Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Citizenship Should be For All

I posted a comment at the bottom of a Deseret News story, which is about the deportation of Debora Zalazar and Claudio Correa. I wrote:

Ideal . . . citizens, then? To me, yes, they were. No crime in 10 years, yet hauled off in handcuffs, the "crime" being a desire to be an American? Seeking to be an American should not be a crime. Coming to America in the pursuit of happiness should not be a crime. If they committed no other crime other than not having paperwork, they should not be branded as "illegals." Crimes should be illegal, not people. They were considered "illegal" just for being here, just for existing, just for passing their time on earth on American soil. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Do we say that does not apply to them? Or that they can have it, it's just that they need to seek it elsewhere? If the freedoms that make America great, make it what it is, do not apply to everyone, then we are not as great as we should be. We post a sign at our border welcoming them, saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free" then we say, "Whoops, our mistake."
-- John Jackson, candidate for Utah House District 41 (stretching from Herriman to Sandy)

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