Immigration

I read the article about Lake off and one about the immigration reform in Arizona. Reading these articles anger me because i do not like the way conservatives refer or frame immigrants. Just because they aren't born here and cross the border that makes them criminals now? They are desperate families looking for a better future, for a better like. How does that make someone a criminal? Anyone that wants to take care of their loved ones would do just about anything for them. These conservatives talk like that because they have no idea how it is to have to work everyday for so little pay. That's how it is in places like Mexico for instance. I've visited Mexico, in fact I have family over there and I get shocked when I see the amount of work they do and how little pay they receive. Some of the people over there work full time jobs everyday and yet get even less money than I do at my job working for less than twenty hours a week. If I complain about how much I get paid, I imagine how horrible it probably is to get paid how people in Mexico do and that's why families over there try to find something better out there, even if it means having to risk their lives for that, therefore it shouldn't make them look like criminals. I know some friends that are just my same age and are immigrants and have lived here since they were little girls. They pretty much always had the same rights as I did except when we started growing up, I'm able to go to college because I get financial aid help and it's not as easy for then to get help therefore they do not attend college and it makes me wonder, how are they different than me? How come I get all these benefits but they don't? It just doesn't seem right. Also, they aren't able to get a job so easily because they don't have papers. Framing is wrong because unless we are in a person's show we cant form a proper opinion because we do not know what it feels like to be in a situation like that.


The Link: http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/06/14/indian-tribes-oppose-new-immigration-law/