Immigration Through Crime : Governing Immigration Through Crime

Still, the party´s statements are accusing millions of people of having committed the most serious, inhumane crimes, when in reality, the one crime they have committed, and the one they are really blaming them for, is being immigrants, which is not a crime. The Republican Party has taken away from itself the chance to see beyond its own prejudices and to look at the bigger picture. It fails to understand that what drives Mexicans and Latinos to migrate to the United Stated is not their thirst for crime and their desire to ruin the country´s economy, but the enormous whish they have of being able to grow and to fulfil their life dreams.. “Although there are exceptions, it is widely recognized that most immigrants, Mexicans in particular, selectively migrate to the United States based on characteristics that predispose them to low crime, such as motivation to work and ambition.” (Sampson). Sampson points out a logical argument. Immigration requires effort. Immigrants arrive to America with a clear purpose in

The author focuses on Hispanic/Latino immigrants and the views on immigrants who commit crime. In this study, the author’s findings come from the public perceptions. The perceptions of the public in local communities, towns, and cities, discriminate due to the increase in Hispanic/Latino immigration. The public’s view in the study were discriminative against Hispanics/Latinos who migrated to the United States. Sohoni found that societies perceptions in surveys propose a great quantity of Americans that consider immigration will indicate abnormal criminality. On the contrary, the author found that immigrant Hispanic/Latino youths were less likely than Hispanic U.S. Americans to participate in crime.

ICE stands for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they deal with matters concerning border control, customs, trade and immigration to insure public safety and homeland security. Their priorities focus on preventing terrorism and the illegal movement of items, as well as people. Within ICE, there are three subgroups that fall into specialized tasks for the agency, such as Homeland security investigations (HSI) and the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Although being a fairly new agency there has been more than a few controversies on how ICE handles the illegal immigrants, however, since 9/11 the U.S has been trying to find the most effective ways to stop terrorism. So, that also means that not everyone would agree with the tactics that ICE used to solve the problem for those specific cases.

The hardened border paradox is the process of the US making it tougher for criminals to smuggle drugs, weapons and people into the country along with difficult procedures to get into the country legally. The result is violence among and along the border for and by immigrants and border patrol officers. Criminals are also using extreme measures to be successful, they are not far from using pay-offs, verbal and physical threats, torture and murder to remove obstacles that may hinder their illegal activity. As the laws tighten on preventing illegal entry more ways are being thought of to get contraband through. Bean quoted Stephen Flynn author of America the Vulnerable as writing “stepped-up enforcement along the Mexican border suggests that

“Somewhere in this world there are parents lying awake at night afraid of a knock on the door that could tear their families apart, people who love this country, work hard, and want nothing more than a chance to contribute to the community and build better lives for themselves and their children.” (Clinton). The first deportation law in the United States was the Alien Act of Illegal immigration has long been a problem in the United States, especially since the latter half of the twentieth century. In recent discussions immigration has been the subject of heated congressional debates. Deportation along with the subject of immigration, has recently become an immense issue in the United States. On one of the hand, some argue that millions of undocumented immigrants should not be allowed to live in the United States, and should most likely exemplify fear of getting deported. From this perspective, it is said that if they are undocumented, then these immigrants have broken the law and therefore have a criminal record (Sandy). On the other hand, others argue that millions of undocumented immigrants should be allowed to live in the U.S. without any fear of getting deported. My own view is that, and I specifically state, that millions of undocumented immigrants should be allowed to live in the U.S. without any fear of getting deported.

Today, this concept of the deviant immigrant continues to exist but has changed to a new target, Hispanic individuals. Although other groups have been perceived as being the other, Hispanic immigrants have become the new group that is believed to be the one committing the majority of crimes within the United States. Nonetheless, our society does take into consideration immigrants as a whole and also has created this other ‘us’ versus ‘them’ concept, where it is American born citizens versus those who immigrate here. According to Levine, Hill, and Warren (1985), during the period of 1900 to 1914, nearly 13 million individuals were living in the United States, and this resulted in xenophobia flourishing throughout the entire society. People wanted to limit the number of immigrants that came into the country because they wanted to be the only ones being involved in this society. Levine, Hill and Warren (1985) also note

Texas has been an immigrant destination since its founding, but as the rate of Illegal immigration increased. The policy from the federal government has been shifted from openness to increase enforcement to patrol the border and pass more and more laws restricting legal migration in to the country. Since Texas has the longest border with Mexico, enforcing the rules has been tough. In response to the enforcement gap the state has plug the enforcement gap by using local and state enforcement agency to assist the federal government, while at the same time treating the illegal immigrant already in the state with some leniency.

According to the article it’s around 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. It notes that not every illegal immigrant is a bad person; however, 11 million people is a wide mixture of a lot of characters. It has been proven that of the 11 million people here around 60% of them have been in the States for at least a decade. The article spoke with a woman named Lydia who was saved from deportation from the Obama administration because she had never committed a major crime while she was here. Now, she has to check in once a year with an immigration agent to continue living here. However, since President Trump is in office she is now facing deportation. In the article, many other stories are told about innocent and non-innocent people being tracked down & deported back to their original birth countries. Many of these people are innocent, and want to stay here. The article describes many situations in families are getting split up because parents are being deported, but their children legally are US citizens.

      Two major periods of immigration influxes since the turn of the century as well as the transformation of the nation due to both illegal and legal immigration have determined large Hispanic communities in many Western states. States like Texas, for example, have struggled to define increasingly complex Hispanic communities and create a response, both in the government and in law enforcement, for addressing the needs of these large Hispanic communities.          In recent years, an obvious dichotomous view has come to the forefront of national debates about the composition of Hispanic communities in border

Research suggests that legal immigrants commit less crime than native-born citizens, but despite this evidence there are discrepancies in how the criminal justice system punishes both groups, leaving legal immigrants to be punished more severely than native-born citizens. Many believe that legal immigrants, particularly minority groups, are not only a threat to society, but they are said to increase crime in the United States (Wang, 2012). Research by D. Sohoni and T. Sohoni (2013) revealed that, “nativist discourses also present certain immigrants as a threat to American society. This threat is both cultural, because of their (presumed) unwillingness or inability to assimilate, and social, because of their (presumed) displacement of American workers, and their abuse of social services and community resources” (p. 50). Due to this negative perception of immigrants, they are viewed as “aliens,” “immoral,” and “outsiders” who do not belong in the US (D. Sohoni & T. Sohoni, 2013). Immigrants have been fighting not only a war with society’s negative views of them, but also the power those perceptions play on their ability to gain upward mobility and succeed in the US and their ability to receive fair punishment when they commit offenses. Therefore, many are left unable to adjust to societal norms and are not given fair treatment by different community resources or the criminal justice system.

In one of his last strides before he leaves office to push for an immigration reform, President Obama urged congress on Saturday’s weekly address to pass a previously agreed upon immigration bill that would “bring more undocumented immigrants out of the shadows so they can get right with the law.” [1] But in many cities across America, undocumented immigrants live as everyday citizens without fear of deportation nor dire necessity to embark in the long and often times complicated immigration process.

Immigrants arrive here in America to establish a better quality of life. They come here to get a job, raise their families, and get an education. To express their need for stability is important. In “Border on Our Backs,” Rodriguez carries some sociological information of how Latinos feel judged. The author states, “Just who precisely needs to be pardoned? Those who are exploited and who’ve been here forever…or those who’ve been complicit in our dehumanization” (562)? He feels criminalization in the way the Latin immigrants are treated. Rodriguez talks about some racial profiling in

We live in a world where the sacrifice we make in our choice for freedom, is crime. The consequences or the reasoning of these crimes depend on the various degrees of emotional attachment that which hinders our judgment on right and wrong. We will never truly know the reasons on why a person can become so unbalanced on committing such heinous acts, but we do know that most of these crimes stem from personal distress. In this paper I will evaluate law enforcement on the protection of Americans globally from illegal evasions, terrorists, spies, hackers, murderers, and a plethora of other violent and non violent crimes that keep us safe. The most recognized of them all, the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the leading law enforcement agency

The role of local government enforcing immigration control is limited by “The Immigration and Nationality Act” This Act that prevents local authorities such as the police to deport individual(s) who have entered the United States illegality. However, the powers to remove individuals rest solely on the federal government and more specifically the United Sates Congress. Those powers include comprehensive set of rules for legal immigration, naturalization, deportation, and enforcement.

Transnational crime is a growing problem. Transnational crime is defined as “self-perpetuating associations of individuals who operate transnational for the purpose of obtaining power, influence, monetary and/or commercial gains, wholly or in part by illegal means, while protecting their activities through a pattern of corruption and/ or violence, or while protecting their illegal activities through a transnational structure and the exploitation of transnational commerce or communication mechanisms.” (National Security Council, n.d.) . Transnational crimes are known under other names such as cross-national crime, global crime, international crime, and