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is unusual in the respect it doesn’t have an official language. English is taught in many countries, but the “convenience” of being able to converse with everyone in English is nonexistent. Think about the last time you were in another country—do all travelers speak a country’s official language the entire time or learn each country’s official language? Indiana’s SB 590 would essentially legalize confusion and miscommunication by disallowing people to use Spanish when needed. The main issue with both these senate bills is they legalize snap judgments, such as racial profiling. Both the Arizona immigration law and the Indiana SB 590 permit law officials to “verify the citizenship or immigration status of individuals in certain situations” (Indiana SB 590). If the individuals are incapable of proving their citizenship, they can be arrested and deported. In the Arizona law, a law enforcement officer can arrest an individual without a warrant, if the officer has probable cause to “believe the individual has committed any public offense that makes the person removable from the U.S.” By legalizing unfounded suspicion of individuals, law enforcement officers can legally get rid of anyone they don’t want in the U.S. Which brings us to GIITEM, or the Gang and Immigration Intelligence Team Enforcement Mission. GIITEM is a stipulation of the Arizona immigration law that sets aside money for gang and immigration enforcement, in addition to county jail reimbursement costs related to immigration. Jails across America are overpopulated and already impose an enormous burden to taxpayers. Through such programs as GIITEM, fiscals rewards are incentives to bring in more illegal immigrants and catch more gang members. But GIITEM is not the only manner in which money has factored into the legal treatment of illegal immigrants. Under SB 1070 and SB 590, employers face severe financial persecution for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. For instance, in Indiana’s SB 590, the Department of Workforce Development can obtain the reimbursements of amounts paid as “unemployment insurance benefits from employers that knowingly employed unauthorized aliens.” Unemployment benefits are keeping many families afloat in this recession economy. By intimidating employers to lose a substantial amount of money for “knowingly” hiring one illegal immigrant, an entire population can be deemed risky. Indiana’s SB 590 also includes legal ramifications for harboring illegal immigrants. Anyone found “ … transporting, concealing, harboring, or shielding from detection of an alien or aiding, abetting, or engaging in conspiracy to commit one of those acts knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law,” or “encouraging or inducing an alien to come to, enter into, or reside in the United States knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the alien coming to, entering into, or residing in the United States,” is in violation of Indiana state law. This legislation also requires law enforcement officers to “ … impound motor vehicles for violations of crimes related to transporting, concealing, harboring, or shielding from detection aliens.” With such a broad approach to the “harboring” of an illegal alien, simply driving a friend home could be reason for your car to be impounded and for you to be in violation of Indiana state law. As such states as Indiana and Arizona take a harder stance against illegal immigration, questions of class, culture and the value of human capital are raised. In deeming English a requirement in a nation that lacks an official language, we encourage people, illegal or not, to stop expressing themselves in Spanish. This exact mentality is the reason so many indigenous American languages have been lost. An estimate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lists 74 of 165 indigenous American languages as near extinct. In a nation where young indigenous Americans were punished—often physically—in schools for speaking their native tongue, it is sad that we would legalize a onelanguage mentality. As we continue to squash culture under the guise of “legality,” we do a disservice to our own nation and, indeed, the world. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer meeting with President Barack Obama in June 2010 in the wake of SB 1070, to discuss immigration and border security issues. Photo courtesy of the White House. 22 ElNogalar.indd 22 3/25/2011 4:05:39 PM
Paperless BY GISSELA GUALOTO Waited for the moment with so much anticipation— the moment to escape and run to the arms of my father. Escape from a world that I didn’t choose. The moment to run away from rotten bread crumbs and the hunger I’ve come to know so well. As if that had formed my daily routine. I wonder what Papi is doing. I bet Mami is yelling at my brother or sister, to eat the few miseries she was able to find yesterday. From my eyes, tears of anger are born ... No, I didn’t choose my race or my flag or that piece of muddy land we lived in. It was given to us by the choice of God, or fate or a sad, sad mistake. I’m afraid—very afraid. We are ALL afraid actually. But we deny to admit it. “That’s not how brave people feel,” Mami would say. In this land of the rich, seems like time is playing a trick with me. And the ticker of the clock failed to go on to the next number. I was no longer Ecuadorian. I was now “THE PAPERLESS.” My knees are scarred. The entire journey seems hopeless. But I must continue, For my Papi: Who keeps wearing out his calloused hands to keep me alive. For my Mami: Whose tears I’ve witnessed shed, as she knelt in front of Jesus Christ. For my sister: Whose bravery radiates through her light brown eyes. And for my brother: Whose unique personality can make a bloodless corpse shake with laughter. If I were to fail ... IF I WERE TO FAIL. I’d fail with certainty that I never gave up because He held my hand through it all ... Pray for me, because my freedom is also our future. I want to change the world, but THE PAPERLESS can only do so much. Gissela is a Chicago teen who shared her poetry with the Albany Park Theatre Project via their Facebook wall. What do you think of Gissela’s experience? Do you know other teens in Chicago who identify with the persona attached to being paperless? ABOVE: A small fence separates densely populated Tijuana, Mexico, right, from the United States in the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector. Construction is underway to extend a secondary fence over the top of this hill and eventually to the Pacific Ocean. Photo courtesy of Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde. 23 ElNogalar.indd 23 3/25/2011 4:05:39 PM
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