The actions made in today’s societies across the country not only affect those situations immediately at hand, but also those for generations to come. This paper will be delving into immigration reform in Arizona, and more specifically the negative effects that the border surge has had on the socio-economic status of the Grand Canyon state. The motivation for choosing this topic comes from the time spent personally living in Arizona for 12 years and seeing it as one of the most dynamic states having to solve problems for a multitude of issues that arouse within it. The main drive for this paper is the question that asks, what are the socio-economic impacts of the Arizona immigration legislation? This question focusing more on supporting …show more content…
A lot was learned from Wilson’s article as it became clearer as to who was supporting the idea of the immigration reform having negative effects on Arizona socio-economic status. Also the article posed a lot of critical questions that were very helpful to the question this paper poses, but also challenged it with questions asking how much do undocumented immigrants put into Arizona’s economy? Will businesses begin to fail as they are forced to conform to the new government border surge and endure all the negative results that follow these big changes to Arizona’s cultural image? All very surprising as these were questions not yet introduced to this paper. Relating back to class, Wilson is able to bring up concepts that can be compared to lectures all the way back in week 2 talking about overpopulation and resource usage. Although this paper is not about overpopulation the great number of undocumented immigrants can pose a smaller scale problem in Arizona that could fall into this category, as more immigrate the resources Arizona has to offer may not be sufficient for the combined number of undocumented and documented citizens. Now touching base with other half, the social effects of the immigration law reform in Arizona now trickle down from the government and business troubles to the struggles of everyday life for residents. This article looks into what economies essentially thrive on in order
Back in 2007 there were several concerns over immigration as a whole and exploding proportions of illegal immigrants crossing the border in the Arizona area. Arizona attempted to resolve the influx of people across the border by imposing heavy fines on employers hiring illegal immigrants. At that time in Arizona there was a democratic governor Janet Napolitano that continually vetoed the Arizona’s legislature attempt to reduce illegal immigration. In 2009 the state replaced the Democratic governor with a Republican governor Jan Brewer who was supportive of reforms for immigration in Arizona. In 2010 the immigration problem was so sever that Arizona passed legislation allowing the state to enforce federal law for identification of legal immigration into the United States. This sparked a nation wide discussion on illegal immigration and immigration reform.
Illegal immigration is an unintend¬ed result of federal immigration restric¬tions from the shortage of green cards (permanent residence) and temporary work visas available for migrants (Nowrasteh 2). Currently, 73% of the 11.5 million illegal immigrants nationally are located in ten states, including Arizona (Nowrasteh 2). Between 2000 and 2008, Arizona experienced a large increase of illegal immigrants from 330,000 to 560,000 (Nowrasteh 2). The costs of the housing bust and the Great Recession
The passing of one of the United States’ most restrictive anti-immigration law’s in history was heavily disputed and extremely controversial nation-wide. The conversation surrounding current United States immigration regulations and issues that are aimed to be ‘addressed’ by Arizona’s infamous SB 1070 are currently at a standstill. By changing ways in which opposing parties view the ‘issues’ of illegal immigration in the United States and the effects caused by SB 1070, there is hope for the advancement of not only Arizona’s struggle with immigration, but an overall, positive nation-wide response towards all factors concerning current United States immigration.
Over the past years, our nation has been dealing with immigration issues. The issues have divided our nation and brought about disruption in the nations unity. The immigration topic which has been an issue for many years, was also a major topic in our 2016 presidential election. However not only that, the topic evokes questions about the outcome of our nation's economy, if all illegal immigrants were to be removed.
Our country was founded on immigration, but in recent decades the term ‘immigrant’ has been linked with turmoil. There has been great uncertainty within the American population of what to do about immigration reform, or if immigration is even a problem in our country. Arizona’s Scarred Generation by Fernanda Santos describes the chaotic changes taking place within most densely populated latin american states, mainly Arizona. Policies such as DACA have relieved some of this uncertainty within younger immigrant populations, especially latin americans growing up here who had no choice in being “undocumented” immigrants, but some laws such as SB 1070 ( a law allowing police to search latin american citizens based on their appearance), Proposition
The summer of 2010 was proven to be an especially historic one for immigration policy in the United States. In late spring 2010, Arizona passed Senate Bill 10701 —an extraordinary law that reflects and has provoked intense reactions by political leaders, commentators, and the public. The bill raises critical issues of race, security, sovereignty, civil rights, state power, and foreign relations. Such issues encompass larger debates about modern immigration law and policy, and are worthy of sustained public commentary and scholarly discourse. The impact of S.B. 1070 on the criminal justice system of Arizona—the duties and powers of Arizona law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities, and the relationship of the state legislation to federal
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.
This writer believes that introduction of the controversial S.B. 1070 was formulated over generations of hate that has been building up from the lack of the federal government to adequately regulate immigration on the southern border of the United States. When Arizona presented the controversial S.B. 1070, this caused many Hispanics across the state to feel “elements of racial profiling, causing fear, confusion, and race-based hostility toward them and their communities” (Campbell, 2011, p 19). However, what many Hispanics do not understand is that the Arizona has been, over time, attempting to pass and also implement other variations of anti-immigration laws, which many have begun to call “e state-sanctioned ethnic-cleansing
Immigration reform has long been a battle for the United States and its people. One side of the spectrum the American people say, bring more people in and the other side says, enough! Lock the borders! Send them home. So who is right? The complexity of the immigration issue is not easily answered morally, however studies show the economic impact is vastly different in the way we choose to handle this problem. This article explores several economic possibilities if another mass overhaul of immigration like the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, (IRCA) would legalize the thousands of illegal immigrants, by specifically focusing on the 83,000 unauthorized immigrants in Ohio, then looking broader at the United States entire immigrant population and the economic impact of three proposed ways of handling our immigration problem.
The purpose of this paper is to show that undocumented immigrant population has been decreasing in America. Immigration especially undocumented immigration has been a political issue over the years. The author Robert Warren, served as a demographer for thirty-four years with United States Bureau and former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). He has written and contributed to many other reports dealing with immigration and unauthorized immigration. In his paper he shows different graphs and charts to support statistics and facts. A major finding in Warren paper is that the undocumented population of the majority of US states declined after 2008; however, 11 states reached their maximum population in 2014, including Texas. Another major
The prospect of employment in the United States has always been somewhat of an economic magnet drawing people in with the hopes of financial stability. With the rail road, world war II and agricultural work force demands, immigrants saw opportunities for more money and a better way of life. These events in our history along with others, have caused an increase in undocumented immigrants. As the immigration population started to increase American Citizens began to worry about the impact this would have on the economy.
The reforming of America?s immigration policy is something that can no longer be avoided and must be dealt with as soon as possible. Years of neglect by governmental agencies and policies makers have now made this issue one of the biggest in American politics. First of it must be understood that immigration does no only effect curtain areas of the country and curtain aspect of public life but rather all of American life. Both legal and illegal immigration affect major issues such as jobs availability for all citizens, wages, education in public schools system and in general, health care issues, and the homeland security.
But Arizona was the state that made controversy with in almost all states and worried many immigrants and families who lived there for many years with the event of lawmakers passing a new legislation, which made undocumented people put a target on their back. The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act made a great event in history by Arizona, or in other words it made anyone who wore different clothes, didn’t have the same accent and skin color it could make a cop can pull over the person and ask for their status in the state and if they have any papers. With this act in place in created many riots and protest for the takedown of this act in many cities around the United States and people or “DREAMERS” that had the same passion for immigrants that were just looking for a better opportunity and even took it to the capital of Phoenix, Arizona, started yelling and protesting for the take down of the Safe Neighborhood Act , but it wasn’t just in Phoenix but also in California streets of Los Angeles were being flooded with fifty-thousand people protesting a law that wasn’t even in their state. Even in the state capital being Washington, Dreamers were blocking the sidewalk just outside the White House, but this wasn’t calm due to disobedience and the outcome was the police arrested twenty people even a U.S congress man. Arizona’s twenty-second Governor Jan Brewer endorsed the policy against immigrant and was also dissing the federal government which critique them on how it took them forever to enforce security in our border with Mexico and wanted to take action into her own
The most avidly debated effects of immigration involve the United States’ economy and labor force. It is estimated that there are 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States today, and their impact on the economy can be perceived as positive as well as negative. The overall effect is unclear, and this essay will present both sides of the debate.
Everyone look to their left; now look to your right. Chances are one of the students besides you is an immigrant to the