Analysis of American Opinion on the Current Immigrant Laws

After reading an AP article syndicated on Yahoo over a Harvard student being briefly detained in Texas on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant I scrolled down to read the opinion of the American people. What I found made me somewhat sick to my stomach, the apathy of an ignorant and cold American public, ungrateful for the struggle their ancestors placed to be able to give them the liberties they now hold like lint in their back pockets.

What would our great great grandparents have to say on this matter?

Please, before continuing, read the article and take a glance at some of the comments being left before continuing to read this.

First of all, this student was being paid to attend Harvard, a private institution, through a privately-funded scholarship program. Therefore, the general American public’s tax dollars are not paying for this intelligent young man to attend Harvard. Despite that fact, most of the comments I have read are complaints that their tax dollars are going to put this incredibly bright student through Harvard. Another complaint I have continually read is how come he gets to go to Harvard and not another U.S. citizen, as if he gained entrance through affirmative action or some other ridiculously false premise when in fact, he was the valedictorian of his High School. I could be wrong on this, but being that Harvard is a private institution, is it true that affirmative action has no place in the acceptance standards.

Mr. Balderas was “studying molecular and cellular biology at Harvard and hopes to become a cancer researcher”. It seems that none of the comments I’d read even mention how amazing a course this man has begun to pursuit.

Granted, it may seem the manner in which the article was written could be viewed as lacking important key facts as either irresponsible oversight, or to funnel the “quick-to-judge” demographic of Americans towards a certain emotion. With the AP and their ever-cheapened manner of journalism, one can never tell. However, one thing is certain, it seems Americans are in tough times, upset at an unemployment crisis the likes we have not seen in over half a century, an unpredictable economy, a congress that makes decisions based on the voting politicians best interest and not on the values and concerns of their constituents and an ever growing list of more problems. Please share your opinions, I would love to hear more thoughts on this.