Deaths By Illegal Immigrants

Outside the sirens are singing and someone’s parents are taken away from their family because they are not a citizen, they didn’t do anything wrong they just weren’t citizens in the country. Not every immigrant is the same, everyone is different and they all have different opinions. Immigrants are helping out their family like every other family would and they aren’t just the only people who do wrong choices so do others. Some American’s can’t accept them in their country and say immigrants are taking their jobs. Imagine having children born in the country with foreign parents and they have to be deported with their kids waiting to be adopted by “parents with better lives.” Immigrants are like everyone else, they risk themselves but they don’t

I want a better life, please don’t kill me, I want a better life, please don’t torture me, I want a better life, but I might have to starve to have one. Wanting a better life consist of being killed, tortured, and having to starve. Immigrants face these things when wanting a better life. Immigrants face many obstacles that they must overcome in order to better their lives.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, the U.S. immigration population is at 42.2 million, which is 13.3 percent of the total U.S. population. There are a variety of reasons immigrants come to the U.S. Many of them have been forced out of their homes and countries because of war, persecution, and poverty. They see the United States as the opportunity for employment, freedom, and overall, a better life for them and their families. However, sometimes in the United States they are treated just as bad, or even worse than they were in their home countries. They are met with violence, non acceptance, and ignorance. Although immigrants have gained many more rights than before, they are still falsely

The United States of America was a country founded by immigrants on the values of equality and freedom and the idea of a fresh start. Only American Indians are truly native to this country and the rest of us have some history of immigration in our ancestry. So what about today’s immigrants? Most people immigrate to the United States searching for simply searching for a better life. Immigration seems like it should be a simple and organized process, but many people who try to immigrate to the United States find that the process is not so simple. To better understand the immigration process, I have interviewed a friend who immigrated to the United States as a small child and now faces the

The book “Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal” by Aviva Chomsky describes what the process of immigration is actually like and how complicated and rough it truly is for an immigrant. Especially those who have crossed the border illegally and/or those who possess illegal documents. However this book questions what does it really mean to be illegal. As well as throughout the book it illustrates that immigrants are being treated rather closely to how slaves were treated. The work they do connects these ideas as well as other facts such as families being disconnected, immigrants being trapped in a certain part of the world, unable to travel far, and the tiny amount of rights they have compared to an average white american citizen.

In 1720’s immigrants came to the U.S. to work in farms and help the economy grow. Since then, countless have continue to come and have worked in different environments. Immigrants are looking for a better life, none of them want to leave their native country but they have to. Several of them have different reasons, some come to U.S. for a better pay rate, others come to run away from violence and some come to give their children a better life and a better education. Some parents even go to the extremes to just send their kids through the border alone, because they think that their kids will have a better life in the U.S. Undocumented Immigrants work in farms, fast food restaurants and others work in manufacturing companies. A lot of of them

People who are illegal immigrants, travel distances and cross borders to seek a better life while they are desperately looking for a better opportunities, they are also running away from famine, wars or violence from their homeland. For example, Mexico and most central and South America countries unfortunately have a poor economic, environmental and life is not easy to live there. These countries also still engaged in a war with various reasons. Especially; Mexican drug cartels which kills more than 80,000 people in every year. Therefore, United States being the main country that so many immigrants attract as they try to cross the border illegally. As they looking a place that provides freedom of speech and religion, steady jobs, a safe environment, and benefits for the poor and unemployed. It has become a home for many of them. “In 2012, the population of immigrants in the United States illegally is estimated to 11.43 million, rough 3.7% of the entire US population. 59% of the immigrants in the country illegally are from Mexico”. 25% of all the immigrants in the country are illegally reside in California State. As the crossing the border and the journey is hard, in 2008, 53% out of all the immigrants are males which are younger than 40 years old. Some people believes that this people deserve a chance because most of them come with a good intentions. Specifically, they just want jobs where they can get decently paid so they can support them self and their family back home.

They come to America in search of a better life and are not given the necessary tools to do so. For example, working in a family shelter many of my clients are immigrants. I have a particular family of seven who are all undocumented immigrants. They have done everything they needed to in order to try and get their residency. However, when they call their legal aid to follow up they are told the judge has not seen their application. The family feels hopeless they do not qualify for public assistance, they cannot get any assistance from the government and as their family worker there is nothing that I can do to alleviate the situation. Immigrants are marginalized and discriminated against. Often times I hear my colleagues saying that undocumented families want to come to the United States to have multiple children and leech off the system. Many fail to understand that families migrate to the United States to run away from issues of oppression and lack of resources in their own country and want to make a better life for themselves and their children. They are willing to take jobs that Americans would refuse to work and work hours that Americans would be opposed to working. The misconception that they are

The deaths in the border between Mexico and the United states have been increasing rapidly in the past decade. The fatalities have doubled since 1998 due to the increase of borders patrol and border militarization. The result is the redistribution of the migratory flow to more dangerous and remote areas such as southern Arizona. Even though the number of immigrants who try to cross the border has decreased, the number of fatalities continues to increase. Immigrants will not stop coming unless the situation in their countries changes and with a more protected border, they will look for more remote areas to try to cross. We are experiencing the largest numbers of fatalities in the border between Mexico and the United States. The increase

An immigrant is a person from a foreign country to live in the country they migrated in, usually permanently. Some Hispanics (other ethnicities/ races migrate as well) in places like Mexico or Cuba migrate to America to seek a better life. Not every reason for them coming to the U.S is to pursue the so-called "American Dream". Many are trying to escape poverty, political instability, and to find better jobs. Many people come by rafts from Cuba, or cross the border from Mexico. Being an undocumented immigrant in the United States can be very hard. It is hard to find jobs that pay enough to live off of. Families seeking to leave poverty end up in almost the same situation. Armando Ibanez crossed the border from Mexico about 16 years ago with his Mother and two siblings. Everyday he saw his mother struggle to provide food for them to eat each day. Immigrants live in fear every day of their life. Living in fear that they will be caught and forced to leave, living in fear that when they come home from school their family will not be there waiting for them. Another example of this type of hell is actually the process of crossing the border. Antonio Alarcon crossed the border with his parents at the age of 11, leaving his small brother and grandparents behind. They were each given a water bottle and small amounts of canned food. Crossing the border takes several days, which meant they ran out of their supplies quickly. Due to family deaths his parents returned to Mexico, leaving him behind to complete his

Illegal immigrants are a variety of people with a goal to accomplish higher quality living and expand their resources to better enable their lives. They face many struggles on trying to reach their goals while many accomplish it, there

In “Everyday Illegal” Cecilia Menjivar explains how illegal immigrants are affected every day because of their illegal status. The undocumented immigrants wake up every day before dawn, they go to the fields to collect all the vegetables and fruits you are able to eat. Then, they go home after dusk. They do it every day for less than a half of what a person is expected to be paid. They are being exploited physically and mentally and not just because of the work conditions but, as Menjivar states “the undocumented (as well as their family members) often withdraw from public life for fear of detention and deportation” (725).

Have you ever heard of Immigrants? Or what they have to go through in order to get to the United States? Well most people don’t know or pay attention to it because they don’t have any immigrants in their family or maybe because they ignore all the problems in their Society. However, it shouldn’t be like that. Anyways, immigrants go through a lot of things for example, some people go through the desert to get to the United States, while others cross the border illegally. Have you ever heard of what happens to the people that get caught crossing the border? Well, they get returned to where they are from and some people are very close to getting to the United States just when they get caught. But still some people try again and again until they

These undocumented immigrants came into this country in the hopes of a better life; however, they are not given any rights. The unfair treatment of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. provide a juxtaposition between the U.S. constitutional rights and the existing immigration laws that strip these immigrants of all their rights. How can one enjoy the life they lead if they live in constant fear even when they are innocent? From a personal experience, my grandfather was a U.S. veteran who served for the army in World War II and petitioned my family and I to be able to live in the U.S. for a better life. Due to harsh immigration laws, it took my family and I 19 years to get to the U.S., and my aunt, who came here years before us, have just recently become an American citizen on July 2015 after 22 years of being a legal immigrant in the U.S.. Documented and undocumented immigrants alike suffer from these governmental immigration policies. Undocumented immigrants are well on their way to becoming legal immigrants in the U.S.; however, they are not even given the chance to do so as they are criminalized. They are not given their freedom.

The first major problem is loss of jobs. According to cis.org the number of Americans working fell 1.3 million in 2013 . While the number of illegal immigrant workers increased by 5.3 million also in 2013. Illegal Immigration also causes stolen taxpayer resources. According to The Washington Times Americans for illegal immigration estimates illegal immigrants are stealing over $125 billion worth of taxpayer resources for americans each year. Also the last major problem illegal immigration has caused is increased numbers of crimes and domestic terrorism. According to cis.org 816,000 Immergrants were deported from the United States because of criminal activity or conviction. This study was from 1998 to 2007. Immigrants make up about one fifth of America's prison population.Think about this though. These illegal immigrants come from 3ed world countries where laws are not enforced like they are in the U.S. What the U.S should do is Strengthen Border Security. That's how the U.S could limit undocumented immigrants who want to enter the country. The new border security has to be intelligent. Finally what is the U.S going to do about the 11.5 million undocumented workers in this country? It's a really easy plan. The U.S has to improve the work visa program. The U.S needs to make sure that the visas are going to highly skilled foreign workers. According to a 2008 study by Harvard Business School, “The H-1B visa program for highly skilled foreign professionals has played an important role in U.S. innovation patterns” over the past 15 years. It is fact that the number of H-1B caps are higher due to “the direct contributions of immigrant inventors.” This means that the highly skilled immigrants have created inventions that have helped america. As everyone knows illegal immigration has its pros and cons. According to futureofworking.com illegal immergration helps boost the economy because the illegal