Day Labor Illegal Immigration Summary

Juan cabrera
Day Labor, Illegal Immigration. If we consider the background history of the United States, it would be hard to distinguish one America from another since we all are one way a country made up of immigrants and those who are also citizens. Thanksgiving is as much a holiday for all people, but one especially for those first immigrants, the settlers. Then, the other settlers that came particularly, from Ireland, Italy, France and Germany. Afterwards they came from as far as Russia and even China. And still the immigrants continue to come to this nation, seeking if not political asylum or economic stability that is lacking from where they are from to realize here a lifestyle that is healthier then the poverty that was in their
government because of the perceived and actual impact it has had on the social and economic “well-being” of citizens of the nation. One of major concerns towards developing immigration reform as suggested in the reading of de la Garza is that what is central to resolving problems that exists stems from how the problem has been perceived as policy in different ways historically and applied in ways in actually as laws. For example, in the Yale Law Journal by Margot K. Mendelson “Constructing America: Mythmaking in U.S. Immigration Courts”, the author argues that our perceptions of allowing illegal immigrants to stay in this country stems from how the law has been interpreted by the courts who processed those illegal immigrants for deportation as far in the past as far as the first comprehensive act in 1917. And before that, much of it was a matter of “provisions intended to prohibit immigration and to authorize the deportation of convicts, lunatics, imbeciles, professional beggars, anarchists, polygamists…” and in “the 1880’s” there was the prohibition of immigration Chinese workers (Mendelson 1018- 19), all based on legislation that was not applied in practice appropriately. The restrictions that imposed were considered in other ways in “the first decade of the twentieth century.” Policymakers sought to consider the concerns of the time such as tension about racial mixing and negative feelings from the population towards other
If the quota system isn’t effective to the degree we would like, nor border enforcement restricted effectively those who enter illegally and we have yet to systematically answer in practical ways the existing 12 million that are claimed as undocumented, it would be reasonable to deal with the problem conservatively. Considering the data related by the reading, “Which American Dream Do You Mean?” by David Stoll, the author relates how “In 2007, 38 million or 12% of the U.S. population was foreign-born” and further adds that to project what this will lead to in more than a decade from now is that they will make up a majority greater than 50% of children of the country, as Stoll considers from the latest census (2009) (398). This figure alone is an issue to me and any other immigrant who came to this country illegally because our resources as a country are not infinite. Further related in article is how to answer the problem of issues relative immigration such employing immigrants versus citizens and immigrants not paying taxes are interpreted differently among party lines as writer establishes to the advantage of each side against each other (Stoll 399). If illegal immigration is an issue, it is my claim that the grounds of the present immigration process