Immigration eform
The social justice implications of Immigration eform
Strangers are behind the formation of the beautiful land of America. The American land has flourishes because it is being by different sources. This rooted on the varied nourishments of different people, cultures, and traditions. Immigration reforms have made the U.S. A strong and vibrant nation. eforms of immigration have been fostering the rich dynamism in the country. Appropriate welcoming of foreign visitors makes the country brighter and attractive across the globe (Jonas, 2009).
Implementation of immigration reforms introduced comprehensive legislation that fixed the formerly tampered system of immigration thus strengthening the U.S. economy. Economic experts supported evocative, human, and personal terms to address issues of families distanced by miles and separated and resources. Young people are increasingly willing and ready to come out of their shadow into American lifestyle. Immigrant community advocates rooted in different parts of America have similar experiences with shared…...
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References
Jonas, S. (2009). Immigration: A civil rights issue for the Americas. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources.
Lusk, M.W., Staudt, K.A., & Moya, E. (2012). Social justice in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Dordrecht: Springer.
Berkman, B. (2006). Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging. New York: Oxford University Press.
Trotter, J.W. (2010). The Great migration in historical perspective: New dimensions of race, class, and gender. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Immigration eform
The American political system appears to be engaged in a chaotic state of confusion as many contradictory policies and actions are taking place in national society. Immigration reform is one of the main issues coming from the media machines that dictate and pace the political discussions taking place. The purpose of this essay is to describe the relationship between immigration reform and homeland security.
The current pace of societal change suggests that any reforms that are completed at a federal level are sure to be obsolete in the near future. Immigration reform is no exception to this understanding as it too is a very fluid ideal. The arguments for immigration reform are strictly political and need to be understood that this a limited view of a real problem.
America has been built by immigrants from around the world and this historical context provides the background on which this argument is based.…...
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References
O'Keefe, E. (2013). A narrow border-security agreement could pave the way for broad immigration reform. The Washington Post, 29 July 2013. Retrieved from
Immigration Reform
There is a broad based agreement of a need for immigration reform. In recent months and years, immigration reform has become an important political issue. However, there is some disagreement as to what precisely this reform will look like. On one hand, there is talk about amnesty for illegal immigrants who are currently in the country, an issue that has proved divisive (Grant, 2012). One the other hand, technology companies are lobbying Congress for changes for visa rules, to allow them to retain skilled workers and avoid the offshoring of jobs to foreign countries (Lynch, 2013). hile millions of unskilled laborers live in perpetual fear of deportation, the number of applicants for H-1B visas -- for skilled workers -- exceeded the annual cap in just five days (Lynch, 2013). There are clearly a number of problems with the immigration system.
These two distinct issues both fall under the rubric of…...
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Works Cited:
Citrin, J., Green, D., Muste, C. & Wong, C. (1997). Public opinion toward immigration reform: The role of economic motivations. The Journal of Politics. Vol. 59 (3) 858-881.
Cunninghma-Parmeter, K. (2011). Forced federalism: States as laboratories of immigration reform. Hastings Law Journal. Vol. 62 (July 2011) 1673-1728.
Dunaway, J., Branton, R. & Abrajano, M. (2010). Agenda setting, public opinion, and the issue of immigration reform. Social Science Quarterly. Vol. 91 (2) 359-378.
Foster, C. (2012). Ethical issues in immigration law, practice and policy. South Texas Law Review. Vol. 533
Immigration Reform and the Dream Act
Regardless of one's individual political position, a study of immigration in modern America reveals that the current immigration system is not working. Preferential treatment of immigrants from some countries over immigrants from other countries and preferential treatment of high-wage immigrants combined with policies of active deportation reflect a reality that no longer exists in America. The reality is that there are huge numbers of undocumented workers in America, and that these workers form an integral part of the American economy. "Almost everyone would agree that America's immigration system is broken. Approximately 11 million people live in the U.S. without the rights citizenship affords" (Foster, p.1). hile they may not contribute to the federal income tax base, they certainly contribute to state and local taxes through buying power and through rent. In addition, both by providing services and by purchasing good and services, they provide stimulation…...
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Works Cited
"Conservative Economists Agree Immigration Reform Would Boost Economic Growth, Cut the Federal Deficit, and Create American Jobs." Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc. Proquest. Web. 6 Oct. 2013.
Dervarics, Charles. "DREAM Act Gets New Push in U.S. Senate." Diverse Issues in Higher
5 billion per year. "(Costs of Illegal Immigration to New Yorkers)
In most cases, studies show that the central areas of expenditure are related to immigration are education, health care and incarceration resulting from illegal immigration. (Costs of Illegal Immigration to New Yorkers) Education is of particular concern. In New York, more than $4.3 billion annually is spent on education for the children of illegal immigrants. The number of K-12 public school students in New York who are illegal aliens is also high at 11.7%. (Costs of Illegal Immigration to New Yorkers)
Healthcare and expenditure of taxpayer's funds spent on illegal aliens is also a bone of contention. In the case of New York "...unreimbursed medical outlays for health care provided to the state's illegal alien population amount to an estimated $690 million a year." (Costs of Illegal Immigration to New Yorkers)
The cost of incarceration in the case of illegal aliens is…...
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References
Isbister, J. (1996). Are Immigration Controls Ethical? Social Justice, 23(3), 54+.
The above article provides a crucial and important overview of the ethical factors involve din the issue of immigration. This article argues that many of us are in a "...ethically fraught position with respect to immigration." Importantly it also reviews some of the most important reason for immigration control and weights this up against moral considerations
This is a short but informative article which outlines the cost of immigration to the region in terms of the three main items of expenditure. The article also provides a valuable insight into the actual effects of immigration in a specific region.
These groups believe that the program is giving blanket amnesty and encouraging more illegal immigration.
President Bush denies that the program promotes amnesty. "I oppose amnesty, placing undocumented workers on the automatic path to citizenship," he said (FOX, 2004). "Granting amnesty encourages violation of our laws and perpetuates illegal immigration. America is a welcoming country, but citizenship must not be the automatic reward for violating the laws of America."
While the Constitution at first glance seems to oppose immigration reform, in fact it facilitates reform and even mandates it (Masugi, 2005). The Constitution states that all persons be counted, and illegal immigrants count as persons. This idea is supported by the example of the great American dilemma in which "other persons" -slaves - were counted as three-fifths of persons, therefore increasing the power of the slave states in the House of epresentatives. Slavery, one of the biggest tragedies of American history,…...
Immigration reform was one of President Barack Obama's goals as he entered the hite House for his first term. That didn't get done in the first term which made it more vital for the President to attack the issue in his second term. This paper points to the problem, the potential solutions, and the gridlock in the U.S. Congress that has prevented the problem from even being serious addressed let alone a solution found.
hy are there an estimated 11.7 million illegal Latino immigrants living in the United States? Part of the reason there are so many are here (mostly from Mexico) is that the U.S. / Mexican border is not secure, and never has been. Nevertheless, the progressive view of this issue is that the nearly twelve million immigrants living and working here deserve to have a path to citizenship, and that has been part of the difficulty in getting…...
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Work Cited
Beinart, P. (2014). Waiting for Republicans to Act on Immigration Is Pointless. The Atlantic. Retrieved November 13, 2014, from http://www.theatlantic.com .
Burns, M., Groch-Begley, H., Shere, D., Tone, H., and Uwimana, S. (2013). 10 Myths
Conservative Media Will Use Against Immigration Reform. Media Matters. Retrieved November 13, 2014, from http://mediamatters.org .
Clement, S. (2014). Immigration reform is super popular. Here's why Congress isn't
Southern law enforcement agencies have been armed with so-called 287 (g) laws that systematically target undocumented aliens and allow them to enforce Federal immigration law using racial profiling. This has made Latino crime victims and witnesses reluctant to testify and more reluctant to cooperate with police. In effect, what it has created is a subclass of people who exist beyond the protection of the law. It is assumed that all Latinos are documented and pushes the envelope of discrimination against the Hispanic population in general ("Under Siege" 3-4).
For this reason, the Southern Poverty Law Center has a positive program for communities and individuals to fight back. On the legal front, they teach community leaders how to take an active role in fighting discrimination against undocumented workers and other types of discrimination. Rather than allowing discrimination to continue against undocumented workers, SLPC trains these workers to demand action against local…...
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Works Cited
"Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.." Southern Poverty Law
Center. Southern Poverty Law Center, September 2009. Web. 3 May 2010. .
"Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States." Southern Poverty Law
Center. Southern Poverty Law Center, March 2007. Web. 3 May 2010. .
Mexican laborers were still brought into the U.S. As temporary laborers, but not as citizens. The term "illegal alien" was used for the first time at this point. In the mid-1950s, "operation wetback" deported over a million undocumented immigrants. The U.S. also "showed off its true colors" when it forced the Japanese-Americans (and these were citizens) into internment camps during World War II. The history of Mexican immigration has been one of acceptance during periods of labor need and rejection when those periods have ended.
Immigration history for Europeans has played out differently. About 200,000 European immigrants gained legal status between 1925 and 1965. Granted, slurs were also made against the Irish, Italian and Eastern European (mostly Jewish) arrivals. Though there was early resistance to such immigration, and eastern Europeans were subject to discrimination.
eer 43) Likely, because of their color, they could soon work their way out of poverty and…...
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Heer 43) Likely, because of their color, they could soon work their way out of poverty and into the middle class. Says Rodriguez about such double standards: "Let's not pretend that this hysteria is not about race, color and dehumanization. it's not even anti-immigrant or even anti-Latino/Hispanic bigotry. it's the exploitation of a deep-seated fear and loathing of Mexicans and Central Americans by shameless politicians." (417)
In 1993 the Supreme Court again ruled that states had no specific jurisdiction over immigration controls and stopped the Texas law restricting undocumented immigrants and their children from attending school or receiving medical care, Plyler v. Doe. Yet, again there had been no comprehensive ruling as to what was or was not right with regard to immigration reform, though the U.S. had challenged discrimination against mainly Mexican immigrants into the U.S. The comprehensive answers were yet to come.
Why Immigration Reform is Needed
Immigration reform has almost always been a thorny issue in America. Though it is popularly believed that America was born of a nation of immigrants, the reality is that the original 13 colonies largely consisted of individuals from one specific part of Europe—England—and from the time of the War for Independence onward it was a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASPs) ethic that served as the fulcrum for American power and politics. It was this fulcrum that established the concept of “Manifest Destiny”—i.e., the idea that it was America’s (that is, the WASP’s) destiny in life to expand and take over the land as far as it could see (O’Sullivan). “Manifest Destiny” was used to justify taking land from Mexico and it was implicitly used to justify American expansionism overseas. In other words, WASPs wanted to expand their control and exert their influence and power. The arrival of…...
Immigration eform Bill Is About
The immigration reform bill, passed in June, was the first major immigration reform initiative to have been accepted by either houses of Congress after many years of debate. "It addresses undocumented immigrants, legal immigration, border security, employer hiring and an entry-exit system so the government knows if foreign nationals leave the country when their visa expires" (Foley, 2013, Democratic bill). The bill is designed to offer a facilitated path to citizenship for workers who have made a substantial personal investment in the United States, while still addressing concerns about border security and undocumented workers. For example, it provides a long and "arduous" path to citizenship for illegal workers, "but advocates are thrilled that it would exist at all…Dreamers, young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. As children, would be able to earn green cards in five years, as would some agricultural workers" (Foley, 2013,…...
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References
Foley, E. (2013). Democratic bill passes with strong majority. The Huffington Post.
S./Mexico border, and that the concerns go beyond simply illegal Mexican migrants.
Identify, in your own words, any propaganda techniques used by either of the authors.
Propaganda was used by both sides. Lamm (2002) uses the horror of September 11th to evoke emotion in the reader. He notes that those murderers were allowed into the country and lived, worked and played here before taking the lives of thousands of innocents. He exacerbates that emotion by continuing with the note that there are still terrorists among Americans, waiting for a chance to commit acts of terror, and thousands of Islamic schools training children to hate America, prepping them to do the same thing.
Campbell's (2006) propaganda centers on the American Dream and the desire for honest, hard-working people to just make a living. She too plays on the reader's emotions, noting that poor Alfredo's son, who is an illegal alien in New York City,…...
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References
Campbell, M. (17 May 2006). Mexicans see insult, danger in border plan. USA Today. Retrieved May 24, 2006, from Academic Search Premier database.
Lamm, R. (1 Mar 2002). Terrorism and immigration: We need a border. Vital Speeches of the Day, 68(10). Retrieved May 24, 2006, from ProQuest database.
Federalism
Illegal immigration the act of crossing national boundaries with people or the inhabitation of foreign nationals in another country (different from their home country) in a manner that causes a violation of the immigration laws and policies of their host country (Taylor 2007:6). Currently, the U.S. is one of the most affected globally by the illegal immigration population. As of 2008, it was estimated that about eleven million residents of the U.S. were illegal immigrants. The illegal immigration has elicited great debate and has made the federal government institute several policies in response to this problem (Preston 2008)
Federal government policy proposal on illegal immigration
In 1996, the congress passed two major Acts that guided the deportation of illegal immigrants in the U.S. The two acts passed include "The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA)" and the "Illegal Immigration eform and Immigrant esponsibility Act (IIIA)" They are important legislations that have…...
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References
Harvard Journal on Legislation. USA Patriot Act Recent Developments Heinonline.org, 2002
Retrieved 2012-11-05
Landgrave, Michelangelo. Immigration Reform 2013: Why California Has the Right Answer,
immigration crisis, referring to the United States and particularly to the southern border, has been in use for a couple of decades. This tells us that the perception of crisis is ingrained in American political and social discourse, and it also illustrates that however one defines "crisis," little has been done to resolve it. Immigration is frequently cast as a political issue, but the politicization of immigration has done little to bring about a consensus resolution, leaving different layers of government to deal with immigration in an ad hoc manner. Solutions and proposed solutions have ranged from amnesty to detention (Welch, 1996). This paper will examine the immigration crisis and propose that reframing the crisis might be a more effective pathway to resolution.
Background
Humans have always migrated, and they tend to migrate for the same reasons. Either the old location is in a state of poverty, or war, and the…...
Home Security eforming Immigration eform
Homeland Security eforming Immigration eform
In current years illegal immigration has turned out to be a topic that has brought up some significant political issues in the United States. A lot of the debate on illegal immigration emphases on a feasible route to United States citizenship. It would need to be pointed out that there are so many more persistent subjects which should be spoken about in regards to the illegal immigration discussion. Some are arguing that illegal immigrants that are without health insurance are costing American tax payers billions of dollars annually. Some even believe that most are wearing out their welcome and staying way past their due time. This paper talks about a reforming the immigration reform in order to bring more restriction and organization.
eforming Immigration eform
Problem Definition
In what could arguably have been the shot heard around the world during the 2012 election year, President…...
Based on an understanding of the facts about immigration in the modern-day United States, this would be a good topic for a thesis statement on immigration reform: Modern immigration rules and laws favor immigrants from some countries over others and place a significant financial burden on prospective immigrants and on those who would sponsor them; removing some of those financial burdens would incentivize legal immigration and therefore reduce the number of people seeking to enter the country as undocumented immigrants, helping resolve the country’s undocumented immigrant problem.
Before trying to write a thesis statement about immigration reform, it....
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Fiscal Policy Differences: Examine the contrasting approaches to fiscal policy employed by Presidents Trump and Biden, highlighting their impact on the economy and national debt. Immigration Reform: Analyze the evolution of immigration policies under Presidents Trump and Biden, considering their motivations, implementation, and implications for the nation. Healthcare Debate: Discuss the heated debate on healthcare under Presidents Trump and Biden, examining the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expansion, and drug pricing reforms. Education Reform: Compare the educational initiatives and policies proposed by Presidents Trump and Biden, evaluating their effectiveness and potential....
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