...The need for reform of the immigration system in the United States Introduction The lack of results from the Obama administration on the overall reform of the immigration system of the United States is due to the inability of the immigration system to regulate increasing legal admissions and growth of irregular immigration of a regional provenance. The political viability of the reform depends on the consent of the elected Republican opposition. This has contributes to organize structural blockage for reform for over fifteen years, evidencing the high degree of polarization of the immigration topic issue in American society. Given the circumstances, the likelihood of a reform in the next years is very uncertain. This paper aims to explain the lack of results from the Obama administration on the reform of the immigration system. It will analyze first, the main motivation for reform of the immigration system: it has become unable to properly regulate a rapidly growing immigration. It will then offer, a series of explanatory reasons for failure: the low priority given to the immigration issue, errors, but especially the structurally cleaving nature of the reform. Why is the reform of the immigration system a necessity? The Characteristics of the US Immigration System To understand the need for reform of the US immigration system, it is necessary to go back to first principles ensuring its operation. The United States regulates the admission of foreigners on their territory...
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...Nery Mejia Ms. Ybarra English 1301 24 April 2015 Immigration Reform in the United States: What would you do if you lived in a country with fewer opportunities and options for a better future, and you wanted to improve your life? Would you immigrate to developed countries like the United States, either legally or illegally? That is what many of our ancestors have done. We can look at the past and present history in the United States. As humans we immigrate to other places due to many reasons often searching for better pay, family, and to find opportunities to be successful. At this time, “about 11.7 million undocumented immigrants are living in the United States illegally, a population that has not varied much over the last three years but may recently be increasing again, according to new estimates published by the Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project.” Most of the undocumented people, have families and want to live permanently in the U.S. Some people say they should not be here and the U.S. government should send them back to their country because they came illegally (breaking our laws). However, others believe that the U.S. government should pass the new law proposed by President Obama legalizing all undocumented immigrants already here, with no criminal records, to give them a chance to live here as legal residents to have the opportunity to work legally. For the undocumented who have families to continue to live without fear of being deported...
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...CROSSING BORDERS IN THE NEW IMPERIALISM (published in Colin Leys and Leo Panitch (eds), Socialist Register, London: Merlin, 2004) Bob Sutcliffe In words which seem uncannily relevant today, two mid-nineteenth century fugitives (in today’s language asylum seekers) wrote that “the bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world-market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country”[i]. This cosmopolitanization (or in today’s vocabulary globalization) turned out to be neither as continuous nor as complete as they expected. By the beginning of the following century other emigrant followers of these two men began to argue that the full economic integration of world capitalism would be prevented by strife between the industrialized countries. Imperialism in this sense seemed to mean that globalization would be a task for post-capitalist society. This appeared to be confirmed by the following half century of war, protectionism and deep economic crisis until, in the middle of the twentieth century, cosmopolitan capitalism made its big comeback. Globalization is more than anything else the feature of today’s capitalism which leads many to argue that there is a new imperialism, or even that imperialism has been replaced by something else (for instance, by “post-imperialism” or by “Empire”). The real newness of the present is, however, debatable. In trying to discern the character of an age, it is tempting to argue that everything...
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...Immigrants life for almost twenty years until now? American’s protests to Chinese immigration took numerous forms, and for the most part originated from financial and social pressures, and additionally ethnic separation. Most Chinese workers who went to the United States did as such keeping in mind the end goal of migrate to USA was to send money to China to help their families. non-Chinese immigrants felt that Chinese migrants were taking they employments, which prompted non-Chinese to loathe about Chinese workers. Moreover, as with most immigrant societies, a lot of Chinese settled in their own neighborhoods, and stories spread of Chinatowns as spots where extensive quantities of...
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...Introduction Immigration has grown to be an important part of every business and it has become vital that immigration laws are carefully managed to ensure they yield the biggest benefits to the host nation. As more immigrants seek immigration in the USA, UK and other developed nations, many of the nations are restricting and limiting the legal registration of immigrants (Ezell, et al., 2013). But it’s important to consider the facts behind the tightening of immigration laws since they have caused more damage than benefit to many of the affected economies. Negative Effects on the Native Born Workforce While the lack of immigration declares that immigrants cannot work in a nation, many continue to seek unofficial employment at considerably reduced wages. Many businesses and employers in the developed nations are also more than willing to hire the illegal immigrants secretly as this helps them save money and be more competitive in the market. In the government’s eye, the illegal immigrants cannot secure legal employment officially but it has been observed many are working unofficially on casual, freelance and remote basis (OECD, 2012). This is greatly affecting...
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...Immigration: Positive Net Benefits Immigration has been a growing hot topic in the United States for decades. Obviously, immigration is not a new issue. Over the past couple of hundred years there have been several events that have spurred an increase of immigration in America and around the world. Today’s number of immigrants are in the millions, and according to critics those numbers have social and economic affects. Although host countries have to deal with the negative aspects of it, overall immigration has a positive net effect on a country. The difficulty comes in balancing the good with the bad. For example, a more specific issue of immigration in the U.S. has been illegal immigration. Critics say that undocumented immigrants threaten the American social fabric, native economy, national security, and everything American ("Usa immigration problems, n.d." ). Living in poor economic conditions, people from Mexico were illegally traveling to the U.S. with hopes of improving their quality of life. Undocumented aliens were such a concern that the U.S. built walls hundreds of miles along the border to strategically prevent people from illegally crossing over, a costly way to deter people considering the border is over a thousand miles long. Since the walls construction immigration from Mexico has decrease significantly, although it is mostly due to the weak U.S. economy. Some other costs are social. Such as, the effect of illegal immigration on America’s social insurance...
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...murdering order to get to various places in the United States. Texas border brings in more than half of the immigrants who illegally and legally come into the United States. Jon 13 34-35 gives us direction on how to treat others regardless if they are immigrants her illegally or legally . One status does not dictate this. “34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” People find it hard to pull up the roots that they have held tight to and move to a place they have never been. Although this is hard millions of non-American citizens have made the decision to move. The immigration that had the most impact took place around the eighteen hundreds, this was due to the Great Depression through the hard times in the 1930s. During this time over 60 million people immigrated too different parts of the world but more than half of those immigrants came to the United. States. Globalization and movement of labor has a wide arena that it touches as a result of this. People tend to move willing and unwilling for the cause of labor. The definition of labor is work especially hard work. Combine that with movement and you have a person that works and moves in order to find more or better work. Research shows that a lot of the times people become so desperate for work that migration begins to take place...
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...Immigration is what carves the picture of the modern world. Travelling from one country to other for trading had been popular since historic times. Immigration means the one way flow of the population to a specific place or country. People move out of the native country or state for various reasons. Better employment opportunities and a desire for a better living and future are the main driving forces. Though, in present times there are several other reasons like immigrating for education and/ or seeking political asylum in neutral countries etc. As said earlier, immigration forms the present face of the world. America is nothing more than unison of immigrants coming from different parts of the world. Even, the Aryans, who are the predecessors of north Indians, are believed to have migrated from Middle Asia to India. Immigration acts in both directions of development, the positive as well as negative. On one hand, it opens the way for talented and professional work force from the other lands. But it also enhances the rate of competition and struggle for sustenance for the locals. Several youths leave their birth land and move to the developed nations hoping to face a better future and improvised life. Some of them do it in a right manner by following the proper procedures of attaining visa. They are the true beneficiaries of this global exchange of man power. But then there are considerable numbers of youths who are misguided by the traders. They adopt the back door entry rule...
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...Illegal Immigration: The Good; the Bad Sara Brown ENGL102 – Composition 2 September 27, 2014 Professor Chris Baron Southwestern College Professional Studies Illegal Immigration: The Good; the Bad Throughout the history of the United States of America, illegal immigration has affected many governmental decisions and led to many political debates. Many Americans believe that allowing illegal immigrants to live in the USA is detrimental to our economy. For as long as I can remember, this topic has been a major discussion in the national news syndicate as well. One can open any newspaper, turn on any news channel, or visit any news site on the internet and one of the major headlines will have something to do with illegal immigration. With the overwhelming amount of undocumented immigrants in the USA, many questions are asked about the effects they are having on our economy. In the early 1600s, immigrants began arriving in the USA. As a country, the majority of the population was English. In 1607, so called “Foreigners” began to enter the country. Non-English immigrants were coming from mainly the British Isles, Whales, Scotland, and Ireland (Garis, R, 1927). During the year of 1637, Massachusetts was one of the first to implement a law regarding residents or colonies allowing immigrants into their homes. The Governor, John Winthrop, supported the law that states that any immigrants must have permission from the authorities to be in the colony (Hendricks...
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...School (social diversity / knowledge...) The Internet / social networks... Space and Exchanges = movement of people: Immigration. Gap Year Part 2: relation between the documents studied in class and the notion immigration = mass movement: history of immigration to the USA (video) causes (video + propaganda document) hopes and disillusions / the American Dream (Rose + propaganda document) Pros and cons (“enough is enough” “Mexican woman”...) Gap Year = individual movement: definition (take a gap year: home page/ web site) reasons (home page web site + guide for parents) Pros and cons (class discussion + the Camel book mobile) Space and Exchanges Proposition de plan pour l'expression orale Part 1: presentation of the notion Space and Exchanges = movement of money: Trade (the basis of all societies) The Stock Exchange (money rules the world) Globalization (the world has become a small village) Space and Exchanges = movement / communication: School (social diversity / knowledge...) The Internet / social networks... Space and Exchanges = movement of people: Immigration. Gap Year Part 2: relation between the documents studied in class and the notion immigration = mass movement: history of immigration to the USA (video) causes (video + propaganda document) hopes and disillusions / the American Dream (Rose + propaganda...
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...Americans can agree that our immigration system is definitely broken. The problem is that we cannot agree on how this system should be fixed. On April 23, 2010, the Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, decided that she would attempt a solution to the problem. She signed into law one of the nation’s toughest bills focused on illegal immigration in her state. This law re-ignited the immigration debate all across the United States and brought out many protestors from both sides. Some of the issues at hand are amnesty, healthcare costs, and the increasing crime that illegal immigrants bring into our country. To begin with, does amnesty encourage illegal immigration? Secondly, what does it do to our already fragile health care system? Thirdly, what kinds of crimes are being committed by some illegal immigrants? In my opinion we need to do whatever we can to secure our borders and only allow those who come in legally into our country. Amnesty, in the case of illegal immigrants, is to grant legal status to those who have entered our country illegally. It forgives the fact that they have entered the country illegally, and forgives other illegal acts such as driving and working using false documents. In 1986 under President Ronald Reagan, our country granted what was supposed to be a “one time only” amnesty for approximately 2.7 million illegal aliens. At that time, Congress also enacted a new set of laws that were aimed at eradicating illegal immigration. What were the results of...
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...English essay – The Arizona immigration law We get an assignment, to write an essay about the Arizona immigration law. We get some material as, facts, articles and interviews with Barack Obama. In the following part I would make a summary of the materials. To discuss the problems about the Arizona immigration law, I need to know something about the US political system, how you approve the law. In the USA, there are two types of laws: The Federal legislation there applies to all Americans and all the states. It's about everything that is common to all. For example, the civil rights, immigration law, foreign policy laws. There is also The State legislation that stands for the law in the single states, things there can be different from state to state as taxes. In this text we will mostly work with the state Arizona, where the governor signs the Immigration law. ” Immigration - local impact of Arizona law” summary In TV-program about “the Arizona Immigration law”, are about the state Arizona and a new immigration law. The new law makes it possible for Arizona’ police department to check every person they suspect as illegal immigrants. They can hold them at the station, to the suspects background where discovered. Neighborhood state California, see the opportunities in the law because of the many immigrants in California. “President Obama on fixing the broken Immigration system” summery The American President Barack Obama talks about the immigration system. He said every American...
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...answer to what the people of America what for the outcome of the 14th Amendment. It truly is something to bring up as our nation is changing and some of the old ways should be brought up and discussed in Senate, House of Representatives, and even in our own daily lives. The country that we live in gives us the choice to voice our views of government and what should stay or go. This paper will discuss what my view of how the 14th Amendment should be handled. Many Americans believe that the 14th Amendment is influencing illegal immigration but the truth...
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...Pierre Villa Toca Gina Perkins English 1301 Co.7 7 April 2014 Illegal Immigration with Mexico If you were in a situation where migrating to another country would be the best thing to do, what would you do? A lot of issues surge when dealing with immigration in the United States. We all are considered immigrants because a long time ago back when Columbus discovered this land in 1942 Europeans came in and took over the land where Native Americans had been living for many years. In other words every white in America is descendant from immigrants of some other country but yet there are people in USA that say Mexicans don’t have the right to immigrate. It’s very ironic that such people say that, it’s like saying, there are two immigrants and one says to another “You don’t have the right to immigrate, only I do.” There is a range of positive and negative aspects of immigration. Weather one should take a side for either against it or not, it’s up to oneself to decide. The definition of an immigrant or illegal alien is best summarized as a person coming in to a different country and settling without the countries permission to stay. ------------------------------------------------- The question, should amnesty be given to illegal immigrants?, Brings up a lot of controversy in all of USA. Mexican immigrants are willing to work out in fields picking crops, cleaning houses, bus tables, etc. all these jobs are jobs that immigrants are very eager to do so, even at minimum wage...
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...History of immigration goes back decades in American History. The founding fathers of America could be considered immigrants. According to MPI, Migration Policy Institute almost 41 million immigrants, or 13% of the total population, are present in the United States of America is known as the melting pot of the world because people of all nationalities and backgrounds dream to land in America for a slice of the freedom we, as Americans, so effortlessly boost and pride ourselves in. In the present day, immigration remains a hot topic among citizens and legislation. The current policy in place is rather complex and can be conf ing for majority of the time. The issue of taking in migrants is practically non-existent. The current policy in place can be summarized into the following standards: “the reunification of families, admitting immigrants with skills the benefit the United States economy, protecting refugees, and promotion of diversity.” (American Immigration Council, 2014) While many may agree that the current system does not work for the size of the issue immigration proves to be; the Commander in Chief has a plan to try to fix what seems to be broken. The President’s plan, President Obama’s Common-Sense Immigration Reform, consists of four main principles. Those principles are continuing to strengthen border security, cracking down on employers that hire undocumented workers, create a path to earned citizenship, and finally streamlining the legal immigration systems. Moving...
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