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Almost everyone subscribes to a set of beliefs and ideology. In an effort to remain sane and levelheaded, it's always good to stay ambiguous and contradictory in the interpretations of laws and politics. The recent passage of the Arizona Law is no exception. You can't argue that it's not a horrible yet effective law. It's a thorny subject and unless you steer clear, you're either a right-wing nut or a liberal loon. Unfortunately, it's the nuts and the loons that are trying to pass legislation on illegal immigration, and out comes the Arizona Law.
Critics say the law will lead to discrimination and racial profiling. Supporters say it will finally allow immigration laws to be enforced. But in the end, it's become so politicized and magnified by extreme points of view that the bigger picture of illegal immigration has been lost in the debate.
For advocates of ‘immigrants' who deplore this law, you brought this upon yourselves. Anything that stipulates deportation for not being in the country legally is not racist or ‘unfair.' Laws are laws and illegal is illegal. Those who will do anything to deport current illegal immigrants living here by any means necessary such as ignoring civil, human, and the Bill of Rights seem to have forgotten they are in America. They'd have better luck deporting these ‘illegal immigrants' from their native country where rights probably aren't clearly defined, if even existent.
This bill is nothing more then what Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano labeled it as, a ‘cry of frustration' with current immigration laws and enforcement and the lack of involvement from those with rational minds who are able to bring comprehensive and reasonable legislation for the country. Those who fail to see how the new Arizona immigration law can be used to discriminate, creating a "police state" that can violate civil rights of Arizona residents and citizens who appear Hispanic, should have no place in politics.
While I would like to believe 95 percent of Americans are rational and just as confused as I am when it comes to what to do about illegal immigration, I am 50 percent sure there is that five percent that are just hell bent in their convictions as to what is the best solution. The discourse of illegal immigration can be summed up into two equally ridiculous points of views. And yes, you probably know someone that's been reduced to either view.
On one side you have those eager to create an anti-immigration "A-Team" style task force to hunt and deport all illegals currently living in the United States, and on the other side those willingly ready to recruit and grant immediate amnesty to all illegals arriving and currently living in the United States.
Try asking them about what to do about those already in the United States and you'll either get, "Rip them from their homes and families, send them to Mexico regardless of where they actually came from and confiscate all their money and property," or "Let's give them free school, college, medical insurance, public housing and impose affirmative action legislation to force companies to hire them regardless of qualifications."
They even have an answer on how to secure the border. "Mission Protecting America": Build a 12-foot electric fence along the border loaded with automated heat-seeking missile turrets. Then there is "The America For All Plan," which will remove all security at the border and throw a fiesta for anyone who crosses it after granting them immediate citizenship.
But here's the kicker: neither is wrong or flawed. Tell them they are and you'll either be branded a terrorist-loving, communist, anti-American socialist or condemned as an uneducated, toothless, gun-toting, nativist bigot for opposing their plan.
I suggest if you ever meet people of either of the above camps, please don't engage or argue with them. All it does is make them go to greater lengths to defend their position and insanity.
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