Immigration to the United States

in hopes of understanding what brings "48,000 South American children to the United States alone and illegally each year" (299). Nazario evokes feelings of humanity and compassion in her audience by establishing her credibility as an unobtrusive observer, appealing to the reader 's emotions, and citing concrete facts and evidence.…

September 11 I attended a lecture by Todd Miller, author of the book “Border Pa-trol Nation.” Here are some of my thoughts on this lecture and how it relates to our class on international security. Mr. Miller gave a much generalized overview on the immigration problem and the southern border. Mr. Miller took exception with the description and popular view that the US southern border is porous that we are in a crises. Furthermore, the claim was put out that too much for border security was being…

immigrants coming from Mexico. Given this statistic, and that the number of illegal immigrants in America has climbed to nearly eleven million, illegal immigration is not something Americans can just brush under the rug and ignore. The number of immigrants in this country illegally has consistently risen over the past decade. Illegal Immigration in the United States (U.S.) is an austere problem and has multiple underlying causes, such as economic instability among Mexico’s farmers, chain…

Immigration in recent years has become a high controversial issue in the nation especially in boarder state Arizona. The U.S Supreme Court signed SB1070, Arizona’s infamous anti-immigration law on June 25 2010, which expanded the right to authority personnel to demand for proof of legality if suspicion of being in the country illegally. SB1070 institutionalizes racial profiling by the mere fact that police officers oblige any person of color or with an accent to prove their immigratory status…

Framing of Immigration,” George Lakoff and Sam Ferguson claim that issue defining framing is narrowing, particularly in the case of immigration reform. Immigration reform, they claim, is a complex issue whose simple frame ignores security, economic, and social concerns. The authors organizes their claims through the use of specific subclaims, counter arguments, reasons, and evidence. The first subclaim Lakoff and Ferguson mention is that security concern is at the center of the immigration…

lawfully excludes the undocumented immigrants. With over 320 million people in the United States, approximately 3.75 percent of the population is unauthorized immigrants,…

people live in the moment instead of looking forward to the future. Boarder enforcement has lowered their standards since the early 1990’s, practically giving illegal immigrants a “free pass” when caught. These immigrants are processed through immigration offices faster than a stop at your local DMV. They are loaded on a bus after a slap on the wrist, again to be driven back across their respective boarders to be set free not more than a few miles from where they were apprehended on U.S soil.…

mind when you here immigration reform? Do you think about the children trying to escape their bad countries? Or someone looking for better life? Before I read these articles “These Are Children Struggling To Our Borders By Jose B. Gonzalez And “When Laws Aren’t Enforced By Jan Ting and a few more I knew very little about immigration reform. I took this definition from Google. “Immigration reform is a term used in political discussion regarding changes to current immigration policy of a country…

Illegal immigration has been a debated topic in America, and anti-immigrant policies in states such as Arizona, as well as the recent presidential campaign display the hostile anti-immigrant attitude held in this country. The anxiety that led to the institution of strict immigration laws came from a belief that illegal immigrants commit a disproportionate number of crimes. Arizona had a history of passing restrictions on illegal immigration, and eventually the growing Hispanic population and an…

it amassed following the 1986 amnesty of illegals”(506). Labor is a hot topic in the illegal immigration debate. There are not enough jobs for people with low skills and these jobs are taken by these illegal immigrants . According to Raynor “The number off illegal immigrants in California is thought to be growing 125,000 a year —- hardly an economic catastrophe in a state of 31 million”(507). Immigration has brought decaying communities back from the dead. Revitalizing communities that would…