People talk a lot about immigration these days. I can hardly pick up a newspaper without seeing a big headline about what the government is doing about the immigration problems our country is facing. Every politician has a different idea of how our country should deal with the problems we face.
I find it hard to understand why our country is so divided over things that clearly don't matter when there are so many more important things going on in the world. I don't like how divided our country is about immigration when hundreds of thousands of people are starving and dying from diseases that can be stopped in many parts of the world. We like the way things are in America, and no one from outside is allowed to come in and change things.
As a columnist for my local newspaper, many people have asked me to write a column about my thoughts on the recent immigration controversy. I haven't written about the issue because it's been hard for me to join a debate that I'm not sure is a real debate. On the one hand, I can see why we need to deal with immigration. I agree that we must do everything we can to protect the people who live in America. On the other hand, I think it's important to remember that all families who call themselves Americans were at one time or another immigrants to our country.
How, then, can we take a country that isn't that old and whose people all came from other countries and all of a sudden decide who can and can't come to live in our country? When did we as Americans and the government of the United States get the right to decide who can join our country and who can't?
If we look closely at how immigration has changed our society, we are likely to find just as many good things about it as bad things. There's no question that people who come to the United States through immigration do jobs that many Americans don't want to do. These jobs are important to our economy and well-being as a country, so we should think before we act too harshly on immigration.
For me, the most important thing is that people have worth. People's health and lives should be more important to us than whether or not they bother us. We need to give everyone an equal chance to enjoy the freedoms we love, whether they came here legally or not.
