Immigration to the United States may be legal or illegal immigration. Legal immigrants have the proper legal documents to live and work in America, while illegal have no documents to offer. Immigration would be considered naturalization. Alternatively, illegal immigrants could let American citizens with a greater amount of benefits understanding to help citizens show how illegal immigrants aren’t any different to any citizen and be considered by the United States citizen. The subject of immigration is part of the biggest debate’s the United States has to face along Medicare, racism, and gun control. As Kinsley states in his essay, many people oppose both illegal and legal immigration. Kinsley states that saying that people are against illegal immigration is like saying someone opposes illegal drug use or speeding. Which means that some people should question whether these laws in the right place. Illegal immigrants are the same as the legal immigrants in this country, both have a reason being here want to earn the right to citizenship to live in the United States. In Michael Kinsley’s essay “Kidding Ourselves About Immigration,” he seems to have a strong opinion on why illegals are no different from legal immigrants. This means that Michael Kinsley argues that each of them has earned a right of citizenship. He says that calling illegal immigrants scum and characterize them as “queue-jumping” is just unjustified and prejudiced. Illegal immigrants have the same motive as a
No one wants to leave their country, but war, famine, and employment can cause people to migrate to find a peaceful place to stay. More than a million undocumented immigrants migrate to America every year searching for jobs and safe places for their families to stay, Because of this, every undocumented immigrant in America should be granted citizenship. The U.S government should allow the immigrants who are here illegally to become U.S citizens. Many of the undocumented immigrants do their best to assimilate, pay their taxes, and contribute to American traditions and culture. Their contributions to our country have done so much for the people, we should be honored to have them.
In the discussion of immigrants living in America, one controversial issue has been whether immigrants living in America have equal opportunities as American citizen do. On the one hand, some people believe that the federal government should be of more assistance to these newcomers by improving there aid programs such as Social Security and Medical. On the other hand, some say that immigrants should not have the same opportunities as others do because they come from another country and they were not born in America. Both undocumented immigrants and those with documents struggle when they come to the United States; because they have low education levels, (health concern) hardly get help from any federal programs, are affected by the fact they
Illegal immigrants should be given the right to benefits in the U.S. Illegal immigrants are willing to take all kinds of jobs that Americans don't want. According to Green Garage Blog “When it comes to doing household chores, cleaning, feeding the pets and taking care of an adult in need of care and attention, an illegal immigrant can take on these types of jobs. And knowing how busy working Americans are, it helps to get support from someone”(10 Critical Pros and Cons of Illegal immigration). Illegal immigrants can start working in the U.S doing jobs that Americans don’t want like the ones stated above. This could be the gateway to helping them get a pension, retirement plan, and a 401k. Most illegal immigrants have been in the U.S for a while
June 2012 was a year with a huge break through on illegal immigration, and the fight to set the decision right. Opportunities to improve immigrants careers, schooling, and lives, who were born in the United States and plan on staying are on the rise. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was created to provide immigrants with an opportunity to stay in the States “legally,” but continue their lives through education if graduating from an U.S. high school, going to college, serving in the armed forces, and eventually gain citizenship in the United States. Many U.S. citizen have many thoughts and views on illegal immigrants and immigration in general, and the pros and cons to having DACA support illegal immigrants to stay in the country. There is a huge decision in process currently in 2017 that is putting DACA in risk from being a Federal Program that would end up effecting many immigrants. Threatening deportation and the possibility of losing everything that DREAMers have worked up to and for and are continuing to work towards is at a huge risk of just being thrown away. Keeping DACA and protecting the DREAMers is important because mentally and physically they are just as much of a U.S. citizen as anyone else born in the U.S.
Undocumented immigrant is that he or she is a foreign-born person who doesn't have a legal right to be or remain in the United States. Some of the immigrants were brought to America when they were kids and this is the only country they have known. In the real sense they are Americans but without regal status America has been known to be a refuge immigrants, many have come to America and succeeded in life some even creating multibillion business entities. In my opinion, there should be a way to give them regal status as there are a large group of them who have no connection with their country of origin.
Whether to grant illegal immigrants full amnesty or not is a very controversial and important question in today's society. As David Decrosse explains, amnesty means, “lifting a penalty associated with an entire class of people who have violated a law.” Some people might think that American authority deporting illegal immigrants with little repercussions is amnesty, but full amnesty would mean letting the immigrants stay in America and have a regulated job. If amnesty is granted the economy would benefit, it is morally right, and it would not hurt the society in any way.
In the United States of America, for most regions the dominate religion is Christianity. Christian values of generosity, equality, and respect may come off as stable and universally accepted for improving human life. However, there is misconception to this thinking with these values it means Americans hold themselves to a high standard within there group, and lower out groups. In todays administration, President Donald Trump Christian values is influencing his actions against Undocumented Immigrants for the improvement of the citizens of the United States in order to, “Make America Great again”. Toleration of Undocumented Immigrants is a phenomenon that is rooted beyond an understanding, but more from psychological intentions.
Illegal immigration has been an important and serious issue for decades; which affects everyone, both Americans and immigrants themselves. Illegal Immigration has three main purposes: first to find a better life in the ?promise land?, second: free healthcare, and third: for criminal activity. Most illegal immigrants come to America with the best intentions for themselves and/or their families, but many others have alternative motives. The thing that must be remembered is that illegal immigration is illegal. It?s all in the name.
During 2015 and 2016, thousands of immigrants, from just Syria, Iraq, and other countries in the region, moved westward to the United States. These immigrants left their home countries for the U.S. seeking safety from the ongoing Syrian Civil War and terrorist groups such as ISIS. By not allowing illegal immigrants in the U.S. to become legal citizens, they will face deportation back into those unsafe environments in their home countries. Subsequently, more than 11 million immigrants are estimated to live in the U.S. today. These immigrants are factory workers, teachers, business owners, waiters, and people like every other American. Illegal immigrants should be allowed to become U.S. citizens because their home countries are too dangerous
Each country has their own border policy when it come to undocumented immigrants. On January 25, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin an "impassable physical barrier" between the United States and Mexico (Warner). He took advantage of the power of his position and bans the idea of traveling for tourists from 7 other countries as well, not only illegal immigrants. These countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Not letting those who are from those countries to travel to the United States as well as having national security stop them from getting through the airport is violating The Equal Protection Law(Brettschneider). Trump favors certain countries and religions over one another because
Pros and Cons of Illegal Immigration Illegal immigration is a huge issue residing in Canada. With approximately 35,000 to 120,000 illegal immigrants in Canada (National Post, Canadians Want Illegal Immigrants Deported: Pol) many pros and cons are present in such situations. One of the pros of illegal immigration is that the immigrants are promised a better life. Canada is a first world country and many immigrants illegally come here to have a better life. If the immigrants were to have a child here, the child will immediately become a citizen of Canada and gain better opportunities.
Illegal immigration a major topic in the USA right now. Whether it is border security to deportation and majors making sanctuary cities. It is a controversy no matter what angle you look at it. Although people think it is all bad there is some good also hidden in it that you might not see on the surface but also more bad.
Illegal immigration is a major problem which most of the developed countries face in the current economy, and it has been major political problem for the political parties in America (republicans and democrats) and over years each party has a different agenda to discuss the problem. Illegal immigration can be defined as a movement of people from a source country to the destination country without any legal documents and violates destination countries immigration laws. People have moved across lands over years to escape a war situation or to get better facilities in a different country. Countries have defined immigration laws to restrict people to enter their land without proper documentation as illegal immigration social and time
Illegal immigration is a problem that has occurred for many years and it has left many people clueless as how to solve it. Immigration is not a new concept but it has yet to find its solutuion. One particular state has taken matters into its own hands and has set up its own rules and regulations over illegal immigration. That particular state is Arizona and it passed the Senate Bill 1070. Senate Bill 1070 allows “state law enforcement officers to run checks on the immigration status of individuals whenever ‘reasonable suspicion exists’ that the person is unlawfully in the country” (“Arizona State Immigration Laws”). While this is a step towards ending illegal immigration, in my opinion, this is not the way it should be handled. There are better options to solving this problem and this method is not the suggested one.
In 2014, former President Obama introduced the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) policy which would allow for unauthorized immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens or permanent residents to be protected for deportation. This also included being granted a working permit. The DAPA program was projected to provide working authorization for over 3.7 million immigrants. According to a report done by the MPI-Urban Institute, it found that more than 10 million people live in a household with at least one adult that is eligible for DAPA (Capps). In order to be considered for DAPA program there were certain eligibilities that parents had to meet. Besides being the parent of a resident, the person had to be living in the U.S. since 2010, be a high school graduate or a GED recipient and had never been convicted of a crime. To receive approval the process would take a while because proof would have to be submitted for each eligibility. The DAPA application also had a fee total of $465 which included the employment authorization application and a fee for fingerprints (NILC). If put in effect, the program would’ve granted a renewable three-year working permit.