Second Response to Blog

The second project that I looked at was Zach's presentation on Immigration. I thought it was so interesting because I never knew how much heated debate this issue was causing. I knew it was an issue in our government and people are separated on it but people in America are so sensitive to this issue. There was one video in his presentation that really got to me. It showed to men talking about an illegal immigrant who was accused of manslaughter because he was drunk driving. One of the men was saying that this man needs to be deported because of what he did and that he doesn't have a right to be in this country. The other man was talking about how this isn't an issue of illegal immigration, it's about a completely different issue of drunk driving and has nothing to do with whether he should stay in the country. I really liked his argument because he showed that these immigrants are people first and we shouldn't be treating them like cattle. People in this country are taking the issue a little too far. Some were complaining because hispanic people in Springfield are "taking up space" in a public park. One man said that if it were up to him, he would keep all the illegal immigrants in confinement and then ship them all back to Mexico. In my opinion, this kind of narrow-minded thinking is what is causing the cultural deprivation going on in this country. People put stereotypes on all hispanic people, thinking they are automatically illegal. I was more interested in the moral part of it. It just seems like if people were more accepting and open to it, there would be less debate and less hatred.