I need to work on making creative titles

As I said in class I already have a pretty strong opinion when it comes to immigration and native language issues, so these articles really caught my attention. As far as the way they presented themselves, the two Hazleton articles seemed to be mostly unbiased because they presented facts supporting both sides. This is good because it helped demonstrate why it's such a big controversy. The Lingo Jingo essay was obviously biased but it was very persuasive and used facts to get its points across. As far as language and writing style I enjoyed all three articles although I thought the Lingo Jingo one was somewhat repetive and could have easily been a lot shorter and still have had the same if not more of an effect.
Now for the good stuff, the issue itself: what really angers me about many of the anti-illegal immigrant laws is that it discourages legal immigration. Now not all laws but many. The fact is people want to come to the United States for many reasons, we should be proud of that fact that people in other countries are somewhat envious and want what America has and stands for. But we'd rather shut people out. I agree if someone comes to this country they should speak English since it is our tradition. Our tradition is immigrants come over,work hard and eventually combine their old heritages to the new ones to make our American culture. By not allowing legal documents to be translated or not allowing driving tests to be taken in other languages is crazy. How can people move up socially and become assimilated if they can't read our laws or can't drive to work? I think that the laws in Hazleton will cause racist sentiment although I do think that it is unintentional. By forcing store owners to card people buying harmless products such as gum is ludicrous because it is a fact that only Hispanic people will be carded even legal ones. If people could just find ways to help facilitate change rather than fight it, things would work so much better.

The main point that I saw come up in all articles was that these laws are not made of hatred but rather fear. People see their own civil liberties are being hurt by illegal immigrants which is understandable. The people of Hazleton aren't racist against Hispanics they just don't want crime in their community and want the people to live their to share responsibilities i.e. pay taxes, etc. However this fear especially in combination with an election is overblown and people go overboard forgetting the original issues.
This has horrible grammar, and no formal conclusion but keep in mind that its 2 in the morning and when I'm passionate about an issue I could care less about where to put a period. Hope everyone had a good beginning week, it's half way over!

Edit: I realized that I didn't say to much about the language of the essays although that's what we were supposed to do so here goes. One thing that really stood out is that it seems that in all articles there was a "us versus them" attitude. People who were for their side and people against it. The mayor of the town refers to the illegal immigrants as them and says "they must leave."