...debated is the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. A few of the candidates believe Obamacare should be repealed and the other candidates believe it should be revamped. The main provision of Obamacare is that every United States citizen and authorized immigrant is required to have health insurance. Undocumented immigrants are the only segment of the U.S. population excluded from this mandate. Whether undocumented immigrants should be required to have health insurance and granted access to Obamacare subsidies is one of the...
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...The undocumented population doesn't have those same privileges.What is a undocumented immigrant? An undocumented immigrant is as stated by texas.edu “Typically, undocumented immigrants have entered the U.S. without inspection or legal permission or through the use of false papers. Being undocumented can also refer to a person with expired paperwork or a person in deportation proceedings.” . But, by that knowledge many may not now that terminology but may know the terminology released by the by Donald Trump's “They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists,”.Documents such as Deceleration of Independence are all a piece of paper that make a difference in many people's lives.The documents that help the undocumented population are Dream Act, Reform Act of 1986, and America Helping America.The undocumented immigrants population consists with help of the higher power in our government to help access temporary citizenship or work. All these documents help provide immigrants...
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...Undocumented Students and Access To Higher Education in America Juan M. Galvan Liberty University Abstract This paper exposes the urgency to implement an immigration reform that would eliminate educational and occupational barriers to millions of undocumented students that want to pursue a postsecondary education. The information in this research examines the impact undocumented students may have in society and the economy of this country. There are thousands of undocumented students that graduate high school every year and have no opportunities to pursue a higher education degree, thus increasing the chances of poverty in this country, increase in unemployment and a serious negative shift in the economy. Given the increase role that immigrants and their children play in American society in the coming years, it is essential to give as many young people as possible the opportunity to enroll an succeed in postsecondary education. This should push for policy makers and educators to focus on increasing immigrants’ participation in postsecondary education to ensure the long-run strength of the U.S economy. By providing legal residency or working permit as a condition to earn a degree to contribute to society it will definitely increase this nation’s economy and reduce unemployment and poverty. UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS AND HIGHER EDUCATION The educational system in the United States offers the opportunity to millions of students to receive an education from preschool...
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...Rights of undocumented aliens to healthcare Name: Institution: Date: Executive summary According to the US Congress in 2010, President Obama made the PPACA a law but still this act does not include the undocumented aliens in the medical coverage. This report reviews the rights of the undocumented aliens to healthcare and hoe this can be improved. This research discovered that the undocumented aliens have limited access to health care due to lack of identity papers. This is due to the fact that they earn very low income and medical insurance coverage is lower for the undocumented aliens. As a result, they rely on the safety-net medical care providers such as social health centers as this centers continue to provide care for the undocumented aliens. This research also reviews the limitations and problems faced by the undocumented aliens in accessing health care and as a result the ploys they use to access medical care. The findings of this research show that they mostly rely on treating themselves with over counter drugs or in the cases of extremes they use unofficial networks to seek treatment. Also, it is evident that they would do anything to safeguard their cover from being discovered and these results in stress and psychological disorders. Another finding is that despite the healthcare reforms, undocumented aliens still have no rights to access health care compared to the US citizens. This research recommends designing of programs which focus on the issue of undocumented...
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...Undocumented immigrants in the United States currently account for 13.3%, of the entire population (21). There have been arguments made on how this population affects America in an economical negative way. In this, standpoints can be taken such as tax returns, health care benefits, and the employment incomes for undocumented immigrants. Undocumented immigrants enter the U.S. in hopes of becoming citizens. Many undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars for taxes, medical care, and employment taxes. If immigrants were to be allowed to be granted citizenship, then there would be less amounts of taxes that must be paid to all the citizens who are employed and have medical care. An immigration reform would prove to be beneficial to the...
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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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...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, J. 2013). Immigration did not actually gain the Illegal status until 1808. This is the year that President Jefferson made foreign slave trade illegal, resulting in many slaves being smuggled into the USA (Hendricks, J. 2013). This is the first documentation of illegal immigrants coming to our county. In the current century, illegal immigration...
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...Undocumented Workers Undocumented workers are present in every country, especially in America; the government is trying to cut the number of its undocumented or illegal workers. But are undocumented workers ruining economy or supporting it, are they stealing jobs from local people or just taking unattractive jobs? Issue of undocumented or illegal workers is very complex, but I will try to find out the truth in my research. Once I had been in a small resort city and asked an owner of a small ice-cream place why most of the workers were foreigners. She told me that usually foreigners are more reliable and responsible and are more afraid of losing their jobs then American workers. That was the reason why every summer she tried to hire foreigners as first opinion and only than American workers. Is this an example of discrimination? I would not say so. Employer is interested to hire employees that would be able to perform their job in the best way. It just happened so that in a low paid hard jobs immigrants perform much better then American workers. Not only because this “low salary” is much higher than in their home country, but also because American workers are not willing to work hard for low salary. As a result, I would like to say the undocumented workers are supporting current American economy. Currently there are 11 million undocumented workers in the U.S. Mexicans constitute the huge part of the undocumented population as 57%, 23% are from other Latin countries, almost 10%...
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...immigration policies have been put in place. Most which seem unfair to certain immigrants coming into the U.S., restricting them because of their race, lack of intelligence, or because they just didn’t have the right skills in order to work in the U.S. We will be focusing on 4 immigration policies overall. 2 racial based policies, like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese immigrants from coming into the U.S. Also along with the Chinese Exclusion Act is the Naturalization Act of 1790. The Naturalization Act of 1790 only really focused on the U.S.’s need to bring in people with “good moral character” because the U.S. wanted to make their nation, to what they believed as “pure”. Also, 2 profession based policies, like the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which was a law that took away jobs from every single immigrant that was in the U.S. without proper documentation. Also, the Secure Fence Act of 2006 which is a law that allowed for a huge fence to be placed along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to prevent immigrants from Mexico from sneaking into the U.S. Based on these policies the Immigration Policies from 1790 to 2006 were unjustified because they limited certain immigrants from coming into the U.S. The immigration policies from 1790 to 1942 were unjustified because it had prevented certain immigrants from being allowed into the United States. The Naturalization Act of 1790, ...
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...Immigration is one of the most highly talked about topics especially this election year. Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, vows to help undocumented immigrants while Donald Trump thinks that deporting these people would make America great again. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration has been pushing executive actions, DACA (deferred action for childhood arrivals) and DAPA (deferred actions for parents of Americans and lawful permanent residents) that would supposedly help undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States. These programs could help them find ways on how to stay here legally. In spite of these pleas, four million immigrants are still facing deportation any time soon because DACA and DAPA have been immobilized. Clearly, these actions are not enough to secure the rights of undocumented people especially those who were brought here by their parents when they were young....
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...Literature review In my research proposal I decided to conduct a study based on undocumented immigrants in Canada and find out whether they have access to services in institutions and what are those services provided in Canada for those who have no legal status and need medical assistance for visible or non-visible disabilities. However, I acknowledge that the population I chose to do my research with, it is difficult to reach as many undocumented migrants -in despite of the reasons why they have no legal status, are afraid to be deported to their home country by the police and immigration officials. As part of my strategy to reach undocumented participants, I wanted to use the snowball method as it is more feasible to contact this population...
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...Nancy Hightower Are Undocumented Immigrants Good for the U.S. Economy? For most Americans immigration is very sensitive and emotional issue so impact of the immigrants on U.S. is often debated. While much of the debate centers on cultural issues, the economic effects of immigration are clear: Economic analysis finds little support for the view that inflows of foreign labor have reduced jobs or Americans’ wages. According to Phew Research Centre, there are 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants in US and U.S civilian workforce included 8 million unauthorized immigrants, accounting for 5% of those who were working or were unemployed and looking for work. Mexicans made up 52% of all unauthorized immigrants,...
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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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...There's a very large population of illegal/ undocumented immigrants in the U.S today and it has upset some and others think it's a good thing. As you look into how many immigrants are behind the scenes of making your food or why there’s always an option for Spanish dialogue or why presidential candidate Trump says they bring in rapist and murderers, what does immigration actually mean to the nation. To what extent is illegal immigration a burden or a benefit to the U.S. economy? If it's a benefit who does immigration actually burden? Immigrants have throughout the history of America been very well welcomed, but this recent spurt of illegal immigrants have been largely controversial to the nation. The information i found proved that these illegal...
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...We should not draw our conclusion just by looking at one source. I will compare the debate between two professors (Stern and Clement) who are specialists with opposite views on illegal immigration and give a general background of undocumented immigration. They both debate over foundation facts, for example the origins, causes, and demographics of the undocumented population. Most of the debate is over the negative effects of having the illegal migrants in the country and how they affect the job and wages, and overall the economic health of the country. They also talks about the societal issue such as the crime rate of the undocumented immigrants and how they threaten the public health in their articles. Furthermore, the two specialists also...
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