...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...
Words: 1162 - Pages: 5
...Individual: Media Reaction SOC/315: Cultural 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...
Words: 1179 - Pages: 5
...I agree with Deckop when he talks about the purpose of ethical training. I do believe that ethical training can help one make better decisions and more ethical decisions. He is correct when he says the purpose is not to get every question right on the exam but to make the right decisions. It would be great to get every question right on the exam, but that isn’t considered ethical training. I believe the best theory is the profit maximization theory because it’s the most simple and it concentrates on the main point of business. The goal of a firm is to maximize profits while making ethical decisions at the same time. There are both pros and cons of each theory but in profit maximization the Pros outweighs the cons. The primary focus is to maximize profits. Maximizing profits is more valuable than attaining social responsibility. I believe that the business is most successful when you maximize profits then everything else will follow. In the article social responsibility of business is to increase its profits, it talks about what happens when executives steal. I can relate this to my work at Rite Aid. We had a store manager who used to steal money from registers, which led to many employees being fired because of register shortages. I was the one who survived my register only came up short once with 10 dollars in which I saw the manager steal. Assistant managers and supervisors contacted the Loss prevention many times but they could not fire him because they did not have enough...
Words: 629 - Pages: 3
...about and how it will fit into my project. Another big plus to this is that it essentially is my reference page, with a few things added. I don’t know why this was not introduced to me in earlier classes, but I do know that I will not go without its advantages any longer. Annotated Bibliography Dixon, P. B., Johnson, M., & Rimmer, M. T. (2011). Economy wide effects of reducing illegal immigration in U.S employment. Retrieved January 28, 2012, from https://ehis.ebscohost.com/eds/detail?vid=15&hid=23&sid=8d0ff197-79f4-4c2e-a56e-95e5597cb064%40sessionmgr14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#db=eoh&AN=1150873 Dixon, Johnson and Rimmer give info about the labor market and immigration policies that affect the economy. Also contains charts and figures that can be useful in my essay. Francis, E. (2010, August 4). Debate Over Birthright Citizenship Aims at 'Baby Tourists'. ABC World News. ABC World News. Retrieved January 28, 2011, from http://abcnews.go.com/WN/debate-birthright-citizenship-aims-baby-tourism/story?id=11322850 This article looks at illegal immigrations issue of child citizenship in a fresh way, baby tourism, which is something that happens when a non-citizen has a child in the U.S while Vacationing in order to gain the child citizenship Ortega, I. (2011,...
Words: 509 - Pages: 3
...of policies that address the problem of 12 to 20 million undocumented workers in the United States (usaimmigration-reform.org, 2011). There have been several failed attempts to implement an Immigration Reform policy throughout U.S. history. Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 was the last failed attempt by congress. Immigration Reform has five primary focuses, increasing border security, creating new worksite enforcements, implementing Guest Worker Programs, revamping the current immigration system, and employing The Naturalization Process. In attempts to keep illegal immigrants from getting hired, fewer documents will be accepted when determining worker eligibility (usaimmigration-reform.org, 2011). When comparing the benefits of a society with immigrants, and the costs of having them in them in the country, it is clear that Immigration Reform is not needed. Both legal and illegal...
Words: 1161 - Pages: 5
...Immigrants a Vulnerable Population BSHS – 302 September 20, 2011 Today, immigration policy and immigration is mostly debated at the extremes, between those who want no immigrants and those who want no borders, implying that immigration is an all-or-nothing proposition. It is clear that some type of policy and reform needs to be established. This writer will discuss and identify the causes of the problems or issues for this population. Focus will be placed on these topics: the history of the population, the nature of the social problems or issues experienced demographics and common clinical issues and intervention strategies, as well as a discussion of future interventions. Since, I live in a rural agricultural area that has been flooded with immigrants for the past decades; I have become very familiar with the Haitian and Hispanic populations. Finally, these groups are from different origins, recognized by various names, and all have taken broad paths to arrive in the United States. Immigration is the center of United States history. The earliest colonization of immigrants was established in the United States in the late 1500’s throughout the 1700’s. Additionally, with the exception of the Native Americans or Indians, evidence proves that America’s citizens are the product of immigration, whether they came as volunteers or they were forced (US Census Bureau, 2000). For example, the transatlantic slave trade created a lasting image of black men and...
Words: 1387 - Pages: 6
...John A Modest Proposal to Stop Illegal Immigration It is a sad topic to talk about that in our great awesome American country contains an underground Spanish speaking population of illegal immigrations that have no intention to make this country better, but only hope to get money with their “occupations”, and feed their usually humungous families. A lot of people will agree that whoever could think of a modest proposal to solve this situation should have their face printed on the five thousand dollar bill! That person will be me. We should annex Mexico. Doing that would completely eliminate the illegal immigration; this would save Congress billions of dollars. Doing this would also make the illegal immigrants happy. The illegals will not have to worry about the INS and America watching the borders. Also to help pioneer our new southern border, we should make the border Mexico’s southeastern border. It is also important to see in what way the newly acquired people would be assimilated into American society. They will not immediately become citizens, see that’s not fair. The solution to that is to establish a system in which the Mexicans would get citizenship. They will become citizens when they can demonstrate good English, stop their crude, and renounce their bad, Spanish speaking ways. To fuel the economy, it will be imperative that speaking Spanish be an offense. The instant a Mexican is caught speaking Spanish, he will be fined five hundred dollars, with an additional...
Words: 370 - Pages: 2
...Immigration Citizens Children The Effects of Immigration on Children and Families Introduction Illegal immigration is a very controversial issue within our society. There are families within our society that are made up of parents that are here illegally but have children who are born here and are citizens. But it is these citizens that are what I am referring to as the incomplete citizens. Who are these incomplete citizens and why are they being impacted by our society? Are there different stipulations for these children that are born to these undocumented families? Do they really receive the same rights as those born to U.S. citizens? Our societies including our politicians have different opinions about illegal immigration. Immigration reform negatively affects those children that are born to undocumented parents. They find themselves facing adversities that had the situation been different would never have to face. Working in an elementary school I have seen first hand how those children are affected as a result of their parent’s legal status. My purpose in this research is to show the emotional, educational, and financial effects that are inflicted on the undocumented families. This is a problem that is not going to be resolved overnight but rather this is a problem that is going to need help from the various disciplines. With this research more information will be found to present how children are affected through the different disciplines and how these disciplines...
Words: 4046 - Pages: 17
...Growing Need for Nurses Based on Immigration Trends Dr. 02/25/2012 The word “profession” is very generally defined as a vocation dependent on specialized training, with a purpose of supplying advice and service to others, for monetary compensation, without the expectation of other gain. Contemporary health care in my experience as a nurse can be defined as symbiotic relationship between nurses, doctors, paraprofessionals, patients, and insurance companies. This multifaceted symbiotic relationship has each involved party complementing and enhancing the other for reasons that often independent of each other. Nurses often act as the intermediaries between doctors and the families of patients, while also servicing patients to insure a return to health along with being held accountable to the facilities who employ them. Nursing, meets the generally accepted definition of a profession based on the above listed standards: Although there is no overall consensus as to what constitutes the proper attributes of a profession, the following characteristics are commonly noted: a unique body of knowledge, altruistic service to society, a code of ethics, significant education and socialization, and autonomy in practice, i.e. reasonable independence in decision-making about practice and control of the work situation and conditions. While it could be argued that nursing meets many of these criteria, it is clear that it does not now and never did have autonomy, understood as...
Words: 1338 - Pages: 6
...& Removal Operations. The state and local division of ICE is the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Section 287(g). The 287 (g) program was implemented to support the ICE division on smaller levels. This report will discuss the background, participation, and the importance of the program to the United States. Section 287 (g) The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Section 287(g) program is a program that helps implement the substitution of state and local law enforcement agents to take partial duties, such as the arrest and detaining of criminal illegal immigrants, from ICE. This program has helped identify more than 279,000 potentially deportable aliens. There has been much debate on this program from the positive and negative. The program was implemented after the 9/11 terrorists attacks, with Florida becoming the first states to become a participant in 2002. The section stems from the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that was passed in 1996. This was a broad series of amendments to the INA that was passed in 1952. Section 287 (g) authorizes state and local law enforcements to take responsibility for arresting and detaining criminal aliens acting as ICE agents. Participation in the program requires a written Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with ICE officials. These MOAs describe the duties and authority that the state or local agencies have to carry out the...
Words: 801 - Pages: 4
...South Africa as an undeveloped country. Analysis on immigrants’ contribution on the economic condition will be done. 2.0 Japan 2.1 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 2000 to 2008 Please refer to Attachment 1.0. It is a table of Gross Domestic Product of Japan since 2000 to 2008. The GDP of Japan shows increase since year 2000 to 2007. However, it suddenly declined 2.74% at year 2008. Reasons will be explained in detail in 2.4 Analysis on Data. 2.2 Number of Immigrants, Unemployment and Crime Incidents As shown in Attachment 1.1, during year 2000 to 2007, the numbers of immigrants keep increasing. However, the unemployment rates keep decreasing. 2.3 Illegal Immigrants in Japan Japan has a population of 127,433,494 as on July 2007 estimate and the news stated that approximately 10,000 illegal immigrants come to Japan each year. Therefore, the...
Words: 5898 - Pages: 24
...Pre-Viewing Questions 1. What term should we use in this class? Illegal immigrants? Undocumented immigrants? Poll the class? Vote? 2. What is your position on illegal immigration? Do you: * Support fully legalizing all illegal immigrants (amnesty)? * Support legalizing illegal immigrants, but not for convicted criminals? * Support legalizing illegal immigrants, but only if they go through the proper channels? 3. What’s the financial implication of illegal immigration? The implication on “American” workers/jobs? 4. How did you come to have your particular opinions? What/Who influenced you? For now, try to stay open-minded: Don’t entrench yourself in an opinion. Be willing to change. Being “American” 1. What does it mean to be American? 2. Who does society regard as Americans? What are the criteria for being an American? 3. Why is citizenship so important? 4. Which is more “authentic,” a native born citizen or a naturalized one? Is there any difference? 5. What is the difference? 6. Who deserves/should deserve citizenship? Why? 7. What did you do to “earn” your citizenship? 8. What did your ancestors do to become citizens? 9. What should new immigrants have to do to become legal? 10. What are some things that you have heard people say about “illegal immigrants/immigration”? Halfway Point Reactions – if you watch in two viewings 1. What was Frank’s position at the beginning of the film? ...
Words: 321 - Pages: 2
...types of migrations; some of which are Global migration, interregional migration and, intraregional migration. There is a significant diversity as it relates to the issues of migration in the United States. These issues vary from state to state. However International /global migration posed the most issues in this country. These issues have affected the United States for many years. James Rubenstein notes that “unrestricted immigration to the United States ended when congress passed 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...
Words: 7696 - Pages: 31
...Added to this, countless people have entered the U.S. by means paralegals (over 12 million illegal immigrants in the country). No country has yet faced such a pace of immigration. Immigration can be defined as the phenomenon of entry into a host of individuals or non-Aboriginal population of individuals, usually to find a job or with the intention of settling there in the prospect of a better quality of life (Collins English Dictionary , 2012). The history of settlement in the United States is inseparable from that of immigration. The real national minorities are indigenous (Amerindian, Inuit and Aleut). Since the arrival of European settlers in the sixteenth century, more than 50 million immigrants settled in the United States. Vast majority of immigrants came from Europe. First Anglo-Saxon immigration widened in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the countries of Mediterranean Europe (especially Italy) and Central Europe. More than 23 million immigrants streamed between 1880 and 1920. A new form of immigration developed after the Second World War. It was mostly political refugees from Eastern Europe, and anti-Castro Cubans. Today, immigration comes mainly from third world countries: first Hispanics (mostly Mexicans) and Asians (Koreans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, etc.). In the 1990s, a new wave of migration has evolved from the former communist countries of Europe. Moreover, illegal immigration has probably become more important than legal immigration. It has increased since...
Words: 367 - Pages: 2
...Article Rebuttal An article located on a controversial subject is discussed. The article is titled “A Very Controversial Article” written by Athena Louise. The article's main idea is regarding illegal aliens in the workplace along with illegal aliens not paying taxes. The article talks about how illegal aliens are unskilled workers who get paid off the books for labor. Thus creating a larger community of people receiving benefits from the state without paying taxes (Louise, 2011). First off let’s analyze the first topic of unskilled illegal aliens. The article mentioned that illegal aliens are unskilled. Many illegal aliens receive education and work experience from his or her country on a skilled trade. The immigration status does not reflect on the ability of the worker. The second topic is regarding illegal aliens getting paid illegally, thus not paying taxes. The article claimed that workplaces are hiring illegal aliens and paying them off the books (Louise, 2011). First of all it’s illegal to hire undocumented workers; second the fallacies of being illegal are recognized because workers must have documentation to work in the United States. The author presented a controversial argument. The reliability of the information is found to be a matter opinion by the author. After research, the key points of the article were found not to be reliable. Since reliability is not proven the credibility of the author has been decreased. The author is stating opinion and is not...
Words: 398 - Pages: 2
