...Frank’s position at the beginning of the film? Answer: Minute man Frank he against the illegal immigrants. Who petrol around the border the peoples coming from Mexico to USA illegally. Q.2 Discuss Frank’s experiences and what he did during his 30 days with the Gonzalez family? Answer: According Frank’s experience he felt uneasiness in the family. He worked as a handyman. Q.3 What (if anything) changed his perspective? Answer: He went to Mexico to see their families. He spent time with them and he find out about their living style. They are living in broken house no clean water to drink. They don’t have good jobs. They don’t have good food to eat. Q.4 Do you think it made a long-term impact on his position? Why? /Why not? Answer: He changed mind temporarily. But he went back where he was at the start. Q.5 how the family’s Latino/Hispanic reflected in the film? Answer: Placing the needs of the family ahead of individual concerns. This aspect of Hispanic/Latino family life has led to the erroneous conclusion that the family impedes individual achievement and advancement. B. Questions What questions do you have about undocumented immigration? What is your position? Be honest, but explain your answer? Answer: Question number one they came here illegally? Question number two immigrants raise the crime rate? We know it’s tough economic time for everyone. The reality though is immigrants do jobs that are not necessarily jobs that laid-off American worker would take. If...
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...Illegal immigrants receiving social services To most Americans, those immigrants who enter the USA territories without the required documents are viewed as more of law breakers than ordinary people seeking refuge from given hardships they were experiencing at their native countries. This notion has led to the denial of most of the social services the general populations do receive from the government. However, there is need to know that among the undocumented immigrants, there are genuine cases of people seeking refuge while others are people running away from conviction due to breaching of the laws of their native states. The problem arises in differentiating the two categories. There is need to extend social services to the undocumented immigrants as they are people just like the ordinary citizens. These people need these services because: it is unethical to deny them, they are productive to the economy, it is healthy and it is a boost to sound international relations. Being an illegal immigrant should not deter one from accessing education facilities. Education equips the learners with skills to contribute positively to the labor market. Failure to do this will eventually lead to the increase in poverty and crime rates. In other cases, these people may be denied the right to access public facilities including the means of transport, which is both unethical and or impractical (Immigration.procon.org). In such a scenario, it becomes easy for a legal migrant to suffer the...
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...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 pay. A lot...
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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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...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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...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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...Amendment should be handled. Many Americans believe that the 14th Amendment is influencing illegal immigration but the truth...
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...Time for a Change With over 12 million illegal immigrants in this country, most 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...
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...Date: Illegal Immigrants Illegal immigrants are foreign persons who enter a country under circumstances that do not meet the legal conditions for migrating into the given country; they violate the written immigration laws of the country. In the United States, illegal immigrants’ population was estimated to be approximately twelve million people by the Center for Immigration Studies in 2008 (Haerens, 10).The foreigners relocate from different countries, for example, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Canada and African countries. The causes that lead to immigrants relocating from their home countries include: poverty, overpopulation, wars and asylum and families reuniting. Different terms used to describe an illegal immigrant depend on an individual country’s political viewpoints: alien, clandestine workers, "without papers", un-naturalized immigrant, undocumented immigrant or boat people. Illegal immigrants face a great number of challenges as they attempt to enter a through a foreign country’s borders. They face being captured and sold into slavery, specifically, sexual exploitation; and death of immigrants has been recorded, for example, at the US- Mexico border or during hot summers, aliens have died in the South Western part of US. Common methods of entry include border crossing and overstaying a visa one has been given by the foreign authorities (Hanson and Council on Foreign Affairs, 25). There is, currently a debate in the US on whether undocumented illegal immigrants...
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...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 institutions and schools. Many are taking advantages of these programs paid by U.S. taxes without paying taxes themselves, or not paying them properly. Some states have even passed laws in order to reduce the number of illegal immigrants. Arizona’s SB1070 law, also called “show...
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...issue as in case of illegal immigrants migrating to the country it would increase the economic burden on the government. Also, Illegal immigrants in USA would pose a threat to local citizen’s jobs, and may lead to increase in crime rates across the country. For example: In case of a robbery an illegal immigrant does not go to the police as that person would be deported back to his own country and such actions lead to increase in crime. Illegal immigration has severe effects on demographics and economy of a country. Therefore, these illegal immigrations effect the government of both the countries involved. b) Various law enforcement agencies work towards keeping their country safe by enforcing various laws. In case of illegal immigration, it becomes difficult to track the number of people coming into the country and doing various kinds of work without authorized permission. Consider a case of an accident where an illegal immigrant is involved, it becomes difficult to get the insurance settlement from the illegal immigrant responsible as they don’t show up in court due to the fear of deportation and lack of legal and necessary documents. c) The illegal immigrants have the highest stake in this case as they are migrating to a new country in search for jobs or better living conditions. dThe local residents would be highly affected as the illegal immigrants would compete for their jobs and would make the country more populated. The illegal immigrants might displace many...
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...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 have an immigrant inside and America was created on these immigrants creativity. This hard work and creativity made America in front of all countries. In Arizona the government did it on their own way. While Obama may well understand the...
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...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 and immigrate illegally to the destination countries. Illegal immigration poses several hazardous effects not only on the economy of the nation but in some countries the laws are very strict. If caught, in any manner these immigrants are right away sent to police custody. Entering any country without the permission of the local government is a crime. India also faces such illegal...
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...In addition, thousands of harmful illegal aliens are roaming the streets of the United States everyday. These illegal immigrants are felons of crime and unlawful activity. According to a U.S. government analysis, the United States population consists of 55,322 illegal immigrants, and the study constructed a statistic that proved the illegal aliens were arrested at least 459,614 times. Furthermore, each illegal alien had a minimum total of 8 arrests (Martin). Based on the research above, it is evident that illegal immigrants do not take responsibility for their actions, and nevertheless, will not stop updating their criminal records. Although, the data above does not discuss an assault conducted against a single citizen, each criminal act listed in the static above exhibits one or more assaults against many U.S. citizens. “A Congressional Research Service report released in August 2012 found that over a 33-month period, between October 2008 and July 2011, more than 159,000 illegal aliens were arrested by local authorities and identified by the federal government as deportable but nevertheless released back onto the streets. Nearly one-sixth of those same individuals were subsequently again arrested for crimes” (Federation for). Moreover, one dangerous of many illegal aliens admitted to returning to the United States after being deported due to criminal activity. These illegal immigrants are aware of the misconducted immigration system and know ways...
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...Jackson Monday 6-9 April 27, 2010 Illegal immigrants should not be deported Path to citizenship or deportation? First and foremost, I want to make it perfectly clear, that I am not voting for or in agreement with free citizenship to all the illegal immigrants that are currently in this country. This is a subject I have put much thought into. I believe there should be a path to citizenship for those who have minor kids who are U.S. born citizens; those who are working, are law abiding and who have been here for at least six years. However, there should be no free rides, no free medical assistance, welfare, and housing or bi-lingual education at the schools. When parents are deported, their U.S.-born children have two 'choices' -- leave with their parents or stay in foster care to continue getting their education. If the kids are deported, they will have to start over in a country with a new language, fewer resources and an uncertain future. Deportation destroys families and leaves U.S. citizen children without parents. Over one in ten families are mixed status: at least one parent is a non-citizen, and one child a citizen. We now have a vehicle to help protect our U.S. citizen children from the devastating effects of deportation: The Child Citizen Protection Act... which allows an immigration judge to consider the best interest of U.S. citizen children before deporting their parents. These immigrants do jobs that Americans do not want to do. They...
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