This new Arizona immigration bill has really rubbed me the wrong way. I thought that race based legislation was something of the past, and that we were advanced enough as a society to know that these things were wrong. The only thing that surprises me more that the bill was passed is how many people actually support this bill! I can see how government officials would decide to pass these kinds of laws to create a stir and make a name for themselves for when election season roles around, but I thought that there wouldn't be so many average people who would agree with this decision.
While I don't believe that illegal immigration is right and I have issue with said illegal immigrants getting benefits that I can't get as a legal citizen, I think it's horrible that they will be able to pull over anybody off the street and demand to see legal documentation that they're allowed to be here. We may think that this only affects Arizona, but anyone who appears foreign better have their paperwork on them next time they visit the Grand Canyon, lest they get deported. And who's to say that similar legislation won't start to gain popularity in other states? We Californians may think that we're liberal enough, but we passed Proposition 8, so anything's possible. I better warn my Desi boys to start carrying their paperwork around because hell, some of them are mistaken for Mexican as it is, and I don't want them sent across the border when La Migra don't believe that they're Indian. The border's a scary place, and I don't want any of my boys hurt.
So please people, get your acts in gear and do your best to oppose this stupid bill. Think of the tan people you know in your life. Think of my poor Desi boys. If they get sent to Mexico, how will they survive?
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