Arizona's New Immigration Law

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Originally Posted by mredskins

Well I think regardless if they end up in a "professional career" they still came here to strive for a better life.

I have a career and I went to a very good college but I have a modest home and decent cars but I am off every day at 5 and have every weekend off to spend time with my family, to me that is happiness. I have turned jobs down that pay more but require more of my time. My family makes me happy not a shiny BMW or a house in the Hills.

I guess we need to define "better life" to accurately say who is not striving for their dreams.

I certainly think a Mexican, or Vietnamese, or Ethiopian or any of 100 third world country people would consider your life a definition a better life. A modest home, and decent carS. Again, this is the arrogance of the US, (I realize arrogance rings full of negative connotations), there are billions of people on this planet who live in squalor and would not dream of attaining even half of the life that we in the US take for granted. It is not surprising that those who are able to get to the US, try come to our country in the hopes of beginning a new future. Again, I don't know the solution, but to demonize, and stereotype many men and women who are willing to uproot their whole life in the hopes that they might provide a better life for their children, only to find that they have become outcasts and criminals, is a shame to me.

I will not win this debate, but for closing, one last time: think of who these words were offering comfort and hope to:

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "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-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"