Immigration Reform

Immigration reform is the next battleground issue that President Obama and Congress will face. How ironically can it be that former President Ronald Reagan, the icon of the Republican Party on June 12, 1987 stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin in Germany and spoke these words, Mr. Gorbachev, “tear down this wall?” In Nov 1989, the Berlin Wall began its dismantlement after weeks of turmoil and concluded in Oct 1990 the Berlin Wall fell. While the United States of America, the bulwark of democracy and the “shinning city on the hill,” is pushing to build, hundreds of miles of concentration fences on our Southern borders with Mexico…are absurd. What happen to the motto on the Status of Liberty “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” To Migrants, the shinning lights have become klieg-lights and drones, searching for its prey of the fleeing poor looking for a better life. Many Americans have some connections with immigrants in some fashion without exceptions. We do need an immigration reform. We have to bring the millions of immigrants out of the shadows and fold them into society. We are not going to sent 12 to 15 million illegal, undocumented, workers back to Mexico. Therefore, immigration reform must be comprehensive and have a fair common sense approach.

As of late, Arizona state legislature have push the immigration issue to the forefront by passing SB-1070, illegal immigration, law unless the governor veto it; this law is racial profiling at its worst and unconstitutional.