Alien

Finding a Better Life While on the bus taking him up to the border, Jorge is thinking about leaving his family for a long time, but he knows it is the right thing to do. Jorge is about to take a potentially deadly trip. He gets off of the bus and walks about a mile. Finally, he begins his long awaited journey, he enters the dessert. He is walking through all of the tall, dead weeds, getting cut up from the thorns of the cacti, and is getting all muddy from the sand that just got drenched from…

Up to 12 million people in the United States are here through unlawful entry. Building a barrier to close off the border is not a cheap investment but the results will be priceless. An increased quality of life for the citizens of the U.S. will be granted if a fence is built on the border between Mexico and the United States. Improved safety, minimized crime, and better workforce are only a few of the many reasons the border should be closed. Control of our borders is required for national…

In this book Trump seemed to be more concerned with insulting and berating Latino immigrants than actually making a valid argument. He writes, “According to a Government Accountability Office 2011 report, America’s prisons house 351,000 criminal aliens who committed a crime after having already broken the law by entering America illegally.” He does this in an attempt to frighten the reader into thinking all undocumented people are 1) Latino and 2) Criminals. An opinion that has not changed…

Johnson also stated in his speech that he had his own immigration reform idea called the Comprehensive, Common Sense reform; this reform is like the S.744 bill, granting 11.5 million people citizenship and making changes to secure the border further. He believes that putting more money into border security will help lower the percentage of illegal immigrant’s crossing over into the country. Both Conservatives and Liberals want to have a secure border and to protect our country, but the problem…

Illegal Immigration is Harmful The United States has been an easy destination for illegal aliens. According to Matt Pearce, “ between 9 and 13 million illegal immigrants reside in the United States. Illegal immigration must be stopped to protect the nation. Illegal immigration affects all, including legal immigrants and the minority. Many people often state that illegal immigrants are good because they do jobs that other legal citizens will not do, when in reality, many citizens on welfare…

The Immigration Act Of 1965 and the Immigration Reform And Control Act Of 1986, both aimed to control the number of people of different nationalities allowed into the United States within a given year. The Immigration act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act was a reworking of the original Immigration Act Of 1926 which put in place yearly quotas on immigration based on nation of origin, mainly from Europe and Latin America. While the Reform and Control Act reassessment of immigrant status…

are many other supporters around the world that would kindly accept them. According to the article, Illegal Immigration Dilemma: Are Migrant Children Refugees or Criminals? by Patrick Jonson, it stated, “The massive border breach by ‘unaccompanied alien children’ has been building since 2012, going from 6,560 in fiscal year 2011 to an estimated 90,000 this year, and a possible 150,000 in 2015” (paragraph 5). If this many numerous amount of unaccompanied children are rapidly entering the United…

Individuals who are labeled as a “illegal aliens” are often faced with moments of despair where they struggle to find employment, medical insurance, and a home for their family and themselves. At times the barriers become too much to handle that immigrants begin to feel hopeless and alienated from…

detained at a border crossing near McAllen, Texas. Milian’s lawyer stated that he was trying to flee from gang violence in his home country, Guatemala. Henry Milian was released from custody twelve days later. Tommy Ventura, a thirty-one-year old illegal alien, who has been deported already four times and is now to blame for the horrific sex attack on a two-year-old child, and brutally stabbing a woman in a parking lot. Miguel Angel and Alexan Riviera, two illegal gang members in the US was…

There have been many concerns over immigration recently and this creates uncertainty for the fate of The Dream Act. The Dream Act is a legislative proposal that will give undocumented people who came here illegally when they were very young the chance to legally obtaining Citizenship. Undocumented students do not face many hardships due to their legal status until after high school, which prevents them from reaching their highest potential through higher education and stops them from being…