Immigration reforms have recently been the victim of multiple debates regarding the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election. Many politicians have already shared their viewpoints and opinions with the public, however, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump remains as one of the most prominent figures discussing the issue. Multiple interviews and articles throughout the media have maintained the nation’s focus on Donald Trump’s ideas regarding immigration reforms, and each statement he makes stirs a large amount of controversy, along with resentment or approval. Regardless of the public’s outlook on Donald Trump, his plan for an immigration reform retains little sense and will destroy the economy.
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Trump constantly attempts to justify his reasoning by using a recent murder committed by an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco as proof that undocumented immigrants contribute to crime significantly greater than natural-born Americans. On the contrary, however, a very recent study conducted by the American Immigration Council states that undocumented immigrants have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans. Statistics also suggest that the last thirty years have seen a huge increase in immigration along with a substantial decrease in crime. For example, El Paso, which is a city located in Texas with a large amount of immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, holds one of the lowest crime rates among larger cities in America. Furthermore, Trump states that undocumented immigrants negatively affect employment among Americans, however, many studies have been unable to find disadvantages caused by undocumented immigrants. Instead, statistics suggest that undocumented immigrants greatly support job development and the growth of businesses in the U.S. due to the increase in workers, which leads to more business. Undocumented workers …show more content…
Not only will it be extremely hard to retain the 20 billion dollars worth of funding for the wall, but it will also be difficult to construct due to private property rights and uneasy terrain. Acquiring the rights to the private land would cost a fortune, and the wall would not be very effective due to the fact that it would only slow down the flow of undocumented immigrants, rather than stop it altogether. Trump also plans on arresting and deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, which will cost close to 200 billion dollars, and will lead to military-like operations being conducted throughout the country. In reality, Trump’s policy is deemed insufficient, ineffective, and
But, how? The wall is just blocking on part or our country and that country being blocked could come up with other methods to act and find way to bypass the wall. Trump is a person who has many goals, but doesn't think through them He doesn't see the full effect of his ideas and how others would be effected. The wall would be useless and just cause more and more chaos. According to David Martin, a professor at Grinnell College, he wrote a article and said “This strategy is politically appealing for its simplicity, but it misunderstands the problems of globalization and migration it aims to address. Building walls has rarely has achieved its intended effect, and may result in wasted resources and lost opportunities for the United States.” Many walls have Ben built throughout the world and many of the walls seem useless. The wall that would be built by trump is t necessary, it's just a waste of resources. He also wrote “In U.S. history, building paper and concrete walls resulted in episodes that today are widely viewed by historians as inconsistent with our better democratic angels.” The U.S. building a wall won't help our economy won't help our country. In our past, the U.S. and other nations have tries this and they failed, so I can we say we will succeed. Donald Trump doesn't think thoroughly he plans and only acts on based upon what he sees, which will eventually lead to a decrease in our U.S.
The topic of Mexican immigration recently made headlines again when republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a 3 page statement detailing his blunt beliefs on Mexican immigrants. Trump’s blunt statements against Mexican immigration have led many to join the discussion of Mexican immigration. The views on the issue vary, some believe that Mexicans are the route to all of America’s unemployment trouble while others believe Mexican’s simply take jobs American’s refuse to take. Either way, there are nearly twenty four million people of Mexican decent living in the United States that have started their own communities which contribute to American society. Many American’s however, refuse to accept this and are still prosecuting Mexican’s. This can be seen in the media, public schools, and in the work place.
Mexico was estimated up to 70% from those undocumented workers. (Reiff, 2013) In 2001, Bush and congress hoped to help Mexican immigration to U.S. by the legislation immigration reform but the reform had to hold on since the terrorist attacks in September 11, 2001. In 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives supported the Border Protection and the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act were passed by the Senates in 2006. However, both of these cannot be a law because their contents are a few differences and had conflicts with conference committee. (Nakamura, 2014) In 2009, Barack Obama restarted this comprehensive discussion of immigration reform. In the speech of November 20, 2014, U.S. president Obama stated the current immigration system is broken and summed up the necessary of the immigration reform such as new immigrant families were flout by others, business owners provided the less wages and benefits to undocumented immigrants and most of immigrants only wanted to earn the money, regardless of the responsibilities of living in the U.S., which caused them being apart from the others and society, staying in the dark shadows all the time. (Obama, November 2014) In case of the problem coming worses, President Obama began a series of executive actions to fix the system on immigration. This article introduces some key players in US politics and how their strategies to support
The United States Immigration Reform is specifically targeting the problem of 12 to 20 million undocumented workers in the United States. How would you trust and come out of the shadows if at any point the government changes their minds and deports you. As an immigrant there was times when I felt like I would be deported because of fear from how I got into this country. My dad would always blackmail me and my sisters to do what he wants or he would deport us and he did the same thing to my mother. Living in that ocnstent fear is painful and I don’t think that any immigrants would trust the presiden’t word about helping them and give them legal status.
Within the United States, there has not been a president to solve the issue of immigration reform. This has been a problem for conservatives and liberals in politics. Throughout the 2016 election, the question of immigration reform was posed from both the republican and democratic candidates running for president. The candidate that brought up this significant issue during their campaign was, Donald Trump. Now, a year after being president, the issue of immigration is more crucial than ever before. Since taking office, Trump has taken steps to crack down on undocumented immigrants by ending programs such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and giving more power to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. (Andrea Gonzalez-Ramirez).
One important reason that a border wall between the U.S and Mexico can’t protect American jobs and reduce crime is that the border wall is too expensive and impractical because according to UpFront Magazine, Patricia Smith, 4-3-17. “Congress will fund the project, which will cost more than 21 billion of dollars and it will take until the end of 2020 to complete.” It will take 4 years for the wall to be complete and by the end of 2020 President Trump may not be the president of
Since the beginning of diplomacy and government in the U.S immigration/immigration reform has been a highly debated topic. Immigration reform refers to changes to the country's current immigration policies. However, never has this topic ever been so controversial then now, with President Donald Trump’s and his proposed policies and ideas on how the country should go about securing our borders from immigrants he claims are may pose a threat to our nation. On reason this topic is so highly debated is it affects employment, crime, and many other large topics that touch everyone who lives in the country. Ever since Trump formally launched his campaign on June 16, 2015 one of his main topics to speak on are immigration and how he’s going to secure
“Finally, if we are serious about economic growth, it is time to heed the call of business leaders, labor leaders, faith leaders, and law enforcement – and fix our broken immigration system. Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have acted. I know that members of both parties in the House want to do the same. Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost
This year’s presidential election is is being referred to as one that will be historic. While the 2016 presidential campaign has in fact caused social and political disagreement, each candidate beginning and remaining candidate in the presidential race brought forth issues in our nation for table discussion. One of the most debated topics during the primary elections and caucus season was the issue of immigrants and illegal immigration. During this time, current Republican front runner Donald Trump declared accusations towards the Mexican and Hispanic community as being part of the American downfall. While making vulgar remarks earned the GOP candidate publicity and support from anti-immigration reform holders, Trump’s remarks also brought forth the argument into the light.
Donald Trump’s Immigration Reform plan claims to 'Make America Great Again’. Trump wants to revive the nation with three core principles: a nation without a border is not a nation, a nation without laws is not a nation, and a nation that serves its own citizens is not a nation. With goals to put a wall across the southern border, enforce government laws, and improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans, Donald Trump is rallying supporters. However, with statements from Trump those view as racist and childish, many have concerns with his execution. People can’t help but to wonder if his plans or more complicated than he leads on, ineffective, or harmful to the economy. Is Trump’s plan unrealistic or does it live up to it’s headline-grabbing
Today, tThe visible number of unauthorized immigrants today in the US points to the fact that US immigration laws are outdated and inadequate to meet the 21st century needs of the nation in the 21st century. In American politics, Iimmigration reform has largely remained as a “valence” issue in American politics. Often, Tthe issue of immigration reform has often been overshadowed by other events from foreign wars, and national security threats to and the Great Recession that trickled down the in the US economy. Moreover, the hostile environment of partisan politics further impeded impedes comprehensive reform in the “broken” US immigration system. In the primetime address, President Obama expressed the dire need of Comprehensive
In fact, Stew Magnuson an author and journalist explains the drastically long period of time that it will take for a hardship like this “The Trump Wall will never be completed as envisioned before the new president leaves office even if he were to win a second term. In fact, it’s a safe bet to say a nearly 2,000 mile-long wall on the U.S. border with Mexico is a pipe dream” as the workers to put on this wall to make it happen in less than 8 years it would cost even more to the budget of 1.2 billion dollars to buy materials for this enormous wall (Magnuson). As President Trump claims it will take at least a year to accomplish this wall, it is believed that it will take longer than possible a decade of work (Moller). With the preparation, the workers, and the funding to make this project set into play, will still take over a decades of work; in fact, it took the Chinese 2,000 years to build the great wall (Griffiths). Although, the executive order is signed for the building of the wall, still many disagree on its intentions to fix a not as important problem in society today. Many do not agree according to a poll by the Washington post that states “Washington Post-ABC News poll: Sixty percent of adults oppose building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, while 37 percent support it. Of these respondents, 47 percent are strongly against it. It is worth noting that 76 percent of Trump voters support it, while 91 percent of Hillary Clinton voters don't. But what the January poll also found is that even among those who supported neither of the candidates, the consensus (69 percent vs. 27 percent) is against building the wall” and even though the
Out of all the controversial topics facing our nation now, immigration reform remains one of the most controversial. Many sides argue that immigration helps boost a nation up, but others have argued that it doesn’t help our nation or its people out. Diversity was and always will be America's strong suit when compared to the rest of the world. One issue that has always been controversial however is immigration reform. Many countries have adopted different techniques to combat this issue, but many share the same concern: the cost and the risks of having illegal immigrants. Today we are here to state that illegal immigration doesn’t help us yet in many cases, it hinders natural-born citizens of this country by forcing them to pay for and defend
We would be spending hundreds of billions of dollars to learn that we might not even accomplish much. How do we know for sure that if we spend time on building this expensive wall, it will put a stop to illegal immigrants entering the United States? We cannot just assume that just because we build up this wall or fence, those who want to enter the U.S. illegally will shrug their shoulders and turn their backs against the wall. It will lead to other things, such as the expansion of the smuggling act by increasing their business. The cost of 670 miles wall can cost up to $2.4 billion alone. Not only does the wall need to be set up, but there are a few other things that need to be installed. For example, they would need to install cameras, vehicle barriers, lighting, and more in order to catch people that still try to pass. Also, they would have to include maintenance and upkeep. Donald Trump stated in his Presidential Announcement Speech, “..I’ll build them inexpensively.” Building a wall inexpensively is quite difficult to achieve. If achieved, it might not be as beneficial as some believe it . Our United States national debt has skyrocketed. Building this wall will just make it go above and beyond its limits. In the end of 2015, the national debt was estimated to be $21.7 trillion, including federal $18.2 trillion, state $1.15 trillion, and local $1.9 trillion. Although some argue that the money will be put to good use and help the
WASHINGTON — During his triumphant presidential campaign, Donald Trump renounced Republican orthodoxy on Social Security reform.