<p>Some of you don’t even realize how much you’re heading towards a bigoted, racist direction in this argument.</p>
<p>Some of you really need to go back and read the Constitution before you open your mouths again.</p>
<p>The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution provides that “[n]o State shall…deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”</p>
<p>As a population within the state’s jurisdiction, undocumented students were, therefore, entitled to equal treatment under the law. In the opinion of the Court, Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr., wrote, “To permit a state … to identify subclasses of persons whom it would define as beyond its jurisdiction, thereby
relieving itself of the obligation to assure that its laws are designed and applied equally to those persons, would undermine the principal purpose for which the Equal Protection Clause was incorporated in the Fourteenth Amendment.”</p>
<p>In other words, even undocumented students are protected by the law. Making them second class citizens and permanently restricting them from gaining citizenship and pushing them into a life of minimum wage labor is almost like re-enacting slavory again. Shame on you, all of you, who blame the children in this matter.</p>
<p>Their parents came here because they had no choice. I won’t go into this, but remember that the US has exploited Mexico and other nations in the past, so the US needs to at least help those countries economically, or else the flood will keep coming.
These undocumented children have done nothing wrong. Some came here when they were only a few months old. The USA is what they have learned to love and they count it as their home. Many of them are willing to die for it. Some are even more patriotic than children who are born in the USA to American parents. So then, why should these children suffer when they may offer more than some other AMERICAN children are willing to offer?
The law has already stipulated their protection, now the government has to stop being whimsical and follow through with the law.</p>
<p>Next point.
NEVER call an undocumented person ILLEGAL. They are not illegal.
According to the law, it is not illegal to be in the United States without papers. At best, under statutory law, it is a misdemeanor. AND because of practice, it has become a CIVIL VIOLATION OF THE LAW.</p>
<p>Then it comes to the matter of them actually being here. Undocumented immigrants come here and find a willing population that wants to hire them, exploit them, sell them goods, and do business with them. If Americans really didn’t like undocumented immigrants, then they’d have boycotted them a long time ago.
Never forget that if all of the undocumented workers from Texas were made to leave, the state would lose more than $40 billion in revenue.</p>
<p>And I really want to raise this issue.
Don’t even think of saying that these children are stealing your tax dollars. It has been found that the average undocumented worker pays more in taxes than they get in benefits (around $80,000 that they actually lose out on). And yes, according to a statistic, 85% of undocumented workers do pay their taxes, with an ITSN number. </p>
<p>And I’ll just end with this point for now.
Undocumented children deserve to go to college. Heck, even our nation beckons more people to go to college. For such a rich nation, only 13% of the nation actually holds anything higher than a bachelors degree. There is constantly a call for more students to go into engineering and into the scientific field. Why then do we not let these undocumented children be given a chance to go to college and enter into these fields? Instead of wasting Visas to import Chinese, Indian, European workers and their whole families over here to work for us; how about we give children who have been raised here the chance to get a decent education to benefit our nation? It’s as simple as that.</p>