by Matthew Zipple

Created on: May 26, 2010   Last Updated: May 27, 2010

Open borders. It's as simple as it sounds. Allow in every immigrant that wishes to come to our great nation, and meet them not with hate, judgement, and racist unconstitutional legislation, but rather with open arms and open hearts, and with aid for those who need it.

What makes the rich white men superior to the poor Hispanics who need our help? We all must live and die. We must share this world that has been given to us. We all love and hate. We all have the same human emotions. To judge others by the pigment of their skin is flat out, plain and simple anti-American.

Currently, one's fate in this world can be determined by a distance of one mile. If you're born half of a mile away from the border on the American side, you're a citizen.

You get free education, workplace and consumer protection, and financial aid if you need it. If you're born half of a mile away from the border on the Mexican side, you are nothing in the eyes of the American government. You're little more than dirt.

While you might get lucky, and be born into a wealthy family, your chances aren't good. Odds are you'll live a life of poverty, hunger, and fear. Then, in an act of desperation, you attempt to cross the border and have a better life.

It's very difficult to cross the boarder alone, so you'll need to find a guide, or a coyote. Coyote's charge large sums of money for their services, and you'll have to save for years just to pay him.

The journey is long and arduous, and you don't know where you're going  or if you can trust your guide. Then your coyote might pull a gun on you, demand your money, and abandon you in the desert to die.

If your coyote is trustworthy, and is successful in getting you across the border, that's as far as he goes. It's up to you to avoid border patrol and ICE from here on. If you beat the odds, find a job, avoid immigration officers, and settle down things are looking pretty good.

You might find a spouse, and have a child, who is a citizen. Then, the unimaginable happens. Immigration finally hunts you down and deports you, leaving your child parentless.

Even if immigration never does find you, you don't have the luxuries that legal citizens have. You don't benefit from welfare. You have to pay social security, but will never receive the benefits from it.

You have to work for less than minimal wage, and can't complain, because you don't have papers. And you live in constant fear of being caught and deported. It is truly a sub-par lifestyle.

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