This might not be for everybody, but I'm going political again.
Arizona just passed a bill that has to deal with illegal immigration, something that sounds somewhat positive on paper, but when you start reading the bill you see where the uproar is coming from.
Obviously illegal immigration is a problem in our country, and something that will probably be ongoing as long as I live, and that means an ever lasting fight over how to deal with the problem, and I understand that.
Arizona's law is a lot like the federal law, but it wants law enforcement officers to ask for papers of people that they think might be illegal immigrants. Recently, when asked, the governor that just signed this bill could not tell the asker what an illegal immigrant looked like. Boom, huge red flag. If you can't tell what one looks like then how are you going to know to ask them if they have their papers?
The defenders of the bill say that there are actions taken in the bill to keep people from doing racial profiling, but that just seems to set up a loophole of sorts. The majority of illegal immigrants in Arizona are Mexican, that's just a fact, so what people are going to be asked for their papers? What happens if you have a perfectly legal American citizen who might not speak the best English, or has an accent because their parents are immigrants and they grew up around it, people with no card to speak of, what happens when these people are pulled over and their proof of citizenship isn't apparent? I know this is kind of an elaborate process of wondering, but it's how my mind is looking at this right now.
I have heard proponents of racial profiling on the various tv channels talk about how 90% of terrorists are one group of people so why shouldn't they be profiled and in turn why wouldn't they be okay with it. Well 90% of terrorists might be of one group, but it does not mean that 90% of that group are terrorists, and that's where the problem arises, but a lot of people look past that as a necessary evil, which is just sad, because these are the same people who cry fowl when one little thing in their life changes or is taken away.
These type of things are ridiculous but in a scary way.
Okay if you drudged through that here's a couple pop songs that BBC1 on sirius has turned me onto.
There, consider your palate cleansed.
After watching Marina's other videos,I have a new crush, weird how that works.
This is their cover of 3Oh3s Starstrukk, and it's awesome.
Arizona just passed a bill that has to deal with illegal immigration, something that sounds somewhat positive on paper, but when you start reading the bill you see where the uproar is coming from.
Obviously illegal immigration is a problem in our country, and something that will probably be ongoing as long as I live, and that means an ever lasting fight over how to deal with the problem, and I understand that.
Arizona's law is a lot like the federal law, but it wants law enforcement officers to ask for papers of people that they think might be illegal immigrants. Recently, when asked, the governor that just signed this bill could not tell the asker what an illegal immigrant looked like. Boom, huge red flag. If you can't tell what one looks like then how are you going to know to ask them if they have their papers?
The defenders of the bill say that there are actions taken in the bill to keep people from doing racial profiling, but that just seems to set up a loophole of sorts. The majority of illegal immigrants in Arizona are Mexican, that's just a fact, so what people are going to be asked for their papers? What happens if you have a perfectly legal American citizen who might not speak the best English, or has an accent because their parents are immigrants and they grew up around it, people with no card to speak of, what happens when these people are pulled over and their proof of citizenship isn't apparent? I know this is kind of an elaborate process of wondering, but it's how my mind is looking at this right now.
I have heard proponents of racial profiling on the various tv channels talk about how 90% of terrorists are one group of people so why shouldn't they be profiled and in turn why wouldn't they be okay with it. Well 90% of terrorists might be of one group, but it does not mean that 90% of that group are terrorists, and that's where the problem arises, but a lot of people look past that as a necessary evil, which is just sad, because these are the same people who cry fowl when one little thing in their life changes or is taken away.
These type of things are ridiculous but in a scary way.
Okay if you drudged through that here's a couple pop songs that BBC1 on sirius has turned me onto.
There, consider your palate cleansed.
After watching Marina's other videos,I have a new crush, weird how that works.
This is their cover of 3Oh3s Starstrukk, and it's awesome.
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