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Immigration debate: Statistics can’t replace humanity
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Our missing history
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Michele Kay
Faculty Adviser
We must first recognize that immigrants
are not a separate form of humanity.
faced by
most
looters.
I’m sure I’m not alone when really well behaved. He won’t
I say that stepping in a pile bark or move, I promise!”
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Being able to select the whenever I wanted and buy a
painting you want to analyze beer around the corner.
the companionship of a pet
dog, but if the only way you
can control or care for your
dog is to bring it to school
with you, then maybe a more
low-maintenance pet would
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“Rex barks when I’m not
We should still
hurry.
They mostly
come at night.
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into dayrooms and campus dogs, but, quite frankly, my furniture when I’m not be a better idea. Sea monkeys,
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A dozen bills have been filed
in the Texas Legislature this
year dealing with illegal immi-
gration. .Rep. Leo Berman, R-
Tyler, for instance, wants to
challenge the idea of birthright
citizenship and deny social ser-
vices to children of illegal par-
ents.
According to the Houston
Chronicle, 70 percent of births
in Houston and Dallas pub-
fic hospitals in 2005 were to
undocumented immigrants.
One Dallas hospital lost $97
million in unreimbursed care.
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I have been in classes where pet policy is, the offending pet
professors had to stop class owners always have excuses
to deal with an unruly pet; I for why their situation is the
Spring has sprung, and
the warmer weather is sure
to bring unwanted seasonal
visitors to campus.
No, not mosquitoes or
allergies - these visitors come
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Basically, what this means , wandering around a campus for you to do, then maybe a
is that dogs aren’t allowed building with no owner to be dog isn’t the ideal pet.
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prosperity, but we can’t help
where we’re born—Boston or
Oaxaca. It makes no difference
to God, or fate or blind chance.
Some of us live in places that
enable us to live successful lives
on our own terms; some of us
don’t.
If the conditions of our fife
constrict us and our ability to
are seeing-eye dogs, cats
temporarily housed as a
the last thing I would want to Make the vet’s appointment
happen during my day. for a later time. Train your dog
Also, there is the chance to stay quiet when you’re not
that one of these dogs could around.
get away from its owner. Follow campus policy. If
In February, a dog was found these things are too difficult
to this policy of dog poop in a hallway is Put your dog in a kennel.
Texas, students may find people but four people lived in
many of the same types of each one.
activities and people of similar After settling in, we went out
interests. to eat, and walk the town. It
That’s true of most of the was immediately clear that the
universities in the Southern differences between Austin
United States, but on a recent and Washington were stark. At
trip to Washington, D.C., 1 9 p.m., we found little traffic
found that the differences because few people live in the
in college life on the East downtown area. Most of the
Coast, and specifically George stores close by 10 p.m.
Washington University, were There were no fast food
quite difficult for a Texas 24-hour joints for late night
native accustomed to college grubbing, and if you wanted a
and have access to say, a
Monet, is pretty special. It
beats finding a picture online.
provide for our families, then Mexico and California to help
we change them. For some of the influx of people from the
us, that means going to col- south find a better life?
lege to get a degree and a good The issue is much more com-
job. For others, maybe that plicated than that, but if we
means breaking a law to cross are going to find a worthwhile
a border. solution, we must first recog-
The problem is that the nize that immigrants are not
United States must pick up a separate form of humanity,
the bill. We can’t afford it. But Berman says the United States
then again, if billions of dol- has been invaded—and plenty
lars can be spent on a war, of Texans agree with him—but
presumably to raise the quality saying that implies that immi-
of life for the average Iraqi, grants are our enemy
why can’t a fraction of that be Aren’t they really just like us?
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The trip to our nation’s nearby Virginia or Maryland,
capital was to visit my sister The nightlife was nonexistent,
at George Washington. I was At night, Washington was a
greeted in Washington by ghost-city.
below freezing weather, and For someone used to the
my first steps were a cheap ease of Austin life, Washington
metro ride, and a long cold seemed complicated and a
walk to a dorm room. difficult city in which to live.
The dorm room was An economist who used the
congested with one bunk bed, traffic signs in Washington to
to campus are small breeds have had my lunch in Ragsdale exception to the rule.
of dogs such as Chihuahuas, interrupted by a large, barking “My dog can’t stay at
Students will bring these dogs canine. I have nothing against home because he tears up
These statistics show an obvi-
ous need for reform.
Statistics, however, can be
dangerous because they elimi-
nate a need to deal with issues
on a human level; people
make his point was right on Another one-of-a-kind
point. experience in Washington
He cited the number of “no is security. There are cops
right turn on a red light” signs everywhere - and it’s not just
that dot the city and suggested campus police.
that a more practical and MyperceptionofWashington
efficient town would have and life there changed after
simply banned right turns on visiting my sister.
red lights. Coming from Austin, which
Despite my discomfort, can be described as a college
students in Washington town that caters to student
have unique perks. All of the life, Washington made me, as
students I talked with were a student, feel insignificant. It
very up to date with current did not feel like a town that
affairs, and knowledgeable on caters to young people.
politics. Austin is full of stuff to do
Students are also able to take - from playing Frisbee golf
advantage of the city’s many to attending concerts and
attractions. My sister had a swimming in natural springs.
class that required her to go It was enlightening to see
pick a painting at the National our nation’s monuments and
Gallery of Art and interpret experience the culture, but
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buildings, sometimes sneaking having them disrupt my day is there.” anyone?
them into class in purses and annoying. “Fluffy has a veterinarian
backpacks, causing learning Not only is it irritating to appointment right after my
distractions and policy students and professors trying class and I wouldn’t have time
violations. to get through classes when to go home and get her.”
fur. I’m talking about dogs.
Every year is the same - as
soon as the weather is nice
enough for drum circles and
lawn Frisbee, students start
to bring their pet dogs to
school.
There are big dogs and
medium dogs, but most
commonly the pets brought
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dogs, cats, or other animals possibility that one of these complain.”
into, or keep such animals visitors might make a mess. “It’s okay because my dog is
become numbers that can be a better life. For 200 years,
easily subtracted. immigrants have been part
Though an influx of illegal of that equation. But what is
immigrants may strain social happening now—and maybe it
services, the fact that they are has always happened—is that
people worthy of a decent life someone’s illegal American
should not change. Dream is conflicting with the
The United States has always stability of the locals.
been a place where people of Certainly American citizens
all backgrounds can work for should benefit from American
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