...Immigration Media Reaction Emily Westbrook SOC/315 June 9, 2013 Christopher Berry Immigration Media Reaction The Media reaction to immigration problems is the diversity of the American people is unmistakable. U.S. immigration support is a leading publisher of legal books and immigration guides. The U.S. immigrant support provides the most current information on immigration to the United States. This is an independent organization that provides free access to a database of immigration related news and articles. This media reaction will explain the current immigration political issues related to this article. Many Mexicans immigration work in the United States to help support their families south of the border. The money that these immigrants earn makes a huge impact on the Mexican economy. The National Population Council of Mexico estimates that one in 10 Mexican families is dependent upon money sent home from Mexican workers in the U.S. In October 1994 the Immigration and Naturalization Services launched Operation Gatekeeper to crack down on people entering the country through San Diego, California. This Gatekeeper forced immigrants to cross through the Imperial Desert. Several thousand had died along the U.S. Mexico border since this operation. Mexican had drowned in canals and rivers and had died of dehydration. In July 2001, the Mexican President Vicente Fox asked President Bush to consider granting legal status to three million undocumented...
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...The United States has experienced a sharp spike in immigration flows over the past decade. The Pew Hispanic Research Center has reported non-partisan statistical analyses and public opinion data chronicling the rapid growth of the Latino population and its implication for the nation as a whole to government stakeholders and officials that mandate new policies both foreign and domestic. The center uses the tools of social science research to improve understanding of the diverse Hispanic experience in the United States and to chronicle the Latino growing impact on the country. The latest figures compiled by the Pew Hispanic Center indicate that there are more than 11 million undocumented immigrants, a number that includes more than one million children under the age of 18. Overall, the undocumented represent approximately 4% of the nation's population, 5% of its labor force, and 28% of its foreign-born population (Suro, 2005). However, these statistics could be challenged simply based on Scheuren’s (2004) account that bias could be an issue as the “findings are extrapolated from a sample of the Mexican population”. A stratified sample from varies regions of Hispanics would likely have yielded different results. Survey results tend to be mixed depending on if one is native born or migrant. Congress attempts to pass immigration reform laws in order to control or at least temper the illegal migrations. Research is gathered and used in order to make informed decisions that will be...
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... Areas such as immigration rates, the end of the British Empire and economic decline are all prime examples of this. And I will examine these areas in detail to show why being British isn't as highly thought of as it once was. Firstly the rate of immigration in Britain has risen to unbelievably high levels in recent years. In 2001 the population of Britain was 87% white British and by 2001, just ten years this had fallen to just 80%. Also between 2004 and 2006 over half a million Eastern Europeans immigrated to Britain. This doesn't fall in with the “new right” view on what Britishness is. This view came about in the 1960's and people who shared this view believed that Britain was an island, separate from Europe which should have people with the same identity, basically that everyone should be white. Margaret Thatcher was among those who had this view and she was everything that epitomised Britishness and national identity during her reign as prime minister. As immigration was becoming a problem for the Government, they came up with ways of restricting people entering the country because British people felt that they were too many immigrants and that they changing the culture of Britain etc. Due to the British Nationality Act, 1948, at least a quarter of the world's population was eligible to own a British passport. Due to the major influx of immigrants during the late 1940's and 1950's, the Government came up with things such as the Commonwealth Immigration Act, 1968 and the...
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...The World War most definitely had a significant impact on the ever-changing America, however the way she carried herself post-war, threatened her status in the upcoming years leading to more inevitable conflict. America was thought of as the greatest power coming out of World War I due to its financial stability, lack of need for any large-scale repairing, and it's eventual recognition as the world's leading nation. Although, the elements that made the nation seem powerful, were it's eventual source of weakness. Above the surface, the United States was a hub of industrialism with a sound economy. All of which was true, however, among all of the positive change were small localized issues that separated the country. The author of the 'No” view point, Neiberg, claimed that despite the growing issues of large-scale immigration and controversial urbanization, the country remained...
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...In “The Bean Trees” Barbara Kingsolver expresses her beliefs on social and cultural issues such motherhood, the education levels of single women and illegal immigration through the leading character by the name of Marietta Greer, but is referred to as Missy. Missy is a young woman who does not want to live her adult life “barefoot and pregnant” like the other women in Pittman County in rural Kentucky. As Missy enters her adult life she quits her job at the hospital performing platelet counts to purchase a minimalistic car and leave her dearest mother and ghost town to create and shape a fulfilling life. Along the way she is put through real life situations that test her limits. Through these trials and tribulations, Kingsolver is able to expose her views through the wild situations that Missy is thrown into. Kingsolver is unique and purposeful in all of her novels. She writes sequentially with the time period and uses brilliant writing techniques and pays close attention to detail. Although, Kingsolver’s official site says that the purpose of “The Bean Trees” was not to describe her personal beliefs, but it is quite obvious she used issues from 1980 to...
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...in pursuit of a better life for themselves and their children. After all Canada has a global reputation as being one of the best countries in the world for many reasons. There is free healthcare available and educational opportunities if so desired as well as many provincial social services in place to help new immigrants transition into Canadian society. Some immigrants leave there come country because of instability within their government causing national unrest and dangerous circumstances for ordinary citizens. In other cases immigration can occur simply because they are seeking a better opportunities in life. Up until 1960’s “Canada’s immigration objective was to attract more British and American immigrants, as well as immigrants from the “preferred countries” of central and northern Europe” [4] Canada’s immigration policy after 1960 has historically been very relaxed compared to some other countries such as the United States and Europe. I view this as a double sided coin, good and bad. I am in no way opposed to human equality however I feel that our Anglo Saxon roots of what Canada has been founded on has been displaced by millions of immigrants to a degree that Canada is no longer what it was designed to be based on Anglo Saxon culture, morals, and...
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...contribution to society- but a lot less deserving of high wages such as an attorney, etc. This inequality is undeniable and still a functioning part of society. The conflict theory focuses on the competition between classes of society for these resources in an effort to maintain power and prestige. The capitalists battle with the under-class workers for control. “The United States has the fastest growing population by far and the greatest disparity between CEO pay and average worker pay (Abernethy, 2001).” Conflict theorists argue that those who accompany the unskilled jobs are forced into that type of employment due to social inequality; not having the education or opportunities of those “better off”. “Population growth and immigration cannot be ignored as the cause of greater, and growing, inequality in the United States—and also its growing...
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...being must have a proper function, “an activity of the soul in conformity with a rational principle” (p 17 line 3) that is ‘aim[ed] at some good” (p3 line 2). However, some achieve that proper function more effectively than others through their decisions. Aristotle mentions that “some vices exceed and others fall short of what is required in emotion and in action, whereas virtue finds and chooses the median” (p44 line 5), which shows that to live blissfully one must find the mean in all of their actions, which is a grey area within limits in the spectrum of choices, and avoid the extremes on the ends of this spectrum. This clip, Illegal Immigration: The Destruction of America, shows the views of a group of Americans against foreigners immigrating into their country to enjoy the benefits of the American society. However, this view on illegal immigration is unethical in terms of Aristotle’s principles as it prevents these people from attaining their high standards and proper human function by taking away the rights they could achieve in the land of the “free”, it also disregards the idea of a grey area, only showing the irrational and biased American extreme. The clip complains about how Mexican people come into America and take on the jobs that “Americans won’t do” (0:13), and how “they use hospital services while Americans pick up the bill” (1:35). This personally affected me as it contradicts the basis of my proper human function which is to help the good of the majority even if...
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...States has been bombarded with many different cultures and languages. Therefore society’s views and opinions of law enforcement vary from ethnicity to ethnicity. We will be exploring how the Asian, Hispanic and Black communities see law enforcement from discrimination, racial profiling and past experiences. Also, we will discuss how non-minorities view law enforcement and their actions. The shattered relations between law enforcement and minorities will be included in the discussion. In addition, the police officers and the rise of diversity and how they interact with the community, response to the growth of ethnic communities and education on diversity. Lastly, racial profiling and its effects on police officers, the community and the department will be explored. Ethnic Groups The increase of immigration and diversity has sometimes made relationships with police difficult. Asian and Hispanics communities are often fearful of police officers due to there past experiences. There past experiences vary from their country of origin that was plagued with war and civil unrest. This includes corruption in law enforcement and abuse of power by authority figures. Leading many minorities to fear and sometimes dislike law enforcement. Hispanic communities often feel that police officers discriminated them by racial profiling them. In Arizona the very controversial SB 1070 anti-illegal immigration bill has passed which allows police...
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...election. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas became the first to officially announce his candidacy on March 23. Mr. Cruz seeks the Republican primary nomination by emphasizing himself as the most conservative candidate, he is also the candidate with the most hard-line stances against President Obama. Real estate mogul and television reality star Donald Trump, the twelfth GOP candidate announced his run on June 16, with the slogan, America doesn’t win anymore. When it comes to the issues, taxes have always been in the top five in every election, but recently immigration has been a leading issue. In fact during his announcement, Donald trump was very outspoken about Mexican illegal immigrants and during the first GOP debate, he added that he is openly confronting the severity of the immigration problem that “others won’t publicly acknowledge.” On the immigration issue, Senator Ted Cruz has taken active measures reform the legal immigration system and uphold the rule of law. As for taxes, Cruz believes that major tax reform, is the most important fiscal issue facing the U.S. He believes that the most important tax reform would be to get rid of the IRS. Donald trump has a more liberal tax that slashes taxes for the poor and levies higher taxes on the rich. By April 15, Americans will pay about 2.1 trillion dollars in combined federal taxes. The average American pays an income tax rate of 10.1 percent, although that varies depending on their income. Taxes fund the services provided by the...
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... Immigration One of the most controversial political issues of today is that of illegal immigrants from Mexico. Illegal immigration into the United States is a problem that should be stopped, as it is unfair to both Americans and to the people of the country from which they illegally immigrated. It is thought that the majority of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. are Mexicans (Anderson 55). Roy Beck clarifies the situation by stating, "The national consensus is that the United States should be a post-mass immigration country has included most leaders of business, religion, labor, academia, and social work." Illegal immigration from Mexico must be stopped by means of different policies and other methods of prevention, because the effects on both Mexico and the United States are predominately unfavorable. There are multiple policies and means of preventing illegal immigrants from entering the United States. Immigration laws are the catalysts of illegal immigration prevention. Proposition 187 is a tough immigration law clamping down on illegal aliens, used in California, the state with the most illegal immigrants. It doubled the number of boarder guards, made it harder for legal immigrants to bring their families over, not permitting as much political asylum and was harder on illegal aliens already here (DiConsiglio 3). NAFTA, officially, hasn’t reduced as much illegal immigration as had been hoped, but, it helped Mexico recover...
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...will include the effects of the media, and the effects of immigration on diversity. I will be discussing the possible ways to work towards a post-racism society nationwide. To get a better understanding of why people immigrate to the United States, we have to think about where they came from and why they decided to come here. This has helped me understand these questions, and have a different view towards immigration and diversity. I can understand that the circumstances and living conditions that these people have had to live with drove them out and to the United States for the freedoms and way of life. We cannot blame the immigrants for coming here because if the shoe was on the other foot it would have been us coming here to get away, and into the freedoms and liberty of the United States. As I am part of the white race in America, I have learned that my race is the most prevalent race in the United States, and always has been. Today, the children are much more diverse. If we look at it from an older to younger standpoint, “Older Americans are whiter. Younger Americans are more non-white.” (Claiborne, 2011). So we can look forward to a more diverse future with the next generations to grow up being very diverse. The white race may be outnumbered one day with the Latinos having the highest birthrate these days. It is not surprising to me to see the numbers of different races growing in our nation because of the immigration rates. As time goes on we will see many other races besides...
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...and society. United States has had major culture changes as money continues to be one of the leading causes to mankind’s problems. However, knowledge of justice has help citizens and the governments realize to a degree, humans are the primary concern rather than the root to all madness “Money”. The effects of money has had an impression on the cultural diversity of the United States primary because power played the role of inequality that lead to the destruction of many families of minorities by the majority because of money. Moreover, the United States has overcome barriers to fix the disarray that power has had on individuals to help the citizens to reach out for understanding and answers that has led to the combination of knowledge, awareness and solutions. Let’s examine how! Understanding the history of how the United States met with cultural diversity has helped me to see that through history the effects begin with a negative view and later after harsh treatment was administered; lawmakers examined the outlook of the country to benefit the citizens. Two unique situations were race and gender that had an influential role of the American culture. Race was distinguished between major groups; majority versus minorities. The White Americans are categorized as being the majority and all other races are the minorities. Being an African American minority, I personally had a bias view of other races. I felt as if other races did not experience the turmoil my ancestors experience;...
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...Until 1970s Germany recruited unskilled labor to fill shortages and vacancies in manufacturing (Sassen 1999). Workers stayed and more came in until 1973 during the oil embargo. All along, Germany had no immigration policy. However, various relevant administrations pursued to maintain German identity and cohesion of society through cultural conservatism (Martin 1994). The immigration policy was formulated in 1980 under the coalition government (The Greens) which favored reforms to facilitate entry of those seeking asylum and address integration particularly with regard to Turk immigrants. During this time, Germany regarded the Dutch model of integration as a viable approach to formulating its immigration policy. France, on the other hand instituted immigration policies in 1945. The policy remained unchanged until the economic downturn of 1974. The policy provided that no foreigner would migrate to the country due to economic crisis in their homeland (Lesaout and Kadri 2002). There were various changes through time that allowed asylum seekers to enter France later but the treatment of Muslim asylum seekers remained unchanged. When President Mitterrand complained of runaway immigration in the country (Hollifield 2004), there were still few Muslims entering the country due to strict regulations concerning their religious practices while in...
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...Multiculturalism merits special attention because of its significance as a national policy of accommodating migrants from diverse cultural backgrounds. Multiculturalism is more significant because of the larger claims it made about the actual or preferred character of the Australian people and national culture. These embellishments were promoted by a relatively small coterie of elites, as Mark Lopez has painstakingly documented,1 and became standard formulations used in official accounts of Australian national identity and citizenship. While the sting has gone out of multiculturalism and the national debate has moved on to issues of citizenship and refugee policy, multicultural formulations still inform official documents. According to this view, Australia is now made up of people of diverse cultures that should be given equal status with the Australian mainstream. Australian citizenship is then invoked as the glue that binds these different groups into a national unity. The multicultural account of Australia as a nation of diverse cultural groups has been taken over by the Australian Citizenship Council in its prescriptions for Australian Citizenship for a New Century.2 The Citizenship Council eschews any notion of common national identity or shared culture in favour of 'public acceptance of diversity' and abstract civic values. Such values underpin citizenship, according to the Citizenship Council, and these together define and unite Australians. In the following paper we give...
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