Analysis On Bilingual Ballots George Wills’ “Bilingual Ballots Mock Our System” first appeared in a news article from The Washington Post. In this essay, Wills’ aims to state his opinion as to why bilingual ballots should be prohibited and done away with. He intends to persuade the reader that the United States rules of law and that our countries national identity is becoming “attenuated” by illegal immigration. That these bilingual ballots are bypassing our federal laws and in a way, these ballots are influencing illegal immigration. Wills’ claims that the federal government's chief law enforcement official might need a refresher course on federal law pertaining to legal immigrants.
Constitution. The S.B. 1070 disrupts the priorities and resources of federal enforcement that focus on aliens who pose a threat to national security or public safety. They also claim that the federal government has preeminent authority to regulate immigration matters and that the enforcement of the Arizona law is counterproductive to the national immigration policy and it will cause detention and harassment of authorized visitors, immigrants, and citizens who do not carry their identification documents. S.B.1070 will certainly interfere in essential foreign policy and national security interests by disrupting the United States' relationship with Mexico and other
American View on Immigration Immigrants and immigration has played a major role in the history of our country. The United States population of immigrants came from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and mostly, Mexico. Therefore, one would ask why state governments are enforcing laws such as SB 1070 to discriminate and profile Mexicans or any colored people who appear to be of Hispanic descent. The Arizona Law states that any Hispanic, or anyone who looks “illegal”, must show proof or identification that he or she is a legal American citizen. If they are caught as an illegal immigrant, they are sent to jail or confinement till further notice.
Border Patrol agents not only use their authority and racial profiling at checkpoints, they have gone as far as raiding Latino communities and workplaces to find illegal immigrants. In this situation, the Latino workers were the target and are on a continuous basis. “These policies have unjustly expanded the purview of and undermined basic trust in local law enforcement, alienated immigrant communities, and created an atmosphere of fear anti-immigrant rhetoric has led to a dramatic increase in hate crimes against and racial profiling of Latinos” (aclu, 2012). A more relative example of profiling is what the governor of Arizona signed into law in April 2010. “On April 23, 2010, Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law a discriminatory and un-American law that will require police officers in Arizona to ask people for their papers based only on some undefined "reasonable suspicion" that they are in the country unlawfully.
Not every person that comes across our borders is just here to work and prosper. This is why nobody should be allowed in without the proper documents proving they should be here. The days of just turning our heads and hope that this problem goes away are over. The next time anyone of us witnesses an illegal immigrant that does not speak English at the local grocery store buying food with food stamps that are government
The Destruction of the American Freedom An instruction memo, discarded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) states, “under certain circumstances, the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law and impinge upon the freedom of others”. Federal counter-terrorism agencies like FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) protect citizens and the constitution of the United States of America.. However, what happens when these agencies stop believing in the laws they are to enforce? In the novel, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, the DHS, turns San Francisco into a police state and break the law they are to preserve. The DHS is so determined to protect society from terrorism that ultimately they destroy the freedom that they are striving to protect.
Jury Nullification CJA/344 May 2, 2013 Jury Nullification When juries believe a case is wrong or unjust they may acquit a defendant who has violated a law. This is known as jury nullification. In the United States, jury nullification has been an option for the jury. The jury plays an important role in interpreting and upholding the laws that the American government has outlined. Today’s society finds it necessary question to what range a jury can take the laws of America, change them, and make them their own.
One is crossing the border illegally by land. Another way get into the US are by false identities or by stolen, or falsified passports. Another way is by illegal smuggling boats. “Others enter with legal documentation and then violate the terms on which they have been admitted by taking jobs that are not authorized or overstaying the authorized period of stay in the country” (Illegal Immigration) A bad side to having such a large amount of illegal immigrants in the nation is the crime rate and prison population caused by certain “illegals”. “Illegal immigration is a major cause in the overcrowding of our schools and our prisons.” (Bender, David) Michael Huffington, a former member of the US House of Reps. For California says that, “Many illegal immigrants come for two purposes that are both destructive and expensive: to commit crimes or to receive government benefits.” (Huffington, 63) “For instance, the 18th Street gang in Southern California is one of the nation’s most violent street gangs with a staggering 20,000 members.
The first negative effect I would like to point out is that illegal immigrants take jobs from the citizens of the United States. They come here, poor and destitute, willing to work for almost nothing therefore people hire them in order to save money on labor. While the labor may be cheap it is taking away jobs from the American people. Recently a new Pizza Hut was built in our town. At the time I was helping out a homeless man.
Some people might say the immigration laws are put into place to protect Americans and their rights; however, studies have shown and will show there has been bias since the founding of the United States in the immigration laws. My position is the new immigration laws are breaking up families in the United States. It is generally accepted that the United States has laws pertaining to immigration and those laws should be upheld. However, I do believe that there arises circumstances where those laws cause grief to American families rather than help them. Just in the past five years alone I’ve seen families being ripped apart because of the immigration laws.