Gay Rights

In the media today all we hear about is gay rights, look on twitter-gay rights, Facebook you see your stream blowing up about gay rights.  This is at the for front of Americas mind due to prop 8.  Now dont get me wrong I am a huge advocate for gay rights, and believe that everyone should get the right to marry the person they were meant to be with.  But this explosion of gay rights has placed immigration and other issues on the back burner.  The media goes into waves of issues, Gay rights, before that Gun control, this pattern has been occurring for years, and years.  But my question is what causes it, what causes people to stand up and care.  A lot of it is social media, when people start making a fuss, and sharing posts then the media sees it, and takes notice.  For instance gay rights have been a long discussed topic that cause a lot of heat for some people.  But gay rights became large when people started making a fuss about it.  The Supreme Court hears quite a few cases, but we only hear about a few of them.  What makes us hear about then today is our social media, our tweets, posts, instagrams all allow us to have our voices heard.  The media has taken a lot of notice because of how much attention their viewers have put on their own personal social media sites.  The media takes notice of its audience, if it didnt care and dint want to put a spin on things then it would be CSPAN.  CNN, Fox, Newsweek, etc, all care about ratings, so they will give the audience what they want.
     Gay rights is a civl rights movement, and I think the next should be Immigration.  As of now we do not give either of these body of people the rights they deserve, because they are different.  But how do we make people see this?  By Social Media, if we start making a stink and letting our voices heard then we can make a difference.  The media will see what America wants, and talk about it, which in turn will pressure legislation to take notice as well.  Lets get this train started!

1st generations

My father is a first generation American, who originally came here undocumented to the US.  He now is a US citizen who has full legal rights in the US.  People say that there are bad immigrants and good immigrants in society, and if you come here without passing all of the tests first then that makes you bad.  Yet we make this test so difficult it is almost impossible to pass, that is the main reason my father came here without taking it.  By these people definition of what good immigrants are and bad immigrants are he is bad, he is an illegal.  Yet I promise you my father has worked side by side with these people and no one would ever have suspected him of being a first generation illegal immigrant.  My dad is a red head with more freckles then skin who dedicated his life to doing drug prevention in Nevada's school districts.  My father immigrated from Canada, but according to people idea of what bad is that is what he was and illegal immigrant who would be sent back.  Yet no one ever did, no one even questioned him because although he was an immigrant he looked american.  And that is what america is pushing people to become, is this typical american person, white, educated and well versed.  This idea of what an ideal american is, is forcing people to change who they are, even if they are legally here, they are having a forced assimilation upon them so they move away from their culture and into ours.  Immigrants are being forced to dress white, act white, talk white, and seem white.  No wonder Michael Jackson went crazy and died his skin  a fully different color.  This forced assimilation and racial profiling is not based on where or not you are an undocumented/ documented worker but rather on wither or not you have been westernized.

Buget cuts, for once a good thing?

There was a segment on CBS's evening news recently about the release of undocumented workers from jail or detention as budget cuts are coming towards ICE.  These undocumented workers have been detained due to things such as: broken tail light, speeding, failure to stop at a stop sign.  It is there type of people being released, yet many "Americans"are in uproar about this.  They have this mindset that ICE is allowing pedophiles  and rapists back onto the street, when it is really just moms, dads, students, just regular people trying to make a better life for themselves.  These undocumented workers are now forced to where an ankle bracelet so that ICE can keep track of them.  By putting this policy into place they now are spending an average of 14 dollars a day on one person vs 146 that they were before.  To put it into perspective the average public school kid get 29 dollars a day for their education. So in order to detain these "criminals" and by criminals I mean hard working members of society we depend over 110 dollars a day on them over what we spend on our children.  If we are going to spend that kind of money on anyone shouldn't it be to improve them, instead of harm them?

What the White House is saying

I was looking into Obamas website on his immigration reform polices. Once again like with any politicians his reform website is very positive but quite contradicting.  Obama states in one portion "We are the first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea—the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our own destiny. That’s why centuries of pioneers and immigrants have risked everything to come here…the future is ours to win. But to get there, we cannot stand still."

Sounds beautiful, and this is the exact speech that one Obama the election, he is amazing at speaking and making you feel like we are going to a place of rainbows and butterflies.  But unfortunately he contradicts this statement complexly by his action according to the same website

"Over the last three years, the Obama Administration has dedicated unprecedented resources to secure our borders, taken important steps to make our interior and worksite enforcement smarter and more effective"

What he means by securing our borders is detaining undocumented immigrants and ripping families apart.  So if what America was built on is this idea that everyone deserves a chance to improve their life why are we refusing them that right?  We can’t say that we are pro immigrant but anti illegal immigrant, it just does not work like that.  If we want to change the way immigration is preformed it should not be by spending billions of dollars on destroying peoples lives, it should rather be on figuring out a way for immigration to become less difficult, as well as expanding resources to foreign countries.  If we help Mexico, fewer will want to come the America, and isn’t that what we want?

Jeb Bush

In Jeb Bush's new book "Immigration Wars" he makes the statement that there should be no path to citizenship for illegal immigrants to become citizens.  That makes about as much sense as if your dog pooped on the carpet once and you send it back to the pound right away.  Although overstaying a visa, or entering the USA without documentation is illegal, it is not a fellony.  Everyone breaks the law on a semi regular basis, I mean who really stops fully at stop signs? But does that mean we should be sent to jail because of it?   The answer is no, if we wouldn't do it to ourselves then why would we do it to others?  
He also states that in order for dreamers to become "citizens" they must show no serious crimes, must have a GED/ Hight school or served in our armed forces, then they can apply and in five years they may get citizenship.  Although I am not 100% for the Dreamers act as is, the fact that these people who have lived basically their whole life in the USA and who have become members of this society have to wait 5 years for a piece of paper I find a bit ridiculous.
"It must be a basic perquisite for citizenship to respect the rule of the law."  States Jeb, well in that case count me out, I cant be a citizen myself.  I wont lie I have broken the law there is no doubt about that, but does that mean I don't have what I need to be a citizen?  Yes I have a piece of paper stating I was born in the USA, but I may not make as big of a contribution to our Nation as someone who does not.  You know the saying "Well behaved women rarely make history."  It is the same for everything else, we need people who do not constantly follow the law in order to make social changes in society.  So if always following the rules was truly what it meant to be American, well we would all be screwed.