The videos on thessocietys.org in my opinion are absolutely ridiculously written and employ only the negative views in immigration in the viewers minds. Gibbs writings bring up issues of remittance refugee placement and positive ideas on globalization as well as some of the negative ideas. videos like the one directly pointing out the bad apples of mexico immigrating to LA do not take in to account these ideas whatsoever. The fact that the us as a country is responsible for a huge portion of co2 emissions and therefore responsible for a large portion of global warming, makes the us responsible for housing and ultimately caring for the refugees of areas affected by rising water. gibbs states that if the water level were to rise only one meter, globally we would displace 10% of the population from their place of living. should we as the most financialy wealthy countries turn a cold shoulder to those people because a few of them haven't been checked by the law yet, even though we are partly responsible for unrooting them from their homes?gibbs would not say no to these ppl but argue that a way to care for them is needed and to accept them cautiously with the understanding that with out taking care of this in a wise manor we can our self's deplete or land from of our own resources.

The writing on the civil disobedience in arizona is very parrallel to what i see gibbs view point as. the fight for good immigration laws that is fair is essential to of global success. this quote says it best "These new environmentalists represent a new way of thinking. We’re connecting the dots: an ecosystem is your home. Economy is the management of your home. When you globalize your economy, you globalize your ecosystem. Here’s the frank outcome: the ecological systems that support life on our planet have been pushed to the brink by an economy that trashes natural resources and destroys relationships between peoples across the planet in the process. When you convert forests into paper, mountains into coal, and oceans into oil, you force people off their land and deprive those land-based peoples of the resources they depend on to survive. A key lesson from theEnvironmental Justice movement is that supporting those communities in protecting their land and their livelihoods is one of the most strategic ways to fight the drivers of climate change. The root cause of environmental degradation and climate change is the root cause of forced migration." .

To see the direct and indirect drivers you have to know what people as a whole are looking for in life, that means stepping back for us that live in a prominent first world country with all of our liberties and thinking about what we take for granted. living conditions like the bare essentials as water and food can not even be provided in some areas, all people want freedom to live a satisfactory life style deemed so by themselves, like have ing religious freedom and ability to school and ultimately not withstand cruel life. these are ll basic things that most americans would not know how to react if confronted with a situation that stripped them of these what we consider to be given ways of life. these all mentioned as well as the fiscal issue of the lack of revenue in these countries are all direct drivers. the indirect drivers are things that cause these things to happen like major corporation control and corrupt government as well as lack of natural resource in the area and insufficient schooling. As far as the resources go we as people should help implement laws that aid in the decline of global worming and resource degradation in order to help sustain people in their natural environment in order to slow the traffic of people in to foreign countries because that flow intern makes even more global issues and concern for those trying to survive in their home land.

susan gibbs is a smart person and the lesson to take from this is that immigration is not the main issue, the issue is that our conceded way of life is detrimental to the life's of others elsewhere. money comes and goes we should be willing to spend it in order to improve the life's of those around the world and not just further improve ours.