Jose Carlos
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USGOV
8/10/13
California
Governor Jerry Brown vetoes immigrant jurors.
These new
talk about the rejecting of non-citizens immigrants to serve on juries in the
state of California.
According
to the new, yesterday Jerry Brown (California Governor) called jury duty
“quintessentially a prerogative and responsibility of citizenship”.
Also his
fellow Democrats, who passed the bill in the state legislature, argued it would
expand the jury pool and provide a jury of peers for non-citizens on trial.
On the
other hand, recently, California has expanded privileges to the states
immigrants, for example the state has signed a law allowing immigrants living
illegally to apply for driving licences.
The result
of these veto, was that some people like Democratic Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski
argued that this veto is disappointing, because such immigrants were “part of
the fabric of the US communities”.
On the
other hand lawmakers in the Republican minority had argued any juror shortage was
due to lack of funding for the system, not a dearth of people available to
serve on panels.
The new
also seed that an estimated 10 million Californians are summoned for jury duty
each year and about four million are eligible and available to serve, according
to the states Judicial Council.
I’m totally
disagree with this law, because first of all California is one of the states of
the US with more immigrants, this immigrants are allow, according to
Wieckowski, to serve in courts, schools, police departments and armed forces.
I don’t see
anything wrong those immigrants that almost all of them have been living in the
US since they were children to be part of the juries; they are all ready part
of the system. Also, some immigrants are well prepared and positioned to apply
on this job.
I agree
that most of the immigrants and black people are the ones that are more
problematic in the sense on robberies, drogdealers, gangs and trafficking
weapons, but I also believe that a people that represents the law and take
important decisions like a the juries cant be judge for they’re origins, they
should be judge by they’re preparation and acknowledge.
Jerry Brown
should remember what Kennedy said “ask not what your country can do for you,
ask what you can do for your country” people that came to the US when they were
children most of them are immigrants the problem is that they don’t have other
country, I don’t see what’s the problem if they are well prepared and what to
serve in the juries.
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