Illegal Immigration Legal Issues

Immigration is happening at a very high rate, some legally and many not legally. Approximately 11 million people live undocumented in the U.S.(Immigration notes). All immigrants have arrived from what is known as the front door, side door, and back door policy. Front door policy is when a person arrives to be a permanent citizen by going through the legal steps to be a citizen (Immigration notes). First they become a naturalized citizen and are here in a legal long term residency which after so many years, are considered to be citizens. Those who are undocumented come through the back door. The side door is when a person obtains a temporary work visa and has temporary seasonal work. After that, the person is expected to go back to their home country; with no possibility for them to be a citizen and can be paid less than the legal U.S minimum wage (Immigration notes). The back door policy is when a person arrives illegally with the intent to stay (Immigration notes). If the person has children that were born in this country, they are considered to be automatic citizens. The issue of people coming to the United States illegally and proceed to have children raises a controversial ethical issue. Should the …show more content…
In the Mae Ngai report, the man who was deported was deported due to some crimes that he committed, even though he could have arrived through the front door (Ngai, 2014). He may have gone through the legal process for citizenship; it doesn 't deny it in the report. Racial profiling was a major issue in this as well, and Mr. Hernandez was looked down upon. The U.S., from a fairness perspective, doesn 't have the right to deport someone because of their race. “The legal racialization of these ethnic groups ' national origin cast them as permanently foreign and unassimilable to the nation,” (Ngai, 2014). This is an institutional problem with institutional racism occurring everyday for these