...why many immigrants had come to the United States was because of the fact that they were seeking economic opportunity but for some immigrants such as pilgrims, they were searching for religious freedom in the 1600’s. Between 1880 and 1920, it was a time of rapid industrialization and urbanization which had resulted in America receiving more than 20 million immigrants. Beginning in the 1890s, the majority of arrivals were from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. The new laws in 1965 ended the quota system that had favored European Immigrants. Today, the majority of the country’s immigrants come from Asia and Latin America. US citizens have certain responsibilities as active members of this country and these responsibilities require you to participate in the political process by registering and voting in elections. Also, serving on a jury is another important required responsibility. Finally, respecting different opinions, ethnic groups, cultures and religions found in this country. Illegal immigrants living and often working in the United States have some rights under the US constitution despite their immigration status. Even if you are in this country illegally, the fourteenth amendment still applies to these non-documented illegal immigrants. The fourteenth amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. As for regular legal citizens, illegal citizens still have the right to defend themselves and file law suits. Today, illegal immigration...
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...The US Immigration Law of Arizona - A In the United States of America, you can experience a lot of immigration, just like you do here in Denmark. But it is very different compared from us in Denmark to the United States. Is it very strict to cross the border and come over to America. And why is it so? Is it because the government and the borders don’t tolerate that everyone just come in to the land and do what ever they want. And actually I think that is absolutely fair, because you can’t just wander around and do what you like, that is now how the system works. The border patrol in Arizona has got some new laws, for themselves actually, which makes the capable of asking pedestrians who might seem strange. If the border patrol thinks that there is something fishy about the person they spot, they are allowed to ask for ID to see if the person actually lives in the US, and are not from Mexico, Guatemala etc. When I’m talking about immigration from Mexico and Guatemala, I’m talking about Illegal Immigration. Illegal immigration to the United States, also referred to in the media as undocumented immigration, is the act by foreign nationals of entering the United States without government permission. And now we come the biggest question: Why are their so many immigrants heading over to the United States? There are actually many reasons and explanations to this and I will comment on some of them. Overpopulation is just one of them. The reason behind this is because that...
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...Alec Heininger November 9, 2013 Sociology 001 * Helen Thorpe’s novel, Just Like Us, details the coming of age of four Mexican girls, of whom two are illegal immigrants, as they struggle to break free of the burden placed upon them by the prejudice of the American society. * C. Wright Mills defined the sociological imagination as "the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society"(Mills, 1959). This important sociological principle is “the ability to see the impact of social forces on individuals; especially on their private lives” (Scheible, 2013). Thorpe establishes her aversion for illegal immigration not because of the effect it has on America but because of the hardships it forces the immigrants to suffer. The author witnessed the impact of social forces on Marisela as each of her friends was accepted into universities. Marisela had to feign her enthusiasm, knowing she would not qualify for the same opportunities because of her legal status (Thorpe, 2009, 45). Thorpe used the sociological imagination to understand the internal pressures of Marisela’s status. By imaging how the social burdens of Marisela’s status affected her, Thorpe saw how it impacted Marisela’s private life. In addition, when Yadira’s mother was arrested for using a fake Social Security card, Thorpe looked into how this affected Yadira, and realized that Yadira was not recognized as “[existing] in the eyes of officialdom” (Thorpe, 2009, 137). By applying C. Wright...
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...fabric which, began centuries ago. Only to become a hot topic in the US in recent years with its primary focus being illegal immigrants. Illegal immigration is when people enter a country without government permission. As of 2008 the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in the US which is down from 2007‘s 12.5 million people. Although the Center for Immigration Studies estimates are very different from other estimates that range from 7 to 20 million. While the Pew Hispanic Center estimated in March of 2009 there are 11.1 million illegal immigrants and that number is from March 2007’s peak of 12 million. The exact number of illegal immigrants is unknown because they are illegal immigrants. A 2005 report from the Pew Hispanic Center stated that 22% of illegal immigrants were from Latin American Countries, mostly from Central America, 13% from Asia, 56% from Mexico, with 6% between Europe and Canada, and 3% were from the rest of the world and Africa. In the United States alone every day there are almost 70,000 foreigners to migrate here. Within those 70,000 over 60,000 of them are businessmen, travelers and students; there are about 5,000 that are illegal immigrants; with 2,000 legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants have been and has continued to outnumber the number of legal immigrants, which has been going on since the 1990’s. It’s partially because of this that US lawmakers have recently made an even bigger attempt at enforcing immigration...
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...Anchor Babies There are millions of stories that we hear everyday of how people came to US in pursue of better life for them and their children. Each story is unique, passionate, and encouraging; as a person I do realize that each person has a right to better their life through hard work, and 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...
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...topics as people decide who will gain their precious votes. A central issue that evolved became the problem of illegal immigration as it pertains to the United States border and more exclusively, the border of Mexico. The issue at hand is the problem of too many Mexican immigrants crossing over the United States border illegally. Immigration has been at the forefront of American politics for some time now. The issue is not only of recent concern, but of past concern as well. For most of the United States’ history, illegal immigrants have continually crossed the border into the United States. The branches of government involved in this situation is most likely all three of them. The judicial branch has no direct connection as of yet, but a court case can be seen in the future having to deal with this issue of illegal immigration. The executive and legislative branches are most directly involved by dealing with the creating of new legislation and executing it. The legislative branch has passed the necessary laws needed to deal with the illegal immigration issue such as the 700 mile fence across the border of the US and Mexico. The public officials involved with illegal immigration are numerous. The President all the way down to the small city officials cope and strategize about this issue. Cities and state official deal with the presence of illegal immigrants on a closer level, especially a major border state like Arizona and Texas. All congressmen and Whitehouse officials...
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...Verification and Illegal Immigration Control Act, an a Bill that describes that it amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a toll free telephone or electronic media based on employment eligibility verification. The Bill was initially introduced to the House Subcommittee and to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security at February 28th, 2013. Rep. DeFazio, Peter A., sponsored this Bill in February 5th, 2013. He’s reasons towards representing this Bill was such, Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to make employer participation in the basic pilot program mandatory two years after enactment of this act. If the Bill is passed it would apply employment eligibility verification requirements to labor service agencies. It revives civil and criminal penalty provisions. It affects illegal immigration and their work because it makes sure all the labor service’s workers are verified of not being an illegal immigrant to work for cheaper wages. The government would as well be affected to help regulate illegal immigrants from not working or sneaking over to our country. A lot more illegal immigrants would be seized and smugglers, labor service bosses would also get caught and sentenced for having illegal immigrant workers. Not only will illegal immigrants and the government be affected but also will our citizens. Citizens can ensure their community is safe from illegal immigrants and criminals...
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...Canal The All-American Canal and Its Effects on Illegal Immigration Abstract This paper explores three public articles and one segment of 60 minutes that explore the effects of the All-American Canal and the ongoing battle against illegal immigration. The canal is owned by the federal government and operated by the Imperial Irrigation District (IID). This paper will examines both sides of the moral obligation and responsibility of the government and the immigrants that attempt to cross the canal. Keywords: Imperial Irrigation District, responsibility Claim: “It is permissible for the federal government to allow the drowning deaths of illegal immigrants at the All-American Canal to continue because they aren’t required to provide life saving equipment. Explanation of the claim: The All-American Canal is an aqueduct that conveys the last drops of Colorado River water into the Imperial Valley in California. The canal provides drinking water for 9 cities and irrigates over 500,000 acres. It was built in the 1930’s by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and completed in 1942. It’s owned by the federal government and operated by the Imperial Irrigation District (IID). Two thirds of our winter fruits and vegetables are grown using this water. The canal creates jobs in the farming industry and half of the people who pick the crops are illegal aliens who cross the canal from Mexico. The problem is the canal...
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...a quality education. In addition, they also wanted to escape oppression or to experience “The American Dream.” According to website, “The American Dream is an idea that suggests that anyone in the US can succeed through hard work and has the potential to lead a happy, successful life.” ((McMahon & Joseph, 2014) From 1776 to 1875, the United States had an open- door policy toward immigration. The law was so open-door, that Congress passed a law in 1864 to encourage immigration to the United States Devine (2008.). Due to the influx of immigrants the law has been modified many times. President Bill Clinton signed the Illegal Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996. This act addressed the problem of illegal immigrants. He wanted a firm but reasonable approach to address the issue. He desired strong boarder control, ensurance that American jobs were made available for legal works along with a policy that was pro-family. This plan would decrease the number of legal immigrants while preserving family by preserving family reunification and strengthening protections for U.S. Workers. Per Bill Clinton for President (1996) According to Americans Working to Stop Illegal Immigration under the leadership of President George W. Bush there was an increase in illegal immigration and a decrease in immigration enforcement....
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...something unfamiliar, disturbing, and distasteful; a creature from out of space. In a sense illegal immigrants fit that description in some individual's opinion, but that doesn't define those who are here legally. In reality, I feel they should replace the term alien with something like: an individual of foreign descent who is in the United States "illegally"; in other words an illegal immigrant. As for The Rights of the Alien - related to the "elements of the Constitution's amendments (the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and the 14th) stating such as search and seizure, self-incrimination, trial...
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...various locations around the world but for a better life for themselves and the family they often do so . Families do so for better wages to avoid crime, better education and sometimes are forced to. Immigrants take a chance for a better life by facing, crime, kidnapping and 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...
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...Immigration | The Impact of Legal and Illegal Immigration in The United States | Sandra Jakobsen | The United States is a combination of people from the whole world. Every year millions of immigrants enter the borders in hope of a better life living the ‘’American Dream’’. The opportunities and freedom the nation can provide motivates these people to leave everything they have and do all it takes to start a new life. The majority of ethnicities that are highest of the country’s immigration status are Europeans, Asians and Latin’s, but the people behind the border to Mexico dominate these statistics. Legal or illegal these people have a huge impact on the American society and many reforms have been proposed and experimented to solve the problem of illegal immigration, unfortunately not many seems to work. As John O'Sullivan once said; “More people want to come to America, and if we don’t allow them to do so legally, they will do so illegally.” Today there are approximately 11.1 million illegal immigrants in the country and this controversial issue has become a great burden for the American people and American society. There are however solutions to this problem. New immigration laws must be implemented in order to establish equality, justice and opportunities in which American citizens and immigrants both benefit. Legal Immigration 12.5 percent (2010) of the US population is considered legal immigrants (US Census). The people that are considered legal are divided into...
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...Another popular claim by proponents of a closed border is that immigrants are criminals and therefore will increase the crime rate and so the American borders should be closed to them. On the contrary, reports have shown that immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes. Jacob Stowell et al. found that areas where large numbers of immigrants were present, crimes in these areas were reduced (Stowell, Messener and McGreever). The Cato Institute in his report entitled, “Criminal Immigrants: their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin” comes to the same conclusion as they found that immigrants were less likely than native-born Americans to be incarcerated (Landgrave and Nowrasteh). These facts do not change that Americans believe the rhetoric that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes. In fact, most already...
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...Illegal Immigration Kenneth Brogan COMM 215 24 AUG 2014 Ryan Oba Illegal Immigration Why does the U.S continue to ban every illegal immigrant in America? How would you feel being a child shoved into a vehicle hidden and smuggled into the U.S not knowing where you're going or what's going to happen next? Once you arrive into the U.S you're surrounded by officers pushing and shoving you into buses taking you to these installations that seem to be built and ran like concentration camps. In today's society, the way that Immigration is handled in the U.S is a serious issue and us as people need to put a stop to this unfair treatment. If the U.S doesn't provide education, many immigrants become violent, causing more crime. They may use illegal drugs, causing crime rates to rise and harming themselves in the process; in the long run will harm the immigrants, because they will face a difficult life in terms of conscience and knowing what they did and the possibility of being deported. If the U.S provides education for immigrants, they can get better jobs to fuel the economy. Many are willing to work for less money than any American citizen will ever think of because jobs in their country pay far less than most low-paying jobs. I'm not saying they have to be paid minimum wage but putting them on the payroll and paying taxes will increase the economy. Denying health care to people is denying them what they need to survive and to be healthy. This...
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...Diversity University of Phoenix Abstract The views are many regarding the issue of immigrations and whether or not immigrants should be allowed within our borders illegally. Some politicians express that illegal immigrants should be sent back to their lands immediately; some say the illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in this country, but pay back taxes. The religious groups express that the immigration issue is a human issue and the Bible has the answer as to how immigrants are to be dealt with. Although the views are different one thing remains the same immigrants are people looking for something better than where they are leaving and the United States seems to have what they are looking for. The Arizona Legislative Bill Number SB1070 was created as a way to legally deal with the influx of illegal immigrants that cross the borders daily. The rights of these individuals are very important and legislation must take that into consideration. The issue of immigration is not only a concern for the United States; it is an issue that affects the entire world. The historical framework of the illegal immigration issue began in the United States in the late 1800’s. The current issue began in 1882 when the industrialists began building the railroad that connected the United States and Mexico. The workers for the railroad consisted of undocumented immigrants that crossed the border just before the new train crossed the border. In the early 1900’s the Mexican Revolution...
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