Paul Tevis Blog

As many of you know, the United States has an illegal immigration problem. It doesn't matter if you agree with what's happening or if you don't, you should still know there's a problem. There has been protesting all over the United States over the bill HR4437, the bill that would make illegal immigrants felons. Some of you may think this bill is racist, others may not, but before anyone comes to any conclusions, let me explain our immigration problem.

California alone, according to Center for Immigration Studies, is spending 10.5 billion dollars a year on illegal immigrants. That 10.5 billion dollars a year is going for their free health care, schooling, jailing, welfare, deportation, and among many other situations. Teacher's Unions complain constantly that the schools aren't getting enough money, wouldn't doing something about our illegal immigrant problem put more money into our state? Yes it would. But when people stand up and want to do something about our illegal immigration problem, it all of a sudden turns into a civil rights issue.

Another problem with our illegal immigration issue is the gangs. A lot of these illegal immigrants go into gangs, causing even more problems. What a lot of the illegal immigrant sympathizers are doing is taking out the fact that we're getting more of a gang problem. They over look that issue and blindly look at one situation. This gang problem adds onto how much money we have to spend on illegal immigrants. The victims of what the illegal immigrant gang members have done to them have to be payed back for their loss somehow.

Probably the most notable thing being said is, illegal immigrants are doing jobs American citizens won't do. The biggest problem with that statement is it's false. If you look at our unemployment numbers, 7,255,000 people in the United States are unemployed according to nidataplus.com. I'm being told that no one will do the jobs that illegal immigrants are doing, how can the 7,255,000 people be spoken for? I'm sure the man or woman with a family that just lost their job would do the job that he or she is being told they won't do.

I fully understand how horrible the Mexican government treats their people, I sympathize for them. That still doesn't mean it's okay to come to the U.S. illegally, you're not being stopped from coming here legally. Illegal immigrants are hurting our economy and our unemployed. Many immigrants worked hard at coming here legally, it's basically a slap in their face. How would you feel if you worked very hard at something, but than the guy next to you cheats and gets the same results as you.

Now recently, you've been seeing all this protesting against bill HR4437. People think that illegal immigrants have rights in our country that you're supposed come to legally. No illegal immigrant has rights in this country, they're not legal, it's just simple as that. You can argue on a moral aspect or a religious aspect. But in the New Testament, it clearly states that one must follow a country's immigration laws, Caser's Law.

President Bush wants to pass a “Guest Worker” program. Basically gives the people in this country amnesty, and for those of you who don't know what amnesty is, it's full legalization. The problem with amnesty is you're giving criminals legal status in our country. We should never reward criminals, they're breaking the law. Other countries are laughing at us more than usual right now because we're giving into criminals, they're getting their way.

My last point I will make is May 1^st', “A day without immigrants.” That day was supposabley supposed to be the day that the United State's economy would fall. Funny thing about that, crime was down and our freeways weren't crowded. So if a day without immigrants is supposed to be bad for the U.S., please do more of this protesting. I love seeing our freeways flowing smoothly, and our crime rate down. A day without immigrants I guess is a great day, that's what the protesters are showing us, even if they're not trying to. I do have to say though, it gets me very angry that these people that want to be here so badly will hang our flag upside down and disgrace it. True, May 1^st didn't have as much Mexican flags as they previously did, but they still did. I still saw U.S. Flags being held upside down and not only that, they were being dragged on the floor. And now we have our National Anthem being disgraced, it's trying to be sold off as being the U.S. National Anthem just translated, but when you translate it, it's not the same words.

The solution to our illegal immigration problem is passing HR4437, make these criminals felons, secure our borders, hire more border patrol employees. Than after we're done securing our borders, slowly deport the illegal immigrants. I can guarantee you that if we do something about illegal immigration, the United States will be a more economic prosperous country, and a safer country.