I don't think anyone's saying that millions of mexicans coming here and draining our pockets is a good thing. One of the cartoons in medicinemans post was pretty accurate. They come for a better life at our expense. Americans of all nationalities pay taxes and a portion of those taxes goes towards welfare and public assistance which illegals readily take advantage of.
This raises a moral question though. Do we turn away the hungry and the sick? Isn't there an engraving on the statue of liberty that I'm too lazy to look up that says something about 'give me your poor huddled masses'?
I personally think we should take care of our own before we give aid to anybody else i.e. the rest of the world. The thing about this bill that bothers me though is the vague-ness of it. It's a slippery slope when police can go around saying "show me your papers" circa 1939 germany. What is probable cause for suspecting someone's an illegal? Where is the line between enforcing the law and harassing people? I know if I were walking down the street and a cop just started asking me questions I'd tell him to go fuck himself.
Illegal immigration is a huge burden on our economy but how can you stop it? You can't realistically build a huge wall and if you did they'd just climb it or dig underneath. There's thousands of miles of border. Do you put a border patrol agent every 5th of a mile and just have them sit there looking around?
I think the only way to stop illegals from coming here is to take away their incentives (no welfare to anyone without documentation. That includes healthcare, food stamps, education, and all the other things that go along with public assitance or are paid for by tax dollars) but that brings us back to the moral issue. A mexican shows up at the hospital close to death do you turn them away? They're still human beings after all, they're not "lesser than". I think if you own a business and your caught employing illegals then you should have to pay the taxes that would have been otherwise paid by legal employees. That or just start throwing them in jail...the employers that is. Also, some exceptions could be made for farmers who need seasonal help.
This whole issue is insanely complicated and isn't going to be fixed by some nonsense bill that A. isn't going to work and B. just makes people angry. Actually as I wrote that sentence I realized the point of this bill isn't to make a dent in Arizona's immigration problem it was strictly a political move just to get people talking about immigration which it's clearly done.
