Documenting Immigrants

Bud Kennedy wrote an article on July 18, “In Texas and elsewhere, no sanctuary from anger over immigration” in the Star-Telegram Newspaper. The article speaks of immigrants not being registered in the system due to America not wanting them to be part of our country. This brings many problems such as the ones mentioned in the article; not having records on those who are criminals, not issuing birth certificates to illegal parents of American children and unable to trace any of the one million illegal foreigners. U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez argues about these matters. He also claims we have “a broken system”, which I agree. I also agree with granting work permits or some sort of permission to be here in our country. They are already here and the only way that we can see if they are criminals or not is if we put them in our systems, otherwise it will always be hard to know who they are, what they are doing here, or if they are paying taxes, etc. Some of these immigrants have built their homes and are raising their American children here. It’s so easy to point your finger at the outcasts and blame them for our broken system and the criminal activity, but we must realize that anywhere in this world there is some type of criminal activity going on. Yes, we can decrease and we should decrease it. I’m aware of the ghetto parts of Houston, which many illegal workers live there and the government can’t fix it without being able to collect taxes from them. Many people complain of immigrants taking their jobs and not paying taxes, but those jobs are there because the American people do not want to work them or because the people in charge decide to take advantage of it. This is the American dream, even for Americans and just like the Irish, British, Spaniards, and Africans who migrated to the U.S, kicking out the Hispanics, it will not stop all the other immigrants from coming to our country so let’s work with what we have and take care of it the best way we can.