Arizona’s New Illegal-Aliens Law
Friday, April 30th, 2010Ironically, I’m currently reading the book: The Grapes of Wrath that tells the story of displaced sharecroppers. Forced out of their farmlands in Okalahoma, they move west to California, and the reception they got may predict the sort of welcome that migrants might get in Arizona as a result of this new law. “We don’t want your kind here. We will detain you if we so desire, and you ain’t got nothin’ to say about it. So go back where you came from. Oakies!” As in the book, this 21st century law would seem to give the police too much leeway to willfully persecute innocent people, without much accountability. It’s a cheap way to solve a complicated problem of humanity; kind of like the death penalty. You know? I oppose it because it undermines the very liberties that America’s supposed to stand for; the very reason the Mexicans want to come here. Like the sojourners in The Grapes of Wrath, I wonder just how disappointed today’s migrants are when they get here and find out that America really is not so much “the land of the free” as the international propaganda led them to believe? I wonder.