About Me

Austin, Texas, United States
I'm Caitlin, I'm 20, I attend UT as a neurobiology major and I'm a libertarian even though, according to the political ideology quiz I'm an enterpriser. I do support gay marriage and I'm not a supporter of the war in the Middle East. Other than that, enterpriser seemed to agree with me. Some of my political influences are Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Debra Medina and Bob Barr. I voted in the 2008 presidential election for Bob Barr and plan on voted for Debra Medina in the 2010 Texas Gubernatorial primaries. I'm taking this class because it's required for all Texas graduates. I hope to hear other's opinions that are logical and well thought out. I love discussing politics, with any ideology, as long as it doesn't turn into a shouting match or accusation central. I got 86% on the civics quiz and got 6/12 on the current events quiz.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Immigration Updates

After I wrote my last blog, I found out that Obama succeeded in striking down the most controversial parts of the new Arizona immigration law. He claimed that asking people to prove their immigration status is illegal. The Judge, Susan Bolton, also struck down the part of the law that made it a crime for an immigrant not to carry around immigration papers and the provision that makes it a crime for an ILLEGAL immigrant to seek and perform work. So, now, Arizona can have stricter laws regarding immigration but they have no way of finding out who is an illegal immigrant and in the mean while, illegal immigrants can work as much as they want. I think what Obama is missing is the fact that they are ILLEGAL, which means against the law. They take jobs from Americans and take our tax money without giving any in return. In Texas, illegal immigrants don't have to provide a birth certificate to attend public school while US citizen must provide a valid birth certificate, if they cannot, they may not be able to attend public school. How is this fair? In my previous blog, I pointed out that Mexico has stricter immigration laws than anywhere in the US, including Arizona. Why is it so unjust to prohibit illegal immigration, especially when illegal immigration is prohibited to US citizens. Maybe Obama is just soft because his roommate in college was an illegal immigrant, or, maybe he doesn't comprehend the term "illegal." I think Arizona is completely within bounds to enforce all proposed laws, including the ones shot down by Bolton. I think the country would be in a lot less debt if we had stricter border control. I'm not saying America for Americans or anything like that. There is a process in place for becoming an American citizen and people wanted to become one should follow the process, become a citizen legally and pay into the system just like all other American citizens.
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  1. kristinaAugust 2, 2010 at 1:01 PM

    Stage 6 - Classmate's Blog Critique

    I chose to do a critique on Caitlin’s “Summer Government Blog – CEM.” In stage five of her blog, she posts a blog defending Arizona’s right to impose its new immigration law, SB 1070, with all of its provisions, including the ones struck down by president Obama and by Susan Bolton. She points out that illegal immigrants take jobs from American citizens and don’t pay taxes, which means that they are not giving anything back to the government from which they are taking much needed employment opportunities. Also, she states that the laws in the U.S., regarding school registration in particular, are, in some aspects, stricter for U.S. citizens than they are for illegal immigrants. Caitlin supports Arizona’s right to impose the SB 1070 law in order to be able to tell which immigrants are illegal and should not be in the country. The audience for this blog is the citizens of the U.S. concerned with the nation’s immigration policies and laws.

    I can see why one would be upset about illegal immigration. The statements Caitlin made defending Arizona’s right to impose the law are true, but I don’t think this law is the way to go about handling the issue of illegal immigration. The SB 1070 law asks police officials to use racial profiling as a way to identify those who they believe could be illegal immigrants. In doing so, not only will the police officers be using race as a means of imposing the law, but they will be targeting one race in particular – Hispanics. The truth of the matter is that illegal immigrants come from many countries, not only from South America, but from Europe and Asia as well. The new immigration law in Arizona would regress from the progress the U.S. made in the Civil Rights movement in attempting to remove assumptions made about a person based on their race. When immigrants carry their immigration papers to show that they are legitimate residents of the U.S., should we be making those immigrants who have recently received their citizenship carry their citizenship papers as proof? If they don’t, how will they show that they are legal citizens now, and not illegal immigrants? After all, their appearance will not have changed, and they could still be questioned about their immigration status under the new law.

    Caitlin is right that illegal immigrants are taking American jobs, but the jobs they are taking are usually not the most pleasant ones the U.S. has to offer. Many Americans, though unemployed, may be unwilling to work in the conditions under which illegal immigrants work.

    I’m not saying that the issue of illegal immigration should not be addressed, it most certainly should, but I think that the new law in Arizona is simply is not the way to go about it.

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