Finally Free or not?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/young-illegal-immigrants-begin-applying-for-relief-from-deportation/2012/08/15/1bf09026-e6f0-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_story.html
As all of you have heard that President Obama has put into effect the immigration policy. This policy will allow immigrants age thirty and younger who have been living in the United States for more than five years from being deported. These immigrants will be allowed to go to school and work here in the U.S.
All the immigrants have started preparing all their paper works in advance to see if they qualify and how they can apply. "“People are very, very anxious to file, so we’ve been telling them to
over-prepare,” said Emid Gonzalez, manager of legal services at Casa de
Maryland.
All these people have the right to be happy knowing that they will also have a bright future and they won't be paying for their parents mistakes. This will enlighten their lives with happiness. For those kids that thought that there was going to be nothing after high school have new hopes. After going to college and becoming someone they can not only help America but also for their countries so that kids there can also look forward to a bright future.
One thing that is bothering me is what if President Obama doesn't get elected? What will the future if these kids be? I am not against President Obama or his policy for the immigrants but I also feel that this is for his own benefits. This policy is to take affect in August and elections are not till November, so I am not saying this in a mean way but what if he is doing this so that all those immigrants will vote for him? If he really wanted wouldn't he put this policy in affect a few years before why just a few months before the elections? I am not against the government nor do I hate them but if another President comes in the house and doesn't follow this policy then the kids that were living here will have to go back because now the government knows that they had entered illegally. Though all we can do is hope for the best for all those eligible
This policy is going to give many kids a new life but what if President Obama doesn't get elected, then who will these kids look forward to help them?
This is extremely bad policy. These illegals broke the law. They should not be rewarded for it. And if you're back in some other nation, you're thinking about trying to come to America illegally, and you see that this country is being weak on illegal immigration, that if you manage to stay here for a certain amount of time they just say "forget it you win" that's just more incentive for them to come illegally! We are not going to solve this problem by being weak on illegal immigration. We need to show them that they've broken the law, we will not tolerate that and punish them for it.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting post Utsavi. I just heard about this on Free Speech Radio News (http://fsrn.org/) on my drive home from the grocery store.
ReplyDeleteI think this is the Constitutional question: Are children of parents who come here illegally guilty of a crime? Why or why not? Should children of other adults who also commit crimes be punished for their parents' choices? Why or why not?
And just as Utsavi points out, what will happen to this policy if Mitt Romney is elected President? In addition, if a politician creates a policy because s/he thinks it will get votes, does that automatically make it bad policy? What other factors motivate our leaders to propose and enact the policies that they do? Which branch of government should address this issue of immigration? Should the federal government or state government handle these matters? Finally, what is the appropriate "punishment" for people (adults and children) who do not comply with current immigration law?
I encourage you to choose one or more of the questions above and explain your thinking. This is a complicated topic that has real implications for people who live in the United States. And that what makes it so relevant to our work in Government and Politics.
If we don't do anything to the children, if we allow them to get off on the sole basis that they're children, that will just give more incentive for illegals to come over with their children. We need to make it so if people really want a better life for them and/or their children, they'll come here legally.
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