In The New York Times article, “Deportation Nation,” writer Daniel Kanstroom reveals the unfair side to President Obama’s Dream Act. Most Americans find it humane to allow people who were brought to the U.S. as minors to obtain residency, but are unaware of the unethical deportation of those who have committed minor crimes. His purpose is to help readers become aware that thousands of people have unfairly been deported back to dangerous countries without hope of returning to the only place they know of as home. By establishing a credible character appeal and providing emotional artistic and inartistic data, Kanstroom succeeds at creating sympathy for the immigrants that are being expulsed for nonviolent crimes they committed in the past.…
Evelyn Glenn argues that race and gender shaped the development of both citizenship and labor in the United States. She explains that citizenship created boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in the sociopolitical order while labor privileged the economic order and determined which groups had access to autonomy, standards of living, and access to goods and services. White masculinity was the norm that maintained these spaces of exclusion and oppression. The shifting requirements of citizenship were influenced by the shifts in labor organization. Anglo men produced commodities outside of the home while women maintained social reproduction in the domestic sphere. As new class formations and conflicts emerged, the increase of a need for wage labor…
I took many steps to become a U.S citizen. First I took classes to learn the language itself, prior to the American history and government. As I took those classes and became comfortable I took the INS exam. During the exam I was asked questions about my background and many questions about U.S history and government. I answered all the questions correct and I passed. Then went on to another room and recited the Oath of Loyalty.…
The “Pillars of Citizenship” all work together in accomplishing the same goals and are based off the belief that all people in society must have a government created to protect their fundamental rights. These rights are considered as common law rights, or natural rights, which the Founders considered came from God. The three documents have apparent parallels, such as the preambles, but also in the messages that each document expresses. The men that drafted these documents also shared very similar backgrounds of education and owning their own properties. Congress drafted the Declaration and Constitution at a convention that met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia in 1776 and 1787.…
It is no secret that Illegal immigration has become a public policy issue in this country, considering a growing population and a threat to national security. But not all undocumented immigrants are the same and it isn’t fair to view them as the same- “UNDOCUMENTED”, making it okay to send them back where you think they belong. Yes, some are criminals, some do pose a risk to national security, but there are others that do the exact…
The two solutions to solve the immigration problem in the United States is earning citizenship and improving the border security. In the article, How to Fix Illegal Immigration? Earned Citizenship by D. Griswald, the author suggests that the first steps to solve the immigration problem in the United States “is to provide a pathway to citizenship” (Griswald 1) in order to solve the immigration problem we need to first address the issue that's in our borders before we can address the immigrants outside our borders, to solve the issue of the undocumented immigrants in our borders we can't just deport them all, because that would be cruel and nearly impossible, and the only solution we are left with is earned citizenship. The author says the United…
The sweat and revenue immigrants bring into America is fruitless when the Xenophobia mindset forbids Americans from moving forward and accepting fruitful foreigners. We saw this embedded in the minds of the locals and the police in John Steinbeck’s , The grapes of wrath and now in Donald Trump’s ‘Make America again’. This campaign includes plans like building a wall along the mexican-american border, extreme vetting, and closing the doors on all syrian refugees. This is a contemporary twist to how Trump supporters resembled the locals attitude toward the Oakies and the native Americans when they manipulated the justice system to discourage, maybe even block the migrants from coming into California. This view belittles America’s in born morals, This country was made and built by immigrants not only to pursue an improved tomorrow but escape persecution from what they called home. By taking the freedom aspect of this great country, We as Americans are sadly degrading not only ourselves as…
More than half of the immigrants that enter the United States are undocumented, and about 50% of immigrants receive legal status and eventually earn citizenship. It can take up to thirty years to receive citizenship in the United States, whether it is receiving a green card through marriage to a U.S citizen, DREAMers Green Card through employment, Asylum status or a U visa for Victims of Crime (“Paper Citizens:” 7). Almost all the illegal immigrants come to the united states mainly for one reason, to…
The key concepts of this paper are social, economic and political effects of illegal immigrants who are allowed to stay in the United States. Social effects of immigration arguably include the position of new immigrants such as Vietnamese, Russian, Israeli, Mexican, Columbian, Chinese, Korean and other types of immigrants as criminals (Duignan, 2003). This means that America’s society is effected by the amount of immigrants in its jails. This argues that more immigrants increase the number of criminal activity, making the country less safe. Economic effects argue, for example, that native people of a country do benefit from immigration, because of productive relationships between immigrant workers and other factors of production (Borjas, 1995).…
In this excerpt written by Bruce Ackerman, it is obvious he trying to persuade his readers to be engaged and active American citizens. His opinions and ideas illustrate his exhausted feelings towards the Supreme Court’s and conservatives interpretations of the Constitution. Ackerman’s goals are to prove to his readers that citizens need to play a greater role in American democracy through a set of institutions.…
America has always been a country of immigrants. Ever since the birth of this nation, waves of immigrants have come here in search of a happier life. America is known all over the world as a place where people can be free in so many different ways, a place where prosperity is possible for those who work hard and want a better life for their offspring. The dilemma is though, many of those pursuing the “American Dream” come here illegally, and thus breaking the laws of the very same country they want to live in, right from the beginning. This research exposes some facts about the so heated debate of illegal immigration in America.…
“Since 2009, more than 2.5 millions of illegal immigrants have been deported from the United States” (Tom Rigers). Before deporting them, have anyone thought about the fact that maybe some of this people actually pay taxes? According to recent studies, it was proven that undocumented immigrants paid more than eleven billions of dollars in taxes in 2013. Has anyone thought about the fact that the majority of this people go to college? They provide education for this nation and that is one of many essentials key to make America great again. The majority of these undocumented immigrants are as responsible as the American citizens are. Some people might say they should be deported because they have committed some kind of crime, but, are the whole 2.5 million criminals? Has every single undocumented immigrant committed a crime? They might be guilty of crossing the border, but they did it just for one reason. A better future. Wishing a better life is not crime, that is called the American Dream. So, why don’t undocumented immigrants get their criminal record checked before being deported? Many of those illegal immigrants are as responsible as the people that lives in this country legally. Even though they are not citizens, they take care of responsibilities as if they were. Undocumented immigrants should have the opportunity to a better…
Deportation is on the minds of millions of people in the city of Chicago, That is about 183,000 that live their lives day to day fearing that they will be caught by immigration services and sent back to mexico. But there is a hope for this people, it's called naturalization. Naturalization is the process which a foreign citizen can become a U.S. Citizen. The big problem that is affecting the Latino community is that the process of naturalization can take anywhere between one year to several years. Now this may not seem bad for others, but for many illegal immigrants, one year can be an eternity. There are many events that can happen in one year that can completely derail an immigrant's process to becoming a citizen, for example the recent raids…
Immigration has been an ongoing issue that has affected many people in the United States today, many immigrants have doubled since the 1960s because of the economic stability in their country. Even though immigration from Mexico has decreased over time there is still a majority of other immigrants in the U.S. The immigration system is broken and needs to be addressed and called for attention because they supercharge the economic benefits in America. An immigration reform that comprehensively addresses these problems like providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living and working in the U.S. A common-sense reform would restore faith and still bring hope to immigrants; this will change America…
There has been an issue for several years in the United States, and yet it hasn’t been resolved. While the government is looking for a solution, there have been so many families that are getting separated just because they are deporting too many people. Some states that have made their own laws which are laws that are absolutely unconstitutional, such as the one from Arizona the SB-1070, which that law allows the police within that state, to stop and interrogate any person who appears to be an immigrant. They can be identified by their skin color, and their way of talking. That law is unconstitutional because the police are judging because of their appearance. The government cares about getting the immigrants out of this country without considering that they are separating families and that without the immigrants, this country wouldn’t be as strong economically. In the Star Spangled Banner, there’s a part where it says “O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” what really captures my attention was where it said that this country is the home of the brave. Many immigrants cross the desert; they don’t ride in a car or anything like that. They run day and night, hot and cold, many people who come to this country are brave enough to cross the desert without stopping, knowing that hundreds of immigrants die trying to come to this country. All they have with them, throughout the trip, is a gallon of water. The desert reaches over 100 degrees during the day and during night the temperature drops under 80 degrees. For people who risk their lives just to get to this country, I consider them brave so by what the Star Spangled Banner says, this is their home too, because they are brave. That’s one of the reason why I’m against immigrants deportation.…