Well the time is tick tick ticking away until the Arizona illegal immigration law goes into effect on Thursday. I have been reading articles and seeing news clips all weekend about how it’s a mass exodus from Arizona. People that are apparently here in the US illegally are just selling what they have or what they can’t take with them and relocating to another state that is not taking the hard nosed stand that the state of Arizona is taking. They are feeling cornered as one interviewee put it and they are just going to relocate to another place for a while until they are forced to move on from there.
Now just in case you have missed this, what Arizona is going to do is make being an illegal immigrant a state crime and require state and local police, during lawful contact or probable cause, to investigate the status of anyone they reasonably suspect of being an illegal immigrant. In other words, if you don’t have a US social security card and other identification that most US citizens carry on their person, then you better be ready to prove that you are an American citizen either born and bred here or by naturalization.
Polls are showing that 65% of the US people are against illegal immigration. Yes, this is a nation of immigrants, but just sneaking into the country and not going through the proper channels is not going to cut it. Don’t get me wrong. I have many friends and acquaintances that were not born in the US. Some I suspect are not legal and I hope and pray that they will get their papers and not live in fear of being picked up and shipped back. I can see both sides of the dilemma. A young couple meets and marries and then has a child on the way. The young mother is a US citizen, the father is not. He is picked up and sent back to Mexico and he has to work hard to cut through all the red tape and go through the proper channels to come back to the US in order to be with his wife and child. That scenario happens all the time.
But look at illegal immigration another way. Look at it like its gate crashing. If you had tickets to a the Ole Miss, MSU Eggbowl, or a ticket for an airline flight, and when you got to your assigned seat you found someone else was in that seat, what would you do? You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your seat removed. Someone would ask for you to show your ticket, and you would gladly do so, because you bought and paid for that seat. The person in your seat would also be asked for a ticket, which they would not be able to produce. They would be the "gate crashers" and they would properly be removed.
Right now in this huge USA stadium we have millions of gate crashers. The American people have been begging security to check tickets and remove the gate crashers for years. We have been asking security to have better controls in checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back doors. But Security has failed us. They are still looking the other way. They are afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say there is unlimited seating, and whether there is or not, no one should be allowed in for free while the rest of us pay full price!
Finally in "section AZ", of " USA Stadium", they have had enough of the failures of Security. They decided to do their own ticket checking, and properly remove those who don’t have tickets. Now it seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 "sections" of the USA Stadium, do not want tickets checked, or even to be asked to show their ticket! Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job which he has sworn to do.
If you are going to live in the USA Stadium you need to play by the rules just like we would have to play by the rules of any other country that we might visit. If we tried to sneak into another country we would be branded as spies. We would be lucky to be imprisoned but more than likely we would be shot or beheaded.
My own ticket has been bought and paid for, so I am proudly going to show it when asked to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers to be asked to show their tickets too. The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing, and all of the illegal activities that go with it, such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling for profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that need to be stopped. If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I would do proudly, then you must be condoning those illegal activities.
