...For the first time in American history, a national group was being restricted from entering the United States. In 1882, the U.S. Congress officially passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. This act suspended the entry of Chinese immigrants to the United States for ten years (Kwong, Miscevic 101). The west coast cheered in happiness; their efforts were coming closer to a solution. However, anti-Chinese agitators were still not fully pleased because the Chinese Exclusion Act was to only temporarily stop the immigration of the Chinese; the anti-Chinese supporters wanted full extermination of any Chinese presence in the United States. Anti-Chinese reformers only worked further to diminish any of the Chinese left in America. Discrimination and segregation...
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...strong belief in Nativism. Nativism is the belief in protecting against the threats and influences immigrants may bring. In the eyes of the Native people, the immigrants threaten their Religion, Jobs, and Culture. Religion is a pivotal aspect in forming a native society, so nativism acts as sort of a defense toward the immigrants. With immigrants colonizing native land there was an increase in religious tension which fueled violence, discrimination, and social fragmentation. The Europeans sought to spread the Christian belief to the Native Americans who had spiritual traditions. Because of this, the native people migrated and started to become suppressed. As Nativism settled in the minds of the Europeans (them believing they are now natives to the land) they believed they were God's chosen people. This belief fueled the idea that they were superior towards the indigenous people. Whom they now believed were obstacles in their way. The puritans started to target the Catholics, nativism playing a major role in this....
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...Throughout the 1850s and 1860s, Chinese immigrants provided vasts amounts of cheap, generous, and easily exploitable labor in America’s ever growing nation. The Chinese were initially welcomed in the United States because of their productivity in the work fields for significantly lower-wages than whites. In 1868, China and the U.S. government signed the Burlingame Treaty, which encouraged and advocated more Chinese immigrants onto American soil (Chang 57). This treaty specifically was enacted for big railroad corporations wanting more immigration policies towards China for their labor workers and the exploitable cheap wages they carried. With this great influx of Chinese immigrants, they began to take up most of the employment which created...
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...Illegal Immigration COM 220 Illegal Immigration According to Penalver (2006), “ “During the half of The Nineteenth Century the government of the United States hoped to use its vast Western territories to pay the national debt by auctioning the lands to the highest bidders normally Northeastern settlers.” These settlers used to disappear for a while to proclaimed, trespassed the land to farm it illegally and take the soil back once the federal troops were gone until the situation became tiring and the soil was ultimately sold for ridiculous prices. Later, “on December 12, 1815, President James Madison issued a proclamation warning: uninformed or evil disposed persons, who have unlawfully taken possession of or made any settlement on the public lands forthwith to remove the reform" or face ejection by the army and criminal prosecution. But that didn't stop the settlers. In 1838, Henry Clay, expressing a widely shared sentiment, dismissed the squatters as a "lawless rabble." The 1862 Homestead Act granted free title to settlers who met the statute's five-year-residency and improvement requirements. In one of the great ironies of American history, the lawless squatters underwent a dramatic image makeover to become, in the gauzy romanticism of our collective memory, heroic settlers” Illegal immigration is an act that should be penalized by federal laws since every body should follow the standard regulations of the law. The ironic part here is that some of those people...
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...Immigration is a social injustice that is faced in America from all races who are immigrants.Many immigrants come to the US seeking a better future for themselves and their families, but are denied the opportunity of a good future because they are illegal. Illegal immigrants can't obtain most jobs like everyone else. If you want a job in the United States you require a Social Security number.In the United States you need a social security number so that your employer can track your earnings, and send it to the government so they can administrate benefits for the Social Security program,Social Security was created in August 14, 1935 by President Roosevelt ,but back then it was easyer to be able to get citizen ship and social security it wasn’t until the great depression were presiednt Hoover blamed the immigrants as a cause of the great depression. As a scapegoat to divert...
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...undocumented immigrants. The RAISE Act that he has proposed will end the diversity visa program,reduce the amount of family sponsored immigrants and reduce the number of refugees being accepted into America. This is supposed to limit the amount of people immigrating to the U.S. The new act is very similar to what other past acts have tried to accomplish and have never succeeded. It is completely unreasonable. Immigration is a natural right. Millions of people try to immigrate to America in order to have a better life. Whether it is about opportunities, escaping war/ danger/ natural disaster and so on, they all seek the American dream. A pure example would be refugees. The RAISE Act wants to limit the...
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...indigenous to the Americas. There are approximately two million Native Americas living today in the United States. The cause of this drastic decline of this group of people is common knowledge. Most people know that Native Americas were slaughtered and exposed to deadly diseases by the Europeans. After Christopher Columbus, stumbled upon this land, Europeans came in droves. This was a land of freedom, and a chance for people live whatever way they desired. People journeyed across the Atlantic to escape various problems. The Pilgrims and the Quakers came to the Americas to have religious freedom. Others traveled to get rich off the mass amount of resources. The United States gained its independence from Great Britain in 1776. From 1492 to when America became a sovereign nation and up until the Civil War, millions of slaves were forcibly migrated to America. America was a land of opportunity and freedom for European immigrants, but for African slaves it was a land of oppression and persecution. Americans lost their Anglo-Saxon roots in the 1800s. Just like the colonists before them immigrants left their native land in search of happiness and prosperity. The Industrial Revolution provided jobs for the millions of immigrants during this time. Each country had different hardships that gave its citizens a reason to decide to leave everything to start a new life in The United States. People from Ireland came to America to escape The Great Potato famine. Approximately a million people...
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...Party (BPP). Murch challenged the prevailing notion of the BPP as representative of the "northern" response to the Civil Rights Movement, and the common narrative that southern African Americans faced less oppression and racism after relocating to the north or west regions of the United States. The BPP arose amid a generation of Oakland's African Americans coming of age "between the lynching of Emmitt Till and the assassination of Malcolm X." influenced by southern African American culture in tandem with their reactions to "new" experiences with racism, deindustrialization, disillusionment, and educational opportunity. Even further understanding of the significance of the BPP's role in history rested in that the "most disenfranchised sectors of the African American community-the young, poor, and migrant-challenged the legitimacy of the authorities and the established black leadership."...
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...The United States has a turbulent relationship with immigrants coming from Mexico. Since the Mexican-American war and the annexation of the southwestern states the United States has had American citizens from Mexican origins, and Mexican immigrants crossing the border. The United States overlooked these groups of people until they became a prominent working force and a major influence in businesses and agriculture. Businesses accepted Mexican workers for their cheap labor, but politicians used them as scapegoats for the loss of jobs, and economic turmoil narrative to the public. There has been a contradictory stance on the work force coming from Mexico as they at best were ignored by the public and taken advantage of, or at worst, dealing with...
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...concerning the merits of allowing in immigrants, both who are already in our country illegally, and those who are trying to find their way here. Much of this debate has been highly polarized and politicized on both sides. One quick look at any internet message board will depict this, with people throwing around half baked political theories and ideas, with high spirits and low amounts of substantial discussion to be found. Our elected leaders in Washington however are the ones who need to make the final decision, and I urge them to take a look at facts, rather than popular opinion, and at the true effect on the lives of our citizens rather than political ideology. And so I say, in order to create good immigration policy, lawmakers need to know that...
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...Throughout the history of the United States, various races and ethnicities have been discriminated against. In contemporary time, religion, specifically Islam, has received a great deal of coverage due to the actions taken by extremist Muslims. Because of the actions of terrorist groups such as the Taliban and Isis, Muslims around the world, especially in the United States, are viewed in a negative light. Due to this, the rising backlash towards Muslims has raised the question if during the past fifteen years, the resulting prejudice has affected the young/old/new Muslim immigrants in terms of work, daily life, and even their own sense of belonging or identity within the United States. Recently, minorities in the United States have had...
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...Running head: MEDIA REACTION Week Three: Media Reaction: AP Government Immigration 2011. Individual Assignment Questions. Joseph A. Worch SOC 315 APRIL 12, 2011 Shelley Howell University of Phoenix Running head: MEDIA REACTION Introduction The media reaction to immigration problem in the United Sates is as diverse ad the cultures and peoples it impacts. While there does exist some common public and political views there is also facts information which could alter those positions. The media piece, discussed here, found on YouTube under the title AP Gov. Immigration 2011, posted by dmcb324, a variety of media clips providing information from numerous news sources both local and international are given. This paper will use this media format to address the questions on the media reaction toward immigration. What is the historical framework of this issue? The framework presented in this media presentation covers a current and present time frame beginning with the elections of 2010 through the months of 2011. So the information seen and heard is very up-to-date and thereby relevant in today’s societal issues. What is the political context of this issue? The piece presents all sides of the political spectrum. It utilizes news clips and media information from both liberals and conservatives and well as members of the Democratic and Republican parties. This unique combining of views and information provides for a very thought-provoking...
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...campaign for president of the United States has sparked a huge amount of interest in what most almost everyone can agree is a horrible man. So how does he remain so consistently high in the polls? Clearly there must be something about Trump that appeals to the typical American citizen. The question is: what? Trump possesses none of the positive traits that define Americans, he’s intolerant, comically ignorant, hateful, and contrary to popular belief he’s actually quite a bad businessman. This all contrasts the American ideal of a diverse and accepting people known for innovative and intelligent entrepreneurs. The secret to Trump’s success is quite...
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...Media Reaction Paper Michael Vandiver Soc/315 July 7, 2015 Anita Westbrook Media Reaction Paper Hispanic immigrants are handy scapegoats for the problems in local communities, from crime to overcrowded schools. Even legal immigrants are victims of this mindset, in spite of immigration not being the root cause or even a major factor in any of the issues. Immigration has always been an issue. Those making up the majority of the population are all immigrants from other nations, having descended from those who immigrated here over the course of the last 400 years. Some of the areas in which Hispanic immigrants are most numerous were at one point the property of the Hispanic nation of Mexico. Immigrants built this country, and certain segments of the immigrants have always been accused of ruining this country. Recently, Arizona passed a law, SB 1070, which requires the police to question the legal status of those they suspect are undocumented immigrants. Additionally, it sets the official immigration police as ‘attrition through enforcement’, stating that they intend to be so harsh that immigrants flee in fear. (Martinez, 2011). Currently, the law is on hold due to challenges by the US Department of Justice for usurping federal jurisdiction on immigration. However, the law has set a horrid precedent, one that has resulted in boycotts that are costing Arizona more than $330 million dollars over the next two to three years. (Martinez, 2011). Similar anti-immigration campaigns...
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...Media Reaction Paper Jennifer Dockery SOC/315 9/5/2011 Shannon Burke, MA Media Reaction Paper Hispanic immigrants are handy scapegoats for the problems in local communities, from crime to overcrowded schools. Even legal immigrants are victims of this mindset, in spite of immigration not being the root cause or even a major factor in any of the issues. Immigration has always been an issue. Those making up the majority of the population are all immigrants from other nations, having descended from those who immigrated here over the course of the last 400 years. Some of the areas in which Hispanic immigrants are most numerous were at one point the property of the Hispanic nation of Mexico. Immigrants built this country, and certain segments of the immigrants have always been accused of ruining this country. Recently, Arizona passed a law, SB 1070, which requires the police to question the legal status of those they suspect are undocumented immigrants. Additionally, it sets the official immigration police as ‘attrition through enforcement’, stating that they intend to be so harsh that immigrants flee in fear. (Martinez, 2011). Currently, the law is on hold due to challenges by the US Department of Justice for usurping federal jurisdiction on immigration. However, the law has set a horrid precedent, one that has resulted in boycotts that are costing Arizona more than $330 million dollars over the next two to three years. (Martinez, 2011)...
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