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    the YouTube Videos, The American Prisons that Sterilized Female Prisoners and Immigrants for sale, and reading chapter six of our sociology textbook, it is evident that the two share common concepts and ideas. The four concepts that I will be discussing include white-collar crimes, denial promotes social change, techniques of neutralization, and labeling theory. The first concept that is applied in the video Immigrants For Sale is white collar crimes. According to our sociology textbook, white-collar

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    United States Immigrants faced were unlike most challenges any U.S. citizen would have faced.They were discriminated against, had to compete with, not only other immigrants but, with U.S. citizens for the same low-paying job. They had to deal with being put into separate housing units by race called ghettos which were often overcrowding which led to new sickness and diseases that made for only more challenges that were to be faced. During and after reconstruction several immigrants from around the

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    My first reason why undocumented immigrants should be allowed in the the U.S. is because they benefit the economy. According to Rowena Lindsay in How Immigration Helps the US Economy, immigrants makes the economy large, while leaving the Americans a bit better off of average (Lindsay 2016). This shows that immigrants enlarges the economy, but the Americans benefits from it more. The article also states “Additionally, an increasing number of immigrants are highly skilled workers with college degrees

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    seek for better lives for themselves or their descendants. Actually, immigrants may realize that they are too optimistic to their immigrant lives after they settled. Also, no for every country, newcomers into receiving country would be treated with optimism. Such as in Canada, there is much of peculiarity as may apply. As opposed to some of the OECD countries who have embraced skilled labour and absorbed majority of skilled immigrants into their systems, Canada has over the years been going through a

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    previous outlook on immigration, sometimes even current outlook. There are many different factors that can contribute to the decision to migrate, and Germany has been a prime location for immigrants. Population, economics, political indicators, and cultural perspectives are some examples of these factors. Most immigrants choose Germany for the job opportunities, and arrive as guest workers. According to the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees, there are a few different circumstances one may be allowed

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    reason most immigrants move over from their original country to the United States is that they are in search of a better life and more opportunities. The Chinese are no different because a huge population came during the 1900s in search of jobs. Many worked as farmers, miners and railroad builders. Americans were not too thrilled so they accused the Chinese of monopolizing their jobs. President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, signed the Chinese Exclusion Acts which prevented Chinese immigrants from immigrating

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    causing a boundary between the truth and the presumption of immigrants. Immigrants have always been the “friendly strangers” who’ve come to enjoy America’s freedom with ambitious mindsets. However, as soon as the immigrants started affecting the future of “true” Americans, these “friendly strangers” instantly were seen as evil intruders. The rumors spread of the “evil doings” of immigrants, which lead to the presumption that immigrants only had wrong intentions when migrating to our country. Many

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    because of gangs and violence. Well this is the life of an immigrant. Every year 8-12 million illegal immigrants are coming into the united states but 363,000 (83%) are being brought back with out a judge. They try so hard to have there children become an American but most fall short. Once they are in the united states illegally they have to find jobs and not get caught by the cops. When living in the U.S. seems easy to us, to the illegal immigrants its the most difficult thing in there lives.

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    Immigrant: Film Analysis

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    Analysis There are many difficulties which immigrants and immigrant's descendants encounter such as: language difficulties, identity crisis, economic, educational gaps and cultural differences. This film shows some difficulties and challenges which immigrants and immigrant's descendants experience from Carlos and his son, Luis point of view. In fact, most people migrate for economic reasons, in order to increase job opportunities (Rubenstein, 1983). In this case, Carlos thinks about his son's future

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    DACA: Illegal Immigrants

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    illegal immigrants, primarily focused on children. DACA means “deferred action for childhood arrivals” and it provides the option for a renewable 2 year period of deferred action of deportation. This gives eligibility for a work permit in the states. The united states president, Donald Trump, wants to terminate this policy. Some might say DACA helps keep our population regulated, stable, and safe. By letting people have the opportunity to work and give back to the states, the immigrants can have

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