The Removal

        The ICE is going to make everybody in this country pay more for everything. The ICE is going around to small business owners and asking for employment documentation for all workers. Over the last three years about 7,972 small business workers have been asked this same question. As a result these businesses have lost numerous amounts of employees.

          The Immigration and Customs Enforcement call these encounters with small businesses owners I-9 audits. When they go to these businesses they are looking for I-9 employment eligibility forms. This basically means they are looking for immigrants that are here illegally working in the U.S. In September 2009 the ICE approached David Cox a CEO of L.E. Cooke Company a fourth generation family owned nursery for trees and shrubs. They asked him for all the employee paper within three days. Come to find out that he had 26 of his 99 employees working here illegally; he was forced to terminate their employment. Mr. Cox said “Telling them was the worst day of my life”. The employees that he had to let go have been with him for over 10 years and he actually worked along side of them in the fields. From the audit he lost a great deal of money.

          I don’t see a reason for doing this. They aren’t taking anybodies job and they’re not hurting anyone. How many of you guys go outside and work in the fields for $ 8.90 an hour for a 50 hour week? I highly doubt any of you would jump and do the job because I know I wouldn’t. Some immigrant workers get paid up to $15 an hour and get paid vacation; I know I like the sound of that but still wouldn’t want to be outside all day. They get paid more then me and I work at a clothing place. Yes, I agree that their managers should help them get the right paper work done. I also think that the ICE should give the small business owners a heads up or a few months notice to make sure all their workers have what they need. Obliviously ICE knows where the immigrants are so why not give them a chance.

           I just don’t understand, what’s the point of terminating most of your staff if no other American is jumping up for those jobs?

Should We Change the Policy on Immigrants Now??

            Should we have to change now?? Yesterday the LA Times put out an editorial on immigration. The U.S gives out about 50,000 green cards a year. This piece of paper is the most valuable paper in the U.S. It allows immigrants to permanently stay in the U.S. To be a recipient of a green card you have to at least have a high school education and win the lottery pick.

            Straight to the point, the author feels they should abolish the “Diversity Visa” program. This would make them hand pick which immigrants are allowed to come over to our country, but they would make sure that they were going to be a great asset to the U.S and not someone that works for cheap labor.

             

            Well I disagree with all of this. People don’t migrate over to the U.S. to mess up our work force; we did that on our own. They’re not coming over here with only a high school credit because they want to; it’s usually because they don’t have the money and a job that pays them enough to go beyond that. I read the comments of this article to see what others thought about this subject and most of them were upset because they felt the immigrants were taking jobs away from the American people. I don’t see it that way. I see it as people working hard for what they want and will take whatever steps they have to get there. Most of the citizens here are just too spoiled and need to get off there high horse and take the job that’s given to them.

            The author says that we should auction off visa and give them to the highest bidder. Well if we did that than we would have hardly immigrants over here, which is there goal. Immigrants wouldn’t be able to come over here because they wouldn’t have enough money or speak enough English to bid in the auction.

           

            This author is definitely talking to the upper class of America because the lower classes knows what it feels like to have to work real hard for what they want in the end. They sometimes have no opportunity for higher education for a long time or even higher paying jobs, but they worked hard and got there. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to get by.

Needs To Do It Now

           New York legislation needs to get on their game. On July 10^th New York Times explains how they dropped the ball on locking down on health insurance exchanges. By not getting the health care bill passed they are now at risk of having to cut back on the money they ask for in federal grants. The health insurance exchanges are supposed to help the 2 million uninsured people in New York required to buy health care. If New York doesn't get on it than the federal government will step in and handle it for them.

In my opinion I don’t think that is a bad idea. Why do we need other states having their own health care plan when everybody else has jumped on the ban wagon? The Republicans say “they didn’t want to give the democrats both gay marriage and “Obamacare” on the same day”. Well it looks like they are not going to have a choice but to give them both.

The author of the article is really talking to the Republicans. He’s letting them know that things aren’t going the way they should be because the legislation is dropping the ball on the most important thing. He’s arguing that if there is nothing wrong with New York trying to do there own thing but if they don’t stay on top of important bills than it really doesn’t matter what they do.

This has to do with U.S National Government because of the national health care reform. New York is saying that they can do this by themselves but they obviously cant if they are to big head not to lock down on the things they need. The National Government needs to just take thing into there own hands, so they can make sure that people in the country are getting the health care they need.

Watch What They Do With Our Money

        Obama has a lot coming his way says CNN. Over the next few days Obama and congressional leaders from both parties will be having negotiations about what they should do with all the debt that we are currently in. President Obama thinks we should we should take cuts out of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. People from the Democratic Party are collecting signatures to present Obama with the number of people that disagree with his choice. The importance of this article is to be aware of the budget cuts Obama is attempting to impose on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. From this we have to ask ourselves, how will this affect our up and coming generations? This article is worth reading because it informs the people about what our government is deliberating about for our future. I chose this article because I feel it is very important to know what the government is trying to do with our safety nets.


   By Zeniah Morgan

Political Bio

         I am taking this class to get my high school credit and also learn more about politics. Politics is interesting to me because it lets you know what’s going on in the world and the government around you and the people who are trying to fix it. In this class I hope to learn more about the problems and situations in the world and maybe how I could help fix it. I would like to understand how elections work and what to look for in our up coming presidents. Honestly I don’t know my political views yet. During the last election with Obama and McCain I watched every debate and went into deep conversations with my parents about what was going. My parents helped shaped my political and government views by explaining their views to me and helping me understand the world and the situations in it. 

     By Zeniah Morgan