The Effect Of Deportation: Illegal Immigrant Family

Being a daughter of immigrant parents has never been easy here in America. Both my parents worked excessively hard to be financially stable. Unfortunately at the age of ten my life changed. I learned that my parents no longer loved each other. The arguing and fighting my parents had, only damaged me emotionally. I was too young to grasp the idea that my parents were separating which become one of the hardest times for my mom to maintain my siblings and I. Shortly after, I began attending church and fell in love with the idea of getting closer to God. Luckily, my life took an enormous turn the moment I gave my life to Christ. God has opened numerous opportunities for my education. I am proud of all the accomplishments I have achieved in high

Undocumented families arrive in the United States expecting a better life. They come, not knowing what to expect from a foreign country that people speak, so great about. Once they arrive to the United States, their lives start to change. Problems begin to arise. Problems such as, money, language barrier, work, food, etc. Latino families live, day in and day out, trying to avoid the fact that life may become more difficult, than they expected. Everything started back in the 90’s, when families from Latin America began to settle in the United States for a better life. Many men and women from those families did not know how to do much, other than what a handyman was capable of doing. Handymen would like fixing and building things. Families from those foreign countries, had the idea of seeking

There were three lessons that my immigrant parents ingrained in their first-generation children: Work hard, never give up, and most importantly, give back. Among other life lessons they taught us, these three were the basis for everything. It would be the basis that would and will define me as a person.

Deportation has been around for quite some time, but has only now become a controversial topic due to the high incarceration and deportation rate in the last decade. According to Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, sociology professor at UC Merced, and author of the book Deported Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism, Obama and his administration deport more than 1000 immigrants a day. In the year 2012 the Obama administration established, “an all-time record high of more than 400,000 deportees” (Golash-Boza). What is more surprising is the fact that in 2012 more individuals were deported then the sum of all the individuals deported before the year 1997 (Golash-Boza). Mass migration of illegal immigrants began with the end of Keynesianism and the beginning of the neoliberalism. The ramifications of Neoliberalism has not only affected the us economy, but U.S. laws that directly influences the well-being of illegal immigrants.

Outside the sirens are singing and someone’s parents are taken away from their family because they are not a citizen, they didn’t do anything wrong they just weren’t citizens in the country. Not every immigrant is the same, everyone is different and they all have different opinions. Immigrants are helping out their family like every other family would and they aren’t just the only people who do wrong choices so do others. Some American’s can’t accept them in their country and say immigrants are taking their jobs. Imagine having children born in the country with foreign parents and they have to be deported with their kids waiting to be adopted by “parents with better lives.” Immigrants are like everyone else, they risk themselves but they don’t

Families are meant to be together, have fun and share the most important moments. Many families are being forced to be separated from each other and go through situations that no one would want to be in. Immigrant deportation breaks up families, denies certain individuals their rights and creates a great tension between races. Any more reason why all this must be stopped?

Immigrant groups take refuge in America in hope of starting a better life for themselves and their ongoing generations. They take on the belief that upon coming to America, they will be presented by the riches and freedom granted by the “American Dream”. However, these opportunities are not easily achieved. Many immigrant families are challenged with the initial obstacles of having to adapt to the new languages and the customs of their environment. For example, without the basic knowledge of the standard English language, immigrants will not be able to apply for a majority of the jobs available. This puts immigrant parents at disadvantages because then they will not be able to provide the sufficient funds needed for allowing their children

My parents both came to this country at a very young age. My father was 16 when he first moved to the U.S. and my mother years later moved when she was 19. I am a child of immigrants and it was hard growing up. I consider myself a Mexican American or Chicana. I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and later moved to Las Vegas. As I asked my father what he had to deal when he first moved he said “people would discriminate me just because I couldn’t speak well English and because of my brown skin”. “I was only 16 and wanted to live the American dream, but it was more like hell in America”. A lot of people are discriminated every day just because they aren’t Caucasian/white Americans, but they’re still American they live here and have a living here.

As a first generation immigrant family and as an only child of a missionary kid, our family moved occasionally-mostly before high school- for my parent’s ministries involving a non-profit religious organization. Because of our transitions, our family could not acquire the right time to process our residency, and eventually applied for the green card during the most sensitive period, while the government shifts and immigration law changes were eventuating, although we have lived in US for more than ten years.

The article I chose was about “a study shows that the stress from an historic immigration raid is associated with Latina mothers delivering babies with lower birth weights, and sometimes early” (University of Michigan, 2017). It was found that a historic immigration raid has brought on early and low birth rates amongst the Latino mother community due to stress. This article used great statistical results, because they gave results comparable to before and after the raid (2008), and related it to today’s current events (2016/2017). The article highlights the current stressors of deportation and discrimination fears that the Presidential election brought about to the entire United States, which makes this study very relevant. The researchers conducted a quasi-experimental design, examining ethnicity-specific patterns in birth outcomes before and after the Postville raid. They “analyzed Iowa birth-certificate data to compare risk of term and preterm low birth weight (LBW), by ethnicity and nativity, in the 37 weeks following the raid to the same 37-week period the previous year (n = 52 344)” (Novak, Geronimus, & Martinez-Cardoso, 2016). The researchers “obtained all birth certificate data from 2006-10, and their

There has been an issue for several years in the United States, and yet it hasn’t been resolved. While the government is looking for a solution, there have been so many families that are getting separated just because they are deporting too many people. Some states that have made their own laws which are laws that are absolutely unconstitutional, such as the one from Arizona the SB-1070, which that law allows the police within that state, to stop and interrogate any person who appears to be an immigrant. They can be identified by their skin color, and their way of talking. That law is unconstitutional because the police are judging

When people hear of immigrants, the word that comes into their mind is “illegal”. This is a connotation that isn’t taken into account as there are many immigrants who have permission to live in America. America is a nation that values diversity and that is why millions of people come in on exchange visas. The article “Hundreds of Veterans Were Deported, Rights Group Says” by Miriam Jordan, explains the controversy of immigrant veterans who served in the U.S. forces being deported after committing minor crimes. I believe that this article by Miriam Jordan is a good example of technical writing because it has all three of the key elements; accessibility, usability, and relevance. With the information on veterans deportation in the article, it

Over the last quarter of a decade, illegal immigration and enforcement have dominated mainstream policy making (Meisnner, Kerwin, Chishti & Bergeron, 2013). There has been a lot of public debate too, on whether or not the successive governments of the US have been able to effectively address illegal immigration and its enforcement thereof. However, as Meisnner et al. (2013) state, in the wake of the terror attacks of 2001, a paradigm shift appears to have been established, with the enforcement of illegal immigration taking a de facto stance. As such, as Dreby (2012) intimates, the number of immigrants who have been deported or removed from the US since 2001 has risen from 190, 000 to close to 400, 000. Considering the fact that there are more than 11 million illegal immigrants living in America, deportation on such a large scale without a doubt will result in a continuous chain reaction. One such consequence, as The New York University School of Law (2012) states, is that families are inherently broken apart by the removal of a family member. Additionally, there are other psychological and psychosocial impacts on families that are far-reaching. Because of these and many other compelling factors, this paper argues that the US should work to prevent deportations, rather than enforce them.

In Danielle Allen and Richard Ashby Wilson’s Washington Post article “Mass deportation isn’t just impractical. It’s very, very dangerous” (2016) the authors speak on the guaranteed dangers of going through with Donald Trump’s mass deportation promises. Allen and Wilson assert that Trump’s proposal to deport up to 11 million undocumented immigrants within a matter of months is not only preposterous, but incredibly dangerous. Their joint credibility backs the article, as it is stated that, “Allen is a political theorist at Harvard and a contributing columnist for The Post. Richard Ashby Wilson is the Gladstein Chair of Human Rights at the University of Connecticut School of Law.” They call to mind the mass deportation that led to ethnic cleansing of Bosnians in Yugoslavia as a way to hold a mirror to the similar situations today regarding deportation of Mexicans and of refugees.

Every since I was young my parents have been struggling with their immigration status. My father used to say “if anything happens to me or your mother call our lawyer.” My father eleven years ago left my mother, my newborn brother and me, to go back to Mexico for a family emergency. At the time my father was an illegal alien. When he attempted to recross the border to re enter the USA, he was sent to jail. All I remembered afterwards was my parent’s lawyer ( Mr. Mendez) coming the our apartment trying to keep my mother stable and making a “game plan” to bring my father home. If it wasn't for Mr. Mendez my father would still be in Mexico, and I do not know what would've become of us here in the USA without him. Since that stressful experience