U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

After reading Aviva Chomsky’s book Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal, I realized that the way we react to the immigration system in the United States is completely hypocritical, as is the way we treat immigrants inside of our own country. This hypocrisy is largely due to the spread of misinformation on the issue, and the only way to fight it is with facts. EMPLOYMENT AND LEGISLATION The classic complaint against the immigrant workforce is that they “take our jobs.” It’s a phrase…

and stressful. Immigration Detention centers living conditions are difficult, personal belongings are taken away. Immigrants are taken away from their homes, job, local stores, and are taken handcuff to the detention centers, and in one blink of an eye their life and their families’ life changes tremendously. They wear jumpsuits uniforms, and are kept in large room with other detainees. Also, every year there is an increase of sexual abuse and physical abuse reports in immigration detentions.…

executive order to hire 5,000 more agents. However, Border Patrol agents have significant disciplinary, performance and even corruption problems that should be resolved before hiring more agents. Border Patrol is the second-largest federal law enforcement agency in the country, with nearly 20,000 agents. They have extraordinary powers to enter property close to the Mexican border without a warrant and run checkpoints within 100 miles of any land or sea border, but they don’t have any of the…

to public, and it eventually paved the the path for racial discrimination when entering borders. The White House has been clear in making immigration a much more difficult process for newcomers and those that have national ties to targeted nations. As of now, it is seen as a a continuous legal battle for Republicans to implement one of the extreme immigration rulings since the interment camp of Japanese back in the…

The American Dream is the driving force for immigration. The American Dream is directly correlated to the statements made in the Declaration of Independence with the ideas of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The American Dream is centered upon the ideas of freedom with everyone having the ability to have equal opportunities and anything can be achieved through hard work, regardless of social status, race, or upbringing. The opportunities that America could offer was the driving…

keep saying that it brings awareness to the issue.Mogulescu also question authorities on how come “ Human trafficking cannot be addressed by prosecuting victims in a criminal court. If, indeed, the goal is to address human trafficking, why is law enforcement targeting those believed to be victims?”. I think that the victims should not be prosecuted becauses they have done nothing wrong especially if they 're underage and were captured by these pimps that are forcing them to have sex for…

According to the Huffington Post, “ Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year carried out more than 72,000 deportations of parents who said they had U.S.-born children ” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com). This means that many children were left without their parents and left to grow up without them. ARC President Rinku Sen said “Immigration enforcement greatly increases the chances that families will never see each other again. Detaining and…

There are different forms of such racial profiling: pedestrian stops of minorities; unwarranted searches of Black females by the U.S. Customs Service; and the targeting of Hispanics by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The evidence is clear: minorities have been unfairly singled out for law enforcement attention. For example: A Department of Justice Report on police contacts with the public concluded that in 1999, African Americans were 20 percent more likely…

immigrants in the United States are treated justly. In the workplace, immigrants have the same equal opportunity as American citizens to get the job they desire. The idea that immigrants “only take unwanted jobs by U.S. workers” is unreasonable because “[immigrangts] are working in jobs where U.S. workers are also employed” (FAIR). In fact, many businesses admit to hiring documented and undocumented immigrants because of “their work ethic” (CIS). It is unfair for Americans to blame immigrants…

The United States immigration system is very complex. The Immigration and Naturalization ACT is the main body of law that governs current immigration policy in the United States. For the purpose of this paper, I am going to briefly discuss the deportation procedures that the United States currently abides by. First off, the main agency that deals with illegal immigration is Immigrations Customs Enforcements, aka ICE. Subject for types of people that can be deported includes any undocumented…