Illegal logging

“They say you can accomplish whatever you want or set your mind to, but they don’t say that it’s just for some.” (We are Americans Pg. 39). For a lot of years the United States of America has been a home and the land of opportunity for many. The land where everyone can achieve their dreams. But, just like the quote says, it’s not for everyone. There are about eleven million of undocumented people living in this country. Out of all those people, according to The Pew Hispanic Center, 1.5 million…

immigrants are not criminals. According to Reason, “Much is made of the alleged fact that 30 percent of federal prison inmates are illegal immigrants. Actually, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the correct figure is 14 percent, and many are in just for violating immigration laws. In prisons at the state level, where most violent crime is prosecuted, illegal immigrants account for less than 5 percent of all inmates”. This mean that not everyone is in jail because of rape, murdering,…

and they want to be a part of the United States in order to have a better life. They will become a part of American society. Frequently, newcomers stay in neighborhoods that are economically depressed, which helps stabilize those neighborhoods (Illegal). They are also abiding to laws since they are trying to escape their home country; they don’t want to be deported and in most cases are just looking for a second chance. All of this diversifies and improves social culture in the…

be younger than 35 and have had to come into the country before they were 16 years old.Also, one would had to have lived in the United States for at least five years. Some argue that the DREAM Act is an amnesty program that rewards and promotes illegal immigration into the United States, though I believe that the DREAM Act is a program that promotes equity and opprotinity. The DREAM Act would benefit our nation’s economy, security, and prosperity. The DREAM Act would improve many social and…

Millions of Mexican illegal immigrants have the choice weather to go through 8 steps to get citizenship to come to the United States legally or just cross the border illegally. Now tell me why it is, more illegals would rather come across illegally then go the right way, right? Let us begin with the 8 step process that they go through when they are here illegally alllaw.com by Llona Bay J.D. First the illegal immigrant needs to be a residence for 5 years after that you are able to apply, but if…

embrace Colombians or other Latino groups, like the Guerrero family. As America created immigration quotas for non-whites, the restriction generated the inevitability of undocumented immigration, introducing the problem of illegal immigration into the nation (Ngai 5). Illegal immigration was not an extensive issue for America until the nation’s immigration policy implemented the recognizably race-based quotas, repressing the immigration of all non-white races. The fact that European immigration…

What nation can afford to let illegal immigrants know they can get away with simple crimes? Illegal immigrants can commit just as many crimes just as natives of America. They need the same qualifications just as American citizens. A twenty-five year old male by the name of Drew Rosenberg had been killed by an illegal immigrant Robert Galo driving a car. Five months prior to the fatal crash, Galo had been stopped for driving…

is very unapologetic for these comments. Trump claims that we should build a “Chinese wall” paid for by Mexico on the border and deport evert single immigrant without legal documentation. He also states that children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents should not be granted citizenship. The scholarly article I cited reads “White southerners and their political leaders oppose immigration reform more than anyone else in the United States. Nearly half (46 percent) of all…

After I Pick the Fruit, a documentary, records the lives of five immigrant farmworker women, with only two of them being documented over approximately a ten-year span. This film shows the development of several friendships made between the filmmaker, Nancy Ghertner, and each of the five immigrant farmworker women. The names of these five women are Soledad, Vierge, Maria, Elisa, and Lorena. This illustrates the struggle these women go through to satisfy their roles as workers, let alone also…

construction of the border fence. Saying that it would make illegals less likely to cooperate with police knowing that they want to build something that is meant to separate them from their native nation. Even though they lost, it still hasn’t stopped El Paso from being one of the safest places in the country even with their low income border and high level of immigration, which is more than three quarters of it is filled up with illegal immigrants. The Men’s Health magazine ranked El Paso as…