Military at Our Borders
...ital emergency room serves almost exclusively Hispanics. Among them are all sorts if patients with questionable legal status who turn up at the oddest hours to receive excellent medical care for everything from a twisted knee to leukemia” (67). In a speech by California Representative, Dana T. Rohrabacher he suggests that we implement a bill that will require hospitals to ask questions to the people that they think may be in our country illegally. However I do not agree with this bill I do feel that better militarizing our borders along Mexico will tremendously help our immigration issue. The second of the two solutions to this problem of immigration is that we need to institute an English as the only language in our schools. However I do not feel that this is necessary. I feel that if there are immigrates that are already here in the United States that we must allow them to, as Hansen states it, “live the American Dream”. What is the American Dream? Some say it has become more of a pursuit of material prosperity, people work more hours to get bigger cars and fancier homes, but it seems that they are spending less time with their families. I feel that the less time parents spend with there children, the more the children get into trouble. Hansen informs, “These roving criminals offer stark contrast to their hardworking mothers and fathers-and make us wonder what is wrong with Mexico or America, or both. How can some men and women who venture north with nothing and work twenty years to near decrepitude rear children who not only will not labor, but instead fight and maim” (69)? What Hansen is saying is that it is the second or third generation of Mexican immigrants that are causing problems in our society. I feel that the reason that this is happening is because of the fact that parents are spending additional time at work making extra money to have the fancier things than teaching their children to stay out of trouble. I strongly agree with Hansen when he states that we must better militarize our borders. However, I do not feel that it is necessary to implement English only in our public schools. When I say that better militerization of our borders I mean of our Mexican borders. The issue of illegal immigrants is mainly of Mexican decent, that is why this book is called Mexifornia. Everyday hundreds of immigrants are entering the United States Illegally. They come to our country for various reasons. Some come for healthcare and education and others come for freedom and to be treated for illnesses. In Mexifornia, Victor Hansen writes about how we need to do something about the massive explosion of illegal immigrants in our society. Hansen introduces two solutions to this problem. We either need to better militarize our borders or we need to institute an English as the only language in our schools. I strongly agree with Hansen when he says that our borders need to better militarized, in order to stop our state of California in become Mexifornia. In Mexifornia, Victor Hanson writes reflectively about growing up in the Central Valley when he was one of a handful of non-Hispanics in his elementary school and when his teachers saw it as their mission to give all students, Hispanic and "white" alike, a passport to the American Dream. He has employed immigrants, seen them flood his community during the last 30 years, and endured the crime associated with illegal immigrants. He follows the fortunes of Hispanic friends he has known all his life, how they have succeeded in America and how they view the immigration crisis. In Mexifornia, Victor Hansen expresses his feelings of the need to do something about the massive explosion of illegal immigrants in to our society. He introduces two ideas to solve this problem, one being that we must militarize our borders. Hansen writes, “The obvious explanation is the closeness of Mexico, only a short drive to the south rather that oceans away. You can leave Los Angeles and be across the border in about three hours” (21). I feel that in order to properly militarize our borders we must only worry about the Mexican border. Hansen notes, “Most earlier mass migration were also largely one or two time affairs-explosive eruptions rather than a steady flow. The Irish came mainly in the decades after the great mid-nineteenth century famines, but rarely arrive in any great numbers today” (22). Rarely there is any migration from across seas, and if there is it is done legally. Illegal immigrants come to our country for various reasons. Some come for healthcare and education and others come for freedom and to be treated for illnesses. Hansen notes, “Our local hosp...