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What Is Your Question?

Lots of social and environmental problems happen because the decisions that impact our society are made in far-away boardrooms or government offices by people who are not immediately affected by those decisions. In order to secure and affect social and environmental change through decision making, individual and local community should have a strong voice at the table to encourage change in our global society. We should ask questions, offer uncensored knowledge and inspire responsible action and amplify them to organizations, corporations and governments. Let’s begin the process by asking question. What’s Your Question?

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Illegal Aliens

The topic of illegal immigration is a big issue with lawmakers and people in Congress, especially now on election time. Generally speaking, illegal immigrants are primarily people from Mexico, Central and South America, who enter the United States illegally to make money and help support their families here and abroad. We live in a very difficult times and people from other countries are fleeing from poverty, oppression, stricken by pains and pressures caused by chronic unemployment, homelessness, poverty, hopelessness, lack of education, low-paying jobs, hunger and little or no opportunities in their homelands. Others in the pool of illegals are people who entered the country legally but became illegal or "out of status" by virtue of overstaying their visas. Current immigration laws stand between their desire to live in and the ability to work in the United States. In the meantime, people continue to be uncertain about the consequences of massive illegal settlements in the country. The massive flow of illegal immigrants has caused individual States to face tough issues. States are affected by financial burdens imposed on tax-based services. Do illegal immigrants cost more than they contribute? Should the illegal aliens be blamed and penalized by the courts of public opinion for trying to have a better life? What about legal immigrants and citizens who also face the same economic woes? Don't we have a moral obligation to take care of our own citizens and legal residents first? Every day, there are American citizens who have no place to call home and many are hungry and exposed to drugs and violence. Shouldn't these come first?

Border Crossing