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Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Jane Austin's time and our time.
A Comparison.
Jane Austin loved a man.
This man was poor, and relied on his uncle.
Due to the unfairness of a falsified letter, the uncle refused to let Jane and this man marry.
She never married another.
Customs and law divided these two who loved eachother. I thought that was confined to the era. Not so.
Law is dividing families even now.
I never thought this "great country" of ours really had such archeic laws and customs. Such mean, unfair and dictatorial laws. Sentencing a man to years outside of the country, after he has formed a family within its borders, and tried to rectify the mistake in which he broke the law.
When a man tries to right his wrong, and do things right, he should not then be punished by being forced to become separated from his wife and children. A country is formed by its families. If the so-called laws of the land force families to be separated from eachother, the country is then causing detriment to itself.
Furthermore, by not allowing them to be legal, by forcing all to leave, by not making easier laws for them to come legally in the first place, is also a detriment. When all are forced to leave, it leaves gaps in the work industry, where the Americans are too lazy to work, or feel they are too good for such. Immigrants come in and do the "dirty" work. If they are all forced to leave, where does that leave the factories, and in result, the consumer? Why is all the attention riveted on getting them all out as soon as possible? Hatred? Possibly. This "great government" hates the people it governs. How comforting!
Why not make laws such that while it is easier to become/come legal, there are also ways to prove one's worthiness of the easier achieval of legalization? Maybe that they agree to be monitored, randomly, for a year to two year's time by the government. If any cause of concern comes up, or any major laws broken (besides speeding because you know that everyone does that at some point, even the most patriotic citizen), then they lose their privileges with the current penalties. Depending on the severity of the crime, they may also become eligible for re-evaluation a certain time period later. If the crime is severe, like drugs, thievery, murder, then the individual obviously does not care about abiding by the laws of the land and therefore does not deserve the privilege of being allowed to stay in the U.S. These individuals also most likely do not care about home life or strong family values.
The men that end up getting punished are the ones who own up to being here illegally and try to rectify that according to the current laws in place to do so. Our current laws on illegal immigration are such that there is the need to return to Mexico, with no hope or knowledge of ever being allowed to return again. This is very hard on the families. Those men are the ones who ought to be allowed to stay, not ordered to leave! Those are the men who will give their heart and bodies to their country and for their families. It seems to me like there needs to be a reversal take place. Focus instead on trying to rid the country of its evil, not its family men.
If the laws became easier to obtain legalization and entry, then we could be sure that those crossing illegally indeed do not deserve to be here, since they know they won't be allowed re-entry after they have committed a crime.
The family men who came here illegally did it for their families. Originally it was for their parents, to send money home. Also to save money and return to Mexico. Then some met their wives here, as many, oh so many, immigrants have in the past. Nothing is new about that fact. Then their loyalties became the family they formed here. While still sending some money to help their parents, they also began their families here, in the more prosperous land. They've had children on U.S. soil - their children are citizens. Yet they are forced to leave when they, the father,try to obtain legalization and reverse the mistake they made. All I see in this is One mistake, all for Honorable reasons.

Saturday, 02 February 2008

Who do they think they are anyway - a god?
Obviously they do not know the One True GOD.
They have obviously forgotten how we all GOT to this country in the first place, too. All of us except the natives came here as immigrants. Now, things are so strict and messed up, and they have the gall to complain about the problems that their own crooked rules caused in the first place. "why are there so many illegal immigrants?" whine whine whine. Only they don't call them illegal immigrants. They are aliens. Strange, lifeless, soul-less, pieces of trash. That is exactly how they treat all immigrants, not just the illegal ones.
What really gets me is the fact that instead of targeting and deporting the druggies, the alcholics and wife beaters, thieves and murderers, they go after the family man. They punish the ones who turn around and apologize for crossing the border illegally, and try to make it right. They punish those who have made a home and family for themselves who go through the long, strenuous, stressful, and COSTLY process of filing for legality. They cause them, the ones who try to make it right, and who try to help their families, to be separated from their loved ones. They treat them coldly and without heart.
If the immigrants really didn't care about our laws, they would just continue as they are and not try to become legal. Instead, the family men do try to change that. And they get penalties of money and time of separation. Many are working just fine with a false id, false social security, so if they wanted to, they could just continue on working and living with those, if they did not care about this country's laws. True, they crossed illegally - but only out of a desparate need to achieve a better life for themselves and their families. The typical American never thinks about how poor the economy is in Mexico, how truly poor. I think many of us would complain quite a lot if we had to live even one week in one of these men's hometowns. Now the American resorts on the beach - but where all these men really came from - the small towns. None of us understands how it is to go a day without food because you just can't afford it, or to live day-to-day on beans and tortillas. Scraping together an existence from a mere pittance per week. How dare we tell these people they don't deserve to make a better life for themselves? Many say, "oh, but we don't tell them that - just that they need to do it legally." Do you agree? Well, then, wouldn't you also agree that since you say they DO, in fact, deserve to earn money to return home and live better, and that they need to do it legally, wouldn't you then say that we need to make it a LITTLE EASIER to have them come legally????? REALLY! think about it!
A man thinks to himself for the hundredth time that day, "I can't take it anymore - I cannot provide for my family. I have to do something."
The next day he goes to apply for a green card, to enter the U.S. for work. He gets approved. He comes to America, works for two years, and returns home.
They are much happier, and are able to provide better for their families.
Now consider this: He is denied. He tries again. He gets denied again. Frustrated, he starts talking to his friends. They decide it's better to just sneak in. So they come up illegally, so desparate for this better life that they risk their lives crossing desert and river, riding in semi-trucks with too many people packed in, etc. Many die along the way. Finally they reach America and begin to work, even aquiring fake ids and social securities, causing further harm with the law. Very few of these men are wanting to sell or buy drugs, or alcohol. They only want to work, and earn money. They take the jobs nobody wants, the hard, menial labor ones. All the while fat, lazy Americans are sitting at desks, shaking their heads somberly while thinking of how to clear up this "problem" that has come up, not even realizing that they themselves have created it. They build walls, they hire more agents and police. They deport, jail, and abuse. And the Mexican turns right back around and comes back anyway.
What is the deal anyway? WHY are they letting druggies run the streets, but they worry about the family man trying to better his situation? Even worse, they punish those who try to rectify their situation of illegality, causing them to pay huge fees, to be separated from the families they have in the US, etc, but leave the druggies and murderers running the streets because of "not enough evidence to arrest". HOGWASH!
If they are concerned about trying to figure out how to make sure the applicants for legal papers are legitimate family men, just have the person agree to be checked up on by the FBI for three to five years, and if there is one slip-up, they can then get deported. However, if they stay clean and honest for that time, can then attain their citizenship.
The government needs to fire EVERYONE working in immigration right now. and hire ME. I'll give this country a shake up that will make them wake up. They can't treat fellow human beings in such a foul, degrading way. They are PEOPLE, people! They are merely in search of what we all are: a better existence. And they CAN get it here. If the immigration idiots would just allow it. Who are they to decide who deserves what?
That is my soapbox for now, because I am getting depressed knowing that no one will ever read this and truly listen, or understand what I'm saying, or EVER DO anything about it. The whole government system is trash. The immigration area worse. It's CRUD.