...Critical Argument Analysis Essay ENG/215 1/26/2015 Jennifer Rainville | Immigration Control Introduction Illegal immigration is a big problem in the United States. If you ask around where you live you will get so many different views and arguments. Realistically immigration has resulted in the laws having more illegal immigrants live and work here in the United States. I have read three different articles on the pros and cons of illegal immigration. Immigration is becoming a normal thing in the United States and it shouldn’t be. Summary In the article “Let Us Give Thanks to Our Immigrants” by Rupert Murdoch, he shows some evidence to support his agreeing with illegal immigration. He shows support on how they have contributed to the education in America. Whereas in the articles “The Winners in Immigration: Public Prisons,” by Aubrey Pringle, and “Republican Views on Immigration,” by RepublicanViews.org shows support on why immigration is not good for the United States. Murdoch shows that many of the high paying jobs in the United States are held by immigrants or children of immigrants. Whereas Pringle and RepublicanViews.org shows that our government is suffering because of all the illegal immigrants in our country. Argument Murdoch is pro-immigration. He has provided evidence to show why he supports immigration. He also was an immigrant himself and all his family was from Scotland. He does state though that these days it’s hard to talk about the benefits...
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...years, illegal immigration has been the topic of public discourse (Wucker, 2007). The public discourse is mainly due to the sensitivity of the issue of illegal immigration and the burden attributable to the resulting population explosion is placing on the governments and citizens as well as legal residents of states and counties in the United States (Martin, 2008). The recent enforcement of U. S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. DHS) laws, which started in 2006, is working (Camarota & Jensenius, 2008) but the enforcement is not reducing illegal immigration, especially on the United States’ Southern border (Ewing, 2008). Baker et al, in a U. S. Department of Homeland Security report show, from 2006 to 2007 the illegal immigrant population increased by 4% (Baker, Hoefer, & Rytina, 2008). Illegal immigrant population is declining because of border enforcement of immigration laws (Camarota & Jensenius, 2008). The loss of jobs due to economic downturn in the country can also account for declining illegal immigrant population (Grayson, 2008). Despite the declining population of illegal immigrants due to enforcement, illegal immigration is still a challenge (Ewing, 2008). The persistence of illegal immigration on the border implies that the countermeasures in use in fighting illegal immigration on the borders appear to need revisions (Ewing, 2008). Statement of the Research Problem Statement of the Problem According to a report by US DHS on estimates of illegal immigrants in the...
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...Policy Analysis I CJA 464 October 7th, 2013 Policy Analysis I The constant battle of illegal immigration is a major issue in the United States that has been a constant issue for many years. The issues of illegal immigration are described as the migration of foreign citizens into the United States of America. This is done through illegal routes, such as hiding on boats porting in the United States, crossing through miles of treacherous terrain illegally to jump the borders of Mexico, and violating the agreement of a tourist visa as well as illegally boarding planes bound for the United States. It is a known fact that the men and women who enter this country do not meet the legal requirements to enter the United States from foreign countries. The research conducted will describe the issues of illegal immigration, whether the current policy is a regulatory or legislative-initiated policy, and the issue with the policy. A review of the possible constitutional violations will be described as well as if this issue or policy will affect the community, the accused, and the victims of any crimes committed by the illegal immigrants. The Issue The policy makers of the American government typically will take multiple routes in taking care of these issues before needing to develop a policy that will assist in combatting the concerns of the government. The existing immigration policies have been active for many years and for that same amount of time the policies have been questioned...
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...organizations; also many of them have a legal background. FAIR is a national, nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization of citizens that aim to improve border security, to stop illegal immigration, and to promote immigration levels coinciding with the national interests. Nationally FAIR has around 250,000 supporters nationwide. Their mission is to provide information on immigration related issues and advocate policies that best support American environmental, societal, and economic interests. FAIR’s staff is larger and has more people focusing on the representation, communication, and media aspects of the organization. They are still very qualified in terms of policy and legal background as well as devoted researchers. OCPP is a smaller more focused group than either IPC or FAIR as their goal is to use research and analysis to advance policies and practices that improve the economic and social opportunities of all Oregonians. They aim to help all Oregonians but the focus is on the low income individuals and all their decisions consider everyone affected by their work. I would say I used the content and discourse analysis method to gather information as I was looking at text and visuals to find similarities and differences. All three research reports are focusing on illegal immigrants and their effect on the economy either nationally or in the state of Oregon. Two of these studies, those from IPC and OCPP, provide the positives to having working...
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...cost Abstract. The rise in healthcare cost has been one of the most troubling economic events in recent years. Healthcare cost rises about 7.5 percent every year. The United States is known to be the nation with the highest amount spent on healthcare. Some research links immigrants to the fast paste in healthcare cost increase. Immigration became a top issue after the event of September 11th. Many believes immigration is the root cause of most of the economic problems taking place in the country today, they linked immigration to increase in healthcare cost, increase in crime rate, reason for low productivity, reason for loss of job opportunity for native- born and many more. But on the other hand, are these groups of individuals who believe immigrants are being used as “scapegoats” just because they don’t have a voice or stand in the society. They stressed the believe that even before immigration became a hot topic, the economy already had this problem in place, they denoted most research findings stating data were manipulated to support their mission; for immigrant do not visit medical establishment as often as indigenes and wonder how researchers came to the conclusion that immigrants spiked up healthcare cost. This subject is distinctly two sides and it’s difficult to find a neutral ground. There are many questions that need to be answered in order to get to the root of this issue. Some these questions are: 1. Are immigrant’s parasites to the healthcare system?...
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...THE RIGHTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN KENYA: LESSONS FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GODWIN KIPKIRUI LANGAT LAW/M/0985/09/12 ABSTRACT Many perspectives have been offered in the academic literature to explain the phenomenon of illegal immigration across the world. Unfortunately, most studies fail to adequately account for the rights of immigrants and how they are being violated. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study The purpose of this research is to show all the rights of illegal immigrants and the extent to which they are violated and/or respected in Kenya’s legal system by use of vital lessons from the American legal system. Respecting their rights is important because it shows that we are respecting the rule of law. It is important to note that all people are equal and therefore they should be treated equally without discrimination. People should also be allowed the freedom of movement and also that it should be ensured that the same freedom of movement should be regulated so that it ensures that one single country or state do not suffer the outcomes of immigration. Migration is a fact of life whereby people move to new countries to improve themselves economically and maybe to pursue their educations. Others leave to escape armed conflicts or other violations of human rights. Several statutory laws in Kenya provide means by which certain aliens/illegal immigrants can become naturalized citizens. Immigration law determines who...
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...for 3 million illegal immigrants, in returns for increased border security and penalties for companies “knowingly” hiring illegal immigrants. Aside from creating the H-2A visa seasonal employment, IRCA failed to create new avenue for legal immigration. The combination of amnesty and inadequate avenue for legal immigration exacerbated the problem for illegal immigration. The law was supposed to be a comprehensive solution with provision intended to clamp down on border security but those provision were never enforced and the subsequent explosion in illegal crossing has resulted in more than 11 illegal immigrants living in the United States now. Texas is the state with most illegal immigrants with an estimated of 1.8 million illegal immigrant living in Texas now, compared to 1.1 million in 2000 (???). In ten years, that represents increase of 54 percent or 70,000.00 persons each year coming to the State illegally. The amnesty of 1986 brought many benefits to the illegal immigrants but also the immediate family members such as spouses, children and parents were also benefited because they could join the family member in the United States later on. I was personally one of the benefited with this amnesty because I could immigrate to the United States in the late 1990’s. During the last 20 years the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has implemented significant changes on their strategic to legalize immigrant in the Unites...
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...National Healthcare and Immigration Roberto Macedo ITT Tech Mr. Berndt EN1320 Composition I Healthcare and Immigration What is healthcare? Healthcare is a service that is supposed to be provided to a country’s citizens that the U.S., for some reason, cannot get right (shocker!). Meanwhile, Canada has no problem handing medical care to its citizens for free, that’s right free. Why can’t the U.S. be as caring as Canada? On a side note I hope they take Bieber back. The people (the ones that aren’t fanatically crazy for him because of raging teenage hormones) of the U.S. do not want his presence here and no longer will we the people suffer from headaches due to his annoyance. No longer will important political or non-political events that are being streamed by news media (by which news stations consider “breaking news”) be interrupted. At this very moment my family and I have no medical insurance, thus resulting in $3000 of medical bills that I am not paying simply put “because I don’t feel like paying 3 grand for a f**king checkup that tells me my spouse has depression problems once every so often, it’s a given.” What I do know for sure is my son is eligible for Nevada Checkup; however, seeing that the online healthcare system that was supposed to make applying for medical insurance so easy for all of its U.S. citizens just happened to be in a few nice words “a piece of s**t!” My son (who is turning one this 24th of February) still has no insurance. I have been...
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...Erick M Hudtwalcker Illegal Immigration English 102- Katema Lee Due Date: 04/14/08 Illegal Immigration The United States of America is a country made up of millions of people. Its society has many different cultures and religions. These blends of diversity make up America. The United State’s way of life is based on how people’s ancestors grew up and by the different traditions passed down from generation to generation. America is unique from most other countries in that she was founded by immigrants from numerous other countries. From Plymouth Rock in the seventeenth century to Ellis Island in the twentieth, people from every where came to America some were fleeing religious persecution and political chaos. Most of them came for economic reasons and were part of extensive migratory systems that responded to changing demands in labor markets; others, came here by choice and all eventually were integrated into the “American society” to become a homogenous people. These immigrants had a vision, work ethic, values, fortitude, imagination, and pioneering spirit which enabled her to become the greatest nation on earth. While it took longer for some than others, they and their descendents ultimately became "One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all." Many, but not all, modern immigrants to the United States are not much different. However, unlike the distant past, immigration now consists of two components:...
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...California’s Illegal Immigration Almost all American’s are immigrants to this country, at some point illegal. After so many years of this country being taken over and developed, the history of where the people came from remains in textbooks and with the history majors. Now many states of this nation are again being captivated with illegal immigrants. The state of California is getting hit hard with the pouring of immigrants legal and illegal. “The best estimates suggest that California was home to about 2.8 million illegal immigrants in 2006”. California also has the highest population of immigrants in the nation (Johnson par.1). “Historically, immigrants have moved into the state to become major elements of the labor force, often taking jobs that others found undesirable. Agricultural work, piecemeal garment production, and day construction are among areas of the economy that have been filled by immigrants” (Gerston 2). The flow of illegal immigrates to California started since the states birth in 1850, with an on flow of people from Asia and Mexico. It wasn’t till the end of World War II that the on flow of illegal immigrants would start to take labor and benefits from the state (Gerston 3). Then from the mid 1960’s to mid 80’s an illegal immigration boom accorded. A program called the Bracero Program was made to supply steady cheap labor to agricultural growers in California (Nadadur 1040). This boom set a course to a population explosion of undocumented workers and...
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...Immigration is one of the more debated topics in America nowadays. Historically, immigrants have come to the U.S. because of difficult times living in their home countries. Many immigrants choose to move, some even get forced to move, but most migrants do it in a search for a better future. “There are many reasons for a country to attract immigrations; the most common reason is the need for labor.”(Annan, 149) Immigrants perform services that the host population is willing to consume but is either unwilling or incapable to provide for itself. Jobs vary from highly skilled work in research to less skilled jobs in fields such as nursing the sick and elderly, working on construction sites, running shops that are open 24/7, or taking care of households and their housework, often while the owners are pursuing their own career goals. American companies use of hiring immigrants’ instead of Americans benefits them in three different ways: first, immigrants fulfill the demand for low wage jobs; second, immigrants help countries increase their globalization; and third, immigrants help balance a countries economy. One reason that companies hire immigrants instead of Americans is to fulfill the demand for low wage jobs. While unemployed people in the U.S. first think about what their wages will be, immigrants from developing countries usually don’t care what kind of job it is as long as they get paid. So immigrants take certain low paid jobs that the existing populations of the U.S. don’t want...
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...wish to fulfill their dream. This country was build by immigrants who sought a better opportunity, however, what was in the beginning of 20th century, drastically changed in 21st. The ongoing debate is more evolving regarding illegal immigrants and anchor babies. This issue is seeking more and more attention by the government and political figures. How does the government should deal with increasing numbers of illegal immigrants and increasing population of anchor babies. When this issue arises in the debate, we turn to 14 Amendment of Constitution, which states; All persons born or naturalized in the United states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the united States. The intent of the original amendment is not to facilitate illegal aliens defying U.S. Law and obtaining citizenship for their offspring, or obtaining benefits at taxpayer expense. The United States is unusual in it's proposal to extend citizenship to anyone born on its soil. If we turn to other developed countries that have developed their citizenship practice to eliminate the problems caused by the practice of birthright citizenship. The anchor baby problem has grown to such large proportions that the united States cannot avoid it. It is only logical to correct the problems that is getting bigger and bigger this burden falls on Congress to adopt legislation clarifying the meaning of the 14th amendment. According to Pew Hispanic analysis finds that nearly four-in-five (79%) of the 5.1 million...
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...the Quota Act in 1921 and the National Origins Act in 1924. However over the years different issues arose on this topic; some of which are job threatening, deportation, population overgrowth, devaluing of property, and increased crime rate. Legal as well as illegal immigrants encounter problems to some extent. The questions of who belongs? Who stays? And who goes? Are often widely debated topics by citizens of the United States? It has also been a focal topic in presidential debates. Others made reference to the DREAM Act by claiming that the political parties fail to address the heart of the immigration problem. Immigration has impacted the United States socially, economically, and politically. Like Global migration, interregional migration also creates issues, in the United States. Introduction The topic of immigration can be broken down into many different categories, to deal with different aspects that affect people. Many Americans are of the opinion that America is for Americans and immigrants are not welcome. History teaches us that the Indians were the first set of people to live on this wonderful land. This means that all the other groups are descendants of immigrants. It is known that America was built by immigrants, which means this...
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...may like to believe all articles are fairminded and presented in a manner where all viewpoints are relevant, unbiased and unprejudiced, this may not always be the case (Paul & Elder, 2012). Inaccurate articles may also be the result of the elements of irrationality which may find their foundation in human egocentrism and sociocentrism. In cases of human egocentrism, people view everything in relation to themselves. In regards to human sociocentrism (or group egocentricity) situations are viewed with the perspective of one’s group (Paul & Elder, 2012). Both of these elements are huge roadblocks to reasonable thinking. Examples of the impact of these factors can be found...
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...PAD510 Intro. Public Policy Analysis July 17, 2013 Dr. Phillip Neely Jr. Immigration is an issue at the heart of America. Today, with the exception of the few appropriately named Native Americans, every American is an immigrant or a descendent of an immigrant. In recent years the discussion of immigration policy in the United States has focused mainly around the regulation and selection of legal immigrants and the control and penalties regarding illegal immigrants. The historical perspectives of former President George H. W. Bush, and President Obama clearly shows how different the immigration issue is for republicans and democrats alike. Each party appears to be pro-immigration for varying reasons. President Bush found that during his time as governor of Texas that many immigrants entered the country through illegal means as a viable workforce. During his second term as President he also found that many Americans did not agree with giving undocumented immigrants a path to legal citizenship, and found it difficult to come up with a program for immigration reform. Some of former President Bush’s comprehensive immigration reform included: 1. Introduce a guest worker program, which would include a tamper-proof identification card 2. Enhance border security 3. Stricter immigration enforcement at businesses, which would reduce exploitation and help slow demand for illegal workers 4. Promote assimilation by requiring immigrants to learn English 5....
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