Photography: Migration is not a crime… by Trapac
I live in the Los Angeles area, and anyone who is familiar with the area, knows there are a lot of immigrants. Whether legal or illegal, there are a lot of people from foreign countries here. So I know first hand about the immigration issue in America. IMHO, the main problem with the immigration issue is the current laws aren’t being enforced. Someone who is here illegally is able to stay here without much problem.
I feel like there are only two ways to solve this problem. Either enforce the laws in the books, or change the laws in the books. If the laws were enforced we would be deporting hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions just in the L.A. area alone. That sounds impossible and any effort to do so would lead to some serious riots or worse. I would rather that the laws be changed to allow people to easily obtain citizenship, especially those who are already living here. I have a lot of friends who are either foreign born or who are 1st generation citizens. I want them and their families to be able to live here (as they do now) without the racial tension of trying to enforce the laws in the books. I also want them to pay taxes like I do, and many of my friends who aren’t citizens would gladly become citizens and pay taxes. A friend of mine who is not a citizen graduated from college with me. He is disqualified for many good jobs due to his lack of citizenship.
I know the problem is a lot more complicated than this but things can’t stay this way forever. The laws are meaningless if they’re not enforced. And they need to either be enforced or changed to reflect reality. Unless this happens we will continue to see a type of class or cast system develop. The Mexican nationals are not going to loose interest in moving to this country any time soon. I’ve heard that it’s somewhat of a “rite of passage” for young Mexican boys to make the journey, getting across the border to the U.S. This is because there is no opportunity or future for them down there due to poor economic conditions. So naturally, if your next door neighbor is the land of opportunity, that’s where you want to go. In many cases they can make a better living here earning minimum wage as illegals than they can down there.
Can we change this situation legally and make it more desirable for everyone?
Shirley Buxton // Oct 15, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Hi, John. This is my first visit to your site, and I want to tell you it’s a great one. I’ll be back. Love your pictures.
Blessings
Shirley Buxton // Oct 15, 2007 at 1:27 pm
John, one more thing. How did you effect your “share this” button? Did you download the names and links, or is it available already together? I do a lot of blogging, but concerning the technical end, I am not very savvy.
John // Oct 15, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Hi Shirley,
Thanks, I’m glad you like the site! As for the “Share This” button, it is generated automatically and it’s already available together. The only thing is that I don’t use Wordpress.com and from the best I can tell it’s not available on Wordpress.com. You can use this tool to do something similar, you will need to do it for every post you want to add it to individually though. You must place the code it generates for you in the “code” section of a post when you write or edit a post in Wordpress.com.
Shirley Buxton // Oct 20, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Thank you, John. I will check the tool you recommend.
Shirley Buxton // Oct 20, 2007 at 5:53 pm
John, I went over to Keotag, and it works perfectly for me. Thank you very much.
Now if I ever write anything someone thinks is worthy to be submited to a social bookmarker.