Judge Bolton's Unfair Decision on SB 1070-- Weak Government and the Race Card

Racism is an inherent part of human nature; however, like other emotional characteristics that are fundamentally natural in the Homo sapiens species, racism should rule neither our lives nor our politics. I am against the idea completely, and if I had the faintest suspicion that the original Arizona's proposed immigration law SB 1070 was in any manner racist, I would be the first person to stand unwaveringly against it. However, because I understand that immigration laws are not about race, but about having a fair system of government to protect our economy, our health, our safety, our standard of living, and our national sovereignty, I support the law wholeheartedly.

My Impressions On Susan Bolton's Ruling and the Obama Administration

With that being said, I am very disappointed by Judge Susan Bolton's decision to issue an injunction to block the section of the law that would have required law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of anybody whom they suspect is in the United States illegally. It is unfair to citizens and legal immigrants alike. It is unjust to citizens because the ruling carries the implication that unless somebody appears to be in the country illegally, then it is not wrong to apply the normal procedures of law enforcement. For example, if an officer suspects a person is intoxicated by alcohol while driving, the officer is required to administer a sobriety test on said individual. If an officer suspects a civilian is hiding something incriminating in their car, the officer has every right to inspect the civilian's car. If a law enforcer pulls a driver to the side for driving recklessly and whom he suspects does not have a driver's license yet, the officer has the right not only to impose a speed fine on the driver, but also to request to see a driver's license. In the event that the officer's suspicions were correct in any of the aforementioned hypothetical scenarios, then the officer must follow procedure as stated in the Penal Code that deals with the respective laws and penalties imposed on the offender. Of course, in the ideal world of the illegal immigration supporter, these laws must only apply to citizens; if the driver turns out to be in this country illegally, the criminal may end up filing a lawsuit against the officer for alleged racism the same way a thief can now sue the owner of the house he breaks into if the latter shoots the criminal in rightful self-defense.

The illegal immigrant's utopian fantasy is slowly becoming a reality in the United States, and it has all been with the help of our magnificent President Barack Obama. The fact that Obama initiated legal action against Arizona shows that the he is more concerned about how Mexico and its criminals view our country, than with protecting our own citizens' best interests. We spend billions of dollars each year on homeland security and on fighting terrorism abroad, yet we cannot secure own borders and now purposely allow illegal immigrants to trespass and walk right in through the front door. This is an utter disgrace to all legal immigrants and to the veterans who went abroad thinking they were fighting for our country's security. What security and what justice are there anymore? There is no security and no justice in a country where it is politically incorrect to punish criminals if they look or act foreign. A country that is too afraid to enforce its own laws out of fear of being considered racist is weak, irrational, and slowly loses its legitimacy and self-respect.

The Race Card

It nauseates me when people use the proverbial race card in order to get away with crimes like illegal immigration. It is incomprehensible how anybody can consider it racist or inhuman to punish those who came here illegally, when immigrants from all over the world are subject to the same laws. Yet, the manipulative tactics of the Mexican illegal aliens and their radical political supporters are not as repulsive as the weakness of our government. Even Mexico itself has a stronger immigration system than the one maintained by our administration; quite frankly, it would not hurt us to learn a thing or two from Mexican government in terms of immigration policy. First of all, Mexican government officials are not moved by silly protests, pleas to insanity, race cards, and other tactics that criminals usually employ to have their way in this Pandemonium of a modern world in the United States; in Mexico, all illegal immigrants are imprisoned for two years and/or deported to their country right away. Most countries in the world have similar or harsher immigration laws and punishments; yet, only in the United States do people seem to fall for the belief that enforcing the law is racist if the criminal happens to come from a disadvantaged background.

It does not matter what the reason was for their crossing to this country illegally; the illegal immigrant made a choice to defy the law of the country from which he demands justice; the fairest outcome in this scenario is for the illegal immigrant to learn to bear with the consequences of his actions in the same way that any law-breaker who is caught must learn to do. If a family member of mine chose to rob a bank because he or she thought that would be the only way out of financial struggle, it would not make their prosecutor any more sympathetic to our cause than if he had done out of kleptomaniac impulse. Furthermore, it would be laughable if we proposed that bank robbery should be allowed on the basis that we were guilty of that crime due to need and not out of inherent malice. That is the same logic that illegal immigrants and their families use when defending their crimes in the eyes of our pathetic judges. Justice and government cannot prevail without eventually being overthrown in a country where the most basic laws that protect citizens and national security are encroached by illegal immigrants and other criminals whose unfounded claims to racial discrimination and fraternal allegiance are taken seriously in a District Court and the formerly distinguished Executive Office.

We Want Equality For All

Every country has immigration laws that all those seeking entry must and do follow; to forgive those who do follow legal immigration procedure sends the message to the honest immigrants that they were mere fools for following the law in the first place. Laws ought to be applied to all-or to none. The problem with this country is that we are becoming so increasingly preoccupied with appearing politically correct that many of us prefer to passively turn a blind eye to ugly realities than to run the risk of being called racist. Illegal aliens are not as dim-witted as they appear, for they have sensed the race issue as one of Americans' most sensitive spots and have cleverly learned to use the race card to their advantage. Illegal aliens cry racism to conceal the real problem: law-breaking. Illegal immigrants demand equal rights, so let us treat everybody equally by punishing every law-breaker according to his or her offense, citizen or not. We owe it to our ancestors who came to this country legally, and we owe it to our fellow Americans in the name of justice and our national security and sovereignty.