The Importance Of Immigration And Immigration

“No one talked about the concept of cultural diversity as a mosaic or as a tapestry of multi-colored threads that when woven together created a vibrantly rich and textured fabric. “Real Americans” were white. “(147) Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston gives her audience an eye opening account of how The United States, a country which prides itself on its diversity, is filled with prejudice and discrimination wherever immigrants are concerned. Jeanne is a beast, she didn’t let anyone stop her from achieving her goals “Not even when I was told I should not continue with journalism major at San Jose State because I was ‘Oriental’ and a female. There were no jobs in the field. So I changed my major to social welfare. And when I was told again by the head of Juvenile Probation Services that they could not hire me as a probation officer because the community was not ‘ready’ for ‘Orientals,’ I did not protest”. Dealing with the same discrimination in my life I can fully relate to Jeanne, there really is nothing you can do but chalk it up and move on with life.

When Mae Ngai stated that Asian and Latino persons are still treated as racial outsiders within the United States, she is referring to the America’s treatment of these minority groups throughout history and today. For instance, the labor of both groups of immigrants have continually exploited as they sought the rumored opportunity of our “nation of immigrants.” Historical examples would include the Asian population that played a key role in the Central Pacific Railroad and the Latino population that continues to be utilized by farmers to supplement an American lack of interest resulting in a labor shortage in the Farm labor industry (Kanstroom, p. 213). Secondly, both minority groups have had citizens imprisoned without due process during both the Japanese Internment Camps of World War II and the Mexican Repatriation of the Depression Era (Kanstroom, p.213-219).

In the U.S. Chicanos have been victims to rationalization and discrimination for years. Chicanos have categorized as an inferior race based on factors such as color, roots and language barriers. The racialization of Chicanos however has not been in isolation rather it has occurred in relation to other races as described by Natalia Molina. Chicanos and the Chinese for example have for years been racialized in relation to each other. As Natalia Molina coins the term racial scrips, she show how ideas used to marginalize one group at one time, is once again used to marginalize another group in a similar way. This way two groups are oppressed in the same manner and one group’s racialization can contribute to another’s group racialization. In a similar

My current event is on the issue of Immigration and Refugees that is going on in our society. Immigrants have been the back bone of what made America great. This country is supposed to be the land of opportunity. For the people that come here that is all that they hear. Wanting a fresh start from whatever country they came from. The NASW (2015) said that “Immigration has increased rapidly in the 1990s, with more than 13 million people moved to the United States” (p.176). Immigrants and Refugees is an issue that has been talked about for many years. “In 1965 the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments provided a sweeping change in immigration law. The national origins system was abolished and a new set of priorities for admitting immigrants was adopted” (NASW, 2015, p. 176). So Immigration has been a part of our culture, American society, and policy making for a long time now. It is talked about today even with during our Presidential campaign for 2016.

In the 1970’s Puerto Ricans faced racial redlining practices from vendors which prevented Hispanics from relocating to better areas. Community vendors believed that if Hispanics moved into better areas their property and value would decrease (Wilson, 2007). Although the churches welcomed and provided Hispanics with vital support, most communities were not as welcoming. Finding a place to live became complicated because most property-owners would not rent to Hispanics. The racial redlining became so extreme that many Hispanic residents “curtailed their movements between work, church, and home, avoiding being out on the streets so as not to encounter harassment” (Wilson, 2007, Para 6).

Discovering how people from the past until now merge their opinion and assumption on Immigrants. The main issue are undocumented people living in United States. Anger and hatred of some Native Americans while demonstrating the issues about Immigration may seen in effect base on their personal experiences or getting information from close companion. In fact, the media present the Immigrants or Immigration by discussing the issue on media, which the coverage can influence the viewers. Their judgement begins with calling undocumented Immigrants criminals and violent but reporters framing them for not being the victim. The effect, as more people believed to those people from news organization, It would less likely be difficult to resolve

No one enjoys leaving their home, but when calamities occur there is sometimes no choice. Due to political and natural disasters, such as the earthquake in 2010, the number of Haitian immigrants in the United States has increased to 700,000 in the last 30 years. Many of these immigrants were encouraged to come to America for safe keeping until the year of 2018. Most of these Haitians have plans to stay in the country illegally. Very few of these immigrants have understanding towards the American life. To help them become legal, the United States can create an adaption program to aid immigrants in acquiring abilities to speak English, maintain economic stability, and provide workers for the United States.

According to his tri-racial order theory, Chinese-, Japanese-, Korean-, Filipino-, and (East) Indian- Americans will achieve the “honorary white” status in the newly emerging racial order, while Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotians will be absorbed into the “collective black” status (Bonilla-Silva 2004; Bonilla-Silva and Glover 2005). He points at the developing distinctions between native-born and foreign-born and between economically successful and unsuccessful Asians as well as the racialized intra-Asian preferences hierarchy to support his argument (see also Saito 1998; Tuan 1998; Moran 2001). An especially notable trend in this is the diverging patterns of economic mobility and success within the Asian group, which shows that the occupational (and consequently, socioeconomic) segregation of Asians as a racial group that once contributed to the development of the pan-Asian identity (Okamoto 2014) is no longer in place to forge a pan-ethnic identification and consciousness. The 2012 Pew Report on Asian Americans also shows that the majority of Asians in the United States does not identify with the pan-Asian label: only 19% of the sample and 22% of the US-born Asians identified as “Asian/Asian

The term immigration is an international movement of people into a destination country of which they are natives or where they do not process citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. However, as many as over million and millions of people in the world have migrated to other countries as a result of war, poverty or just the dream of a better life. Obviously, the number of immigrants has increased, so has controversy about immigration policies. “What they want is essentially identical to work hard and achieve happiness, safety, and security for themselves and their families. A founding premise of America is that this is a place for immigrants to come and start over” (Heller, Becca). As being an immigrant myself there is a lot I didn’t have to experience because when I came to the United States my legal status was with a permanent residency and in the years, came I was able to become a US citizen. Especially, with everything that has been going on the news regarding immigration from the Trump administration to whom their focus is on deportations and cancel many benefits for non-working families and children. A good example of that is the DACA program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), this is a program that has helped hundred and thousands of young people who were brought to the country illegally as children to allow them to stay the same as TPS (Temporary Protected Status) which was created for certain individual’s due to the conditions of their country that had prevented the country’s nationals from returning safely or unable to handle their return accordingly.

Society in Los Angeles was molded to view certain minorities as criminal, especially those who are brown, forming huge racial disparity between brown and white. Although many Mexicans were the backbone of labor (bricks) and many were citizens, they “could do little to transform the biased views of Mexicans that Americans continued to entertain” (Deverell, 2006). Despite Mexicans being an integral part of Los Angeles history and the population, they were nonetheless seen as aliens. While the hateful image of Mexicans was institutionalized after the Mexican War, it seems to be “unending” as the culture of Mexican hating becomes the culture of Los Angeles. This deeply racialized sense of bias and hate towards one group has marginalized the race in many ways. For example, the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943 demonstrated that “juvenile delinquency is a result of natural characteristics of people of Mexican ancestry” (Leonard 2006). This assertation indicated the ‘never-ending war’ of how Anglo-Americans depicted Mexicans. During the zoot suit riots, white public servants purposely targeted brown people and called them gangs, criminalizing an entire race. Not only were whites diminishing their race, but they also acted like vigilantes to justify the hate-crimes. Amongst other instances of racial bias and hate, race conflict in Los Angeles is a result of white power trying to control and oppress minorities by granting them certain images. This way, there is less mobility for marginalized groups to become successful if they are constantly deemed as criminals.

Tracing back to the very first Asian immigrants in America, which were Filipinos arrived in Morro Bay, California, Asian immigrants have stepped on this land of freedom and opportunity for decades (Borah, 1997). Until 2011, based on the statistics by U.S. census Bureau, Asian Americans comprised about 5.6% of the entire population in the United States. However, compared to other races in the United States, Asian Americans are still more likely to be neglected. They are more like guests than hosts in this country. The perpetual foreigner is a particular adjective to describe Asian Americans. Moreover, this neglecting comes from both inside and outside. In other words, not just other races have stereotypes or discrimination

When I ask locals if they think the city is segregated, they say, “No, not really. Not like in America at least.”In America, inequality is systematic. Here, people have explained to me that there is systematic oppression faced by minorities, but it is also very clear that the immigrant populations are excluded or often exclude themselves in urban settings.

This paper will examine the problem of Immigration and Immigration Law. I will first discuss what Immigration Law is and how it works, then I will define the number one problem of immigration laws, “illegal immigration” and why it’s so important to follow procedures. It will also address the consequences after violating the laws. Next the paper discusses three policy solutions to the problems of illegal immigration: Legalization of Immigrants, Strengthen Border Security, and Immigration Amnesty. The paper will first explain each policy solution. Then it will analyze the pros and cons, and potential strengths and weakness of each solution. Last this paper will offer some personal observations on the problem of immigration.

For most of its history, Seattle was kind of a separated city dedicated to the apical dominance of the white people, just as any areas in the United states. Colored people are excluded from most jobs, communities, many stores, restaurants, hotels or other commercial establishments. Similar with other western countries, the unfairness is not only towards African Americans as they just commonly concerned, but also towards many other minorities as well with varies reasons for each. Many discussed reasons are leading to the exclusions with Asian Americans in Seattle. Specifically, as for Chinese, they were repelled mainly due to their large occupation of the American job market.

"Angela Davis points to workers centers like Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, and lives but not just, class, racial, or gender identities. Such centers also protest against domestic violence, legal advice, and divorce" (Lipsitz 2). Because there is no possible way to improve Asian American immigrant workers and because entrepreneurs are often part of the problem, these efforts will automatically lead to inter-ethnic alliances. Inter-ethnic anti-racism enables many aggrieved groups to focus on oppression, and may show that racialized groups are not just at a disadvantage but are being taken advantage of. Inter-ethnic anti-racism is one way we can see the world as another perspective, rather than our false interpretations.