Whats the deal with this thing called immigration!?

Immigration laws in this country are God awful. I say that with attitude if it is not noticeable. I personally believe if one has lived here their whole lives, since say Elementry School, should have the right to citizenships.

I come from personal problems with this issue. I suppose I should not name names, but a friend very dear to me since childhood has just VERY recently gotten citizenship. This is absolutely outrageous to me. She has lived here since she was literally 7 months old. Her family came here on work visas. They expired, and did not go back to Mexico. She has been illegally in this country for a long time and has even used fake socials. She has paid her taxes every year and never once had fraud with them. A huge factor to this is that she didn’t come here on her free will, it was her parents. (Rightfully so)

Obama has made notions to make many Hispanic immigrants resident but the senate makes a lot of these bills hard to pass. This is outrageous, now say we go back to the election of 2012; Obama got voted president because he got the Hispanic vote by promising residency. Now the thing about that is that some are still waiting and it’s already his second term.  Obamas idea was that if republicans were to go for immigration then they would get elected next term because they would get the votes.

Personally I believe that Obama has his ideas straight and his plan is set but he is not moving fast enough. I understand that there are a lot of people he has to go through first before any bill can be passed. Regardless of that, a lot of people really need this residency but it is just taking absolutely too damn long. 

Guns take Control

       

After reading, Ann Coulters blog titled, BELTWAY GOPS: VOTE FOR US OR WE'LL BORE YOU AGAIN! I found a new aspect to gun control. I found that a huge amount of the people committing massacres, are actually mentally insane people. Can you believe that?

                 Ms. Ann Coulter argues that the democrats have all the power right now in our government and the republicans cannot do anything. Apparently a view that democrats have is that, mental issues do not show up on back ground checks when buying guns. Most people would think that that is not a problem. Why would mental issues show up on back ground checks? Since when does it ever affect anyone? Well it does. A lot of the shootings that have recently happened are ones of mentally ill people.

                Coulters intended audience is republicans, to get them to start acting and to ignore that the democrats are in charge and to not give up! Her credibility is pretty great. She has written many books about politics and is a well-respected blogger for her opinions. She also practiced law for many years.

                Personally, I have got to agree with her because she has a good point. She says that democrats are more worried about stigmatizing the mentally ill, rather than enforcing gun control. Honestly, if the mentally ill are the one ones causing most of these problems. Then why can’t the law be changed and why does it have to be so hard? If requiring people to not have past mental issues could stop a lot of people from dying from these rage attacks. Then shouldn't we be doing everything we can do, to stop it?

Gas is For the Rich

 In the article from the New York Times, it talks about ideas about raising taxes on gas to help pay for road repairs and make people get fuel efficient cars. The author is Valerie J. Karplus is a research scientist in the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at M.I.T. Her credibility has it all in her name. She compares a way that Germany raises taxes on gas nearly 18 more times than the United States. All that extra money goes to fixing bad roads and making new ones. The authors’ idea is that, if we raise the United States taxes, we could potentially be doing the same thing. Another argument about raising taxes is that; the higher the gas price, they fewer people will buy it. The United States is trying to push its people to use energy and fuel efficient cars. Ones that are battery powered and use very little gas. Another reason, the government wants people to get fuel energy efficient cars is for the air, and the pollution that normal cars produce on a regular basis. We are trying to minimize this, though that is going to take a while for people to actually do it. They think that if they raise the taxes on gas, more people will start using these other modes of transportation. In my opinion, both of these ideas are great. The higher the tax the more money going to our roads, but also eventually more people will buy more efficient cars and will pay less on gas. I think that could be considered a win-win situation, am I right?

Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Money

After reading the article from the Austin American Statesman, I discovered that a lot of the reasons why the United States has not proceeded with making illegal aliens legal is because they want to secure the border first. This to me is absolutely ridiculous. In my opinion, you cannot successfully secure the border until the illegals that are coming stop. It will never stop until the people that want to come are actually here. The legislation talks about all these different steps that they will take to make the border secure as well as safe and not using force as we have in the past. Examples include, “prohibitions against racial profiling and inappropriate use of force, enhance the training of border patrol agents, increase oversight, and create a mechanism to ensure a meaningful opportunity for border communities to share input, including critiques.”. Seriously, is all I have to say about these ideas. The only reason that the border is unsafe is because of the way the United States handles it. There are hundreds of illegal immigrants that pay taxes and get jobs, why do we have to keep pushing them away when they help the economy? People argue that it’s the immigrants and not the people on welfare and government aids that make the economy bad. I could not disagree anymore. Most people that are coming here from another country are coming for a reason, and most are not coming to take advantage of our system but to have a better life. There are more lazy citizens than there are illegal immigrants. Why don’t we just kick the people out that are abusing the government aids, oh wait, we can’t because we can’t regulate it. That alone is another perfect reason why we should allow immigrants more easily because more of them are here to prosper than to take advantage.