Enrique

Yesterday on Wednesday the man who started the human rights group "border angels." He came in and shared his views with us on the border issue and what he thought about it. His group started when he first discovered that illegals were living down in the Carlsbad and he decided to bring them food and water and wanted our government to do something about this. Then later he found out that after 1994 when the border fence was constructed, that illegals were dieing off out in the desert and he felt bad so he put out water and food stations all over the place in an effort to try and bring them safety.

Unfortunatly his arguements for his reasoning were bogus and were full of off the cuff comments that made him seem like "of course he was right" and that anyone who dissagreed was a racist or "mis-guided". I was dissapointed that he brought up such poor points that usually dissagreed with each other. Although I was highly dissapointed with his extremist viewpoints that he tried to persuade his argument with by throwing them in, I was more dissapointed that his other points that he brought up weren't ligit. Our interviewee was against the border as well but luckily she brought up points that were logical and made since.

Overall I think we could have had a better representative of the con side, one that wasn't so extremist. But at the same time it was good that he was able to fully show his opinions unlike the border patrol agent who said that his beliefs didn't matter.