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> This was written by a
Mexican who is now a naturalized US Citizen, and I think it's a great
explanation of the illegal immigration issue.
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Here is the quote:
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> "If you had tickets to a sports
event, concert, Disneyland, or for an airline flight, and when you got to your
assigned seat you found someone else was in that seat, what would you do? You
would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your
seat removed. You would properly be asked to show your ticket, and you would
gladly and proudly do so, for you have bought and paid for that seat. The person
in your seat would also be asked for a ticket, which they would not be able to
produce. They would be called "gate crashers" and they would properly be
removed.
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> Now in this huge stadium called the USA we
have had millions of gate crashers. We have been asking security to check for
tickets and remove the gate crashers. We have been asking security to have
better controls in checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back
doors. Security has failed us. They are still looking the other way. They are
afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say there is unlimited seating,
and whether there is or not, no one should be allowed in for free while the rest
of us pay full price!
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> In "section AZ", of "Stadium
USA", we have had enough of the failures of Security. We have decided to do our
own ticket checking, and properly remove those who do not have tickets. Now it
seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 "sections", and
even many in our own "section" do not want tickets checked, or even to be asked
to show their ticket! Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not
doing his own job which he has sworn to do.
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> My own
ticket has been bought and paid for, so I am proudly going to show it when asked
to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers to be asked to
show their tickets too. The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to
being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing, and all
of the illegal activities that go with it, such as drug smuggling, gang wars,
murder, human smuggling for profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that
we are trying to prevent with our new legislation. Is that what I am hearing
from all of the protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Gordon, US Rep. Grijalva, even
President Obama? If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of
citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I
would do proudly, then you must be condoning those illegal activities."
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> Written by a US Citizen, Globe,
Arizona.
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> This makes perfect sense to me. What do you
think?

Yes, because anyone who's an advocate for their right to privacy and to not be pulled over and harassed for having not committed a crime is in favor of illegal activities rolleyes As I stated previously, it's a violation of the 4th and 5th Amendments.

There are other ways to deal with the problem. To compare it to "gate crashing" is over simplifying. Even in the scenario given in which you find someone else in your seat at a stadium, it was stated that you went to security. A more accurate comparison is that security would come to you, pull you out of your seat, escort you to a private room in which they proceed to ask you several questions regarding your business in the stadium, ask to see your ticket, take your ticket for some amount of time while they try to verify if it is legit, and then eventually let you go back to your seat. By this time, you have missed half an hour or more of the show but will receive no compensation for the time lost.