Racism Running Rampant

Wow. That's all that comes to mind when I read this. And the fact that I'm SO happy I don't live in Utah any more...not that Arizona is ANY better these days. It's not that I don't agree that immigration reform is needed, we're just way too late to start kicking people out who we've let live and work here and raise families here in the US for the last 20 years. No I don't like paying for others benefits such as health care, food stamps, housing assistance...but I don't care if you're a citizen of this POS country or not! I understand that there are rough times that people need help. That's why unemployment, WIC, food stamps, etc were created! I have a problem with the people who abuse these safety nets, no matter where you come from, and use them to abuse the system and/or have too many kids.

Then you have the shitty employees the state hires (who, by the way, are the BIGGEST, FATTEST, most disgusting people I have EVER seen). I have NEVER seen any of these people treat anyone in the state office with respect. I've seen many of them go fishing for doughnuts and candy and sodas, not on a break, not out for lunch, but ON THE JOB!!! Talk about wasting funds. The woman who anonymously called in these alledged illegal immigrants has probably consumed several as a mid-afternoon snack.

If it's true that a state employee, the same woman who "called in" the illegals complaint, created this list, I think she's absolutely wrong for accessing confidential information, regardless of the reason! It is not her right, nor her position, to act as the martyr for the racists. And just in case you can't wrap your head around the wrongness of this action, how would you feel if someone took your bank account information, saw you purchased alcoholic beverages, and sent out your name on a list that you were wrong? It's not the fact that you partake in a program (alcohol imbibement or state medical care during pregnancy), but the fact that someone took your personal, confidential information and slandered your name in public. I can almost guarantee that most of these people on this "list" aren't illegal, just of Mexican descent or Hispanic heritage.

Our current government and current activities within the state governments has caused a panic atmosphere among the residents of the states and of the US as a whole. Immigrants and emmigrants have been coming for centuries to our country for safety, opportunity, education, the weather, and to avoid persecution in their own countrys. In fact, the Founding Father's of our nation were NOT all born or raised here. They came from other countrys. The Statue of Liberty, given to the US from France states:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

How do you discern the difference between this statement upon which almost all of our ancestors came to this country to provide us with this great life (of unemployment, starvation, bad health, obesity, depression, dependence on drugs/alcohol, war, PTSD) and the Mexicans who are coming here to do the same as we did in the last two hundred + years? Can you blame them? Our drug war isn't as pronounced or as dangerous as theirs, we earn more money (spend more too), and live in cleaner housing (as long as we're not poor, inner city, and a minority). Oh wait, doesn't seem like it's much better here...so why do we stay?

Must be the weather...