So the country has been a buzz these past few days/weeks....mostly over the new Arizona law to check for legal status under justified suspicion, many calling it grounds for racial profiling. But here's my take on it.
I agree that if under the right circumstances someone is stopped and they or the people with them show reasonable doubt as to legal citizenship here in the US then they deserve to be fined, and really deported from the US.
People who are citizens either by birth or through our immigration process have nothing to fear, if you have the ID they need then so what. But..if you dont and you are NOT a citizen, here on a work visa or any other kinda visa then YOU ARE BREAKING A LAW. Being an illegal immigrant in the USA is a crime, theres no grey line here.
Yes our country is built on a melting pot of immigrants but if my ancestors had to stand at Ellis island to get in here, just because your from mexico doesnt mean the laws of immigration/citizenship dont apply to you like they apply to everyone else coming into this country. At least make it to where each individual (children being the exception) needs to enlist for a standard 4 years of military service in order to gain full citizenship.
As a side note that falls in with this topic, I think we need to rethink our stand on letting people come over here and squat out a kid and then claim it is a citizen. If you (the parent) are not a citizen then just because you dropped a child out of you over here shouldnt mean it automatically is one.
