The article Undocumented Women Forced To Give Birth While Shackled and In Police Custody was very disturbing and shocking to me. The fact that a woman who is in labor could be shackled to her hospital bed during this intense time is horrific. The question I raise with this is what do you do in this situation? What does the United Stats do as a whole when situations like these are brought to the table? The idea of an open-door policy would be one of the things I think that would be a solution. Letting people in without question seems like a solution, but there still has to be some form of organization at the border in order to keep the U.S. in line.
If you are presented with a situation like someone needing critical care and you do find out they are undocumented, what do you do? It is not a criminal offense to be undocumented in this country, yet women are getting shackled to hospital beds during labor like they are some type of animal. I have done research to view different standpoints on the immigration issue. The conservative way of looking at this would be to support legal immigration only and opposing amnesty for those who break the law by entering the U.S.. The liberal viewpoint is that people get amnesty once they step foot into the country. This immigration law we have provides people with working Visas for this country along with opportunities to get citizenship. The question is, if we are providing these types of service for migrants to this country why is there still a problem for the people to attain these types of services. The average wait time to become a U.S. citizen is currently five years. How easy are we making it for people to get citizenship is a question I raise. It is just interesting to me that we have all these types of ways to be in this country, yet there are still undocumented people and this is seen as a "problem" for some.
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