Immigration and Deportation

According to the New York Times, thousands of immigrants came to Capitol Hill requesting immigration reforms. They are upset that amidst all of the other issues in America, the immigration issue is not drawing much attention. Representative Luis V. Gutierrez of Illinois and chairman of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus unveiled a new bill regarding immigration reform. The new bill basically states that illegal immigrants who come to the US for job opportunities and a better life will get a chance at citizenship, but those who come to disrupt neighborhoods will get no such opportunities.

This new bill is basically aimed at quelling the anguish of people who don't want to see a mother torn from her child. Many illegal immigrants come to the US to have a child, but I guess that doesn't make them citizens of the US, just the child. From that you can see where the tearing the mother from her child comes into play. Gutierrez's new bill is less restrictive than the previously proposed bill by Senator Schumer of New York who says that the reform needs to “curtail future illegal immigration,” and have “operational control of our borders” and a "“biometric-based employer verification system.”

There are always the sob stories like that of Peter Derezinski, whose father was deported back to Poland after 18 years of working in the US. Gutierrez's new proposed reform does sound reasonable. I mean if illegal immigrants just want a better life and an opportunity at a job in America, why not let them. However, his new proposal may seem a little simplistic as in there has to be other consequences of just letting all of these new illegal immigrants in. I would have to read to the full details of Gutierrez's bill before making an informed decision of whether I support the bill, but from the looks of it now, it does seem pretty reasonable.

-Henry Zhang