Thursday, June 10, 2010

Reflection 14

Sometimes I think the United States just doesn’t care; The Tale of Two Islands clearly shows us that. How can you write into law that because this person is colored differently from the other we’ll listen to their case and decide if they can stay and the other needs to go back? I am a firm believer that if you’re going to say something applies to one group that it needs to apply to all groups. No one deserves a special law giving them special privileges. I can’t imagine what that session in congress was like. “Okay today we’re trying to establish a law that will allow all white Cubans who are middle class to enter our country but the black Haitians must be sent back to Haiti, no matter how bad their conditions are.” Who do these lawmakers think they are saying that Haitians just want to come here for economic reasons only? None of the politicians have been in Haiti and walked in those peoples shoes. It’s really funny to me that President Bush is the one who suspended Haitian political asylum screening requirements. After the earthquake in Haiti in January, we quickly saw former presidents Bush and Clinton trying to get up to donate money to their cause.[ I have to say though that Bush didn’t seem sincere in his asking for support; he was fidgety, spacey, and obviously reading from a teleprompter. It just didn’t seem real; especially consider Katrina] I guess he forgot about Executive Order 12807. I personally believe that in order for someone to seriously leave their home country, something must be terribly wrong. No one wants to leave the country they consider home [except some Americans after Bush was given a second term]. No matter what someone says, their reasons for leaving can almost always be traced backed to economics. When there’s no money, there’s no food. When there’s no money, there’s no decent shelter. When there’s no money, it’s extremely hard to meet any of your basic needs, let alone anyone else’s. When people flee to America, it’s mainly because there are trying to make a better life for themselves and their families. This can even be said for the Mexicans who cross the border to sell drugs; they’re trying to make money to support their families. This country has problems and letting people come over here to better themselves isn’t going to make anything worse.

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