Immigration law

According to the immigration debate: economic impact written by Wallace, Kretmanm and Strogatz, they argue that immigrants do not pay federal taxes, yet enjoy healthcare, food assistance program etc. Andrew el al explores federal taxes in order to show that immigrants negatively…

The current global migration crisis has permeated political discourse around the world. The conflicts that push people away, and the benefits that pull people to certain states are dynamic and multifaceted. The specific situation of people who flee their home country in search of safety is brought to question here, and the complexities and contradictions the process involves. Displaced persons seeking asylum are protected under the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention, but sovereign states…

The topic, mental health needs of a refuges and immigrant helps explain the major problem and needs of a refugees and immigrants. The word refugee refers to an individual who ran away from his motherland in fear of being persecuted, for religious freedom, discrimination, civil war, or abuse of human right. In the year 2000, there was an estimate of 40 million refuges around the world, (Pumariega, Rothe, & Pumariega, 2005). In addition it was estimated by the United Nation Commission that one…

deterrence manifested through strict and arbitrary policies. Likewise, the intensity of immigration control has lead to migrants relying on illegal methods of entering asylum countries such as human smuggling. With that leads to “other illicit transnational activities: the trafficking of women and children for sexual purposes, narcotics and firearms smuggling, and possibly also terrorism”. Therefore, Turkish immigration laws force non-conventional refugees to enter the country illegally and…

address the immigration problem and his failure to act was the direct…

Europe is now facing an unprecedented refugee crisis with nearly 60 millions refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and other Middle East and North Africa districts demanding places of asylum. However, different countries in Europe hold different attitudes toward whether they should shelter more refugees. The intention for sheltering refugees or not is not only about the humanitarian spirit between the countries, but also about political and religious considerations. Many refugees flee…

history of exclusionary state policies and laws in regards to immigrants in general, which profoundly inform the sentiment towards asylum seekers today. The United States for example had the Chinese Exclusion Act from 1875 to 1882, and the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act which limited the total number of immigrants per year (Rose-Redwood, The United States: Historical and Contemporary Migration, 2016). These two examples show the racialized and restrictive immigration policies of the United States, which…

Many believe immigration is an escalating conflict in the United States, especially with our President-Elect Donald J. Trump. Trump defames the Mexican population by stating, “When Mexico sends its people, they [are] not sending their best. They [are] sending people [who] have lots of problems” (Kohn). This was the moment where his plan inspired millions to elect him as our next president and make history. His quote set up a platform for a debate over immigration, but his claim can be proven…

Immigration There was a young man with the name of Jamiel Shaw at the age of 17. He was a good student and a high school athlete living in Los Angeles. Shaw was coming home one day from school when he was brutally murdered three houses down from his own. He was murdered by Pedro Espinosa who was an illegal alien and gang member. Espinosa was released from jail for assault with a deadly weapon one day prior to the murder of Jamiel Shaw. This brings up many different questions for me. Why was he…

with desires, goals, aspirations built up by cultural ideas of providence for the family. This nexus is presented to us in her chapter “Immigration Tests the New Order” by Saskia Sassen. Sassen so aptly looks at the ‘tension between new nationalising economic space, and renationalising political discourse in most developed countries’ (Sassen, 1996: xiv). Immigration, Sassen suggests, presents a crucial tension in this network. It becomes a site of renationalisation discourses in politics – but…