Hello? Happy Friday? I know i am behind my laptop versus out partying, ooh well this is student life after all, somedays you just have to stay home.
Anyways, i would like to discuss thing or two on immigration in the U.S, specifically on SB 1070 which is a Senate Bill passed in Arizona, however, it hasn't been taken its full effect yet because judge Susan Bolton and the lower division court ruled that some sections of this bill was infringing on the Federal Constitution.
So, lets start off with my feeling on this SB 1070. I feel that SB 1070 is just a political instrument for politician, professionals to have good image on their portfolio for their election and promotional advantage. Because of the SB 1070 is used as Arizona state legislature to suspect people, arrest and detain them based on their "illegal vs legal look." In other words, anyone in the state of Arizona can be investigated by attourney generals, police, immigration agents for being looked suspicious based on their how much American they look like, or how much different they appear, act, talk in the state of Arizona holding can be placed under official order. And, there is federal program that put these "arrested" people's information in the system, so they can be determined whether they can stay in the U.S or not based on their verification of U.S citizen, or legal alien statuses. Just in 2010, U.S have deported 400,000 immigrants out of the country. However, the influx is so big in recent years, specially in the Arizona state, that it would be hard to say whether those 400,000 immigrants have come back to the U.S.
According to the U-Haul, moving truck renting company, more people use U-Haul to move into Arizona cities that moving out of the cities in Arizona state.
Most importantly, i feel the SB 1070 is making immigrant communities all over the U.S nervous, and immigrants in the Arizona state confused, shaken, scared and miserable because it deports people, families, normal working class immigrants, yet those people have simply have no choice but to look back with longing glance on the U.S, and most would come back someway because part of their family is in the U.S or their only home is in the U.S.
Also, i feel strongly about the SB 1070's resolve on crime that it should be dealing mainly, however, in this bill only 1 out of 16 pages is dedicated to sections on crime that is relevant to the immigrants. I have found out that the tendency to commit crime in the U.S by illegal immigrants is no significantly detectable versus legal citizen of the U.S committing crime. Thus, blaming the violence, crime solely on illegal immigrants is wrong.
Lastly, i feel strongly about the fact that illegal immigrants take the jobs of the legal citizens. In some degree it might be true; for example, in farming industry most workers are immigrants, and legal citizens would like to have those job, but the low wage that has been paid to the illegal immigrants preventing the farming companies from increasing the wage to hire legal citizens. However, when it comes to job, i think, if the person has the will to do it, no matter the condition either illegal or legal both would like to work, thus illegal immigrants blocking the way of legal citizens from having job is not that sound theory. On the other hand, if there were no illegal immigrants the jobs might increase the pay and start hiring legal citizens, however, there is possibility that those jobs simply could shipped overseas to make the production cost lower for the company. Thus, it is hard to argue whether having illegal immigrants in the u.S is really blocking the way for legal citizens to have normal jobs.
Lastly, since we are in the recession, in 2011, the high unemployment rate, economic unstability, lack of fiscal confidence and the confidence in the U.S financial system is affecting the minds of the people to have fear and anxiety that demand someone or something to blame all these faults on, and the voiceless, unprotected, weak illegal immigrants are the primary target of that. When the savings accounts are flourishing with money, everybody with jobs, protected from violence people tend to overlook the real life facts and feel secure thinking that what they have is what everybody is having, but in reality even in the "high times" the illegal immigration is still there, it is just less out in the open, if you will. And, people think less of it, it plays minority role on their lives, however, when things gets hard and people are desperate they want and need someone and something to blame it on, and the handy subject of immigration spring into action. Thus, i feel bad talking about immigration, blaming it, and ultimately glossing over the real issue of immigration which is the movement of people from less desired place to more pleasent location, and use immigration as surface political, economic play to subdue the real issue in our lives which are economical, political, systematical not immigrational.
Ganaa
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