11/28

Today we learned that there were some discrepancies in our book. One instance of this was that on our packet that was handed out to us in class read that only 3% of the worlds population are international immigrants, however on the power point it read that it was 9% of the population. We also had a debate about illegal immigrants and what society has labeled them as. I think that illegal immigrants is what we should call them, however I do not think it is right to call out random people on the streets and label them this just because they're Mexican or Hispanic. The reason that I do not like calling them undocumented immigrants is because it makes it seem that the crime they are committing is not as serious as it really is, to me it has the same affect as calling a drug dealer a substance seller. Some people feel bad for the legal immigrant that are being called illegals and I do to, but that does not mean we should hold the real violators of this law be treated the same respect.