Thread: Alabama Immigration Law: Editorial

Alabama Immigration Law
Our country is broke and hard-working Americans who pay taxes are tired of being the silent majority who pays the bills while liberals, the Democrat Party, and Washington are ignoring their voices

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Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Living in the South most of my adult life, I have experienced an explosion of illegal immigrant population in the nineties. Border laws were enforced in the ‘70s and ‘80s. It was hard to become a legal resident, much less an American citizen. People used legal channels and waited patiently for the resolution of their visas.

We did not have to speak a foreign language in our own country, press 2 for Spanish. There were no duplicate signs in Spanish in every large store. Forms were not printed in Spanish and doctors were not obligated to hire translators. Illegal immigrants could not vote and were not encouraged to do so. Nobody dared to demonstrate in front of Americans while waving their countries’ flags, shouting that America is theirs and the old gringos should roll over and die, it is time for young Mexicans to rule. La Raza was not stoking hatred in the open and it did not have a voice in the White House.

We were not spending $25 per hour on translators to tutor illegal immigrants’ children in Spanish after school to read and do simple math. ESL was not touted everywhere. Legal immigrants made an effort to learn English and adapted to the laws and culture of America. They assimilated and became part of the American dream. We had fewer barrios and Latino gangs. The federal government enforced the borders.

The stakes are high today to put a stop to illegal immigration that is threatening the functioning of our orderly society. It is up to individual states to do so since the federal government has relinquished its duty to defend the borders. If we no longer have safe and secure borders and the Mexican government tries to dictate to us what constitutes America, do we still have sovereignty?

Arizona’s immigration law was immediately challenged in court. Conservatives cheered while liberals screamed racism in tune with the Department of Justice. The law did not violate anybody’s rights but reinforced the rules that the federal government should have enforced but failed to do. Arizona had become a war zone along its border with Mexico.

The 2010 Arizona law found that “there is a compelling interest in the cooperative enforcement of federal immigration laws throughout all of Arizona.â€

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