Immigration Policy

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Terry Anderson in his article "Immigrant `Freedom Ride' celebrates crime" brings up the point " The people on this caravan are not immigrants - they are illegal aliens. Yet they have the nerve to gather in the hundreds and demand `rights' that belong to citizens alone.." This is true, illegal aliens shouldn't demand rights. These illegal aliens don't belong here they have no right to be here much less demand that which doesn't belong to them. However, according to Steven Greenhouse "Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican (underlining mine) who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is sponsoring a bill that would grant legal status to Ms. Huicochea and tens of thousands of other high school students or graduates who are illegal immigrants. His bill -- the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (or DREAM) act, has 36 sponsors, one-third of them republican. His aides say they expect the Judiciary Committee to approve the bill this week." Huicochea moved here at age four therefore it's not fair that because the United States immigration policy isn't efficient enough to deport people like Huicochea's parents, a person who grew up and made their life here is forced to leave and go to a strange country having to start their life all over again. Huicochea obviously didn't willingly move to the United States and shouldn't suffer the consequences for her parent's illegal actions. Would the judicial system punish someone for their parent's illegal deeds say if they had stole or killed or something of the sort? They wouldn't because that is ridiculous.

Anderson in his article just shows anger because that it's not fair that blacks were enslaved and still had to go through a lot to be treated fairly and equally. However as I previously stated there is no reason he should get `preferential' because his ancestors were treated unfairly same as other immigrants shouldn't be punished for something that's not their fault. It's a double standard, why should he have a problem with what others are doing to get by if he's doing the same? It's also a well known fact that the economy isn't founded on big corporations but the millions of small-businesses owned by Americans. Using Providence, R.I. as an example no group has more businesses than immigrants, especially Latinos and Asians. A big contribution to the United States economy is made by Latino and Asian immigrants.

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