Its Spring Break, you go over to your grandmas house spend some time with family and you don’t have to worry about anything well being an immigrant the whole process changes.

Recently, the immigration policies have been debated over and over. People are making this more of a economic versus humanitarian conflict, but it should be a humanitarian versus humanitarian conflict. The argument that immigrants are taking “our” jobs is merely hypocritical. The argument that they are going to come and terrorize, is a cowardly idea that is not true. The ban restricted immigrants from seven dominantly Muslim countries, but these countries have not carried out any terrorist attacks on American soil since 9/11.  So you’re “protecting” yourself from the wrong countries. It’s inevitable to not include that President Donald Trump really drummed into his supporters’ heads very false accusations and stereotypes about Muslims and Mexicans based solely on fear. Fear of something that has happened a long time ago, the argument that opponents of Donald Trump’s views on immigrants have is that white Americans have done worse damage than Muslims since 9/11 quoting the Sandy Hook school shooting Columbine, the Florida Club massacre and the Ohio bombing. In their defense Trump supporters of his immigration policies say that those events happened a long time ago and that even though they are sad, we should leave them where they belong, in the past. This is the same thing they say when they argue affirmative action, saying slavery and segregation happened a long time ago and as a country we should move past it, but it happened and it evidently is still affecting a lot of Americans. They also defend the shooters in saying that they have mental illnesses and they need help, which they do, but we cannot deny the fact that what they are doing is inflicting terror on Americans. But oh no you can call a white American a terrorist because it’s name alone has built an image that people have put instead of actually using it as it is in the dictionary, not as another name for a Muslim man or woman.

The process that it takes to actually come to the United States is long, extensive and expensive. Claiming that they are coming here illegally is one thing and it’s true that some are here undocumented, but building a wall won’t do much considering that according to the Comparison of HOuse and Senate Border Bills, Approximately 30-40 percent of illegal people are people who entered the U.S. legally, but overstayed their visas. Usually that’s on a plane, thus the wall would not be doing its “job.” The process of even obtaining a visa to come to the US is hard. First you have to write a petition to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, then wait for it to get approved which can take from weeks to months. After approval the National Visa Center handles the processing, and sends it off to the U.S. Embassies and consulates. If approved you choose an Agent, pay the fees and submit a visa application form. Then you go for an Interview to determine your eligibility for your visa. At the end of your interview you are told then and there if you are approved or denied. You also have to go through vaccinations and you must plan your travel date according to the expiration date on your visa. Also you must go and return before your medical examination expires as well. While traveling your X-rays must be carried with you and not in your luggage for random security checks. The process of getting here is not as easy as supporters of the wall may think. It is a long time consuming process, to simply have your grandmother come for your graduation or meet your new baby sister or brother would take months to plan. As for the supporters of wall they can just book a plane ticket or drive a few miles and their loved ones are already there. People don’t go through this time consuming expensive process to come here casue trouble and just get sent back, people come here for opportunity, and to be with those who have come before them. No one has the right to put a ban on that, a ban on the American Dream.