The Role Of Immigrants In The 21st Century

“Since the presidential election, there has been a sharp downturn in reports of sexual assault and domestic violence among Latinos throughout the country, and many experts attribute the decline to fears of deportation.” (Too Scared to Report Sexual Abuse. The Fear: Deportation.) With constant talk of things like deportation and building a wall on the Mexican-American border, it’s no surprise that immigrants and Latinos have stopped reporting incidents of rape and abuse. This article shows that immigrants no longer feel safe or protected in America. “‘I would call the police and use another name or make a neighbor call,’ said April, who came across the border from Mexico when she was about 8 and lives in Orange County. ‘When he came after me, he’d say that I would get sent back to Mexico and never see my kids again. I believed him for a long time.’” (Too Scared to Report Sexual Abuse. The Fear: Deportation.) Women who have risked everything to come to America and begin a new life are being manipulated and threatened to the point where they are beyond terrified to report any form of assault or domestic abuse that they have experienced in fear of being deported away from their children and family. This is becoming the sad reality of life as an immigrant in the United

Many applicants are not getting equal or fair treatment and are lacking help. Some immigrants that escape their own country are fleeing because they are missing the opportunities they could have in the United States. Millions of undocumented workers face discrimination and are taken advantage of in the workplace. As a result, the U.S. had a petition filed against them for failing to protect the rights of the workers (American Civil Liberties Union 132). There have been many cases or videos showing how citizens are criticizing and discriminating other races who have worked and been successful at becoming citizens. In one video, a woman told another Hispanic citizen that she needed to go back to where she came from and that no one wanted her here. The Southern Poverty Law

There are many vulnerable populations within the United States. One of the many vulnerable populations are undocumented immigrants. Undocumented immigrants also known as illegal immigrants according to Wikipedia (2016) is defined as “the migration of people across national boarders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country” (para 1). The United States of America has one of the largest population of immigrants. In this paper, I will be discussing the multiple stressors related to undocumented immigrants as well as the programs that can be used to help alleviate those stressors.

Almost all farm workers are illegal immigrants and are day laborers, must chase crops to make a living. Farm workers are also constantly at the mercy of variable adversities like natural disasters and bad weather. On average illegal migrant workers spend half of the year working and quarter of the year looking for a job. In addition illegal immigrants are hard to find a place to stay because they are in not in legal status and are required proper documentation by law to rent an apartment. On the other hand Illegal immigrants keep move place to place to find a job and looking for shelter to stay. Most of the illegal immigrants live with fear in face all time because of lack of job security and insecure life. According to Schlosser’s article "In 1951 the President 's Commission on Migratory Labor condemned the abysmal living conditions of illegal immigrants employed as migrant farm workers in the United States. At the time, workers were found living in orchards and irrigation ditches. They

For many years, people from all over the world have come to the United States seeking a better life for themselves, their spouse, their children and even their children's children. However, not every immigrant comes into this country legally and many of these illegal immigrants are poor, uneducated and may be carrying contagious diseases. They may arrive here via human trafficking, smuggling or other methods. There is one thing we know for sure that many of them choose to remain silence when they become victims. The three main reasons they become invisible victims are they are not aware they are victimized, they don't know the right way to ask for help and they are afraid to be fired or even deported.

In Texas, there was a woman who was trying to seek help from her husband who was abusing he Instead of the police department assisting her, she was reported to ICE, and was later deported to Mexico. Who was really being helped in that situation? Just the abusive husband who did not have any legal troubles from the situation. Detained immigrants under Obama’s administration were carefully looked after and treated with respect from their guards. Under Trumps administration, they are denied proper health opportunities, the guards do not speak their languages, and they are not carefully looked after. This is not helping anyone. These detained immigrants are being treated with extreme unfair disrespect for trying to make a better life for themselves. Legal citizens in the United States are also being treated unfairly if they look as though they have a hispanic decent. A waiter in California refused to attend to four latina customers unless they showed proper documentation. Would I, a white male be asked for proper documentation? Probably not. Trump’s administration is revealing more of the prejudice and racist Americans living in this country.

In “Everyday Illegal” Cecilia Menjivar explains how illegal immigrants are affected every day because of their illegal status. The undocumented immigrants wake up every day before dawn, they go to the fields to collect all the vegetables and fruits you are able to eat. Then, they go home after dusk. They do it every day for less than a half of what a person is expected to be paid. They are being exploited physically and mentally and not just because of the work conditions but, as Menjivar states “the undocumented (as well as their family members) often withdraw from public life for fear of detention and deportation” (725).

Even though we know immigration has occurred throughout all of U.S. history, the largest bits of immigration happened during just four distinct periods, they include the original British colonies, the continuous and westward expansion of the middle of the 19th century, and the peak of urbanization at the turn of the 20th century. The fourth peak period began in the 1970s and continues today. In these peak immigration periods, some fundamental transformations of the American economy have happened along side them. Of the first, European settlement cultivated and settled the Americas. The second allowed the starting United States to switch from a colonial system to an almost completely agricultural economy. With the industrial revolution, there was a big rise to a manufacturing economy during the third peak period. This propelled America to rise as one of the leading powers in the world. Then finally, the type that we study in class, is today's large-scale immigration that has coincided with increasing globalization and has been a part of the last stages of a transition from a manufacturing to a 21st century and seemingly

The fact that the immigration law of 140 years ago is still not seen as a type of repression and the American current civilization is still in denial of it, is what makes it ever so severe. From the first immigration policy: the Page Act of 1875, to the Immigration reform and Control Act of 1986 the immigration policies have remained the same. Both acts, among others are not written for the safety of one country but for the racial discrimination of one specific group of immigrants, now especially to Latin Americans. Because of this discrimination is why it is so essential to understand how the immigrants have continued to exclude people and have not changed over time.

Since the 9/11 terrorist attack took place in New York, the US has paid more attention to people crossing the borders, but are the people living in the US paying attention to what happens to good immigrants wanting a better life for their families? Put yourself in their shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the persons too. Immigrants are treated unfairly by long term detention centers, family separation, and racial discrimination. A story by Amy Backrem, an immigration journalism, interviews an immigrant woman who suffered terribly at the US border. She was caught in the US after fleeing her home and was put in an “icebox” for several days and left her and others to sleep on the floors.

“Do you know what immigrants are and what they have to go through?” Somewhere in this world, some people who live out of the country of the U.S. are struggling to get a better everything because the job that they have don't pay them well enough that they don't have the right amount of money. Those people are called immigrants. These immigrants choose to cross the border and risk their lives to find a better lifestyle or opportunities, and people don't want them here because they think that they are just taking up space or they don't belong here because they don't have any right to, or even because they are taking away job opportunities. This is a big problem because immigrants are being mistreated or not being treated like normal people.

Secondly, undocumented immigrant face abuse and unfair treatment from either employers or coworkers, such as threats, paid low wages, etc. Many undocumented immigrants are often treated with disrespects and often taken advantage by the people they work for. Employers might feel free to pay low wages and ignore dangerous conditions because the workers have no legal way of complaining. If they go to the authorities, they risk being arrested themselves and deported. If they complain or make trouble in other ways, the bosses can call immigration and have them taken away. In the article, “Protecting undocumented workers” by Harold Meyerson, It tells a story about Josue Melquisedec Diaz and his crew who are undocumented immigrants

One of the top priorities in the U.S. is their immigration system. The United States has always seen their immigrants as a negative factor in society. During the 20th century, the opportunities given to Mexican immigrants were very few because the majority of the time instead of getting help, they got more limitations which made it harder for the immigrants to either stay in the country or migrate to the U.S.

While, misinformation about the role of undocumented workers and the effects that they have is one problem with the immigration system of the US, there are other programs at fault. For example, The Guest Worker Program was created to provide seasonal non-agricultural jobs to foreigners and was made to give opportunities for people that need it. However, this program has some defects. After workers had been recruited they can only be working for one person; there is no opportunity for them to look for different job opportunities. This is a problem because it can lead to abuse from the employers. One instance of that is when Tim Fernholz on his article about the guestworker program says, “Moreover, workers who participate face serious abuses, often because the program permanently links them to a single employer giving them little power to demand their rights”(1).

S. has built a policing regime that uses immigration status to segregate people, thereby scapegoating people of color such as Aaron in a new way for worsening fiscal crisis. The negative impact of a dominant culture on immigrant and refugees, such as Aaron include relentless criminalization of immigration status and the use of incarceration through U.S. laws, policies, measures and practices-weakening and eliminating constitutional rights, particularly due process rights, and labor protections for noncitizens (Adams et al.,