President Obama urging Congress to grant
voting representation to residents of Washington, D.C. AP Photo
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Justino
Mora, 22, an undocumented computer science
student at UCLA in Los Angeles was recently interviewed on KNBC channel 4
news. Justino was brought to the US as a
child illegally by his parents, and he has lived with the worry of a very
possible threat of deportation most of his lifetime, his worry is for his
family as well as himself. You see, the
USA is the only country he has remembers as he was very young when he was taken
from Mexico and brought to the US. Here
he has spent his entire childhood, speaks fluent English and hasn’t any real
memory of Mexico.
For all
intents and purposes, Justino Mora is an American.
And the
recent decision made by President Obama to loosen the immigration policy, it has
now given promise of legal immigration for Justino Mora and all young Mexican
American children who have grown up in this country. These children are caught in the middle of a
political debate, in a country where many have never committed a single
crime. Their only crime is that which
they were brought to this country illegally, and by no choice of their own. Many of these children have now grown to be
fine young men and women, in many cases working hard to achieve a greater
education than that which their parents have had. An education to better prepare them as they
continue to plan and hope to someday give back to the only country of that which
they know as a legitimate US Citizen.
Although
much good will surely come from this decision to accept, legalize and validate
these young men and women who have been already within the United States of
America for most of their lives.
Many are
opposed to this US President’s recent decision for various reasons, some
obvious and some are not so obvious. Many
Americans are up in arms and feel that a single US President has appointed
himself with the power to essentially make a decision to change a policy that
will potentially affect all US Citizens in one way or another, by waiving their
voting rights.
The voting
process was instilled by the forefathers of the United States of America and
their predecessors. This process has
been upheld with the notion that “every vote counts” and has been utilized for
centuries as a sacred right of all Americans and their ancestors.
Therefore
for a single man or US President, to assume the power to make such a
decision alone, and essentially speak for all citizens of the United States of America,
men and women alike, without consulting any single one of them first, is as if
he has taken it upon himself to waive their right to vote for or against such a
policy, and such an action by President Obama is therefore, ultimately
infringing upon the Citizens of the United States constitutional rights. Therefore, many feel as if they have no voice.
