The issue of immigration has always been a big challenge to the American government. Immigrants have been crossing over the border between Mexico and United states every day. There are many writers and experts have written on this issue for a long time. According to an article by David Hanson, affirmative action policy has its advantages and disadvantages to Americans. He notes that this policy allows illegal immigrants and the average Americans to be at one level.
However, this raises many questions most people. They wonder why it should be done this way. In this article by David, he asks whether this is done on the basis of legal philosophy or it is because of shared ethnic origins or it is because of the open border policy. For whatever reason affirmative action is done, it is not done in the right way. In fact, it seems like the affirmative action is done discriminatively. This is because illegal immigrants from Mexico have special favours in one way or another. They have come to a point where they are asking for things that were not imaginable for instance bilingualism and economic parity.
When they are asking for this, other immigrants have been left out. This is the reason why David Hanson wonders; does it mean that an illegal immigrant from Mexico qualifies for the affirmative action as soon as he crosses the border in to United States? According to the current status, David tends to think that is what it is. He blames this on the fact that the people who were yesterday’s illegal immigration liberals have turned out to be today’s illegal immigrant illiberal. With the current trend, something has to be done in relation to this problem.
Works cited
Victor, H. Mexican border: Double standards. 10 July 2011. Web. 10 October 2011.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mexican_border_double_standards_9UzCfRVav2z6JmF4r788bN
Adam, S. San Fran rolls out welcome mat to all illegal alien felons. 15 May 2011. Web.
10 October 2011. http://biggovernment.com/asparks/2011/05/15/san-fran-rolls-out-welcome-mat-to-all-illegal-alien-felons/
