Tiffany Thi-Kim Tran
Professor Murdock
Political Science 100
April 28, 2015
Introduction
Two topics that are reoccurring in the U.S. as well as throughout the world is immigration and gay rights. Today, many immigration and gay rights issues have arisen in numerous cases and have had controversial sides and opinions
The issue of immigration has been a controversial topic between the Democratic and Republican parties. The idea of illegal immigrants having the choice to become a legal resident is a major distinction between the two parties.
In general, Democrats are seen to favor immigration to the United States. The Democratic party believes that there needs to be an immigration reform to bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and require them to learn English, pay taxes, and get on the path to citizenship. They desire a system that will allocate visas to meet economic needs, enforce the law, and keep families together. The Department of Homeland Security prioritizes immigrants; for example, not letting a person with criminal background opposed to a young child who wants to come to the United States for education and work. A priority to the Democrats party is family reunification and therefore believe that immigration is not all "bad." Under the Obama administration, Democrats supported the process of legal immigration for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens. Along with this process, Democrats support the Dream Act, legislation that ensured young people, who
In today’s American society, there are few issues more divisive in politics than immigration. It’s an issue that’s argued in nearly every debate, with Republicans and Democrats with their own views and thoughts on the matter. The issue goes as far as dividing homes, young liberals arguing with their conservative parents on who is correct.
In this article, political implications are given emphasis. To begin with, the same-sex marriages lead to a democratic disrespect. Chief Justice John Roberts emphasized the point as he opposed the idea in the Supreme Court (Powell, 2015). Concerning the precedent round of litigation Hawaii, Rosenberg and Klarman’s source emphasis has been a significant negative legislative response in Congress and state capitols (Powell, 2015). Despite that, there were other bright electoral consequences as well. These electoral consequences were very but not entirely
Likewise, the Democratic perspective favors the DREAM ct. Which is, “The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, also called the DREAM Act, is a bill last introduced into Congress on March 26, 2009. Its purpose is to give undocumented students a chance at becoming permanent residents” (About 1). In other words, the Democratic perspective believes that immigrants, regardless of status, create the hegemony that the United States is. They value, education over immigration status. In consequence, Democrats promote and fight for the DREAM Act.
Democrats seem to be the party that is trying to solve the immigration issue here in the US. They have advocated hard for the passing of the DREAM Act, a legislation that I believe needs to and must be passed. I advocate it on the basis that the US economy really needs this; the potential the DREAM Act has in not just alleviating the immigration problem but also in helping revive an ailing economy. We need to finally reap the economic benefits of these undocumented immigrants that are in this country and likely here to stay. It is until I realized what the DREAM Act can do to the economy, is when I really began to see it as something that must happen fast.
Immigration has been a topic of great discussion and controversy even before this year’s election. In recent years, illegal immigration has been the focus of these discussions, but other forms of immigration exist. Immigrants also immigrate through legal processes.
There has been lots of controversy on the issues concerning a solution to America’s broken immigration system. Democratic and republican parties can’t seem to agree with one another, leaving reform at a stand-still. Democrats are focused on giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship while Republicans are focused on border security. The fact is both of these approaches should work in unison with each other to provide the most efficient route in fixing immigration.
The democratic party’s vision on immigration is they value all immigrants who come from other countries and they provide aid to help to get their new lives started. They believed Undocumented immigrants within our borders who clear a background check, work hard and pay taxes should have a path to earn full participation in America. The democratic wants to give driver license to regardless immigration status, which it will make them proud to be in united states. They believe they deserve to have a driver license and have an equal right as others, but only those who has a good background. The democratic wanted to punish employers that abuse undocumented workers rather than employee. Because employer is one who breaks the laws by hiring undocumented
also have their perspectives of immigration. However, the political parties, the media, and personal experiences or observation can influence their point of view on immigration. According to five polls conducted in 2011 that were administered by organizations from across the political spectrum, such as Fox News and Latino Decisions, “unequivocally illustrate that the vast majority of Americans support smart solutions to immigration reform and reject mass deportation. They support a pathway to citizenship for people who are part of our communities, learn English, pay back taxes, and so forth, and they reject tearing these families apart” (Wolgin and Kelley 2). Specifically, the Fox News poll received that voters rejected mass deportation and wanted smart solutions for this issue (Wolgin and Kelly 3). The Pew Research Center’s poll said that voters expect policies that secure the border and deal with the unauthorized immigrants (Wolgin and Kelly 4). The Iowa Republican Caucus-Goers gave a “thumbs up” to unauthorized immigration (Wolgin and Kelly 5). This concludes that the public has numerous opinions when it comes to immigration. Personally, I have a stance where I agree with more of a democratic perspective where DACA should be implemented, ore help for unauthorized immigrants to receive help for citizenship and deportation should not be done. I believe that immigrants who have moved to the U.S. have done so for good reasons. Reasons
However, the Republican Party is not as supported of illegal immigrants like the Democratic Party. According to the Republican Party “the interests of American workers must be protected over the claims of foreign nationals seeking the same jobs” (25). This statement ensures that Republicans do not consider foreigners’ problems a priority. They view foreigners as people who steal their jobs and disrupt the nation’s economy. In addition, The Republican party affirms “illegal immigration endangers everyone, exploits the taxpayers, and insults all who aspire to enter America legally” (25). Republicans view illegal aliens as unacceptable and need to be deported. They are concern for their safety and see them as a threat to the nation. Many republicans
In this case, however, the party should switch all-out to allowing illegal immigrants to be eligible for citizenship with requirements. To publicize this change, the party should begin by publicly endorsing President Obama’s executive action to overhaul immigration. In addition, it would help them tremendously to begin legal procedures to make the fundamentals of the executive action into law and to pass other immigration reform bills, such as the DREAM Act
The Democratic Party supports an immigration reform that will eventually create a path way to citizenship, as President Obama mentioned on his speech “We will extend the promise of citizenship to those still struggling for freedom. Today’s immigration laws do not reflect our values or serve our security, and we
Immigration is currently a hot topic within in the United States government. Currently the United States Congress is fighting to decide the fate of the Dreamers, and the Immigration bill DACA. Like many controversial issues within the government, the Democrats and Republicans are in a disagreement on what to do. Each article, examines a different take on the current immigration reform. Bier’s main argument is that individuals who are contributing to immigration reform are ignorant, that Immigrants are not hurting the American Labor market. The next article, I examined, was written by Eric Cantor; Cantor states that although the parties each have a high stake on the decision Congress makes on DACA, there must be a decision otherwise, the law will remain status quo. Next, we look at Gessen’s article, the main argument is that immigrants should not be looked at valuable or illegal, they should not have to be talented in order to be welcome within the United States. Lastly, Vargas, an undocumented Immigrant, discusses the difficulties of being illegal within the United States, yet still shines light on the positive influences he had throughout his childhood and time in America.
Almost half percent of the population of the state is immigrants. Immigration has been a debatable issue on the politics sector as well as citizens. Some people are fine with the immigration and some are strongly against immigration. Republican Party does not support Immigration in the country. They believe in tighten the immigration law and deportation. They welcome legal immigrants but oppose illegal immigrants because they believed that the undocumented immigrants take away the job from national citizen and do not pay tax. If one has no document, then she/he does not have to pay a tax which means loss of the country. Therefore, republican support federal funding on securing the boarder as well as enforcing the immigration law. Likewise, Republican Democratic is also against the illegal immigrants but they support to enact illegal immigrants to learn English and pay tax to nation. Both of the parties motive is to secure the nation financially as well as territorially but they have a different ways to overcome the
This research paper explores the political issue of Immigration in the present day (2016) United States. The paper is meant to give an understanding of the issue, the importance of immigration reform, as well as a thorough analysis of the role the three branches of The United States Government: Judicial, Legislative, and Executive; and their role in the matter. By using several different peer reviewed journals, and articles the paper will give a well analysed view on the situation of reform currently in America by touching on the case of DAPA and DACA plans proposed by President Obama. The essay will also cover the positions of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump to show a future America could be heading towards.
Same sex- marriage is still the topic of many peoples conversation across the country. Citizens, divided by politic party, are very passionate about how they feel about it. The president didn’t approve of it at first, but now he finally accepts same- sex marriage, the Judicial System uses its power to dictate to the States, forcing them to accept same- sex marriage. Both houses of Congress continue to debate what marriage means.