...Should Illegal Immigrants be Deported from The United States? An English writer and novelist, called Richard Rayner, once said; “The real point is that there isn’t any immigration crisis” (Dudley 22). An abundant amount of undocumented people cross the border everyday seeking a better way of living; for Americans, this is an issue that the U.S. has to face every day. Rayner asserts that undocumented people don’t present a national crisis. When illegals come to America, they seek for a job and, by law, have to pay taxes. If the United States actually held undocumented individuals as a threat to its economy and society, this country would not have made the amount of progress it has socioeconomically. Although citizens argue that they harm America, Undocumented people have actually boosted the U.S. economy because they have done more good than harm. One reason why undocumented people shouldn’t be deported is that they contribute to a richer diversity and culture. Illegals share their customs and traditions with everyone. Most of restaurants...
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...immigrations, such as immigration laws. Many questions come up about this topic in today's society, like how do we stop immigration or do we even stop it? Not all immigrants are bad some are useful to the United States; we have to remember that the first people in America were immigrants. We do not have the right to deport others back to their native land. Many people from different countries try so hard to get to United States looking for a better life. There are many reasons why immigrants migrate to different countries, especially the United States of America home of the free. Some reasons are employment opportunities or careers that are not available in their native land, improved quality of life, and refuge from war. Most immigrants focus on making sure their children have a better life they had; those people show the theory of utilitarianism. "Utilitarianism argues that, given a set of choices, the act we should choose is that which produces the best results for the greatest number affected by that choice" (Mosser, 1.6). These immigrants are choosing the choice that would be best for their children who can have a better life in America. According to New York Times author Julia Preston there are about "11.7 million immigrants living in the United States illegally..."(Number of Illegal Immigrants, Para 1), with all these immigrants living in the United States illegally does the leader of our country have the right to send back...
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...I am not for immigrants in the United States of America. I think that there should not be any immigrants in the United states. They should be deported from the country. They take all of the jobs from our citizens. They are also taking money from our people. Americans pay taxes for things like Welfare, which give money to people in need. Most of those people that are on welfare, are immigrants. Immigrants should be deported for many reasons. Most undocumented workers are in relatively low skilled jobs, but about a quarter are in administrative jobs. Of those, about half are in management, finance, or professional careers. Removing large numbers would have a very significant impact on the businesses that employ them. So they have to be deported...
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...the United States are immigrants or their American-born children. How did these people get here? There are many laws to allow immigrants to move to the United States. The USA is a country for immigrants wanting a better life, but not all are welcome. These laws restrict immigrants from the United States. Only 675,000 immigrants are allowed access to the United States every year according to the Immigration Act of 1990. (pg. 10) Current immigrant laws need to be reformed so that more immigrants can be allowed into the US, there will be a better way to decide which and how many refugees can come, and illegal immigrants have an easier way to become a US citizen. 675,000 is the cap for number of immigrants...
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...Why do illegal immigrants risk everything by trying to get in the U.S.A? They come in hopes of a better life, so they don’t have such a risk of being killed or the victims of other crimes, as a higher crime rate is quite common in central America and South America countries. Deportation also separates family members from each other, children from a parent, or children from both parents in some cases. Illegal immigrants that haven’t committed serious crimes shouldn’t be deported, instead they should have a path to citizenship instead of being forced to go back to the dangerous situations they started in. Deporting illegal immigrants will separate families, takes parents from children, and have lasting psychological effects on them. Parental deportation can have effects on children and long lasting harm can occur at emotional, economic, developmental and academic levels. The economic and social instability of having illegal status is worsened by having a deported parent. The second report states that economic hardship is highly prevalent following a parent deportation, because losing a parent eliminates a source of desperately needed income. Children with deported...
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...Deporting Immigrants There are around 11 million or more illegal immigrants in the United States today. Mother Jones Writes, “Immigrants are worried at this time because they might be deported” (Jones 3) back to Mexico for not having documents to be here in America. Illegal immigrants should not be deported because they are valuable for the economy; by having immigrants working in the United States it allows the working industry to be more productive. Allowing immigrants to work high-skill and low-skill jobs it can lead to increased economic growth and aid society. A lot of immigrants live in America to get a better job or any job that can be available. Because immigrants are seldom hired for corporate jobs and are paid minimum wage most...
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...Immigration Reform Roughly 12 million illegal immigrants are in the United States, about 4 percent of the nation's population. Many undocumented children were brought into the U.S. by their illegal immigrant parents as babies or toddlers. Nearly 4 million children who have at least one parent who entered the U.S. illegally were born in the United States and are U.S. citizens as a result. According to the study conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, the majority of illegal immigrants, about 7 million, come from Mexico. The U.S. government should change the requirements for obtaining legal status for illegal immigrants. The DREAM (Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors) Act is proposed federal legislation that would allow the children of undocumented immigrants who graduate from high school to earn conditional permanent residency if they complete two years in the military or at college. Eligible students must have entered the US before the age of 16, been living in the US for at least five consecutive years, be between the ages of 12 and 35 at the time of applying, and have good moral character. The legislation was first introduced in the Senate in August 2001, but was stalled in Congress for 9 years and most recently re-introduced in the Senate and House in March 2009. The DREAM Riddick 2 ACT would help immigrant students become legal residents of the United States and not face being deported, like Jessica and Oscar Oscar Vazquez...
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...address passing a bill without the consent from Congress to reform the immigration system. He had decided that if an illegal immigrant had been living in the United States, since 2010 or earlier, and had a child who had been born in America, they would be eligible to gain legal documentation. Immigrants will also have to pay their fair share of taxes and pass a criminal background check. Unfortunately, this law does not apply to immigrant children under the age of 18 unaware of the fact they had been crossing the U.S. border illegally with their family. The children that were brought here illegally by their parents should be granted a path to legal citizenship to be able to study and soon work legally in America. Back in November of 2014, Republicans in congress had not supported the decision President Obama had made with reforming the immigration law. Although, they were not the only ones who had not supported the President’s decision. Some citizens in America don’t see past the dozens of myths about immigrants. For example, some Americans believe immigrants come to the United States to not pay taxes and take job opportunities away from Americans. If the children are granted legal status, then they will soon be paying their fair share of taxes as they become older and find employment because they will be capable of obtaining a work permit. Studies find that immigrants pay between 90 and 140 billion dollars a year in federal, state, and local taxes (immigrationfourm.org). As for...
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...know is that these people who have walked passed today is living in the United States without the verification of citizenship? How would you be able to tell? Often of times, it is hard to tell because illegal aliens look like your average person. Everyday people come into contact with illegal aliens in some way or form, but they just don't know it. Illegal immigration is a growing concern in the United States. The Obama Administration argues that the United States should naturalize all illegal immigrants; however, illegal immigration illustrates a negative image on the United States. Unauthorized aliens take jobs away from Americans, bring illegal drugs into the country, and barely pay taxes byt still benefit from our country's free public healthcare. To fix this issue, the United States must take necessary measures to deport illegal aliens back to their original residence. As reported by The Department of Homeland Security, “The unauthorized resident immigration population is defined as all foreign-born non-citizens who are not legal residents. Most unauthorized residents either entered the United States without inspection or were admitted Temporarily and stayed past the date they were required to leave... “(Vang, 2012). In 2009, there were over 10 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States (Alan, 2011). In his speech calling for “Comprehensive...
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...Illegal Immigration: Is it good? Illegal immigration has been one of the most controversial subjects of the U.S. for the past few years. The mentality of the American becomes negative when the subject of illegal immigrants comes up. It is clear that most people do not realize why these people come to the U.S. Some may think they know; however, more than likely they are wrong. For a person to even begin to understand why illegal immigrants come to the U.S. they need to share their experience. People do not just leave because they want to; they leave to have a better life, and to have things they could not back home. Some people might ask if they going to come to the U.S. why not do it legally? People need to understand that the illegal immigrants do not want to come to the U.S. illegally they only do it because they do not have the time to do it legally. It is hard enough to live in a city where violence and poverty is spread throughout the city to judging them for coming without papers. Illegal immigrants want to have a better life for them and their children, mainly for the child because no parent wants to watch their child starve, get sick, and not be able to do anything about. Illegal immigrants are not going to care what other people think as long as they have a better life than before, the only time when that stops is when they cannot find a job or their family does not feel safe anymore. Illegal immigration has become in America consciousness a terrorism against job availability...
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...make laws that open up new opportunities for immigrants. I believe that there should be a law for and against immigration or a compromise between the two completely opposing sides. You see all over the news about gangs and people who are posing threats to society. I believe that if an illegal immigrant is found and he is posing a threat to society, he can be thrown in jail, prison, or be deported depending on how bad the crime they committed was. For all of the illegal...
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...procedures when an alien is brought before an immigration judge. Deportation may have the greatest individual impact on those actually marked for removal, meaning sent back to their home country. The removal procedure begins with the Department of Homeland Security file a document called a “Notice to Appear” form I-862 with the immigration court after is served on the alien. An order for deportation is disruptive to illegal immigrant families. Parents and children stand to be separated from one another with long periods of time, and a family might be forced to move on without the deportee, because illegal immigrant lack of monetary means, also children could become wards of the state. According to the Pew Research Center, relieve from threats of deportation is more important for Hispanic illegal immigrants than obtaining a chance at citizenship. The threat of deportation increased when the program named Secure Communities, which began in 2008 at the end of George W Bush administration, local law enforcement and federal agencies work together to identify undocumented immigrants or...
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...THE PLAN OF AMNESTY: The Solution to Illegal Immigration Michael Mays ENG 102: Composition II February 10, 2012 The Plan of Amnesty How much would it cost to put 10 Million people in busses or airplanes and ship them back to their countries of origin? Is there a better way to deal with illegal immigration in the United States? Is the answer a strict and enforceable amnesty, allowing illegal immigrants to report themselves in order to achieve legal status, or is mass deportation of the estimated 10 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. the solution? A well laid-out, simplified, yet fair and enforceable amnesty plan could solve the multi-billion dollar battle of amnesty, deportation and illegal immigration. The cost of illegal immigration to the United States is estimated in the billions by numerous news avenues but what are the actual numbers and their impact on the United States? “More than 10 million illegal immigrants live in the United States, and 1,400 more arrive every day” (Katel, 2005). This number seems very high and somewhat scary to people but the truth is that “illegal immigrants only make up about 5 percent of the U.S. work force” (Ketel, 2005). Nonetheless, strong actions have been taken by the government to try to put a stop to illegal immigration. Over the past decade or so, billions of dollars have been spent on border-control measures such as walls, fences, and increasing border patrol personnel. From 1993 to 2004, the federal government quintupled...
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...Illegal Immigration Maricela Vega CJA 446 May 2013 With over 11 million immigrants in the United States illegally (as of 2011), the issue of illegal immigration continues to divide Americans. (ImmigrationProCon.org, 2013) Illegal immigration has become a major concern to the government in the U.S today. This was not a major concern until lately in the past twenty years. There has been an alarming increase of illegal immigrants in the U.S. A debate has arisen over the amount of action that has been exerted on the purposes. There are immigrants coming to America from all over the world today in search of the American dream. However, the greatest concern at this time is Mexico. Smuggling aliens has become more frequent every year. The smugglers are willing to go to great steps to smuggle people across and are escaping before they get caught. These smugglers are making hundreds and thousands of dollars to get these immigrants across the borders. Very few are actually caught and the illegal immigrants enter this country and disappear. Most of the illegal immigrants at this time are coming from Mexico, which means the bordering states are the major concern. When it comes to the topic of illegal immigrants or anytime the term “illegal immigrant” is brought up it is safe to say that many, or most Americans conjure up images of desperate migrants sneaking across the Mexican border. There is another side to America’s immigration problem, however, that most know very little about;...
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...U.S. citizen and thought that once they married she would be granted legal citizenship. Her husband fully aware of her illegal immigration status, decided to go underground with his new family, so they would not be separated for years if caught. After years of hiding from the law, Maythe was caught in 2010 for driving her vehicle too slowly and was handed directly over to Customs. With her American citizen husband of now 12 years and an American citizen child they share together, she thought they would have bigger problems on their hands then to send her back. She fought her case for months, eventually lost and was deported back to the country she fled all those years ago. Maythe now lives in Tijuana, Mexico, alone, while her husband and children live in San Diego. She is banned from entering America for the next 20 years. Her family often takes the long drive, weekend after weekend, just to spend time with their wife and mother, to be a whole family again. Maythe knows without her family she will continue living a lonely life and wishes the illegal immigration laws in America would change (Amy Isackson). With millions of illegal immigrants already here in the States and only a small portion of that amount are able to enter in legally, it’s no wonder they have such a massive effect on US citizens. It has been argued that illegal immigrants put strains on the economy of the country but they also have a major influence on...
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