The "Dream Act"

I understand we can’t help everyone around us but I also believe we shouldn’t be cruel to them. If we can all survive in this country together then let’s help each other out and not try and harm everyone around us. Everyone should have similar rights no matter how they got here or how they are here, we are all humans and no one is perfect we all deserve a chance to prove ourselves to the world. Im trying my best to get through four years of college at Texas Lutheran University to try and change something in this world for the benefit of others. I was seeing the newspaper and saw the law "dream act" that was not passed. It kind of made me upset because that was a big opportunity that a lot of people were looking forward too. The law just needed a few more votes so it would of passed and helped a lot of people. If the law would of passed then a lot of students; immigrants that studied here and graduated from highschool in the United States of America would be able to be legal in the United States. If this law would of passed there would of been a lot of people with better futures. This people would of continued going to college and they would have had a better life, better opportunities in life. There families would of been so proud of them and they would of been better off. Everyone would have been benefited from this because the United States needs more educated persons. If the people get educated we will become smarter and have better incomes, the United States would be better off making more money with educated people. If the people don't study then there are just more possibilities of higher crime rates. Without an education peoploe dont have rights, they don't get good jobs. Without education some people can't even find jobs. If someone doesn't have a job then how will they feed and provide for everything their families need? Some young ones even decide they have no other choice but to steal to help their family out. Some other ones decide to kidnap to get some kind of money. There will be more gangs when people have no jobs, no school to go to, and nothing to do they end up in the streets just looking for more trouble. If someone is just in the streets all day they will end up just finding drugs, alcohol, fights, gangs, all this bad things to get involved in. All this happens because they dont have a good education or any education at all. Everything I just mentioned can be prevented, well it could of been prevented with the "dream act" that was not passed. I think their is still a chance someone with higher power will still realize this and help the "dream act" or a similar law will be passed. I also want to help with something later on in life regarding to some of this things.

Families separated

We have another suggestion to build a bigger barrier between the Mexico and United States border. I believe it is just a big waste of money for everyone over here. We have a lot of other bigger problems in the United States that can be fixed with that money that they want to spend on a fence that is not going to prevent anything. First of all they want to make it a few feet high any one can get over that little fence, and what workers will be building that fence? Most likely the Mexicans will be the ones paid to make to build the fence that’s meant for them not to cross over to the United States. In the article they say it’s to “taper transportation of illegal drugs manufactured in Latin America and illegal immigration.” In a way yes it is good that they are thinking about helping stop the drugs but a fence is not going to prevent drugs. Drugs are everywhere they can still provide them in the United States.  The new fence won’t help at all it will “destroy animal habitat prevent animals from reaching water, disturb animal migration patterns, and otherwise damage the environment.” Like said in the Mexico-United States barrier article, it’s just going to damage in a lot of different ways. But even after all of the damages in the article they tell us that “Americans favored building a fence along the U.S border with Mexico, with 68 percent in favor and 21 percent against.”

What I believe is the worst part, is knowing people get payed to deport someone. If someone calls to give information about an illegal immigrant they get payed that is just the worst its humiliating to know this kind of things exist. I just can’t believe someone would call and get someone else deported to get just a couple of dollars, and knowing they will most likely be destroying a family. The families are separated; people get deported and leave their family on their own. If the parents are illegal but the children are legal then the children stay in the United States but the parents get deported. The children are lucky if they have other family members that can take care of them otherwise they are left behind alone. The children get sent to foster homes with strangers and get separated from their other siblings. None of this sounds like it helps the United States, we have families that are separated and children living on their own. Who ends up taking care of these children if they have no other family? The United States government will spend even more money having to raise these children that are all alone. No one ends up happy the children are sad as well as the parents and the government is spending more money on this lonely children. No one is and no one will be winning with this cruelty.

my opinion on some immigration laws

Not only are immigrants not permitted to have a job but they are also mistreated and with that new Arizona law it’s a discrimination against every person that looks Hispanic not just the illegal immigrants. In Arizona they passed the new law allowing the police to stop any person that looks Hispanic and forcing them to show them their visa or passport or something proving they are legally in the United States. I believe it’s just harassing people, no one should have the right to stop you just because of how you look. Not only should they not stop you but then put you in the spot of having to prove you are legal. If someone doesn’t have some kind of proof that they are legal they can be taken until they prove it. Not everyone is randomly going to be walking around with their passport or whatever papers they need to prove they are legal. If they carry those kinds of documents and they get their papers stolen what is going to happen until they can get new copies. They would be back to not having any kind of proof and people can’t stay locked up just because of a new law. How are they going to go out and work to provide for their family? The Arizona law is just addressed to Hispanics that is another part of the law that is not fair. Illegal immigrants are not just Hispanics there are a lot of different races not just illegal Hispanics. If there is a law that’s passed and it’s not fair well at least let’s make it even against all races not just against one specific race.  I believe that is just discrimination. Immigration is something that has been happening for ever. There have always been laws about immigration but they are always making new ones, new ones that are not always fair according to some people. I believe some of the immigration laws are something fair but some are just ridiculous. I believe they are not fair once the laws start separating families and hurting innocent people, especially innocent children that don’t even have an idea of what is going on around them. Unfair laws like this are the things that have helped me make my choice of becoming an immigration lawyer i believe everyone should have equal rights or at least fair laws that help them have rights.

immigration

As I was looking online looking for articles for my essay on new immigration laws there was a title that caught my attention it said “Illegal immigration is a crime” I believe that if immigrants are crossing the border illegally it isn’t just some game for them. Immigrants cross the border risking their life, because crossing the border isn’t something easy, it’s very dangerous.  They cross the border for a reason, some do it for their family to come to the U.S and find some kind of job to send money to their loved ones they had to leave behind. They come thinking they will earn money to feed their family or even cure them from any illness, to get enough money for medicines or to operate their loved ones. Immigrants risk so much by crossing the border illegally to help their family and people just put them all as criminals and say it’s a crime to come illegally. Is it a crime to try and save your children’s life? Immigrants get here seeking for a job and they get here and to their surprise theirs new laws. Immigrants can’t get jobs, if the employer provides jobs to an illegal immigrant he gets fined and his whole business can get closed down. No one wants to risk having their business shut down and then having the same problems as immigrants to get money to feed their family. It’s just not fair to everyone. We pass the law saying no jobs for illegal immigrants but if you think about it who are the ones you see out in the streets doing all the difficult jobs, all the dirty jobs that no one else wants to do or be seen doing. Everyone that is here legally wants a job inside a building with air conditioning, but who are the ones outside making those buildings in the heat or freezing temperatures?  I believe if they are real criminals actually affecting everyone around them, then they should be deported but if they are in the United States doing no harm for anyone just working and helping around them then they shouldn’t be harassed and treated like big criminals. Immigrants should also have some kind of rights at least be respected like every human being in the United States.

Liberal Arts

In our Freshmen Experience class we have to read booklet called the "The Earthly Use of a Liberal Education" it helps us undrstand what a career in liberal arts would be. It is probably better to choose to major in liberal arts that way you wont be tied down just to one career, one path. If you choose liberal arts that gives you the opportunity to choose anything you decide when you  are really sure of what you want for your career and not just choose some career right now just because you are not sure. A career in liberal arts is something that helps you choose your path. It’s not something that you dislike because it helps you decide and think for yourself, and having new ideas. Liberal arts is something that takes you to a point where you love to learn and not think it’s a difficult thing in life that you just have to get through. Like Giamatti’s definition of “live to learn” you have to go through things in life to learn from your mistakes and learn what you want to do with your life. You have to live everything you can’t just let someone tell you what they think about something because no one is the same and people will like and dislike different things you have to live it yourself. If you don’t live it yourself you it will affect the quality of your life because you will never know what it was like and you won’t find out if it was right for you. Giamatti explains that knowledge and ideas is seeks for others and “you cannot wish for others less than you wish for yourself”. A liberal arts education can be translated into economic success because it will be something you enjoy and there for it won’t be felt like a difficult job but it will be just something else in life that you enjoy. Enjoying it will help you do better in it and want to actually do it and it will become successful for your economy. When hiring someone with a liberal arts background you will imagine they know what they want for their future and they will enjoy doing their job the right way and helping your business as well. You just have to choose the right thing, the right path so you can enjoy everything you do, and not be something you are forced to do to survive.

unlocking the possibilities

Texas Lutheran University is different from any other place it’s a unique great place to attend because Texas Lutheran University is about knowing, doing, and becoming. Knowing about life and where you want to get to and actually applying and getting to the top of everything that you can accomplish. Doing everything it takes to accomplish your goals without allowing any unimportant excuses get in your path. And becoming something important in life, something that will get you very far in this world and getting to be what you desire in life. Now to accomplish this you will need to put a lot effort in everything you do and every step you take in your new beginning. Have faith in everything you do, be determined Nothing can get in your way as long as you set your mind to it, have knowledge and usually the support of your family and friends at all times. And most important making the right choice in everything you do. All of this will help you unlock the possibilities to your future goals you have chosen in life. Everyone will always have a different path to choose from you just have to make the right choice and choose the right path. By choosing Texas Lutheran University all of us have already choosen a correct path to start off with. But there are still many other paths that we have to choose that will lead us either for the best or worst for each of us. At Texas Lutheran University we are on our own we dont have our parents anymore to be pushing us around everyone has to do everything for themselves and on their own. For most of us Texas Lutheran University is a completly different thing it's a different environment, we have to get use to our new lives and to the new rules from Texas Lutheran University. We as the students have to start unlocking the possibilities for our self. We have to open new doors for us, doors that will take us to bigger places, we have to grow and open new opportunities that will help us gain power, become someone in  life. We have to prove to everyone that we can become someone in life and Texas Lutheran will help us accomplish this by gaining their knowledge.

Random drug testing on doctors

Lucian Leape MD is a public health public health professor at Harvard. The professor wants to subject doctors in America to some random and periodic drug tests. The professor is trying to help the patients by identifying those physicians who are impaired. Dr. Leape says "We have the responshibility to identify impaired doctors and bring them into treatment. And to protect patients in the process". There is a general surgeon named Jeffrey Parks who thinks the opposite of Lucian Leape and he does not believe it is the correct to put doctors through random drug tests. Dr. Jeffrey does believe they should not have impaired doctors working with patients but he does not think it is fair to do random drug test. He gives us examples to consider like a doctor going on vacation with his family or going to parties and drinking or smoking, things happen and they are not while they are working so it shouldnt really matter. He does not think its fair they decide to do this once and someone shows up the next day telling them they are forced to take a drug test that they will not pass because of a one night thing. He believes they should have the right to do what they want with their personl life and free time as long as they are not harming anyone. Dr. Jeffrey thinks that if a doctor is impaired it will b noticed by every1one else without making everyone take random drug tests. What will happen to those doctors that decide to party and come back to fail the drug test will they be getting their license taken away. It wont be fair to loose their job and mostly their entire life just because they decided to have a little fun while not at work. I also think like Dr. Jeffrey I believe that not just as a doctor but in any profession they should be able to decide what they want to do in their free time and not get themselves in a situation where they can loose everything they  have worked their entire life for. It wont be fair to loose years of studying their career, loosing their job and not being able to support their own family just because of something they decided to do one night that they were on vacation or just had the day off. Everyone should have the right to decide what to do with their life.

TLU

Almost two weeks finished of college, it hasnt been to easy. TLU is completly different from what I was use to at my high school. I have been getting so much work with five classes a day and an extra class on tuesday. It is really hard to keep up and not get the classes mixed up. My breaks are really short in between classes so I dont have much time to relax after each class. The good thing is i finish sooner with small breaks so I can go home relax for a little bit and then get back to finshing all my work for my classes. But I really like TLU it's great because it's a small community that everyone would like. Being a small school has made it so much easier first of all because it wont be too easy to get lost compared to a bigger school. I have friends going to Texas State and UTSA they tell me they cant even find a parking space. It takes them up to thirty minutes just to find somewhere to park. I get to school and find a lot of places to choose where to park, I even get one with a tree that gives my truck shade so it wont get too hot. At bigger schools they get lost and its more difficult to make good friends. At TLU you actually get to meet mainly everyone and wont feel out of place. I am so glad I decided to come to TLU and experience something different from what other schools have. At TLU everyone can ask any questions they have and get help, everyone is always friendly even if they don't know you very much. They even decide to help us if we are falling behind in our classes or just need help. I had never even really been to Seguin I had always stayed in San Antonio or Cibolo but as soon as I heard their was a university so close to my house I started looking at what opportunities I had here around me and TLU was the only that just seemed exactly right for me. I came to this school not knowing anyone but I don't regret it. It has been challenging but I just have to set my mind to it and I know I will get everything done. I am also the first one from my family to attend college so everyone is really happy and proud of me so that is also something that will help me get everything done at TLU without having to leave my house and family.