Immigrant Discrimination

The founding fathers of this nation envisioned a dream which granted life and liberty to all citizens with equality and without prejudice. The ideology of democracy is the reason America declared its independence from Spain. However, their vision of a free nation was in the interest of the white class citizens, with the desire of reaching their goal in becoming rich and prosperous farmers, doctors, and all the things people hoped to pursue in life. This is the American Dream people were looking for in the birth of a new nation; evidently, the freedom of being treated fairly and having the same rights would mean segregating the social classes and labeling citizens by color of nationality.

Does it matter what we are called: Latino or Hispanic? Does it change who we are as people? To an extent, most people do not know the difference between either. Typically, people group both terms as one singular item. However, Hispanic and Latino racial classifications are more than a broad category for people from Spanish-speaking countries. The words connote and represent a history of colonial terminology that based its success on the failures of innocent, historically peaceful, cultural groups. Hispanic and Latino terminology are political and economic in every sense. This paper will show that colonial leanings to control and govern people’s lives have yet to culminate, even though the era of imperialism ended a century ago. The United States, although far from its heyday as the singular house of power, still manages to achieve control and influence over the imperialized minds of groups of people, specifically Hispanics and Latinos.

Racial discrimination commonly refers to unfair or unequal behavior upon on individuals due to their race or ethnicity. Racism has been practiced for decades. Exerting superiority or supremacy over a race of individuals is the attempt of racial dominance. Despite the increasing population in the United States, Hispanic Americans find racial discrimination a reality in their lives. Migration rates have been on a dramatic climb over the past several decades resulting in a significant growth in diversity being experienced. The migration of the various cultural groups, including the Hispanic cultures,

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

According Almanza, a Latino man working in the helping profession chosen to be interviewed, believes that family and church are the two places that man Latinos turn to when seeking to find assistance or help that might be facing

Immigrant discrimination is simply put the discrimination by natives against immigrants from other countries. In this article I am also going to go into some depth on discrimination on transplants from other areas (people who have relocated to another area of the country.) Immigrant discrimination is a major issue in the United States. There is a reason the United States is considered the melting pot of the world. There are people from all walks of life in our country. There are approximately forty six million immigrants in the United States.

No child is born with values of being a racist or discriminating against another human being. As a child grows, he has two options: one, continue in societies footsteps or two be better than society. All humans develop morals as they mature, people are born with the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Nevertheless some humans still follow the crowd to blend in, and to not be different from the rest of the world. All through the world we are faced with situations that put our morals to the test. One of this morals, is the act of being racist or discriminating against another race. Immigrants are one of the many groups of people who have faced discrimination on this country for centuries. Especially hispanics/latinos

The global mobility of human resources between countries is a key driving force of the currently ongoing economic and regional development all over the world. It is indisputable that the immigration of international labour force would exert many positive and important impacts on the economic, cultural and social structure of both migrant-receiving and migrant-sending countries. Actually, the trend of temporary and permanent immigrants increasing in some western countries began to gain momentum in recent years. Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD 2004) reports indicated that there were more than 1 million new immigrants in the United States in 2001 and 2002, increased by 25% from 2000; in some European countries

Attention statement: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddles masses yearning to be free” these are the words that have greeted hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming to our country on the gates of Ellis Island.

Since the start of American history, immigrants came here and brought their traditions and cultures with them. The United States is a country of immigrants. It is a place where people from all over the world come to build a better life. Some immigrants bring their families. Others come alone with nothing but determination. Racial discrimination against minorities and immigrants is an underlying problem here in America today. Racism is seen in our daily lives when people are discriminated against because of their race and ethnicity. Racism attacks the right to a person’s well-being on the basis of something they have no control over. They cannot change nor should want to change who they are. Racial discrimination is not as bad as it was fifty years ago, but it still a problem here in our country today. Our country has advanced tremendously as far as modernization and technology, but has not improved on the way we treat minorities and immigrants. From African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Arabs there is a form of discrimination against these group of minorities.

countries’ and people have to deal with it until this day. The border has stop every person who’s coming from Mexico to the United States not giving them the right to come to their land that once was theirs. Americans not wanting nothing to do Mexicans immigrants. Especially the new president of The United Stated, Donald Trump. In November 2016 Donald Trump was elected as the president, in which he brought back so much conflict again with Mexico by promoting to build a wall to stop immigrants to move to the Unites States illegally. It is said that Trump won the election because of how he initiated his campaign essentially promoting racism against illegal immigrants in general, yet he only focused with those who are from Mexico. He wants to build a wall where he intends on making México pay for. The wall would be a 30-foot-high border which he plans on calling it a big beautiful wall. The wall would be hard to climb or cut through and make it a lot more

Watching the video of “Birth of a nation” by DW Griffith was makes me laughing how the black people ethically acting bad inside the parliament hall and I was surprising in the roit master hall the Negro party in control in states house representative, 101 black against 23 whites, in the session of 1871. The funny thing, as the speaker’s rules that all members must wear shoes, however, some member of parliaments are taking off their shoes in the hall according to the video show not only this some of them also they were drinking alcohol in the parliamentary hall. The good things that I watch from the video was the reconciliation of the white and black in marriage as well as respecting part of each other outside the parliament (Griffith).

Even now we see how frustration and aggression is taken out on minority group like our immigrants and undocumented immigrants. The frustration of limited jobs and people feeling like undocumented immigrants are coming here taking our jobs has caused wide spread prejudice among the different races against Mexicans in the latino community. The 1990 law on immigration allowed family to reunite with their immediate families allowed more people to come for employment options and it set a higher increase in overall admission (Greenward & Ziel, n.d.) However, the state we are in today will literally tear families apart. Just this week the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a series of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration

We are a country built by immigrants. The original settlers of this nation came from countries all across Europe, and America later became a beacon of hope for millions of immigrants throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. That being said, the discrimination against immigrants today might be could be seen as ironic because of how many immigrants were welcomed with open arms in the past. However, it has become clear recently that the discrimination is a little bit more complicated, as mainstream examples of prejudice all involve people of color, like Trump’s muslim ban for example. White immigrants from places in Europe as usually seen as exotic in a positive light, and their accented non-perfect english is endearing and even attractive to some. On the other hand,

Minority groups in society have faced prejudice and discrimination throughout history and they continue to face it today. Religion and government have immense power to dictate what is seen as “correct behavior” in society. Furthermore, it is when minority groups infringe on these beliefs, that they can face this extreme prejudice and discrimination. Minority groups who have faced these adversities include First Nations and LGBTQ+ groups. Two stories that show the adversities that these groups face are A Word From the Nearly Distant Past by David Levithan and Totem by Thomas King.