The article “Our Fear of Immigrants” by Jeremy Adam smith is an article that argues some specific point in how individual and society perceive illegal immigrants. This article was originally published in 2014 by the Pacific Standard: the science of Society, a journal that focus on justice, education, economics, and environment. Smith argumentation implicates that society felt threaten to illegal immigrants because they felt their natural resources are being taken away, people in power take advantage of immigrants to gain profitably, and illegal immigrants are subjected to hatred (750-757).
Smith argument began with two stories of Rodrigo and a protest in Murrieta, California. These two-different events interconnect with illegal immigrants. …show more content…
These immigrants are labeled as illegal because it is easier to treat them unfair and to take advantage of them. The people in power use the illegal immigrants to gain profitably by degrading them to work the hardest job, receiving low wages and giving no benefits (753). Smith has a good example in explaining these because I have family members that are illegal and they don’t get the same pay or benefits that some of the citizen people get. They are afraid to be unemployed because they will lose income and resources to sustain their living. Sometimes, some of these families work during the season they had to relocate which mean they had to move town to town or state to follow the farming season to make money for their family. They must accept substandard housing such as section 8 or low-income housing because regular hosing is not easily obtainable to them. It’s unfair for them but they don’t have too many option because they are afraid to get …show more content…
Therefore, they lose the advantage of getting a higher pay job. In some state, according to the article Access or Barrier? Tuition and Fee Legislation for Undocumented Students across the States by David H. K. Nguyen and Gabriel R. Serna said that some states opted to handle undocumented students as a nonresident student making undocumented students pay higher tuition (124). These make impossible for immigrants to get a higher education or if they do they would have more financial problems which only benefit people with higher power. According to the article Mass legalization for Unitarized Immigrants is a Bad Idea said that a person that doesn’t have higher education pay $20,000 dollars less in taxes per house (how do I cite this if doesn’t have a page). To solve this the government need pass registration such as the DREAM ACT which their acronym stand for Development, relief and Education for Alien Minors which allow undocumented students to continues there education (Fitz). Therefore, it would add $329 billion dollars in revenue by the end of 2030(Fitz). So, this would make undocumented people pay more in taxes due to higher pay job. They people in higher power need undocumented people because they want the cost of living to a minimum. So, it not a good idea to give an education which would make more
Smith argument began with two stories of Rodrigo and a protest in Murrieta, California. These two-different events interconnect with illegal immigrants. …show more content…
These immigrants are labeled as illegal because it is easier to treat them unfair and to take advantage of them. The people in power use the illegal immigrants to gain profitably by degrading them to work the hardest job, receiving low wages and giving no benefits (753). Smith has a good example in explaining these because I have family members that are illegal and they don’t get the same pay or benefits that some of the citizen people get. They are afraid to be unemployed because they will lose income and resources to sustain their living. Sometimes, some of these families work during the season they had to relocate which mean they had to move town to town or state to follow the farming season to make money for their family. They must accept substandard housing such as section 8 or low-income housing because regular hosing is not easily obtainable to them. It’s unfair for them but they don’t have too many option because they are afraid to get …show more content…
Therefore, they lose the advantage of getting a higher pay job. In some state, according to the article Access or Barrier? Tuition and Fee Legislation for Undocumented Students across the States by David H. K. Nguyen and Gabriel R. Serna said that some states opted to handle undocumented students as a nonresident student making undocumented students pay higher tuition (124). These make impossible for immigrants to get a higher education or if they do they would have more financial problems which only benefit people with higher power. According to the article Mass legalization for Unitarized Immigrants is a Bad Idea said that a person that doesn’t have higher education pay $20,000 dollars less in taxes per house (how do I cite this if doesn’t have a page). To solve this the government need pass registration such as the DREAM ACT which their acronym stand for Development, relief and Education for Alien Minors which allow undocumented students to continues there education (Fitz). Therefore, it would add $329 billion dollars in revenue by the end of 2030(Fitz). So, this would make undocumented people pay more in taxes due to higher pay job. They people in higher power need undocumented people because they want the cost of living to a minimum. So, it not a good idea to give an education which would make more