Monday, January 21, 2008

Communicating and Immigrants

I have to say that I am getting quite annoyed with both of my posts. For one, God's Politics fails to update regularly, and when they do, they are often filled with information of little relevance. I am also annoyed because Scott Miller in The Conservative Post is extremely opinionated, to the point of ridiculousness. Whenever he writes, he does it in way and tone that is degrading to all other opinions and arguments. He stands firm on his opinions and becomes very upset when others disagree-such as liberals. I believe his arguments would be much more effective if he wrote in a more calm and informative way. Instead, he sounds crude and uneducated at times; for example he states: 

"Yet another preventable death. The blood of this agent is on the hands of all these politicians who have refused to secure our borders. The whole damn bunch of them should be brought up on negligent homicide charges in this case. Maybe then, just maybe, we might get thier attention."
 
Isn't this a little crude?? While I can see his argument, I think it could be stated a bit differently....but maybe that is just me!

Anyways, in this todays blog, Scott Miller focuses on our borders and illegal immigrants. He finds it very frustrating that considerable changes have not been made regarding our borders. People continue to get in and as a result, are harming Americans. Scott gave two examples of this: 

1. A 39 year old male who is an illegal immigrant was recently found. He had committed 25 crimes of kidnapping, sexual assault, and trespassing.

2. A Border Patrol Agent was recently killed while trying to stop an illegal immigrant from driving into the U.S.

I too agree that these crimes are horrible and need to be handled. It is sad to think that Americans are being harmed from people who are sneaking into our country. However, I do think Scott Miller does neglect the fact that all illegal immigrants are NOT awful people, many of which just want a better life!

2 comments:

Brother Benjamin said...

Partisanship is an unfortunate plague that is destroying the American political system, but at the same time a little bit of partisanship (though certainly not the level at which we are today) is a much better alternative to the monolithic systems dominated by only one official viewpoint with all others rejected.

Caitlin.mcgill said...

I agree Bethany. Miller two to cases and used them to generalize all immigrants. Many Americans commit disturbing crimes, yet we can't ban all Americans from the US. That just wouldn't make sense. There are many arguments against immigration and increasing border control, but the two he gave were not well supported and two specific.