Illegal Immigrants
Illegal Immigrants
With the rise of illegal immigrants, the United States has had difficulties solving the issue for a long time. Hence, there’re many factors for the causes and solutions from different branches and the government. “Amnesty?” and “Why blame Mexico?” are two articles that discuss the reasons for millions of Mexicans risking their lives to come illegally to the U.S. and indeed illustrate the writer’s perspectives and ideas for those people.
In “Amnesty?”, John F. Kavanaugh, a Jesuit professor of philosophy, presents the illegal immigrants problem based upon the morality of a Judeo-Christian country. The writer begins by a sensational example of an illegal Mexican named María. She is a productive woman, a mother of three children, and a long-term illegal immigrant in the U.S. However, she has been separated from her family, deported to a dangerous place, and threatened with felony charges of years in prison if she ever tries to come back illegally. This example, according to Kavanaugh, is a persuasive evidence proving that America illegal immigrants treatment system is very cruel even to the priority social groups such as women and children. Additionally, Kavanaugh mentions the protestation fights against deportations by the U.S. bishops, in which they call for “a more compassionate, fair, and realistic reform of our immigration system” (38). Nonetheless, there’re anti-immigration groups, households on the border, businesspersons, and several popular books or radio talk show hosts who have resisted the bishops’ proposals and assumed all illegal immigration are criminals. These examples have contributed to the problem of our current treatment of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Moreover, Kavanaugh agrees that the North American Free Trade Agreement heavily affects the recent increases in immigration. This open trade has benefited the powerful and technologically advanced producers in the U.S. and Canada but caused poverty among poor
With the rise of illegal immigrants, the United States has had difficulties solving the issue for a long time. Hence, there’re many factors for the causes and solutions from different branches and the government. “Amnesty?” and “Why blame Mexico?” are two articles that discuss the reasons for millions of Mexicans risking their lives to come illegally to the U.S. and indeed illustrate the writer’s perspectives and ideas for those people.
In “Amnesty?”, John F. Kavanaugh, a Jesuit professor of philosophy, presents the illegal immigrants problem based upon the morality of a Judeo-Christian country. The writer begins by a sensational example of an illegal Mexican named María. She is a productive woman, a mother of three children, and a long-term illegal immigrant in the U.S. However, she has been separated from her family, deported to a dangerous place, and threatened with felony charges of years in prison if she ever tries to come back illegally. This example, according to Kavanaugh, is a persuasive evidence proving that America illegal immigrants treatment system is very cruel even to the priority social groups such as women and children. Additionally, Kavanaugh mentions the protestation fights against deportations by the U.S. bishops, in which they call for “a more compassionate, fair, and realistic reform of our immigration system” (38). Nonetheless, there’re anti-immigration groups, households on the border, businesspersons, and several popular books or radio talk show hosts who have resisted the bishops’ proposals and assumed all illegal immigration are criminals. These examples have contributed to the problem of our current treatment of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Moreover, Kavanaugh agrees that the North American Free Trade Agreement heavily affects the recent increases in immigration. This open trade has benefited the powerful and technologically advanced producers in the U.S. and Canada but caused poverty among poor