Should one say illegal, unauthorized or undocumented, and how about immigrant or alien? And which combination of these words should be used? Is it an immigration problem, per se, or a problem of unauthorized immigration? The words and their used-order depict a different meaning, with many drawing an array of solutions. Jose Jorge Medoze, from the University of Oregon, took a look at some of this in his article ‘The Political Philosophy of Unauthorized Immigration’ published in the American Philosophical Association’s Spring 2011 Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino issues in Philosophy. Although Medoze looks deeper than this label-semantics to find an ‘equal’ resolution for all, his evaluation of this matter falls short in taking an ‘equal’ approach,
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Dussel uses “three key values of political liberalism—solidarity, equality, and liberty” (Medoze, 2011, pg. 6). Earlier in his article, he broke it down like this:
“…in order to understand or pinpoint the failure of a system…we need to first locate its victims, those who suffer the brunt of its exclusion and oppression. When we locate this group…we need to address the failure from their perspective and not from the perspective of privilege” (pg. 4).
In support of Medoze’s argument, he not only favors and includes Dussel’s work, he also draws on areas, such as the ‘Dream Act’, that allows those who came here as children ‘undocumented’ to stay, in support of his position. Truly, the young innocent children are victims in this …show more content…
I, however, am outside his obvious target audience, and rather than trying to sway my opinion and perspective on this topic, drew more questions contrary to his perspective. I would have taken more weight in his perspective by the end of the article, an article he stressed ‘equality’ in several ways, if he would have made the same attempt to a constitutional and fundamental view on the matter.
Medoze is remit in addressing several potholes that arise in traveling some of the avenues he shows to have preference to. Much of this article is on the equality-for, protection-of, ethical-consideration-of the immigrant, undocumented immigrant specifically. There are two other ‘groups’ of people that SHOULD have be given the same equality, protection, and consideration: US Citizens (Born and Naturalized) & Legal Immigrants [another words, those here legally], and Visa Applicants (those already in-line waiting, have applied for legal immigrate
Dussel uses “three key values of political liberalism—solidarity, equality, and liberty” (Medoze, 2011, pg. 6). Earlier in his article, he broke it down like this:
“…in order to understand or pinpoint the failure of a system…we need to first locate its victims, those who suffer the brunt of its exclusion and oppression. When we locate this group…we need to address the failure from their perspective and not from the perspective of privilege” (pg. 4).
In support of Medoze’s argument, he not only favors and includes Dussel’s work, he also draws on areas, such as the ‘Dream Act’, that allows those who came here as children ‘undocumented’ to stay, in support of his position. Truly, the young innocent children are victims in this …show more content…
I, however, am outside his obvious target audience, and rather than trying to sway my opinion and perspective on this topic, drew more questions contrary to his perspective. I would have taken more weight in his perspective by the end of the article, an article he stressed ‘equality’ in several ways, if he would have made the same attempt to a constitutional and fundamental view on the matter.
Medoze is remit in addressing several potholes that arise in traveling some of the avenues he shows to have preference to. Much of this article is on the equality-for, protection-of, ethical-consideration-of the immigrant, undocumented immigrant specifically. There are two other ‘groups’ of people that SHOULD have be given the same equality, protection, and consideration: US Citizens (Born and Naturalized) & Legal Immigrants [another words, those here legally], and Visa Applicants (those already in-line waiting, have applied for legal immigrate