Blame it on Alabama

Karoli posts on her blog for Crooks and Liars an ethnically charged article called, In Alabama, It Goes Like This: No ID, No Water. This is about new immigration laws passed in Alabama and the water company’s interpretation of how they should be applied to the residents. It’s interesting to note that in her article, not only does she not name the company, but is very vague on all other details other than the state with which she is making a point about. Which leaves two conclusions, she doesn’t want backlash from the company, or she could be making it up to prove a larger point about immigration, and how we should treat others.   

The author is clearly targeting liberal humanitarians to enrage their moral concern about the new laws passed by the state of Alabama but her argument is vague, with biased interpretation of facts. She claims that denying water without a state issued ID card is breaking U.N. sanctions and hyperlinks to the Articles of the U.N., but nowhere in the articles does it state that because they are immigrants in this situation, that they are entitled to running water.

 Most countries that are still developing don’t have water inside their homes and Americans didn’t until the late 1800s. If you’re making money in a country illegally, then you’re not paying the proper taxes while residing in that community. So go ahead and buy the over priced gallon jugs of water at the local store to bathe and cook with and put some of that money back into the economy instead of sending it out of the country. Running water is a luxury and frankly if we had harder immigration laws this would not even be an argument to begin with because we still are not kicking the illegal immigrants out, but just taking an American citizen amenity away.