When reading through my classmates blogs one blog stood out in particular. The blog called It's 2 PM, Do You Know Where Your President Is, written by Ellen was interesting. She brought up the immigration law in Arizona and what she thought of it. I need to preface this by saying that yes, I do agree with Ellen in the case that the law does create some discrimination, but in her blog she doesn’t give all of the facts. She leaves out a huge part of the reasoning behind enabling the law. One of the main reasons for the law being enacted was that the people of Arizona were not safe. With so many illegal immigrants in Arizona they brought drug cartels and violence with them when they decided to come to Arizona. People started showing up beheaded and some people did the opposite, they disappeared and were never to be seen again. So, with such a huge issue as this, Ellen never once brought that up.
Also, in terms of only appeals that she used, Ellen gave an example of one of her family members having problems finding a job because of the immigrants’ availability for cheap labor. Now, even though this story and theory could be true, she uses only one story and applies it to everyone. So basically she is generalizing one case as the basis of her whole opinion. To make the blog more credible, she should have found a few articles on where the same thing was going on so she could give more than one example.
Now, Ellen did at one point find an article to back an opinion of making all of the immigrants in Arizona citizens, she didn’t give valid reasons for why she should do that especially when there are so many negative outcomes from having a massive amount of illegal immigrants in Arizona. Again, her lack of factual representation about the reasons behind the law doesn’t go together with her opinion. She didn’t think about the repercussions of allowing citizenship to the illegal immigrants. With the major violence problems caused by the massive increase of drug cartels, it is not in the best interest of America to allow those people to become citizens. Even though some of the illegal immigrants are good people that don’t do any harm, there are too many causing problems to American citizens and we as Americans can’t allow that to be going on. So, Ellen really needed to research more before throwing out such a drastic suggestion of allowing all of the current illegal immigrants to become citizens of the United States.
Overall, Ellen honestly does bring up a few good points, but she lacked the factual backing in her opinions. With that said, she did successfully use the pathos appeal, but that doesn’t always make a blog sound. So, by knowing some more information about this controversy, it’s your choice to decide what side you are supporting when it comes to the Arizona Immigration Law.
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