First order of business: To see new pictures see my Spring Photo's of 2006.


Secondly: since immigration is such a huge debate right now, I wanted to get a few things off my chest. If you choose to become an American citizen, you must do it legally. Just because you jumped a fence doesn't make you a legal citizen. You don't have the right to vote, a fair trial, or any of the freedoms we enjoy and that is not fair to us or them.

I remember when the illegal immigrants were demonstrating, I couldn't stop laughing. Here they are demonstrating, in America, but they can't vote. So if your a politician, you get to do whatever you want with these people since they essencially don't matter. People claim that we can not survive without illegal immigrants. This is a bold and wrong statement.

Illegal immigrants provide cheap labor for employers. This is true. But so does outsourcing our accounting, digital work and 1-800 help hotlines to India. However, the difference is that illegal immigrants are a drain on our economy. They don't pay taxes, they send their children to our public schools which make us, the American taxpayer, pick up the slack. It is not worth it to leave the system the way it is.

Don't get me wrong. I understand they are looking for a better life and are trying to provide for their family. However if they were such upstanding citizens, they would have applied for citizenship legally, as my grandparents and great-grandparents did.

I am not a republican, far from it. However this is one of the only things I have completely agreed with President Bush on. The fact of the matter is that we should have been securing and protecting our borders the day after September 11, 2001. The new way to fight wars is not in tanks or airplanes. It's suicide bombing, chemical warfare, and infiltrating our country and destroying it from the inside. We can't afford to let terrorists cross the desert, and we can't afford to let people live here that shouldn't be here in the first place.