Yesterday the Governor of Georgia signed a, what some call strict, immigration bill. This Bill will put sanctions on employers who employ illegal immigrants and will also make it mandatory for police to run immigration checks on anyone arrested as well and making employers with state contracts check the immigration status of all employees.
This is the first step in what I think will be many more changes to come. Seeing as how we can not depend on the federal government to do anything worthwhile because of all the infighting. It will surely be left to the states to come up with the legislation to put a grip on this fast spreading issue. As I said in an earlier entry this problem has made it's way across the US. And As I read and listen many people are arguing that this is about Mexico. Well anyone who walks the streets of NOVA, DC, and Maryland can tell you that there are not that many Mexicans in this area but there sure are a lot of Central Americans here.
The legislation in GA may be strict but that is what it is going to take in order to gain any kind of control over the situation. I mean seriously, Tisha Tallman, regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said she was studying potential legal challenges to the bill. What for? If you are a legal citizen this Bill does not affect you so why all of the fuss. This point still confuses me, People are outraged because they do not want stricter Immigration laws. It seems to me that either they have family who may not be legal or they are trying to get family in who are not legal. I don't get it. No one is saying shut down the borders they are merely putting a doorman at the entry point. Several hundred supporters gathered outside of the GA Capitol while the bill was being signed in show of support of the Legislation. The crowd waved American flags and cheered as state Rep. Melvin Everson, one of the Georgia House's two black Republicans, denounced illegal immigration as a cancer and proclaimed: "The last time I checked, America was the land of English - not Spanish."
The US is in a state of disarray now and that is apparent, We will sit here and protest the rights of illegal (law breaking) immigrants but we would not turn out in force to defend our civil rights when the Patriot act was in the Senate or when BUSH legalized open ended wire taps. The mentality and credibility of this country is rapidly declining. I hate to say it but our government is a just reflection of it's people and now the people of the US are just as power hungry, ignorant, and misguided as our President that is why he is in office and will continue to be there until his term is up.
what more can I say?
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