Iraqi Immigrants

Denied citizenship by the United States, a man without a country, he was tormented and interrogated by the government based on this reality, labeled a “disloyal” citizen to the U.S. Severing Ko from the remainder

In the United States, US born children also suffer when it comes to immigration and deportation because although they are US born, their parents are not, parents are at major risk of being deported because a large part of them entered the country illegally or with a Visa but remained in the country after it expired. In the past decade, nearly 2 million persons were removed from the country, 81 % of them to Latin America. Of the estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, 52 % are from Mexico (Passel et al. 2013), placing them at greatest risk for deportation. Because of the workplace raids that occurred in 2006 and 2007, 900 undocumented

Thousands of suspects were charged with anarchy and most suspects happened to have been born overseas. Therefore, 2,635 aliens risked being deported because of possible false accusation. ‘“The object of the raids,’ Asst. General Garvan said,’ was to obtain for submission to the Department of Labor cases for deportation of a very large

In attempts to protect the United States from foreign terrorists, President Trump has banned seven different countries from any access into the country for ninety days. The seven countries included in the Travel Ban are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen (Jackson). As for Syria, Trump has placed a ban that has an undetermined length of time. Another aspect of the ban is, “The order also introduces a cap of 50,000 refugees to be accepted in 2017, against a limit of 110,000 set by former President Barack Obama” (BBC). This order not only drastically affects the amount of immigrants entering the country, but also the number of refugees.

The famous singer-songwriter, Conor Oberst, told huffington post, “How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.” According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 240,255 people were deported in the year 2016. However, this year the number of arrest have rose up to 38 percent (Gomez). The number of people being deported have been increasing every year. The reason behind the increase of number is unfair hearings and policy of deportation. The United States Immigration System should change their policies on deportation because it violates the constitutional rights and exposes the inequality towards immigrants.

It was reported from the ACLU(American Civil Liberties Union) that 239 were deportees from 34 countries. About 50 percent of the deportees were either from Mexico or Tijuana, where support groups were formed. Clayton Gordon, a 41-year-old Jamaica-born, a green card holder, and has also served six years in the army was arrested in his tomato garden in Connecticut by the immigration agents. Gordon said, “I had no idea what it was about” (Jordan). He was arrested after the immigration officials found him on the list of immigrants with deportable offenses. Since his release late in 2013, Gordon had been fighting continuously for his right to remain in the U.S. as a resident. The ACLU found that 73 percent of veterans do not have lawyers to represent them while on removal proceedings. An immigration attorney Angelo Paparelli commented, “They should be looked at compassionately, with a view to whether they are a threat to the community and did something wrong that can be attributed to injury or trauma” (Jordan). This issue should be looked upon radically because not all veteran immigrants or immigrants are all bad or biocidal. In the article, Jordan used evidence to prove that what immigrant veterans are going through is unjust. There were numbers involved in the article, so the information is pretty

If deportation and/or if the individual is not charged for the crime in question, then they will remain in detainment if they are deemed a risk to security.

Despite these high rates of incarceration and deportation, immigrants are making it across reaching the United States of America. The experience or treatment encountered while crossing might not be their most pleasant. Mexico considers those who cross their southern border felons (Seper, 2010; Dickerson, 2015). Those deported who are caught re-entering the country can face up to 10 years of imprisonment, and the punishment for visa violations can be up to six years (Seper, 2010). Without knowing the specific experiences of other Latino Americans imprisoned in Mexico or their treatment while they successfully cross the same country, the Mexican immigration laws and treatment of crossing immigrants might suffice in explaining any resentment between Latinos in the United States. However, this leaves one question unanswered: Why would a Mexican in the US feel animosity towards another

these people through the legal system so the innocent people who were detained could get

hoping to get a chance at a better life; others are refugees escaping persecution and civil wars in their home country. Krishnadev Calamur wrote about Donald Trump’s Executive Order 1187 and how Donald Trump had made it his goal to ban all Muslims from the start of his campaign and seeing that those countries were in Barack Obama’s visa-waiver program he took advantage and used it to ban all seven countries (5). The grand result of this ban ended in people coming together to protest at several airports across the country where people with valid documentation were detained. This ban had a great impact that a multitude of citizens, lawyers, demonstrators, and the media descended to witness the order’s impact, but Trump tried to dismiss the reality of the impact by tweeting, “Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning.” (15), when it was a lot more than that. The S. 2458 introduced n Senate mentions, “To amend section 217(a) (12) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, relating to the restriction of the use of the Visa Waiver Program for aliens who travel to certain countries.” (3). This demonstrates what Hanson and Johnson have been trying to present; that there is no humane way of handling undocumented immigrants and that the day when government has made it possible to fix this problem is far from being created

Under the Obama administration several undocumented immigrants had been detained and ordered to be deported, however they continued to live in the United States, for varying reasons. These reasons range from persons who are not informed of their deportation status due to fact that they missed their hearings, or documents were sent to previous addresses and were not received, or they belonged to countries that do not accept US deportees. Under Obama's adminstration several undocumented  immigrants were also delayed deportation based on humanitarian reason or because they were not considered to be a risk or threat. Obama's guidelines  was based on deporting immigrants with serious criminal records  or immigrants who were considered a risk or

“Will I be next?” Is just one of the question every immigrant that gets to the United States will ask when they see a family member or friend get sent back home. Just like many, Jose Antonio Vargas, who wrote “Not Legal Not Leaving,” is an immigrant that got here illegally secretly and working here secretly fake identity, until he came out publicly. He believes that there isn’t much choice but live by a fake identity. One of the many issues that Vargas encounters is the comments and questions from people around him who believe he should be sent back. Likewise, many citizens are being taken away by ICE before they can be legalized or are by being found out. Next, the current legalization form makes it difficult to become a citizen. Also, unlike popular believe not all illegal immigrants are Latin Americans, people of different ethnicity come from all over the world looking for a better way of life. Since the legalization forms do not work, every illegal immigrant should be able to stay without the worry of being deported.

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.

for the release of two other Americna detainees if Bae continues to say bad things about the reclusive country. The agency warned that the American prisoners will never be able to return to their home country.

In the article “Examples of Serious Crimes by Illegal Aliens” the federation for American Immigration Reform states that two illegal aliens from China, Zeng Liang Chen and Dong Biao Lin, were sentenced life in prison due to first degree murder in paragraph 12. Illegal Immigrants have a negative influence on America’s society today. Many people believe that illegal immigrants should be forced to leave, while others think they should be allowed to stay. Illegal immigrants should be forced to leave the United States because many commit serious crimes and are taking away american jobs.