Hmm illegal immigrants and their way out of criminals.. can you say YIKES? mm hmm!

Being an immigrant from other country and other state, I found Erin's post very interesting and something that we all should consider regarding immigrants who committed crimes.

So, for me, getting my citizenship on the day of President Obama's inauguration day made one of big marks in my life. I finally became an American! woo! But that's not the point. There are so many illegal immigrants everywhere in United States and especially in Texas, I found it more problematic than any other states, due to the close borderline with Mexico.

It is already big problematic with this kind of immigrants with their "short stay" in Texas but Erin's blog points out that not only we have problem with illegally staying immigrants but with illegal immigrants who committed pretty violent criminals. I definitely agree with crumbling system of our judicial system and how problematic it is for our government.

If we are giving illegal immigrants with criminal loopholes to get away with it and deport them, and allow "bail bondsmen who help these immigrant's receive their reimbursement," I wonder, it would be possible that major gangs would just hire those immigrants, make them commit in crime and all we have to do is deport them? I know it's such a dramatic statement, but you know, it is just ridiculous to let those criminals go and how we actually MADE this loophole FOR them.

But as jen commented above, I think the problem is we, Texans, would have to spend more money to solve this problematic issue. But what needs to happen is that even after being deported, they need to be punished in their own countries at the same level as we punish our criminals.

Overall, Erin's post made me think that this whole issue with "illegal immigrants" is bigger than what it seems to be. Much much bigger. Sometime soon, President Obama would come up with plan, after solving health care issue.. eeeek? :p

Marriage right is illegal, but divorce is legal?

As always, my friends who are gay talked to me about many things, such as his relationship with his boyfriend and such..you know..very girly stuff.. But today for some reason, we talked about "marriage." He was mentioning when he finds his perfect match he wants to get married and have family and such. But at the same time, I asked him, "say you got married, but just like normal couple, what if you don't love anymore or he cheats on you? What would you do?" My friend's answer was clear: Divorce.

So I wondered, if he wants to get divorced, can he actually even "divorce?"

In 2005, I remember that Governor Perry clearly said same-sex marriage is illegal in Texas and that the definition of marriage is between one man and one woman. So, my dear gay friend cannot even get married in Texas as of now. But funny thing is that Texas is first state to rule that "two men married in another state can divorce here..."

This throws me off little bit, though. I don't agree but I recognize the fact that Texas bans the same-sex marriage and that I can't do anything about it (other than writing bunch of petition letters or something). But now, the judge is saying that it's alright for married gay couple to get divorced in Texas? Talking about irony. sheesh....

I do think that this might be the "floodgate" for Texas to actually recognize the same-sex marriage. As Appleton mentioned in his article, Indiana and Rhode Island denied this kind of case, because they do not recognize the same-sex marriage therefore they denied the divorce of that marriage. So, why Texas? If we want to make same-sex marriage illegal, why are we ruling the same-sex marriage divorce? It doesn't make logical sense for me. Don't you think?