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    Topic 1: Immigration Reform With over eleven million undocumented citizens inside America, seeking refuge from the violence and oppression in the original countries and coming to our country to escape poverty and improve their lives, immigration has been an ever controversial issue. In the past years, we have experienced and witnessed first hand the direct consequence of gridlock within Congress, a mother to the failure to address this ever pressing issue. As seen through the 2016 presidential…

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    However, she cannot rely only on her experiences in her path to the presidency. She has to appeal to the public through her policies in order to truly receive their vote and become the next president of the United States. She plans to fix the immigration system and expand on Obama’s plans to allow more immigrants to enter the United States. Her plan for education will reduce the amount of testing in schools and ensure that every child…

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    the department of human rights, migrant youth, and the immigration policies and it is a taboo subject concerning, migrant. “As many as 8,000 of these children are placed in an elaborate system of border patrol detention centers, shelters, facilities, and, courts” (pg. 833). Most of these migrant youth end up in detention centers or end up detained because the U.S does not have the proper policies or laws in action to properly handle immigration in general. The U.S is an economically stable…

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    Introduction Concept 1 The first concept is “Immigration and the Plenary Powers Doctrine” referenced from Governing Immigration Through Crime by Julie A. Dowling and Jonathan Xavier Inda in chapter three, “The Security Myth”. An overview of “Immigration and the Plenary Powers Doctrine”, the relationship between security and immigrants date back to a few years ago when Congress had the power to control immigration policies at the federal level. Immigration policies were not as important as they…

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    Furthermore, parents who are deported may also suffer from negative psychological and physical effects. In 2013, a study conducted by Human Impact Partners highlighted how health status and life expectancy can be affected by the threat of detention or deportation. This study showed how undocumented immigrant adult’s experience decreased health status for an individual. This decreased health status is primarily caused by a multitude of barriers in accessing care. However, fear of deportation…

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    3 to 4 months to get to go to America. During that time the Immigrants would work for earther food, water, and/or a place to sleep. Before 1900, the Chinese’s work would include farming, mining and building railroads. The immigration…

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    Immigration and Criminal Justice Ziyada Alzhani Kingsborough Community College Although the issue of immigration policy has been at the center of political debates, largely discussed in the media and newspapers, no one have yet found a solution to this ill-defined problem, that would comply with the America’s core values. While I think the immigration…

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    United States was the Alien Act of 1798 signed by president Adams. After this law, the president could deport anyone who he believes is dangerous. So according to American Immigration Council’s graph they deported about 2,000 immigrants in 1997 and in 2012 it came up more to 160,000. As of now in 2016 The article lost in detention says, “Approximately 5.5 million children in the U.S have a parent who is here illegally-4.5 million of them are U.S citizens.”(Gretchen) So the 5.5 million people…

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    Regarding immigration, Senator Sanders’s presidential plan reflects upon the themes and central ideas shown in the poem, The New Colossus. In this case, that America is open for anyone everywhere. Bernie resolution states that, “ all undocumented people who have been in the United States for at least five years to stay in the country without fear of being deported”.(Enforcement, par 2.) Bernie will do so through expanding the DACA and DAPA, developed by our current president, President Obama.…

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    undocumented immigrants in its country. President Barack Obama wanted to reform the immigration system in which more people are being deported or already have. Congress asked for 879 million dollars for detention and removal of illegal immigrants. The video outlines the life of Marques and…

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