The real issue with immigration reform is votes. Politicians need votes to keep their jobs. Gaining the goodwill of millions, by giving them a free pass into our country, would go a long way toward securing their positions. The issue for me is not jobs or a dislike of any group, but the security of my country. The current legislation has a statute of limitations of ten years. If you have been in the country illegally for over ten years the government cannot prosecute you. So lets think about that, if you came in illegally there is not going to be much documentation that you came in. So if someone came in illegally today, tomorrow they could just claim to have been here for the last ten years. No prosecution, nothing. What if this person was a criminal? There would be nothing we could do. I find it realy frustrating that most politicians main motivation is reelection and not the dutiful completion of their sworn duties.

I know that the topic that I am about to discuss is not the hot topic for today, but if you want info on the hot topic just check any of the major news outlets. The issue that I want to address is that those major news outlets continually cover things that are less than news. Just because something happens to a celebrity does not mean that it is news worthy. The really sad part is that there are news outlets designed to cover such stories and when I tune into those channels or shows then that is what I expect to see and hear. The thing that really upsets me is that the news outlets that claim to be about real news would deal in celebrity reporting.

These outlets do a disservice to the communities that they serve, by not informing the everyday American about what is going on in their country. People are sucked in by the hype and no one pays attention to what those running our country are doing.

For example there is new legislation that states that if you are going to travel out of the country you will need a passport. Well that is not happening. People are not getting their passports in a timely manner. It can take up to 10 weeks for them to process the passport. Talk about a delay. 10 weeks and some families are worried that they will not get their passports and be out thousands of dollars.

Now the government cannot even process passports for a law that was just passed. How do they think they are going to enforce any kind of new immigration reform. I don't like where this country is headed, do you?