: The fence dividing the U.S./Mexican border

Yahoo! news had an article relating to a special report about the U.S./Mexican border that aired yesterday on HBO. I didn't watch the program, but what I read on Yahoo! was quite interesting. The article talked about the construction of the fence that follows the U.S./Mexican border that started in 2006. What I didn't realize, was that the fence was never actually not completed. To be exact, the fence only covers one-third of the 2,000 mile border! The question I want to know is, how are we suppose to keep illegal immigrants out if we have a fence that doesn't even cover half of the border? It seems as though, our politicians can only talk the talk, but can't actually walk the walk. The part that is most frustrating to me is, this fence will cost about $6.5 billion on maintenance of the fence over the next 20 years! I can think of a million ways I could spend $6.5 billion dollars more efficiently than pretending to protect out borders.

For more information: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100915/us_nm/us_usa_mexico_fence_1

Despite SB 1070, Deaths of Illegal Immigrants Rise

I found a news clip on Yahoo! talking about how the death rate of illegal immigrants has been at the highest level since 2005.  This seems interesting considering Arizona is trying to pass a Senate Bill to try to stop or cut back illegal immigration, and with the summer months still far from over, you would think that the immigration level would drop tremendously. Guess not! The video even explains that "border jumpers know the risk, but try to focus on their goal- landing a U.S. job." Now that is what I call determination.  This video clip makes me sit back and think, is SB 1070 even going to work at keep illegal immigration out of our state?

To see the actually video: http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/21678947;_ylt=Aoif1zGs.lW.EVK7xGGv4j_3SpZ4