When immigration policy is discussed, typically, it is discussed within the confines of egalitarian notions and sentiments, and inside the boundaries and parameters set by generally Marxist-influenced social democracy. Characteristically, it is not discussed pertaining to the concept of a social order built on the rights of property owners, sharers, and contributors to and of the common stock- which at their discretion- may exclude bad apples, lazy contributors, rotten characters, trespassers, and terrorists. Once egalitarian sentiments and notions are rejected full-scale- (only giving credence to those that have empirical weight or logical consistency) more proper, more substantive interdisciplinary analyses may reveal that the current investigative techniques employed by current mainstream political theorists are- in the context of reality, incorrect, superficial and quite shallow.
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.
America is labeled as the land of dreams, where every single person is supposed to have an equal shot at becoming something greater than he or she are at that moment. This land is filled with dreamers trying to make a living and to make their “American dream” come true. Most of them are immigrants. What is an immigrant? What makes someone an immigrant? Nowadays, an immigrant is a person who is not a citizen of the country he or she are living in and are on a visa or the lack of one. According to Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State, a visa is “...a travel document issued by the traveler’s country of citizenship.” It is a sticker that is applied on the passport and it gives one port of entry to legally enter the country that he or she has chosen. There are essentially two different kinds of immigrants, legal and illegal. But in this country the amount of attention the illegal immigrants get is outrageously massive to the legal immigrants, who have worked extremely hard to get here and most likely spent fortunes to come to this land. This bitterness comes from the author, a legal immigrant. She has been living in America for around fifteen years now out of her twenty year life and she is faced with an option that appeals to no one. If she does not receive her green card, permanent residency, by the time she turns twenty-one, she will become an illegal immigrant and would have to leave her family and life behind because on paper she is not an “American”. Who is
Solving the immigration problem in 300 words is going to be extremely hard, considering it has been 140 years since the United States created its first immigration stance with the removal of the open-door policy, and we still have problems with the laws surrounding immigration. I am going to focus specifically on changing the major flaws in our system and am going to leave the details vague. My first target would be in changing the laws regarding the guest worker program. If we want to hire workers from other countries to come and work for US companies, I feel like the workers should be considered American citizens. The book highlights poor working conditions and lack of workers' representation if they are injured on the job. If citizens of
Even though we know immigration has occurred throughout all of U.S. history, the largest bits of immigration happened during just four distinct periods, they include the original British colonies, the continuous and westward expansion of the middle of the 19th century, and the peak of urbanization at the turn of the 20th century. The fourth peak period began in the 1970s and continues today. In these peak immigration periods, some fundamental transformations of the American economy have happened along side them. Of the first, European settlement cultivated and settled the Americas. The second allowed the starting United States to switch from a colonial system to an almost completely agricultural economy. With the industrial revolution, there was a big rise to a manufacturing economy during the third peak period. This propelled America to rise as one of the leading powers in the world. Then finally, the type that we study in class, is today's large-scale immigration that has coincided with increasing globalization and has been a part of the last stages of a transition from a manufacturing to a 21st century and seemingly
Many immigrants feel like it is a challenge to be accepted into another country. Some minorities feel as if congress is not doing an exceptional job on how their immigration policy runs. The Immigration policies between the United States of America and South Africa are incredibly similar; it seems as if both countries are not considering minorities to be important in another country. Even though they don’t highly appreciate minorities, they both have an elevated focus for defense of security and health. Congress is blind to the fact a majority of the workforce going on in the United States are not documented. Improving the immigration policy will differ from the lives in both South America and The United States.
Many immigrant children are coming from different countries to the US and entering schools here that do not provide them with the support they need in order to be successful. Schools in America that accept these immigrant children in their school should provide more support to them. Newcomers should have a counselor that could help them with problems in school such as Bullying and discrimination. Also school districts should invest money in special programs that could focus on these children to help them succeed academically in school.
When going into the immigration unit, I have to admit that I had very little knowledge on the topic. Therefore, I had to do a little bit more research to formulate an opinion and take a stance on the whole issue. My initial thoughts were to deport all of the immigrants in the country with no exceptions. After all, there are eleven million people in the United States who are forbidden by law to be in the country. Looking back into the history of immigration, I discovered that in 1986, Ronald Reagan implemented an amnesty policy that granted 3 million people citizenship. Unfortunately, this did not solve the overall problem in the long run because the current immigrant population is circulating around eleven million people. Due to the past failure with amnesty, I did not think it would be wise to try that again. In addition, I did not think that it is fair for legal citizens to have to pay for unauthorized peoples’ welfare. United States citizens spend eleven to twenty-two billion dollars a year on the welfare of people who, in my eyes, have not earned their way into the country. Next, I took a look at the process to obtain a green card. To my surprise, it is not very difficult to acquire a green card. I was worried that people are able to come into the country for malicious reasons and cause harm. I felt like the immigrants needed to show some effort in order prove that they want to be United States citizens for the right reasons. The only solution I could think of was to
Over hundreds of years, immigration has shaped America into who she is today. July 4, 1776, was the day immigrants first stepped onto North American soil and claimed the land as theirs. The impact of migration on a country this big can’t be ignored, especially because the people coming to live in America are usually from Third World countries and are looking for employment and to be shown a better way a life. Like anything else, there are both huge pros and cons to Third World immigration. Once, America was known as the land of opportunity for people anywhere in the world, however, Patrick Buchannan worries that America is allowing too many immigrants at a time which is preventing them to be assimilated properly into a culture. He fears
In evaluating the fiscal benefit and cost of immigration in the long-run and its interaction with the economic and demographic trends, the National Research Council (NRC) came out with a study of immigration in 1997 in regards to the overall fiscal impact and benefit in all levels of government. The NRC study results showed that immigrants including their descendants would have a positive turnout on the fiscal impact with a present discounted value of 80 thousand dollars per immigrant in 1996. The dollar amount increased with immigrants who had higher skills with an average of 198,000 dollars and a negative amount of (-13,000) for immigrants who had less than a high school degree (The White House, President George W. Bush, 2007). The NRC concluded
Immigration has occurred in the U.S. for for many years. Some say it’s the foundation of our country. America is the country where people leave their own country to live. People would leave due to mistreatment, hunger issues or job opportunities. America is known for starting over or accomplishing dreams, so immigrants travel over to follow those dreams. People emigrate from one country to another for a variety of complex reasons. Some are forced to move, due to conflict or to escape persecution and prejudices, while others may voluntarily emigrate. Although such a move may be necessary, it can be quite traumatic on top of the challenges experienced so far.Everyone should have this option to have better life than they once had and no should be told that they can’t live in America because of what others has done.
I am a Chinese immigrant, and I have been New York six years already. In here, I spend lots of time to learn English and adapt the cultures. Even my language is not as good as a native speaker, but I still want to be an American here. Therefore, I am planning to become a US citizen within two years, before I graduate college. In this six years, I started from learning alphabetical in high school. Because of my language problem, I didn’t have a good GPA in high school. It made me upset. After I graduate high school, I didn’t go to college, because I thought, even I went to college at that time, I won’t have good score and achievement. I won’t spend too much time and concentrated on study. Therefore, in the year after I graduated, I went to
It was estimated in 2014 that there were at least 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Illegal immigration has been in the headlines for the last ten years and will forever plague the United States of America. New immigration policy such as the “Priority Enforcement Program” was implemented in 2015, and programs like these are one of the main topics up for debate in the upcoming election. Over seventy-five percent of people deported back to their country are convicted criminals (Rocha, Rene R. 901). Many economists and politicians argue that if all of the illegal immigrants, particularly illegal Mexican immigrants, were deported the economy would take a massive hit that would be detrimental to the country. Others argue that illegal immigrants are taking the jobs of the citizens of the United States and therefore all of them should be deported. Using Juvenalian and Horatian satire, satirists poke fun of illegal immigration through the satirical devices of parody, irony, and exaggeration in order to bring light to this very important issue facing the United States of America.
Immigration has become both a controversial and widely debatable topic in contemporary governmental affairs. Within David Miller’s Immigration: The Case for Limits, we are faced with many trivial ideas on what constitutes the opportunity for people to legally immigrate to where they please, how matters are dealt with in the case of refugees, and to what level we hold everyone’s right to make a living. As I was investing myself in Miller’s book excerpt, I became aware of several debatable and agreeable content sections that stuck out to me. For instance, Miller states that “There is something fundamentally unfair about a world in which people are condemned to relative poverty through no fault of their own when others have much greater opportunities, whereas if people were free to live and work wherever they wished, then each person could choose whether to stay in the community that raised him or look for a better life elsewhere.”; I believe that Miller is correct in stating this fact due to the idea that everyone is entitled to make themselves the most well off that they can. However, a problem arises when Miller states that the basic rights consist of freedom, security, etc., and proclaims that freedom of movement is also a basic human right. I find fault in this because for most Miller’s conversation about immigrants (excluding refugees) it seems as if he is approaching the scope without putting his previous statements into perspective. He seems to contradict himself when
Moving to a new place you have never been before is hard. You don’t know anybody or where anything is, it is a whole new world. This can be experienced by every immigrant coming to America. The United States is the number one country when it comes to immigrant population. According to Politifact, the US Department of Homeland Security has gathered data of immigrants coming to the U.S and in 2013 it was 990,553. These immigrants have special laws though, laws made for immigrants alone and not everyday people. They should have the same rights as everybody else has.We have the right from the constitution to have the choice to choose our own language, religion, and beliefs. Immigrants should have the choice to choose how far they would like to assimilate into American culture, so that they may feel comfortable.