Persuasive Essay On Illegal Immigration

Illegal immigration has become more of an important issue in the United States since Donald Trump’s campaign for president in 2016. Immigration can be known as the act of people crossing national borders to live permanently in other countries. It becomes illegal when they cross those borders without the legal right to be in those countries. The U.S. has been an immigrant country since the pilgrims in the 1600s and has ever since, been diverse. Most of the immigrants are Latinos that come from Central America, but they also come from all over the world. The current path to legal citizenship is flawed and needs to be reformed to allow rights to be upheld, equal and fair treatment of all applicants, and to facilitate the process altogether.

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

They demanded that all flights must end because the average flight for one immigrant would cost around $10,000 dollars. This would save taxpayers around $3,000 dollars. Many Americans have been victimized of crimes they didn’t commit because of illegal aliens. Sadly for Kathryn Steinle, her life was taken because immigration laws are not being enforced. The author states “ There are literally millions of Americans like Steinle who have been victimized by crimes committed by illegal aliens that should not have happened and would not have happened if we actually enforced our immigration laws” (Von Spakovsky).

Claude Arnold mainly points out “It is a myth that collaboration with federal immigration authorities results in the widespread deportation of victims and witnesses. (Arnold)” using his experience as a special agent for ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations branch for almost over 8 years. Mr. Arnold addresses the propaganda style ideals of sanctuary cities. However, Claude starts to offer irrelevant information uttering “Such legislation is not only bad law” a clear push of conservative views unrelated to the issue. Addressing the California Dream Act and Assembly Bill 60 as causes that push for sanctuary cities. His tone during the article takes aim at liberal views by stating opinions on how the Dream Act is pandering to the crown or how certain legislation is based on propaganda without fact based support being provided.

Immigrants have been coming to America way before the declaration of Independence in 1776. The United States of America has had immigrants from every nationality in the world seeking a better life or to pursue economic opportunities that may not be available in their native home. The majority of immigrants in the late nineteenth century arrived in the country on boats. Denial of entry were for the individuals whom are criminals, anarchists, or carriers of disease. Immigrants has the ability to become a legal resident, or a citizen of the United States. However, the process by which an individual can become a legal resident is much more complicated than it has been in years prior. In order to become a temporary or permanent resident of

To begin, in the journal, Paul G. Lewis, et al inform citizens to know their laws in the state they live in because they can be changed and local police can have federal authority. States with hispanic commander in chiefs have a better chance of not seeing so many discrimination towards immigrants. Authors go on to saying, “We find that immigration -supportive city policy commitments and the presence of a hispanic police chief are associated with less immigration enforcement by local police.” People that live in sanctuary cities have it a little easier to not have fear of being discriminated. Undocumented people that live in areas where they are not welcomed have a harder time adjusting and fitting in. Just because someone is not from the

In the article “Sanctuary Cities Violate Law and Common Sense” (1-3) Robert Ehrlich writes that citizens of sanctuary cities are in danger and change is essential. First, Ehrlich accuses democrats of no longer being concerned with immigration law along with progressives being arrogant. Then the author urges citizens to not let Kate Steinle’s death be in vain. Furthermore, the author urges government to end support of sanctuary cities. The most interesting point Ehrlich presented was “it’s as though federal immigration law has been reduced to a discretionary set of suggestions” (Ehrlich 2). In conclusion, the author reveals that sanctuary cities need change by not only citizens but also government to prevent future casualties.

For example, their arrest rates plummeted even though the number of criminal investigations rose up back in 2008 (Policing Borders, Pg.100). In their intention to fight illegal immigration, the Maricopa County Department created an extensive distrust between the latino communities and law enforcement authorities. The department's tactics against immigrants have also been very expensive resulting in very few major arrests. The department’s “crime suppression” tactics involve patrolling Hispanic neighborhoods without any evidence of crime being done. This violates policies that intend to prevent racial profiling (Policing Borders, Pg.101). When police promote the use of racial profiling, targeted groups become deviants in the eyes of the community and it becomes a social norm to stigmatize against these groups, in this case unauthorized immigrants. Since this analysis of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department, one of many counties in Arizona, before the implementation of SB 1070, the results today could possibly be tremendously

84.3 illegal immigrants or 27 percent of the overall  population are here illegally and are trying to find jobs. One of the biggest problems in the United States is immigration as the American citizens in order for us to help those who come over here for a better life. A great way would be that Congress should pass a law for illegal immigrants to be grandfathered in to citizenship if they have been productive citizens for at least 10 years. Granting citizenship to undocumented immigrants would create jobs and increase tax revenues. Immigrants are taxpayers, entrepreneurs, jobs creators, and consumers, but the immigration system are broken and in need of an overhaul.

The student organization, CHANGE, hosted a rally on Thursday to educate the public and support the undocumented community here at Central Connecticut State University and around the United States.

In the March 9th article written by Katie Benner and Jenifer Medina the issue of immigration laws is raised following the lawsuit against California over 3 laws the state has enacted regarding immigration and deportation. The sanctuary laws that have been put into place provide protections for undocumented immigrants. One law the California Values Act, limits sharing information with federal agents about criminals unless they have been convicted of a serious crime. The second forbids employers from cooperating with immigration agents who comduct worksite enforcement operations. Finally, the third law requires the state to inspect the detention centers where gederal authorities are holding immigrants. The DOJ claims these laws are unconstitutional and are keeping the federal government and ICE from doing their job. This lawsuit by the DOJ has brought the increasing tensions between local and federal officials to a crescendo.

Sanctuary cities have been a hot topic in the news lately due to America’s illegal immigration problem. These cities protect immigrants that enter the US illegally. Because there are no background checks, criminals can cross the borders as well as those seeking a better life. According to our current president, Donald Trump, “Our cities should be sanctuaries for Americans- not for criminal aliens.” Even former President Bill Clinton cracked down on federal immigration enforcement. In his 1995 State of the Union address, he said, “We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent

The number of immigrants unlawfully in the U.S. has been steady at 11 million.( number of illegal immigrants in the u.s. Holds steady at all million). Most of these immigrants aren’t allowed to attend university because of the issue that they aren’t legal U.S citizens. ( “I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”: Incorporation Patterns Of Latino Undocumented Youth.) Everyone as in immigrants any other race should have an opportunity on college access and better education. Immigrants or any other race should not be discriminated by others if all they want is a better life for their children , undocumented parents come here so that their children can have a better education. All immigrants are living people such as white , any other color , residences or not they can feel the same way as an other color of person with a residence

The main focus of this week’s readings was about the United States reception of immigrants through policy. From the Martin reading, we saw that there are two main approaches to immigrant policy. They may be accommodating or they can also be restrictive. For the former, these policies extend rights to unauthorized immigrants, such as access to health care or tuition assistance. These policy tend to appear where there has been a history of unauthorized immigrants and the local populace does not see the harm in having them within their city. Varsayani describes sanctuary ordinance as a cities declaration of noncooperation with federal immigration authorities. These cities will choose to deal with unauthorized immigrant as a citizen of that city and will only contact federal immigration authorities in case of a felony. On the other hand, there are the exclusionary policy approaches that are undertaken by state and local level governments. Varsayani explains that when a city or state experiences a large influx of immigrants whether they may be legal or illegal there sometimes is a negative reaction to their arrival. Often fueled by fear many citizens make assumptions about illegal immigrants and join together to pass ordinances or propositions that would make it difficult for those immigrants to live in their city or state. Whenever states or local governments do this they preempt their power over immigration issues that are not part of their jurisdiction. This is often done

The deportation of people from our country into other countries would cause our country great turmoil. In order to keep the U.S. illegal immigrants free, we’d have to deport over 12 million people form this country and many of those people are children that were born here. The thing is that even if you are in the United States without legal documents or papers, some of our laws still apply to you. You have the rights as a regular American would have. The 14th amendment states that “no state shall... deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction of the equal protection of the laws.” People that are being deported completely have the right to defend themselves when someone comes knocking at their door and telling them they have to get out of this country. Another law that an illegal immigrant has in the U.S. is the right to drive a car in some states. The states that would allow you to get a driver’s license would be California, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Vermont, and Washington. Immigrants do NOT have the right to work unless the employer asks if they have a green card. So pretty much if they are illegal, they cannot work legally. The only way the immigrants could possibly work is If the employer does not follow the law and does not ask for a green card or if they actually have a green card. Like any other employee though, you get the rights to a good and safe working environment, to be paid, and free from abuse. Unfortunately, employers do not want to tell on their employees, so these laws are often abused.