Josh+Kane


 * Josh Kane**


 * State:** New Mexico


 * State Capital:** Santa Fe


 * Political** **party:** Moderate

The congress person that i chose was Bob Price. The reason I chose him was because he agrees with the fact that illegal immigration most stop and that we most put up more defensive out posts and watch towers and have more men on duty to stop illegal immigration. He also wants to stop smuggling of drugs and weapons across the border.
 * Congress Person:**

The purpose of our bill is to stop the death penalty and to protect the rights of criminals. Our bill will help the criminals along with their families because, instead of just having a lethal injection, we think they should live their life to the fullest, even if it is spent the whole time in jail while doing community service. Death is a very severe and painful punishment. Also, the death penalty is the “easy way out.” Instead of your whole life in jail, you are killed in about a minute and 30 seconds. With a lifetime in jail, you would learn from your mistakes, to never do what you have done, even if you never get out. You would have to serve your life in jail and do community service than death, which would be more suffering than death. So, most importantly, our bill is to stop the death penalty and protect the rights of criminals. The reasons I think you should vote for this bill is because by killing the person who has committed the crime makes you no better than that guy, you become the murderer. It does not abide in the constitution of human rights. 2,390 people die per a year from the death penalty.
 * @HB59- No More Shots:**

Somethings that i read about and that i was tolded were that Shack was born and lived their his whole childhood until he went on to collage basketball. 47th state to join the United States January 6th, 1912 Mew Mexico were founded by Navajo and Apache Indian tribes. The state bird is a Road Runner State nickname- Land of Enchantment
 * Interesting facts:**

Would be to see the Puebla Festival Internacional Del Mole Pan- American Games In Guadalajara Casa De Los Munecos The Museum Of The Border Revolution
 * Reasons to Visit State:**

Many illegal guns are smuggled across the border to people that do not have gun licenses. There are loads of illegally immigration from Mexico to New Mexico. Many New Mexican civilians face poverty making it hard to afford an education for children. There is not enough money to afford school for most kid their.
 * Problems Of My state:**

The issues that need to be dealt with are **Education**, **Illegal guns**, and **Illegal immigration**. We can not run a good country if we have all these sorts of problems in it, and by writing this i hope that we can do something to change these things
 * Important Issues:**

The problem for most people they are not able to afford school and college. The cost keeps rising every year people have to deal with high school drop outs. The drop out rate has been going up every year. Us as a country will never be able to do things if we don't have the knowledge to do them, like increasing medical things, making computers and other things. You see more problems dealing with education in New Mexico then anywhere else in America. A majority of the New Mexico population lives under poverty, making it very difficult to afford an education for children and others who are seeking scholar ships or wanting to get into collage as well. An education is necessary in life to get anywhere and with out it you will not to be able to get a job, make money and not have a family. That is why we need to extend the school year and stop letting people be able to drop out of school. We also need to drop the cost for schools including collage so we can have more people attending.
 * Issue1 Education:**

The reason most illegal immigrants come to the United States is for a better life for both them and their family. Children often are home schooled because if they went to a public school they would most likely be caught and would be arrested. Over the past couple of years illegal immigration has gone up by 19% in just two years. That has become a big problem because there is more drug dealing and more illegal guns that are causing more criminal behavior. Illegal immigrants are also taking away american jobs. The reason for that is people that are farmers or shop owners how know they can pay them less so end the end they save money. I believe that america should start trying to stop illegal immigrants, but they should also start doing more to find them and the people that are highering them so that american's can start getting there jobs back.
 * Issue2 Illegal Immigrants:**

The Law for guns is you have to have a gun license to even own one and every year the number of unlicensed guns goes up. You see this happen a lot in New Mexico more than any other state. Often times illegally owned guns are smuggled across the border to people who do not have their gun license. These guns are used very often for illegal things, such as robbing stores or threatening the lives of people. This also is leading to more gang fights and territorial battles with the amount of weapons increasing. Without this law many illegal guns would be used to cause harm to innocent people. This law was made to protect people and to make it illegal to have a gun without a gun license. Without a gun license, people who own guns illegally can be arrested for both smuggling or using it illegally. Still the smuggling has gone up over the years, the government needs to do a better job at stopping gun shipments from crossing into America. I think that guns should be band and that only government positions should have them such as police, FBI, CIA and ext. that way people would not have to worry about being shot on the street it would also make it easer for the police to stop criminals robbing stores and doing other things.
 * Issue3 Illegal Guns: **

www.50states.com/ **facts **/ **new **mex.htm
 * Links: **

www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/ **newmexico **/

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