Katie101's Blog

The Alabama primaries are on February 5th, and I haven't a clue who to vote for. None of the candidates spark my interest and all of them have skirted around an issue that I have a lot of interest in- IMMIGRATION.

The few souls that I have talked to all say the same thing- "They don't want to touch it because it is controversial. They don't want to lose votes..." My questions is, lose votes from whom? When did illegal immigrants gain the right to vote? And for those immigrants who have become citizens, how many of them actually exercise their right to vote? I don't get it.

Congress is on the trail of steriod users......while there is a war going on.....while the country is spiraling into a recession.....while education is becoming a futile effort.....and while our boarders are becoming a proverbial wide-open gate.....

I teach some of these students (remember, schools cannot question the legal status of these children, and neither do they have to be immunized), and everything that they write and turn in to me is based on immigration (essays, speeches, etc.). Don't get me wrong- I love my students- ALL of them, but it just goes to show you that the mentality that they have is that they are right and WE are wrong. They don't think they should have social security numbers and such. One child said in his persuasive speech, "Keep building your walls, Mr. President, and we'll keep building our tunnels."  There are no absolutes for them and everything should be handed to them. This is the way that they think, and the presidential candidates have not tackled the issue (for real) at all. I'm a little baffled. And a lot upset.

This is the first time in the 10 years that I have been able to vote that I feel none of the candidates give a rip about me. Such a dreadful feeling......