I just have to respond:
First, they aren't going to just stop any mexican on the street and deport them, they have to commit a FELONY CRIME first! Who told all these people that they would get deported just for walking down the street? Obviously if they read and understood English they would have understood that. But then again, somebody probably got offended and just started spouting bs just to get attention thrown at the issue.
Second, the bill didn't break families up. The families should have thought about what could possibly happen if ever they had to be sent back to Mexico with American born children. I don't think the law has anything to do with breaking families up, the family themselves made the choice and this is their consequence.
Three, other countries have much harsher laws and punishments for being illegal. I know in England they are extremely racist there, my mother lives there and the police were knocking on her door once when a race riot was fxing to start between two different race groups, one being English. This was happening in her neighborhood. By the way, she is there legally and is a legal citizen of the UK.
Four, I did notice a lot more "Help Wanted" signs posted up (even way before xmas season started) and I heard a bunch of teens talking about how they now can get a job because all the mexicans fled in fear. It's been nice going through the drive thru and being able to ask for something they left out of my bag without getting a strange look because they don't understand what I'm saying.
Five, you have to be a CITIZEN of THE UNITED STATES before you can claim the law "unconstitutional". It's a shame families are breaking up, and I'm sure the parents are claiming they wouldn't be splitting up if the US had been more sympathetic, but it's not anyone's fault but their own for coming here and assuming they wouldn't be at risk of any sort of punishment for being here ILLEGALLY.
I'm in favor if the law, I don't like going to the store and having to turn heavy products around because the spanish side is out and I can't read the contents. I'm tired of watching 7 year old kids translate for their parents while I wait with my four kids in line because Mom doesn't understand what the cahsier wants. I'm tired of seeing that same 7 year old kid translate the ATM machine and making me wait in line yet again because she doesn't understand. I'm tired of seeing them wanting equal rights when the law don't apply to ILLEGALS.
I'm voting for a president that will enforce national laws against illegals. I'm tired of getting important papers and seeing mexican translation in parenthesis. I'm not fond of my kids being forced to learn spanish in elementary school. I remember when you could learn to speak another language in high school if you wanted to. Now they force it on your kids in Kindergarten. When I worked as a waitress, a group of mexicans would come in to the diner and only one would speak english....barely. Then get talked about when they think I don't understand them. I understand enough to know when they are making sexually explicit comments about me. Maybe that's why people don't it when people speak other languages around them, because there's several times when we are the subject of the conversation.
