Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Will we be forced to follow Arizona?

As everyone knows Arizona recently passed its controversial law on immigration. Even though it has not gone into effect yet many immigrants currently living in Arizona are leaving to find day labor else where. They used to be abundant in the parking lots of hardware stores. Soon neighboring states to Arizona will have a dramatic increase in immigrant population. Recently in Houston an immigrant smuggling ring was uncovered and exposed. Given that they were here before Arizona passed the law, they will increase unless Texas takes a stand to stop illegal immigration. Due to Arizona's actions other states (Texas included)might be forced to enact similar laws, unless they can find another compromise. In the past Texas representatives have proposed similar but not identical bills to the floor, but they were defeated by the committee. I propose that, if the Arizona immigration law makes its way through the Judicial system and is found to indeed be constitutional, Texas will have a similar law on the floor for voting during the next gathering. Texas has a different relationship with its immigrant population, however with the influx in illegal immigrants and increase in crime rates we will be forced to enact laws. Many people claim that these laws are going to profile people that have dark skin, but the way I see it is, if we have tried everything else with no success then we must do what it takes. Fences have been built and they have been cut, jumped, or simply walked around. People have been deployed but they can only do so much at the border that they can't stop the entire flow of immigrants. Police driving by hardware store parking lots know that the vast majority of day laborers waiting for a job are illegal will finally be able to do something without the illegal immigrants using our laws and constitutions against us.