> As I write, I have my papers on me – and not just because I’m in Arizona. I’m an immigrant, and it is a condition of my admission to this great land that I carry documentary proof of my residency status with me at all times and be prepared to produce it to law enforcement officials, whether on a business trip to Tucson or taking a 20-minute stroll in the woods back at my pad in New Hampshire.
From your account, I see that you are NOT a citizen, just a permanent (legal) resident. When will you be applying for citizenship? Of course you have to carry proof and papers. You don’t have the right to be here and not carry them.
Immigration laws are there for a purpose.
Allow me to take this discussion in another direction. Mr Steyn talks about illegals “mowing lawns” and “cleaning Houses”. These are supposedly the “jobs Americans won’t do.” I say that’s letting the pro amnesty chorus dictate the terms of the argument.
I’m 50 and when I went to college, almost ALL of my friends put themselves through college working construction, waiting or bussing tables, washing dishes, barbacking, mowing lawns, pumping gas, whatever it took to pay most of the bill.
My own son is 17 and is looking at colleges. The costs have gone way up and there are simply NO jobs he can get to even make a dent in what he will need to attend college. So, what happens? Like most college age teens, he will take on a debt, likely a big one.
So what have we done? By allowing illgals to come in and work these jobs, we have taken away the ability for born and bred Amercian citizens to possibly pay their way through college and to start their professional lives already behind the 8 ball with debts they’ll be forced to pay for perhaps a dozen years?
WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THIS!
PS: Where are the so called leaders in the African American community and why do they side with the illegals. Unemployment among African American teens is at 50 percent. I work in an urban all boys Catholic High School, and my students can’t get jobs as they are in the same position as my son. They are bumped out of the jobs they are qualified for by illegals!
The guy writing the article was pointing out that Arizona didn't make a law that was any different than law already on the books,he wasn't criticizing he was pointing out the hypocrisy of left wing moonbats. Read the whole article and maybe take a reading comprehension class also, it may help you to not ridicule those people who are on out side.