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A common misconception is that legalizing illegal immigrants would just result in “criminals” running around the streets causing disturbances. Who is ignored is the benefit of a very specific population of Americans, the sons and daughters of illegal immigrants. American children are harmed every time one or both of their parents is deported as a result of the lack of an immigration reform. In the article, “Children of Illegal Immigrants Struggle When Parents Are Deported” Valbrun states that “the government deported more than 46,000 parents of children with U.S. citizenship in the first half of 2011, according to the ARC report.” In these conditions, jailed parents cannot fight for their children’s custody and at times lose it to the government who then puts the children out for adoption or in foster care when they already have loving parents. Properly legalizing immigrants would improve the lives of many American children and improve the American social aspects with more

Studies show, within 3 months, 80,000 illegals were deported from just Texas and many more in five other states; 700,000 returned to Mexico voluntarily, 488,000 in two other states (Nagle). A child born in the country from foreign parents are citizens at birth and it should not be taken away from them. “Former representative Nathan Deal of Georgia had a better idea, and he introduced a bill proposing that being born in the U.S. only confers citizenship if one child’s parents is a U.S. citizen” (Nagle). When parents are deported their children don’t have a choice whether they go with their parent or stay, the government chooses it for them. Some parents don’t know they can request return upon deportation or their children could be replaced with their relatives or take them with them to their home (Valbrun). A mother sent a request to visit her child but got no response and her child was taken care by strangers and the mother did not accept this idea. Obama stated that they are focusing on deporting immigrants that have committed crimes. “It’s clearly un-American to take kids away from loving families” (Valbrun). Social workers say children are better off living with middle class Americans than their own “poor” parents who want to try to make a living in a new place. An immigrant parent’s worst fear is to be deported and abandon their child

Constitution. New federal laws have buckled down on immigration, however this does not affect sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities do not have to follow the exaggerated immigration laws, due to the tenth amendment. The tenth amendment separates federal and state powers, meaning that the states have jurisdiction in sanctuary cities. Referencing the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the Amendment prevents the “federal government from coercing state or local governments to use their resources to enforce a federal regulatory program …” Similarly to how the tenth amendment protects sanctuary cities from federal law, it also protects them from the federal government attempting to force sanctuary cities to provide information. For this reason, sanctuary cities keep a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. In addition to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, sanctuary cities are protected another way. The Immigrant Legal Resource Center assures that, “Congress cannot compel state or local governments to collect immigration status information in order to share it with the federal government.” The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy refers to the sanctuary cities version of not collecting data. Without collecting data, these cities are never in violation of federal law. There is very limited record keeping done in these cities, which works in tandem with the don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Therefore, the tenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects sanctuary cities from the federal government in enforcing federal law, forcing private information from the cities, and protecting the citizens of these cities with a “don’t ask, don’t tell”

He never said anything about the hard working families and parents that want their kids to have a great and successful future. And if cities don’t cooperate with the federal government then that could lead to a threat on the people. For example in his article Jan C. Ting addressed that, “Any prohibition against state and local officers sharing information and cooperating with federal immigration enforcement is a threat to public safety, and should not be supported by federal funding.” This demonstrates that the federal government will, no longer support those cities that defy the president-elects order, and they will be putting their residents in

In “Sanctuary city districts brace for executive order to withhold funds”... by Angela Pascopella, she writes on how Donald Trump is attempting to stop the funding of these sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities are places where Illegal immigrants, immigrants who entered the U. S. without the correct things to enter legally, are protected from the wrath of the government. The immigrants are protected by the county they are in, so that the federal government can’t take them away, because the county government has them under their control. For example, Los Angeles is a sanctuary city. Nearly 4 million of K12 students, or 7 percent of the U.S. come from undocumented families. Los Angeles and other cities like Chicago and New York try and protect

With important issues occurring every hour these days, more questions are being asked with them. One of those issues is Sanctuary Cities. A Sanctuary city is a city in which State and Local government do not follow immigration policy and do not actively seek and deport undocumented immigrants. Some could find that this Local policy hurts all Americans. Some could find this a moral obligation as a citizen of the United States. But by any means this topics has major implications to President Trumps policies and Federalism. And with these cities becoming more mainstream, question are becoming more relevant to other parts of government. There are direct effects on issues like cities health program, fight against opioids, and other local

An “Illegal Immigrant” is someone who avoids inspection and/or overstays the period of time given to them as a tourist, business person, or a visitor(Dictonary.com). Illegal Immigrants need Sanctuary cities and open borders, but in reality, Sanctuary cites do not need Illegal Immigrants, and open borders because they are very well populated. According to Daily Signal, a news organization for society, news editor Josh Siegel posted a chart of the top U.S cities with the highest illegal population. The current population census in the top four sanctuary cities that are listed below are: Los Angeles, 4,041,707 people(Grad), New York City 8,537,637 people(ny.gov), Chicago 2,720,546 people (United States Census Bureau), and lastly Seattle, 684,451(Schlosser). Los Angeles and New York City, both have the highest estimated illegal population, and population census. So, if they do not put some effort in by making immigrants follow the legal process to become a citizen in the United States, then ICE will come and start deporting illegals which could decline Los Angeles, and New York City’s population drastically. Well, actually most city administrators think it is politically correct to have Sanctuary cities regardless of the consequences are looming around because it is a political agenda that Democrats favor more than the Republicans. Illegal Immigration and the

Imagine one day that all of a sudden when you and your siblings arrive home from school, and your parents are nowhere to be found. Your neighbor informs you that ICE officials raided your house and deported your parents. According to CNN News, that’s exactly what happened to the Soza siblings, Ronaldo, 14 and Cesia, 17. They are a prime example of what the effects of deportation can have on children. According to an ACR report there is an estimated 5,100 children who are currently in the foster care system. The foster care system would put the child in danger of never seeing their parents again. According to ICE there is an average, 17 children who are placed in the foster care system, due to the detainment and deportation of their parents

The history of the “sanctuary city” designation is vague in its origin and definition, the word sanctuary meant something to those refugees, and to a lot of congregations all over the country who provided them with shelter. As for today, the term has become charged and in some ways toxic. With hundreds of cities considered sanctuary jurisdictions, five states and 644 counties have policies limiting local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal

He talks about how “Trumps executive order does far more than removing illegal immigrants with criminal records, it threatens to cut federal funding’s from nearly 300 Sanctuary Jurisdictions” he says that the sanctuary cities shouldn’t deny what he offers because they will lose millions of dollars from funding’s. “Trumps threats must be taken seriously” Austin says. I think that this is a good point but I disagree because, even though this may cause a great impact in these cities there are many cities that are receiving other help from other funds. Other places like Santa Fe as I talked earlier the mayor said that the funds are not a big portion of what they have. This means that they could just work with what they have left. There are also the tax payers. Many people think that immigrants don’t pay their taxes, but they do. This immigrant work all year and pay all of their taxes. Except they don’t get anything back because since they are undocumented they are not eligible to file for their taxes. This money stays with the government, and helps pay all of the expenses, like school, and police departments. I think that the Sanctuary cities will be fine without this

Over the last quarter of a decade, illegal immigration and enforcement have dominated mainstream policy making (Meisnner, Kerwin, Chishti & Bergeron, 2013). There has been a lot of public debate too, on whether or not the successive governments of the US have been able to effectively address illegal immigration and its enforcement thereof. However, as Meisnner et al. (2013) state, in the wake of the terror attacks of 2001, a paradigm shift appears to have been established, with the enforcement of illegal immigration taking a de facto stance. As such, as Dreby (2012) intimates, the number of immigrants who have been deported or removed from the US since 2001 has risen from 190, 000 to close to 400, 000. Considering the fact that there are more than 11 million illegal immigrants living in America, deportation on such a large scale without a doubt will result in a continuous chain reaction. One such consequence, as The New York University School of Law (2012) states, is that families are inherently broken apart by the removal of a family member. Additionally, there are other psychological and psychosocial impacts on families that are far-reaching. Because of these and many other compelling factors, this paper argues that the US should work to prevent deportations, rather than enforce them.

Sanctuary cities are communities that provide a safe haven for undocumented immigrants. These municipalities create local legislation that prohibits police officers from enforcing federal immigration laws and cooperating with federal immigration officials. (McFadyen, 2016). The term “sanctuary cities” is not an official, legal term but rather a colloquially coined term which has come to mean a city where immigrants, legal and illegal alike, are safe from unwanted and unwarranted harassment (Texas Tribune). While not a new concept in Texas, these cities have been receiving much more attention and are the topic of renewed conversation. All of this recent scrutiny has been due to Senate Bill 185, which was proposed by Senator Charles Perry in the 84th legislature. Senate Bill 185 was proposed to cut all state funding for governmental entities that hold policies which forbid peace officers from inquiring about the immigration status of a person that has been detained or arrested (Aguilar, 2015). Sanctuary cities are created by local jurisdiction typically at odds with the legislation of the country and these cities would also have been forced to comply with federal immigration law. To generalize, the intent of the bill is to ban “sanctuary city policies.”

President Obama’s government is the only one that has deported more than 2.5 million people back to their native country. Some of the immigrates who were detained for deportation appeared to be undocumented or apprehended through traffic violations, misdemeanor and felony cases and expired work visas. Without the policy being modified to reflect a change in the deportation laws, more undocumented immigrates who are parents of children that are America citizens would be separated from their children and families indefinitely.

Since American citizens constantly worry about their safety, they want to live in communities that are safe and have little to no crime going around. Meanwhile, as citizens believe that illegal immigrants cause crime in communities like rape and drugs; also immigrants have a fear that if they report a crime to the police, the police will then ask for their name and find out they’re illegal and will deport them. As the police track down on crimes that happen in communities, they need to communicate with the locals. They then do not report the illegal immigrants for deportation and they build a trust with the immigrants and help each other to keep the community safe. Without the existence of Sanctuary Cities, immigrants will constantly be fearful of reporting crime to the police and therefore, crime shall increase preventing a safe

The mold for an undocumented family typically consists of at least one if not both parents being undocumented and children who are natural born citizens. Families with mixed legal status have many hardships to face and overcome one of the most prominent and most fear inducing of all: deportation. The risk of one of their loved ones being deported and the chance of never seeing them again in the country is one that haunts millions of not only undocumented immigrants but their children as well. In a recent study conducted on multigenerational punishment Laura Enriquez stated the following, “In particular, scholars have shown how deportation policies impinge on the economic, social, and emotional well-being of family and community members in the United States and the country of origin” (Enriquez 941). Stating that immigration laws and illegal immigration status along with the risk of deportation tear families apart is an understatement; “…deportation threatens immigrant family stability. For fiscal years 2013 and 2014 (“ICE”) removed nearly 368,000 and 441,000 persons, respectively; making the total removed over the course of Obama’s presidency approximately two million” (Enriquez 940). A current web article by Derrick Rubenstein found most opponents argue that “…mass deportation would pay for itself in about four years. Plus, of course,