Entry 5: Tenth Amendment

The Progressive Mindset on Illegal Immigration

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/04/29/the-progressive-mindset-on-illegal-immigration/

Constitutional Connection:

X Amendment, Bill of Rights, United States Constitution

" The powers not delegated to the United States by Constitution...are reserved to the states respectively..."

In these last few years one issue that has never left the mind of the government has been illegal immigration. Most of the topics on national news in this past decade has been related some way or another to immigration. Now of course there are various opinions on this issue and most of the opinions are from the view point of the true American people. In most cases Americans feel as though these illegal immigrants are endangering there way of life by filling in job positions and working for a lower pay. While on the other hand there are those people who feel this is a free nation and we should welcome all those who feel it necessary to live here, as well as those who's family members are those "illegal aliens".

In this article there is a controversy between the right for Arizona to pass laws against illegal immigration. One of these laws is to allow police officials in assisting the national authorities in charge of determining illegal immigrants by also helping determining those immigrants "status" (Klein paragraph 4). Now the tenth amendment allows the states to have the power to initial laws that are set under the national government, so this article clearly demonstrates Arizona ability whether they do or they don't have it.

I think that as a state that is bordering Mexico Arizona should have the right to make and pass laws that deal with illegal immigration and all the major details. As a whole the United States should allow Arizona to make its own resolutions to all of their immigration problems, as long as those solutions are constitutional. Since illegal immigration is now becoming a large factor and our population has risen over the past years, i think its only righteous that Arizona have the ability to fix illegal immigration. And by police officers assisting in finding illegal immigrants then I think that the rate of immigration will in time decrease.