America Über Alles...?

Arizona has passed a law not to long ago which targets illegal immigrants as well as those who hire or transport them. "Arizona's law orders immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there's reason to suspect they're in the United States illegally". (What does Arizona's Immigration Law Do?)

This law encourages racial police profiling by allowing officers to question those who they believe might be illegal. It is upsetting to see that even in this day and age, racism and discrimination are still major issues in this country; not only amongst the people, but amongst the state as well. Many other states have been pushing to get similar bills passed, however there is a lot of controversy about it. According to Fox News, many Texas Sheriffs don't want to enforce laws like this. But others like Sheriff Milton Wright felt that it was becoming to much of a problem. He even said that he would support laws requiring his deputies to enforce immigration laws if the federal government won't. He said "If they're not going to do it, then we need to".

http://www.economist.com/node/15326722

Preventing illegal immigrants from entering the United States, and finding those already in the country and deporting them is not cheap. According to the article "building a wall", the annual price for border patrol is $2.7 billion. It has risen dramatically since 1992 when the US was only paying $326.2 million. The cost for arresting a single immigrant is also rising rapidly. The only thing involving immigrants that might destroy the economy is the fight against them.

Immigration from countries such as Mexico is a result of poverty amongst the working class, and a contributing factor of poverty is globalization. Multinational corporations have realized that by expanding their companies into other countries, they can find cheaper labor leading to more profit. Then these companies are able to keep reducing the wages until they are paying next to nothing for labor. Many of the corporations are from America and the US government allows them to take advantage of of these countries with financial problems and make everything worse. When these companies move their factories across borders, they are also taking jobs away from Americans, yet we complain that we have no jobs in this country because of illegal immigrants. The rich and the large corporations are the real enemy; not the immigrants who have nothing and cross the borders in search of a better life.

It is time to stop discriminating against the immigrants moving to this country! They are beneficial to our economy and society, attempting to close the borders and remove the immigrants from this country will only costs the government billions, and they are not the enemy. It is time to treat them as human  being and share the land we live on.