President of El Salvador

due to their election scandal which resulted in Nicolás Maduro as president. The citizens of this country do not get to practice their right to vote and elect a president they believe will be good for their country, so they do not get to expand their cultural horizon and find out what truly will be good for their country. The crisis in Venezuela has happened in several other South American countries such as Colombia and El Salvador as well. Another example of the government interfering in…

America's current immigration system is broken. Many employers exploit the system - hiring undocumented workers - and there are millions of people living below the sight of the government, harming both the economy and the country. Both Congress and President Obama realize that something must be done to solve this immigration problem or else the country will continue to suffer. However, partisan ideals is what will keep reform from ever coming to fruition. Immigration reform policies should not…

It helps children who qualify get safe passage into the U.S. Aside from being a refugee or an asylee, there are other predominant qualifications. Children must be from El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras and currently reside there (“In-Country Refugee”). This illustrates a larger level of effort in helping children in the Northern Triangle countries. Politically, Mexico is in a different level of global and governmental…

October 26,2001, just a little bit over a year after the most infamous terrorist attacks on the US, the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush. The expanded full title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Require to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.” This act quickly caused controversy and sparked many debates about national security and civil liberties because it created legislative changes which significantly increased the…

Over eight hundred thousand undocumented immigrants are protected by a law called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allows specific illegal immigrant children, under certain conditions, to temporarily stay in the United States by obtaining permission from the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). There has been a lot of debate to end this program by March, 2018. Ending this program would result in more than 800,000 deportations. These people are in fear of…

country, and repealing it would separate “dreamers” from their families and the only country they have ever known. DACA is a policy former President Obama brought into action June as of 2012. The purpose of this policy was to help certain undocumented young people who entered…

nism (Pieper) and neoliberal capitalism (Thornton). In an effort to curb the spread the spread of communism in Latin America, the US supported brutal dictatorships that opposed socialist and communist values. The US was afraid of a Latin American communist state emerging so close to US borders (McConnell). Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba is the quintessential example of US’s fears on Latin American communism. After Fulgencio Batista’s pro-American dictatorship was disposed by Castro, Cuba was…

The War Powers Resolution Act of 1973 is said to have been passed by an “opportunistic” congress who took advantage of public opinion at a time of declining popularity for President Nixon, who was embroiled in the turmoil of the Vietnam War, Watergate, and several other high profile political gaffs (Crook, J., 2012, p. 157). The end result was a piece of legislation intended to further check the executive branch’s power as commander-in-chief to commit US forces to hostilities by granting…

on the US for military and financial aid. There were many initiatives made in the Middle East and Africa. Japan was an economic giant but it still maintained ties with the US. Ronald Regan became the president of the United States in 1981 and his administration reinforced the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua to help strengthen the right wing…

social problems in society. On the other hand the U.S is making laws to get rid of immigrants. “Beginning June 1, the INS phases in warnings, to be followed by penalties, for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants after the law was signed by President Reagan last Nov. 6. The U.S. government hopes the employer sanctions will cut the flow of illegal immigrants by drying up job opportunities” (Solis 13). The U.S. government made a law to lessen job opportunities so the immigrants will…