Show #8 - IMMIGRATION MONOLOGUE

Joey Sanders Show – 3PM PDT/6PM EDT – http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radiojs

 

This has been a very busy week for me. Our youngest daughter, Evangelia, Lia as she is known, celebrated her first communion at our church yesterday. It was a nice service and we had 32 kids in this year’s class. About 10 minutes into the mass, Gabe started acting up, so I had to take him out of the church. Our pastor expects us to lead by example since we are catechist, so since he specifically asked parents with disruptive children to go into the vestibule, I felt I needed to take Gabe outside. We walked around the outside of church until the end of the mass. He’s 2 years old, so sitting down and behaving during a church service, even if it is a celebration for his big sister just wasn’t going to happen. We all got to enjoy a small reception  in the church hall, and I got to see Lia receive her first communion thanks to Nell recording the moment on her cell phone.

 

Marayna has been working all week with either the performances of practices for her high school’s production of “South Pacific”. I haven’t been able to see the show yet, but hope to do so soon. She and the entire cast and crew have worked tirelessly to make this musical a great performance.

 

Logan and I had the opportunity to watch the first blockbuster movie of the summer season Friday Night, and Marayna got to watch it a little later in the evening with her friends after their performance. I enjoyed the movie, and the kids tell me they did too. Just a touch of blue humor, very fast pace movie for the most part, and what I expected for the caliber of talent involved with the acting, directing, and producing of this comic book brought to live action.

 

I talked a little earlier this week on the HBO Movie “You Don’t Know Jack” which started playing this week. It was a well done movie. I always like Al Pachino, even in this role. He does a good job of making Kevorkian someone you can root for. I know it’s based on true events, but again, no matter how much they show the suffering of others and make him out to be a sympathetic hero of the dying, it didn’t make me change my view on the “right to die” as they refer to it in the movie. You can read more on this on my blog from earlier this week on this topic.  

 

I guess I am a little weird when I watch a movie, because I leave reality at the door. A movie has never changed the way I think about life. It has never changed my political outlook. I don’t allow it to consume my life. I take it for what I would hope everyone does, a small, entertaining, momentary escape. Actors, directors, and producers may attempt to promote their agenda, or their political viewpoints on the screen, but I am unwilling to allow them the chance to change my thought process or the way I do things because they showed how rough life is on the big screen. Movies are meant to entertain, not enlighten. It doesn’t upset when this happens, and it does more than you would like to think, but instead it disappoints me that these people are so caught up in the fantasy that they start to believe their own hype.  If you want to be a politician, and change the world, take the pay cut and seek office like Gopher, The Terminator, and other actors that have paved the way for you to affect the real change you seek. Using your stardom to “speak on a topic” usually gets you in trouble, or laughed at by people that really know about the topics you claim to be passionate about.

 

After asking you what you wanted me to cover this week, the majority of you wanted me to cover the fallout from the Arizona Immigration Law that was recently passed.  I’ve got several different parts of this I will touch on tonight. First, we’ll talk about how the local basketball franchise in Phoenix decided to show they support people breaking the law during their playoff appearance this week. We’ll also talk about the protests that have popped up all over the country in the weeks since the law was passed. We’ll talk about the cinco de mayo incident in Texas. Finally, we will talk about the newest effort to get immigration reform passed through congress. If you don’t know, a revised proposal is being floated around the hallways in Washington, and thanks to some great work by ABC News, I have a copy of that proposal which we will review. You can look it over by clicking on the link to it on my facebook page. Of course, I want to hear from you. Did Arizona take things too far as the resident and others have repeatedly said? Is it wrong for Arizona voters to want the federal laws on the books to be enforced for once? Is the answer to make everyone that is currently in this country illegally citizens, or would that just open the floodgates and make the problem worse? Call me and tell me your thoughts tonight at six four six, five nine five, thirty-four, twenty-six. If you are listening on demand, drop me an e-mail at joey@thelwk.com anytime. I love to get your point of view.

 

I’ve talked about my feelings on immigration again, but let me go over this one more time for the cheap seats. I strongly believe any immigration reform that allows the people already here illegally to pay a fine, go through a process, or eventually become a legal citizen without some type of stiff penalty is a bad idea. I think it will set a precedent that will give other people wanting to immigrate to the USA motivation to get here however they can, because if we make this exception once, if they bring 3 or 4 times more people into the country illegally, we’ll have to do it again, right? It has always been my belief that if you want to immigrate to the USA you need to do it legally. Follow the process, wait your turn, and then you, like the rest of us become a law abiding citizen.

 

Another thing that has always gotten to me, you need to learn to speak, read, and write English if you are going to be a part of this republic. We waste millions of dollars a year having things not only in Spanish, but the 15 to 20 other languages they publish information in on the federal, state, and local level. Think of the money saved if instead of doubling up courses and events in multiple languages, if instead taught them to speak English, and then they became part of the larger group. I know this is not the politically correct thing to say, but in my mind, it is what should be said.

 

Being a Cajun, I know about wanting to protect and preserve your heritage and history. Back home, we all love our music, our food, and our Cajun culture. However, our grandparents had to learn English, since most of the only spoke Cajun French when they began school. They had to become part of the American society, and the people wanting to come here to live the American Dream need to become American, not just be here for work.

 

When we come back from the break we’ll start with the fallout nationally since Arizona passed this law a few weeks ago. Later this hour we’ll move to the Cinco de Mayo incident with the students in Texas, and finally we’ll review the new immigration reform proposal being floated through congress. Join in tonight, the number for you to call to be part of the show is six four six, five nine five, thirty-four twenty-six. The Joey Sanders Show continues on Blog Talk Radio.