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Some wetbacks may allow themselves to be apprehended by border patrol agents because they feel that the United States prisons offer more than the poor rural areas in which they reside. Once they are apprehended though, they realize that they have to commit a crime or violate deportation regulations in order to actually be imprisoned. The results, they commit a crime and hope to get caught. Once in prison in the United States, they are provided with medical care, adult education classes, good clothes, warm and fairly comfortable living accommodations, and three meals per day. It is also possible for a prisoner to work in one of several occupations and send a check home to the family.
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In his book, Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints, Marcus Eli Ravage writes that Immigrants cannot easily become part of the American culture. He writes about living conditions that are degrading to immigrants and about the never ending hours of labor that immigrants work in sweatshops or on the streets. They pay high rent as if they were paying for extravagant apartments, yet this is not the case. 4 Marcus Eli Ravage, Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints. (San Diego: Greenhaven Press), l992. This book has different viewpoints on immigration.
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Let’s look at illegal immigration in a different prospective. Yes, it is human to feel sadness for the migrant that is only trying to survive. Many of us Americans are doing the same thing. Some of us multitask with two and even three jobs. Some of us are lower-class American citizens, yet others are even classified below that, which is “poverty.” Look at the many single-parent families in America. These families, when facing tragedy’s such as divorce, fall from one class to another in a matter of days. What about the many Americans being laid off? They are losing their homes, and have to completely change their lifestyles. Some are working jobs they never before thought they would. For the many families in crisis in America, life for them is similar to the lives that most migrants have to face. Sometimes the only difference is that we are American citizens, and they are not.
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Another issue is that in which a migrant is hired for a job before an American because of the ability for the employer to pay lower wages, and be okay with it. Most migrants accept what is offered, as long as they are able to provide for their families. This causes ill feelings towards Americans that are also trying to provide for their own families. Sometimes people have immigrant women cleaning their houses for very low wages, and when those employees are no longer with them, they find it hard to pay higher wages to the U.S. citizen willing to do the job. Who is in the wrong? People have different opinions about issues such as these.
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Many say that America is supposed to be the land for ALL people. What happens when there are more people than there are resources, such as in Africa where people are dying of starvation? There is not enough medicine for everyone so people are dying of many illnesses. This is not what America wants to happen. Yet there are millions of immigrants coming into the United States. Yes, some become legal immigrants in time. But do they abide by our laws? Do they make an effort to learn the English language? Or do they tell you they do not speak English. It seems that they want to be here so bad yet they do not care to learn the language. An article in the USA Today, July 30, 2010 issue talks about the problems that the state of Arizona is encountering as a consequence of illegal immigration. A retired Army sergeant says that when he approaches Spanish-speaking grocery store clerks in his hometown of Buckeye, near Phoenix, they rarely help him. They reply, ‘No Ingles.’ 5 Alan Gomez and Kevin Johnson, USA Today, Friday, July 30, 2010. 3A.
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Jan Brewer is taking the immigration crisis in Arizona into her own hands. A new immigration law, the Arizona SB 1070 law, requires police to check the immigration status of people they lawfully stop and suspect are in the country illegally. Other states have immigrant laws as well. Colorado restricts undocumented immigrants from receiving in-state tuition. Nebraska requires verification of immigration status to obtain public benefits. There are hundreds of immigration-related laws on the books across the United States that regulate employment, law enforcement, education, benefits and health care, but Arizona’s strict new law has generated the most controversy. As a result many people have been arrested for protesting and causing chaos in Arizona. According to the El Paso Times, The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to stop the Arizona law from taking effect on July 29, saying that immigration policy is a national responsibility and “a patchwork of state laws will only create more problems than it solves.” 7 El Paso Times, June 18, 2010, 4A. But according to experts, that is precisely what exists. During the first three months of 2010, lawmakers introduced more than 1,000 bills and resolutions, though it is too early to tell how many will become law. Bills on topics such as employment verification and driver’s license requirements are on the table in 45 states. “Legislators in five states-South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Michigan-have introduced similar bills to Arizona’s SB 1070.” 8 El Paso Times, 4A.
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Many believe that because of the federal government’s negligence to face immigration responsibilities the states are scrambling. States have a long history of enacting immigration laws. In 1996, after Congress denied welfare to most legal immigrants, states stepped in with laws to provide safety-net services. After the September 11 attacks, state lawmakers passed bills aimed at protecting national security. People were concerned about dangerous immigrants in their midst and thought they should take matters into their own hands. The increase in state laws parallels the changing settlement patterns of undocumented immigrants. Between 1990 and 2008, illegal immigration slowed significantly in California but grew in Georgia, North Carolina and other states because those states are not the typical immigrant-receiving states and therefore are not accustomed to having large immigrant populations.
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Because of this Arizona law, “undocumented immigrants who decide to leave the United States because of increasing enforcement and decreasing job prospects now face one more obstacle: the threat of arrest and deportation by border officers inspecting outbound traffic. When illegal immigrants are detected trying to leave the country, they are not just ushered across the line. Instead, their information is entered into a database before they are allowed to return to Mexico.” 9 The Arizona Republic, Aug.3,2010. The objective is not to deter illegal immigrants who want to leave America but to catch those who have criminal records or are involved in smuggling. Round the clock screening of southbound traffic is being conducted by officials. The scrutiny is designed to catch smugglers delivering currency and firearms to Mexican cartels. Immigrants coming into the United States for the purpose of doing illegal activity will have to face consequences.
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Arizona’s climate is scorching hot and almost unbearable in the summer. Temperatures may go up to the 120’s, especially in the desert. Whatever the temperature, people are still making the attempt to get into the United States, but more than ever, people are risking their lives to return home, regardless of the heat. Associated Press’s Amanda Lee Myers writes that “The number of deaths among undocumented immigrants crossing the Arizona desert from Mexico is soaring so high this month that the medical examiner’s office that handles the bodies is using a refrigerated truck to store some of them.” 10Associated Press, July 18, 2010. Myers writes that Dr. Bruce Parks, a medical examiner in Pima, Arizona has stated that his office, which handles immigrant bodies from three counties, is storing 250 immigrant bodies from July 1 to July 15.11 Associated Press, 4A. Authorities believe the high number of deaths are likely due to above-average and unrelenting heat in southern Arizona this month and ongoing tighter border security that pushes immigrants to more re mote, rugged and dangerous terrain. KOAT TV meteorologist Joe Diaz reported in mid July that Tucson’s average nighttime lows in the first 15 days of July are the hottest for that period in recorded history.
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What is our President doing about this new Arizona immigration law? President Obama told the nation that he wants a “nationwide” immigration law. He wants immigration reform and says that Arizona has taken a step in the wrong direction. President Obama gave a speech on immigration on July 1, laying out his case for bipartisan immigration reform and calling out Republicans for uniformly opposing an initiative some of them supported when it was proposed by President Bush. “The only thing Arizona’s law will produce is chaos: Obama was right to take particular notice of the extremism of Arizona,” says The New York Times in an editorial.12 The New York Times, July 2, 2010. The Times goes on to state, “Its ‘deeply unjust’ immigration law isn’t just ‘an invitation to racial profiling,’ but also a usurpation of federal authority and a prelude to the chaos that will ensue if different states have different immigration rules.” “Obama’s right that illegal immigration can’t really be handled in a piecemeal fashion,” says The Denver Post in an editorial, but that doesn’t just apply to states taking the law into their own hands. Thanks in part to Arizona’s law, the already overworked federal courts that handle immigration law are about to drown in cases. For border enforcement to work, Obama needs to hire more judges. Hasty immigration politics leaves courts overwhelmed. 13 The Denver Post, July 2, 2010. Obama warned of a “patchwork” of immigration laws arising as “states and localities go their own ways. Barack Obama says he does not approve or oppose the boycotts that some cities and groups have called for in response to the Arizona law, which makes it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally. He reaffirmed his opposition to the law, saying it’s the wrong approach. He has asked the Justice Department to review the law to determine whether it violates civil liberties. Obama says he will continue to push lawmakers to work on a bipartisan approach to comprehensive immigration reform.
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I do not care for the drug trafficking taking place, nor do I care for the violent crimes being committed by so many immigrants. I do believe that the federal government has allowed this to happen over the years. If America’s lax immigration system would come to an end and instead enforce its immigration laws with not only consistency but also common sense, America would be a safer place for all of us. For the immigrants crossing the border, sufficient law enforcement is the only way to keep them from entering the United States. For those immigrants coming in by sea or air, we must have strict policies and we must make sure that the people working at entry points do their jobs in assessing the security needed to keep illegal migrants from entering the U.S. Airport inspectors, no matter what delays they may be encountering, must carefully examine visas before stamping their approval. They must request required documentation, regardless of the hassle it may involve.
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In these days citizen of Wisconsin thinks of German culture, many would think of the mass celebrations that are put on around the state. What they are getting from these celebrations is a small perspective of German influence on this state. Actually, what they did for Wisconsin was much more that what is seen at these celebrations. Germans were very good farmers, intelligent workers, and an important part of the industrialization of Milwaukee which expanded around the state. The establishment of a German influenced society in Milwaukee and the gathering of the multi types of German immigrants into a strong political and economic culture led to the Americanization of Germans in Wisconsin.
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At the time Milwaukee was one of the only large cities in the state and once the railroads were built it became one of America’s largest milling and wheat markets. Germans that were part of the second wave were able to sell their wheat to many neighboring states and benefited from American society. The third wave of immigrants brought a style of farming that was different then what was being practiced at the time. German farmers soon adopted farm consolidation, where individual farms were put together to create a larger yield that could be used for profit, instead of survival. This was the basic theory of today’s commercial farming.
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Germans thrived in this area because they came in as one of the highest industrialized immigrants. Many times they were considered the model ethnic group because they were very profitable. This was also a challenged issue, because Germans would only hire other Germans to do a lot of the important jobs of the city, creating a homogenous economy. German architects thrived in Milwaukee because they were the only ones being hired. As America was progressing with industries, Germany was moving right along with the help of Captain Frederick Pabst. Captain Pabst was a German who directed the world’s largest brewery and was instrumental in industrializing Milwaukee. He expanded from his brewery and created an economic empire that included the city’s Opera house. The Opera house, built with German influence, was named the Pabst Theater. Others, such as George Brumder, who created the nation’s largest German-language newspaper, also helped with the progress. There were many jobs created from German leaders that supported the city economically.
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Germans in Wisconsin were very unique because they established their foreign culture into the political and architectural aspects into inner city Milwaukee. The 1860s were a time that Germans in Milwaukee came together and created what was called “German Athens”. German aspects of culture were seen everywhere. Breweries were all along the streets, along with beer gardens and saloons. These places created a sense of community that brought together all different types of Germans. From 1890 to 1915, homes, industrial complexes, commercial blocks, and public buildings were built with German influence to transform Milwaukee, and Steven Hoelscher wrote, “from a typical American Victorian city into one with decidedly Teutonic air”. German influence was so strong that the city hall of Milwaukee was built with their Old World culture. Non-Germans of the Milwaukee area did not agree with the newly established power of German culture. Many had negative stereotypes of Germans, depicting them as beer-drinking oafs who preferred to mingle with their own kind rather than join American society. Germans retaliated during a celebration on October 6, 1890, where the celebration leaders wanted to sell a threefold message, “that Germans had remained politically passive too long; that they too, had played a major role in creating the United States; and that they had permitted native-born Americans to relegate Germans ‘to a secondary class, by ridiculing our customs and language’”.
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World War I was a major turning point in German Americanization. With Wisconsin having a lot of German influence in the political structure, there was a lot of tension among German immigrants. Many still had ties with their homeland and struggled when their new homeland, the United States went to war against Nazi Germany. Before 1917, most of the Germans were in favor of the German-led Axis powers, and felt that the British were the blame for World War I. They even held a fund raiser where they raised 150,000 dollars to help the efforts of Germany. However, this was the peak of distinct German culture. Leaders had already seen a decline in their German communities in participation in Old World events. German plays were declining in quality and the Pabst Theater was losing its significance. The war, as Hoelscher wrote, “acted as a ‘catalyst’ that jelled the Americanization of the German population of the U.S.”. Wisconsin was looked upon by the United States as a state that was for Germany and did not support their country. Wisconsin’s non-Germans quickly tried to destroy that notion. At first it took segregating the German population from the rest of the states population. They did things such as remove references of “German Athens” from city guidebooks, riot against German plays supporting the Old World at the Pabst Theater. Germans decided to give up a lot of traditional plays and loyalty to the Old World. This affected the first generation of Germans, but there was a significant decline in loyalty throughout the next few generations and more of a loyalty to the United
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States. Although the immigration to the Unites States may have caused conflict, German influence has had an overall positive affect on the Milwaukee area. Their immigration waves were able to adapt to the economic culture of Wisconsin while still able to maintain their traditional cultures. They were also able to evolve as the United States and Wisconsin became industrialized. Many Germans became successful leaders in the industrial economy of Milwaukee and were extremely influential in the cities growth. Today, the German culture is still prevalent in the state, and their traditions are celebrated my all cultures.
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Nowadays, illegal immigration continues to be a disputable and divisive issue, not only in the United States, but throughout the whole world. People who are residing in a country illegally are known as “illegal immigrants”. In addition to this term, we should mention that an individual who is residing in a country in illegal way could also be known as an illegal alien, illegal migrant, undocumented immigrant, undocumented alien, unauthorized migrant or undocumented worker. In this case there are almost as many titles as there are commentators and that is why illegal immigrants contain a vast category of people.
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Such events as the demonstration of one million illegal immigrants working in Los Angeles several years ago, protesting against the attempt to equate traditional workers who have came to work in earnest in the country, to the criminals, in the country which, admittedly was built by immigrants – these events slam memory and make people think about the causes of the phenomenon of illegal immigration. Why do people who have most often just come from the dying in poverty and unemployment country of the Third World to another country or region in search of a better life, find themselves in the position of “illegal people”? Why are they, deprived of the rights of citizens of the country in which they operate, often powerless in the situation of slaves, dumb workforce which the employer in agreement with the official use as a cheap labor resource, which creates a living space of our society, ranging from cleaning floors in New York to construction of new skyscrapers in Moscow? Why do we hear on television appeals to deal with illegal immigrants, and often – in the literal sense – physically, and often – these appeals are incarnated in reality by teenagers? There are many questions, but there are also many answers on them.
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Among the answers on the questions asked above we could define Blondell’s (2008) words, who said that “the poll results among immigrants who are already in the United States show a widespread feeling that the current immigration chaos is unfair to the millions who entered the country legally. There are hundreds of thousands each year who are eager to assimilate. There is the sense that fairness to those who have abided by the law requires that they be given priority over those who violate the law. This lends itself to the view that state and local cooperation with federal efforts should be mandatory because the problem of chaotic illegal immigration is harmful to both native and naturalized citizens in so many ways.”
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In the minds of people the idea is methodically imposed that in all social evils of such and such people the “come in large numbers” are guilty, because they have different appearance, and they are afraid to answer. And these “come in large numbers” just work for such salary and in conditions for which no citizen protected by the law of any country would have agreed to. Our problem is to understand what is hidden behind the social stratum called “illegal immigration” and to dispel the illusions and myths, identify the root causes.
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If we look at this issue globally, it is easy to see that illegal immigration is not the peculiarity of the United States, like any other state. The division of the world on the countries “where people go to” and “where they come from” is the basis of the modern economic division of the world. The modern world, with its famous globalization is a world tightly interconnected between the countries, constituting a single economic organism. In this world there are the countries of the “center” – economic superpower, the latest imperialists, the so-called “golden billion”, where the relative prosperity and reliability for today and tomorrow (USA, Western Europe, Japan) predominate. As it is generally known the growth and stability of the economies of the countries of the “center”, affluent countries, cause there the demand for labor, create jobs in enterprises. Just such situation pushes millions of people around the world to leave their home country and to go in search of happiness in the more affluent countries. If we think about the way of illegal immigrants, it is possible to mention the next directions and create imaginary map. According to this map it will be clear: Africa aims to Spain and Italy, Pakistan and India aim to England and the USA, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan – to Russia, Russia – to the Western Europe, etc., the list of the possible displacements is very diverse. The same can be seen in the scales of one country or even region: from the provincial remote places of Russia or the U.S. people tend to go to Moscow or New York – the cities of great opportunities, and the most important – job opportunities.
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Find a better life – is, in most cases – to search for work. The enormity of unemployment, the collapse of the economy, the absence of at least hints at the “welfare state” – all of this is an everyday reality for a large number of “peripheries”. In this situation, people are willing to work for the lowest paid jobs in wealthier countries, at the most abominable conditions, without any social protection at the level of a slave and an illegal immigrant but it is better than to die of hunger in their country.
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In this part of our research paper it is necessary to think about the actions against illegal immigration. According to Addo (2006), we see that, for example, “in July 2006, EU Ministers and African leaders met at the Ministerial Euro-African Conference on Migration and Development held in Rabat, Morocco. European ministers adopted an action plan that included development aid, to dissuade illegal migrants who wanted to leave Africa. The European Union pledged 18 billion euros (approximately US$23 billion) to African source and transit countries over a seven-year period. This money will be used to institute development and poverty-alleviation measures. The ministers also discussed creating avenues for legal migration.” This decision shows us that government is interested in overcoming challenges, but the situation is serious enough and it is impossible to solve it in several years.
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Evaluating the situation with illegal immigrants in the United States we should pay specific attention on several interesting facts. Actually it’s fair to say that the United States of America is a unique public formation, because now living in the country as a nation, Americans have been formed as a result of migration of many millions of immigrants, the vast majority is the Europeans. But the doors of the United States were not always opened for people coming to them permanently displaced. Throughout history, the United States at first called for immigrants, and then tried to get rid of them.
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Obviously, due to the increased flow of immigrants into the country the anti-immigrant sentiment increased. The press began to arise debate about whether immigrants are necessary for modern America or not. As Blondell (2008) demonstrated, polls show that nearly two-thirds of the population of the United States was against the liberalization of immigration laws. But at the same time, it is obvious that without immigrants the United States can experience some difficulties in economic development. But on the other hand, the U.S. have tightened penalties for illegal immigrants, because they contribute to a decline in prices for labor and cause great resentment among American workers.
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It is also possible to suggest that the solution must be found in the group that suffered mostly from such situation, which actually is its subject and object. This group is exactly illegal immigrants, whose fate is entirely dependent on market requirements. I consider that, of course, the root of the problem of illegal immigration lies at the bottom of society, gave rise to globalization, do not equalizing, but actually intensifying polarization between rich and poor, both in the scale of individual countries and across the world – rich countries and poor countries, at the base, gave birth to the racist prejudices and chauvinism, and most importantly – a demiurge of capital over man. For the solution of our problem today it is necessary to change the essence of the whole society that generated it.
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That is, in general, the picture of contemporary reality in the context of the problem of illegal immigration, our point of view on its causes, solutions and alternatives to the status quo. Thus, taking into account all the information discussed above it is possible to come to the conclusion that illegal immigration is a crime, but illegal immigrants need help and only right laws can help them to leave shadow and become visible. However, it does not mean that we should turn away from the current needs of this part of the social order, but on the contrary, we must look closely at the trends within it. I strongly believe that the answer must be found in the socio-political movement of the order itself, which we consider.
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Nowadays, illegal immigration continues to be a disputable and divisive issue, not only in the United States, but throughout the whole world. The migration of Mexicans into the United States is one of the key problems throughout the history of bilateral cooperation of Mexico and the United States. In this case, the speech is goes not about a legal entry into the country, which in one or another way can be planned and regulated by the U.S. authorities, but about a mass migration of illegal Mexicans which not easy to constrain.
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” (Camarota, 2001). Also Sarmiento stated that “By definition, illegal immigration arises from a divergence between whom the United States will accept as an immigrant and the desire of some foreign nationals to live and work in this country. Illegal immigration is as old as U.S. immigration law… With changes in U.S. immigration law and economic and political conditions in the United States and other countries, the nature and characteristics of illegal immigration have also changed.
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” (Sarmiento, 2002). In such a way, people who are residing in a country illegally are known as ‘illegal immigrants’. In addition to this term, we should mention that an individual who is residing in a country in illegal way could also be known as an illegal alien, illegal migrant, undocumented immigrant, undocumented alien, unauthorized migrant or undocumented worker. In this case there are almost as many titles as there are commentators and that is why illegal immigrants contain a vast category of people. Like any social phenomenon, illegal immigration is not taken out of nowhere. It has its reasons which affect the underlying mechanisms of our society.
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Observing the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States we see that through the last several decades, the Mexican economy experienced substantial changes associated with the transition to neo-liberal path of development and strengthening of regional integration processes. According to the pace of development the country has become one of the most successful developing countries in the world and took key positions in Latin America. This information raises the question, whether these changes are reflected in migration flows between Mexico and the United States, which in its scale ranks the first place in the world.
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Migration of Mexican workers in the U.S. – is, in fact, a natural result of close cooperation between the two countries with different levels of economic development. Significant difference in living standards and wages is a major factor in migration from Mexico to the United States. In addition, the proximity of the two countries is an additional incentive in this process. The length of the common border is 3,3 thousand km, most of which passes through the rather narrow river Rio Grande.
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Analyzing the problem of illegal immigration through the prism of historical context we can found rather interesting information. It is a well-known fact that the migration of Mexicans in the United States has its origins in the late XIX century, when the development of agriculture, mining, light industry, construction of railways in the south of the U.S. required an additional influx of cheap labor from other countries. In the period between 1850-1880 something about 55,000 Mexicans immigrated in the U.S. with the purpose to find a good job there.
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Discussing the next historical period, or it will be better to say during the World War I, the flow of Mexicans in the U.S. has increased in several times. Mexicans compensated the lack of American labor and became the main working force in the southern states’ economy sector of the northern neighbor. In this case, some of them (immigrants from Mexico) were in the U.S. illegally. Then the status of illegal immigrants has not yet been officially established, and the Americans considered them ‘fugitives’ from Mexico. In 1924, was created the first in the southern U.S. Border Patrol, which was used to control illegal border crossings, and Mexican ‘fugitives’ officially acquired the status of illegal immigrants.
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According to historical documents the U.S. borders were not always closed for immigrants and into the acknowledgement of this fact will be written this paragraph. As it was previously stated in 30-ies years of XX century, during the deep depression in the U.S., access to Mexicans in the country was severely restricted. Legal immigrant visas were practically not given almost as illegal immigrants were deported from the country under threat of prison. However, this period lasted not long, until the World War II began. Lack of the U.S. farm workers in the fields of one of the fastest growing economic areas in the U.S. again forced the ruling circles of the United States to open its border for Mexicans. In 1942-1964 during the term of special immigration program, the seasonal influx of Mexican workers was more than 4.6 million people, many of whom remained in the United States for permanent residence. It is necessary to emphasize that they helped to create a social infrastructure for the further influx of immigrants from Mexico in many ways. In 1970-80 years, the inflow of legal immigrants from Mexico amounted to 50-60 thousand people per annum, and illegal immigration has reached 1,5 million people per annum in its turn. However, it should be borne in mind that 90% of illegal immigrants performed seasonal work in the U.S. and after a certain period of time returned back to Mexico. During that period, on the average 20% of Mexico’s population depended on the funds earned by migrants and remittances to the country, the volume of which ranged from $1,5-2 billion per annum. (Wong, 2006).
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Illegal immigrants were basically referred to the poor and they went to take any risk in order to reach the United States. Some of them join the ranks of criminals, drug and arms traffickers. Others have labored day and night in the fields of California for paltry wages, the size of which still exceeded the cost of labor in Mexico. Measures aimed to toughen immigration regime adopted in the U.S. in the late 1970’s during the presidency of J. Carter (in particular, in some parts of the U.S.-Mexican border were erected barbed wire barricades, were adopted laws with an aim to infringe the rights of illegal immigrants and their children) were unable to deliver an effective barrier against illegal immigration, but only caused a worsening of relations on intergovernmental level. Moreover, in several years with an aim to additionally tighten control over illegal immigration was banned the process of illegal workers hiring, and employers who were going to violate this law knew about existed sanctions and set fines of 250 to 10 thousand dollars. However, despite the extra-taken measures, the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico did not significantly declined.
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The situation with the control of illegal immigration from Mexico remains highly controversial, since affects the interests of different parties, especially the central government and local employers. On the one hand, the U.S. authorities made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. In addition, to strengthening border controls the U.S. government instituted a system of heavy fines from U.S. employers for the employment of illegal immigrants, abolish the right of free emergency medical and food aid, even for children of illegal immigrants, and also has established a deportation from the country. (Trevino, 1998).
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Currently, the problem of illegal immigration requires new constructive approaches and is closely linked to the control of legal immigration. On the one hand, the tightening of immigration controls and reducing quotas naturally stimulates the flow of illegal immigrants in the U.S., so at the present stage of bilateral cooperation is necessary to achieve a certain compromise on immigration policy. On the other hand, living relatives in the U.S. is a magnet for many Mexicans, so the U.S. government should draw a special attention to this aspect of the question. In this case, the speech is goes not about the closest relatives, which according to the U.S. law have the right to family reunification. In this situation the question refers to distant relatives or friends who help illegal immigrants and, thus, stimulate the process of illegal immigration.
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Illegal immigrants have many problems in America and their problems sometimes become the main problem even for legal immigrants. Why is it so? The answer is rather simple and deals with existed stereotypes, because immigrants considered to be the people of other sort and native Americans don’t want to respect them. Also among the answers on the questions asked above we could define Blondell’s words, who said that “the poll results among immigrants who are already in the United States show a widespread feeling that the current immigration chaos is unfair to the millions who entered the country legally. There are hundreds of thousands each year who are eager to assimilate. There is the sense that fairness to those who have abided by the law requires that they be given priority over those who violate the law. This lends itself to the view that state and local cooperation with federal efforts should be mandatory because the problem of chaotic illegal immigration is harmful to both native and naturalized citizens in so many ways.” (Blondell, 2008).
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The question of illegal immigration is connected with different legends and stories, and different surprising facts also have a place among them. One surprising fact is connected with actions of the Samaritan Patrol. The above mentioned Samaritan Patrol (“Patrullaje Samaritano”), whose members drive their off-road vehicles across the desert, searching there for illegal immigrants who might need an urgent medical aid. Mexicans know that when they saw a car marked “Samaritan Patrol” with a green cross, they will be given food, water, transportation to a medical hospital at their request, and if they want to go home – the connection with the border patrol. The existence of such organization certainly raises a lot of controversy, and Border Patrol is constantly checks if there is a very big help to those who violate the law. The protests come also from the hospitals that are overcrowded by illegal aliens, who can not pay for own treatment and who are the ballast for American taxpayers. (Porter, 2006).
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Haines & Rosenblum said that “As stated previously, there are an increasing number of security measures that have been implemented at and around the Mexico-U.S. border. As a result, it has become more difficult to illegally cross the border. As such, the assistance of “coyotes” is in high demand. The fees for a “coyote” easily run into the thousands per individual. Many illegal immigrants save up money or borrow money to cover this fee. Once a Mexican immigrant successfully crosses the border into the United States, they generally have two main goals. Their first aim is to send part of their earnings back home to their family and their second goal is to bring more family members to the United States. Eventually they hope to gain permanent residency (green card) and possibly U.S. citizenship status.” (Haines & Rosenblum, 1999).
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The next surprising fact is a special wall in the desert that aimed to stop illegal immigrants from Mexico. The influx of poor, uneducated and willing to work for meager wages illegal immigrants, as expected, has caused quite a backlash in American society, demanding politicians to stop, or at least to take under the control increased volumes of Mexican immigration. However, the defeat over illegal immigration is almost impossible and taking into account previous attempts to do it, the likely effectiveness of future borders and walls also in doubt. By the way, Mexican and U.S. scientists warn that the construction of the line of solid barriers may result in ecological disaster in the vast desert areas with a total area of over 100 thousand square kilometers at the junction of the states of Sonora (Mexico) and Arizona (USA), where the biosphere wildlife preserves were declared the heritage of mankind by UNESCO. Scientists stated that the desert is associated with a lifeless space only in the representation of the ignorant people. In fact, we are talking about very unique and fragile natural systems with unique flora and fauna. In biosphere wildlife preserves remain rare species of cacti and relic plants and wildlife is adapted to life in extreme conditions of arid desert. That is why extreme natural desert conditions explain the fragility of its ecosystems, where life and survival are synonymous. Measuring the amount of people who lost their lives in the search of better life on the border between Mexico and America, we see that the situation on the US-Mexican border is so does not fit in the universal notions of good and evil that even the Catholic Church could not stay aside the illegal immigration question. One day representatives of Mexican and American churches song an unusual collaboration, ‘frontier Mass’ in memory of those who died trying to find a better life crossing the border illegally.
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According to Delaet we also see that “Not all illegal aliens are crossing into the United States to find work. Law enforcement officials indicate that there are individuals coming across the border who are forced to leave their home countries because of criminal activities. These dangerous criminals are fleeing the law in other countries and seeking refuge in the United States.” (Delaet, 2000). Thus, it shows that criminal atmosphere in immigrants’ circles are increased. Unfortunately, violence against immigrants is not something new for the U.S. In recent years, those who enter American territory illegally, more than ever, are at the mercy of sadistic inhuman smugglers, and many die even before they enter the United States. Others that used to repay a debt to smugglers become slaves and subjects of extortion, forced to prostitution and hard work through the fraud of their own countrymen. Thefts are also prevalent crimes in the immigrant environment. Often robbers guessing about the status of illegal residents concluded that these people have no bank accounts in the U.S., and hence a lot of cash might be finding in their pockets. But these crimes on their scale are still far from illegal activities involving drugs.
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Many Mexicans choose not only to cross the border or transfer own family, but at the same time smuggle drugs. And drugs are always in conjunction with the crime, and smuggling leads only to more weapons, death and violence in the border with the U.S. cities where people are forced to pay with their lives for the increasing demand for powder for the residents of the neighboring state. And it is very difficult to stop this flow of “death”. According to this fact National Drug Intelligence Center & Drug Enforcement Administration demonstrated that “The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reports that the Mexican drug syndicates operating today along our Nation’s Southwest border are far more sophisticated and dangerous than any of the other organized criminal groups in America’s law enforcement history. Indeed, these powerful drug cartels, and the human smuggling networks and gangs they leverage, have immense control over the routes into the United States and continue to pose formidable challenges to our efforts to secure the Southwest border. â€¦ The cartels operate along the border with military grade weapons, technology and intelligence and their own respective paramilitary enforcers. â€¦ This new breed of cartel is not only more violent, powerful and well financed, it is also deeply engaged in intelligence collection on both sides of the border.” (National Drug Intelligence Center & Drug Enforcement Administration, 2003).
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Thus, summarizing the above stated information it becomes evident that immigration from Mexico is a complex and multifaceted process. The majority of illegal border crossings have a place due to the fact that people simply want to earn extra money, and many of them did not want to stay in the U.S. permanently. However, higher wages are a magnet, and there are also a lot of people who would like to make the United States the place of own permanent residence. An effort to develop the Mexican economy has been taken with an aim to stop illegal immigration (this effort is a very good idea if the government would be able to bring it up to the end. But it is extremely difficult to do, realistically, in the scale at which it needs to be done with an aim to substantially decrease illegal immigration level). It is impossible to think about the issue of illegal immigration from two prefabricated sides – to increase the possibility of legal entry into the United States, or to increase security at borders. It is so, because the problem is complex and serious and requires comprehensive approach to its solution.
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That is, in general, the picture of contemporary reality in the context of the problem of illegal immigration, our point of view on its causes, solutions and alternatives to the status quo. Thus, taking into account all the information discussed above it is possible to come to the conclusion that illegal immigration is a crime, but illegal immigrants need help and only right laws can help them to leave shadow and become visible. However, it does not mean that we should turn away from the current needs of this part of the social order, but on the contrary, we must look closely at the trends within it. Many politicians strongly believe that the answer must be found in the socio-political movement of the order itself, which we consider.
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The main reason many immigrants come here is for work and to better their family’s lives. To better their family’s lives, their children need an education. Today, children of illegal immigrants still have the chance to get an education because of the 1982 case, Plyer v. Doe, where “the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5-4) that a 1975 Texas law denying public-school education to children of illegal aliens violated the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause” (Miller). Having this law is very helpful for those who do not have a citizenship.
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The numbers of illegal immigrants continue to go up in the US, but mostly in states like Texas, Florida, and California. According to Berna Miller, the education of these children is important because California is already facing a shortage of highly skilled workers. If children of illegal immigrants are not allowed an education, they may turn to gangs and crime because they do not have a good foundation. If these kids grow up with violence and drugs around, it only makes their communities more dangerous for everybody. And not having a good education does not help in getting a job in the future. The same happens when the situation is turned around. If children of illegal immigrants are given an opportunity to become more skilled, they can get a better job later on which will help out the economy. Some argue that the costs of educating these children is too high, but when compared to the possibility of these children developing into adults who contribute to the economy, the United States can see itself having positive long term effects.
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Although some people feel that illegal immigrants shouldn’t come to the United States, others feel the opposite. Teachers, schools and universities are standing up for the rights of undocumented children or children with undocumented parents. In November 30, 2016 “presidents of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities pledged themselves to ‘protect to the fullest extent of the law undocumented students on our campuses’ and to ‘promote retention of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program’” (A pledge to protect ‘Dreamers’). It is important that these schools stand up for the rights of illegal immigrants’ children because not all had a choice when coming to this country.Â The presidents that stood up for these kids said their “communities are immeasurably enriched by the presence, intelligence, and committed contributions of undocumented students, as well as of faculty and staff of every color and from every faith tradition” (A pledge to protect ‘Dreamers’). That statement shows that having people from other cultures in the same education system helps everyone. Children of illegal immigrants are getting the chance to educate themselves while they also make their school better with their culture.