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Secondly, even though Americans claims that the Central American countries should be helping its own people, America is a place that the immigrants are coming to to restart their lives for the better. However, many immigrants are leaving abusive countries, but many of the issues that they face will not dissolve quickly enough to save peoples lives. Many of the mothers are leaving their children behind to find a source of income. These mothers often Latina, come to America seeking jobs for a year or so to get money and send it back. Hoping it will be enough to provide for their children, who are left behind since it’s too dangerous to get into the United States by smugglers. Often the mothers have a distorted view of America. One mothers in “Enrique’s journey”, named Lourdes says, “On television, she saw New York City’s spectacular skyline, Las Vegas’s shimmering lights, Disneyland’s magic castle” ( Nazario 4). The view that Lourdes is a misrepresentation of America and this is a common view that immigrants have. When upon arrival to America they expect the pretty lights but they end up not finding that and its cause grief and loneliness for many. Lourdes is on a mission to find work and create a better world for her two children, Belky and Enrique, but never returns back. The idealism of America draws many immigrants in and they jeopardizes their lives for the journey to America for a land that is misrepresented. With this view Lourdes stays in America and her son Enrique was left behind when he was very young and basically raised himself. As a result, being a troubled kid, he got in trouble quite often. Being kicked out of family members homes repeatedly, Enrique begins his journey to America to find his mother. As he travels, the author reveals, “Painfully, Enrique, 17, has learned a lot about ‘the beast.’ In Chiapas, bandits will be out to rob him, police will try to shake him down, and street gangs might kill him. But he will take those risks, because he needs to find his mother” (Nazario 61). Enrique know the risk but yet he still tries to get to America. Enrique has been deported eight times and it’s a come thing for immigrants to be deported. Many claim it’s just part of the journey but that should not be the case. America needs to help these people and make the journey easier so mother like Lourdes and children like Enrique, do not have to go through what they have been through to get to America. Getting across the border is a death mission but many take it every day just to gain the American dream. In Central America the government are not providing help since there is too much poverty and do not know where to start as the country is filled with gangs and drugs. Immigrants are trying to flee that violence and come to America for safety. Overall, immigrants experience a painful journey when trying to come into the country and America needs to begin to make the journey easier for those who need asylum.
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Furthermore, some Americans believe that immigrants are a waste of American resources, but there is the responsibility of the country to provide help to immigrants who are fleeing violent country. As a society we have neglected that our countries need our help. Immigrants are fleeing violent countries where the violence will not end immediately but over time and are seeking help to get into a country of dreams but aren’t gaining it because we are selfish. America standards needs to be remind of our history and how the country was built on immigration. Humans today need to learn to help on another to build a prospering country. The view of American has to be changed for the better. What makes a person American is not just being born in the country but it is believing in the American standards and putting faith into a constitution that will provide us human rights. People are coming to America as immigrants to be apart of this American dream that Americans value, but the only way that they can become one with society is with a change by people and a change of values. America needs to start believing in that immigration is the backbone of this nation, it was how the place got created. Americans are not just created by birth or blood buts in the belief that this nation is a place of standards built on immigration. As humans, the country’s next chapter needs to bring a change on how immigrants are viewed as and lend a helping hand to those who need asylum.
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The topic of immigration has always been a controversial topic, with many complications and technicalities, and this issue appears to be even more present in our current political landscape. As our current leader in the White House fights for stricter borders, many activists are leading efforts to help refugees and other foreigners seeks a home here despite strict immigration laws. Authors Aisha Dodwell and George Gallatin express their conflicting viewpoints in articles that try to help us understand the different viewpoints on our borders.
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One of the most commons thoughts of having open borders is how it would affect our economy as a nation. Aisha Dodwell of newint.org believes that having open borders does not have a negative effect on our economy but might actually help as new immigrants would be willing to do jobs most americans wouldn’t. Dodwell stresses that the belief that immigrants hurt our minimum paying jobs is a myth without any factual evidence. She states that immigrants work hard and benefit our economy in many different ways by also buying goods and being apart of society.
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“Economists followed the wages and employment of every worker in the country between 1991 and 2008, and monitored the impacts of large influxes of refugees.”(Dodwell) She examines studies supporting her claim the negative impacts of immigration are false. “They found that low-skilled wages and employment actually rose in response to the influx of refugees.”(Dodwell) One of her biggest arguments is based on the notion that there is strong evidence in immigrants benefit to society.
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George Gallatin of quillette.com, sees the topic of open borders as an issue in a completely different light. Gallatin views open borders as an easy opportunity for mass immigration that could ultimately harm the culture and demographics of the home country. Gallatin supports his argument by claiming that mass immigration would lead to profound changes on our economics. “The open borders philosophy is wrong, because, like the failed ideologies of the past century, it doesn’t account for unpleasant facts about human nature and society.” (Gallatin) The author urges the importance of avoiding border although it might seem like the moral move. Another intriguing point Gallatin makes is the challenge of bringing together different cultures and how they will respond to each other. “People from across the world differ significantly in behavior and custom. When migration occurs, we have to be aware that these behaviors and customs come along and can cause considerable strain in the receiving nation.”(Gallatin) It is interesting to inmagine how welcoming or hostile a nation will be when accepting mass amounts of immigrants, especially when the country is already divided on the issue.
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Dodwell views immigration has inevitable even with or without open borders. However, she illustrates that far less refugees would die in there attempt to enter into a new country compared to the difficult conditions refugees are faced with now. Dodwell explains the thousands of refugees who died in the poor conditions fleeing to europe. Crossing the mediterranean in make shirt lifeboats has resulted in many deaths even including small children. In many instances the few refugees who do make it to the country they are fleeing to, they are forced back to their original unsafe and poor condition homeland. Having closed borders does discourage immigration, it rather just creates hardship and dangerous conditions for poor struggling families trying to seek a better future. Dodwell hopes that developed countries could be more accepting and understanding of the difficult conditions many individuals are in when trying to enter a more safe and better country.
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Europa’s Conservative creed refers to the the sphere of political theory that advocates, above all else, traditional values. Traditionalism extends to religion, culture, and national identity, and therefore, the party is very typically opposed to stringent change in social, political, and economic contexts. (Webb, P. D., & Louth, L. N. (2018, July 26). Conservative Party.) The Conservative party prefers politics that are fluid and evolve over time, it upholds a doctrine that favors continuity and that attempts to establish stability rather than succumbing to radicalism.
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It is held that government should not be an extremely active member in the lives of those whom it governs because of the premise that societies are so complicated and nuanced that there is no (reliable) way for governments to predict what should be done at any given moment. Instead, the Conservative party believes that human beings, and therefore, societies, inherit skills and cultural characteristics over time, and these intrinsic properties defy any government’s ability to gauge what is best for society as a whole.
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Heavy volumes of migration take negative tolls on Europa’s public services and low-income jobs. (Immigration: Tories to keep ‘tens of thousands’ target. (2017, May 08).) Still, it is critical to note the nuances within regulation immigration and severely restricting it to the point where it is virtually non-existent. Europa recognizes the beneficial nature of immigration in certain realms and is cognizant of the innovation and advancements that many immigrants wish to bring to Europa. While immigration should be restricted, it should, under no circumstances, be abolished, as doing so would not be of value to any party involved. The Conservative party aims to reduce net migration “below 100,000 a year,” (Woodcock, A. (2017, May 31). Where the parties stand on immigration ahead of the general election.) a goal that is intended to protect the safety and prospects of Europa’s citizenry, while simultaneously taking into account the advantageous properties of immigration. (Woodcock, A. (2017, May 31). Where the parties stand on immigration ahead of the general election.)
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Iran’s nuclear capabilities are without a doubt, disconcerting, and Europa’s Conservative party intends to hold the country accountable for any potential use of these weapons, as well as to take preventative measures to ensure that Iran cannot further its nuclear agenda. The United States has decided to employ military prowess in Iran as a result of concerns that the usage of nuclear weapons was imminent. While the Conservative party should not send Europan troops into Iran, it does not condemn the decision by the United States to do so. Any deal made with a volatile country such as Iran is subject to distrust on many ends, the Conservative party believes that JCPOA was a reckless decision. Still, because it is being internationally enforced, Europa should neither reprimand the United States, nor violate the terms of the deal. (Iran nuclear deal: UK won’t walk away, says Boris Johnson.) Instead, it should take a more neutral stance. On the surface, it will be neutral. Iran is hostile towards the West, however, as well as Israel, a major ally of both the United States and Europa, meaning that although Europa should take a neutral stance on the surface, it implicitly should support the United States, and if Iran wreaks havoc, Europa should intervene.
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Workplace productivity is critical to overall market productivity, and the Conservative party is a proponent of this productivity. Working seven hours in one day (at least) has been the appropriate status quo and should not be tampered with, as it will negatively affect efficiency around the country. Any amount of hours worked a week under forty-four should not be subject to overtime pay, however, starting at forty-four hours a week, workers should be provided with 1.5 times their original wage. Workers should be acknowledged for additional effort that exceeds the number of hours they should reasonably work in one day, which is why the Conservative party is not opposed to overtime pay in general. Still, allowing for such easily obtained bonuses contributes to a culture of laziness and unwarranted complacency, and must be avoided. When employers hire employees, there are certain expectations, and among them, is the capacity to complete a full work day without expecting over-compensation.
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Imagine not feeling safe in the place you call your home, not feeling safe in the place you grew up or were raised in due to the gangs that surrounded the area, or the “corrupt” government in the country you live in. How would you feel if in fleeing that awful life to find a new, better life and on the way there you experience things you wouldn’t want to experience in a nightmare, only to be sent back or to be treated poorly when you get there, or should I say if you get there.
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The biggest reason most immigrants flee their home country in search of a better life is because they fear that they were in danger where they used to reside, whether they were in danger of a gang, or someone attacking them with a sort of hostility based on their beliefs, and when they get to the U.S. the fear of being separated from your family. But to gain asylum in the U.S. you need some proof of some sort, proof of why you fear going back to that “nightmare” that was your life. You need to prove to these people that hold your future in their hands why you deserve to stay, reliving that same horrifying traumatic story through your head as you tell them all the details of what happened to you or a loved one, why you left and what you experienced on the way. The majority of asylum cases get rejected and the people are thrown right back into what they feared and sometimes they won’t make the trip back or die from what made them run away in the first place. Laura Tillman posted this testimony about immigration and asylum on LitHub on July 20, 2018. Laura is an American journalist who was trying to show Americans the harsh reality of how the asylum, and the immigration systems work in the America, she shows us the many different views and stories from people like immigration officers, attorneys, and mothers.
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One huge problem with the U.S. immigration system is if they cannot afford to pay for a lawyer, they don’t have the right to an attorney. According to John Oliver only 37% of people who have an immigration court case are represented by lawyers which means a majority of immigrants won’t have anyone represent them in court and will have to represent themselves. Representing themselves makes it extremely difficult for them to win their case. It would be difficult for an adult to represent themselves in court, but what makes this such a big problem is that there is a great percentage of these people that are children. There are so many young kids that are age 2 or 3 that have had to end up representing themselves in court because the families of that child can’t afford a lawyer. Most children this age have a hard time answering general questions let alone understanding the immigration law. John Oliver shows us an experiment which was done in which she asked children of a young age questions that they would ask them in court. Most of them answer questions like “do you speak English as your native language?” or “if you were removed which country would you like to designate as your country of removal?” and give answers like “Yeah, I like my balloon!” or “pizza!” (Maldonado et al., 2016). This shows that children should not be allowed to represent themselves in court and should be required to have a lawyer. This source is a television series that aired on April 1, 2018 called Last week tonight with John Oliver and the title of this episode is “Immigration Courts” in which shows everyone the horrifying reality of what the majority of children, and their families have to go through and why their life depends on it.
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Naturalization ceremonies are a beautiful thing, the new U.S. citizens waiving the flags of their new home with excitement and joy, where those futures that they once deemed impossible to come by now seem possible, whether these futures were to take advantage of the new economic opportunities they have or to take part of the cultures and traditions as part of their new nation. Finally, after all that time having to learn English and having to learn the importance of the U.S. government and history that most Americans don’t even know about. In the article “Should Immigration Require Assimilation?” it mentions that some woman from immigrations services to cheer once they become Americans “like they had been reborn” (Gjelten et al., 2015). She told them to speak English as much as they could and fulfill their responsibilities as Americans, but to also continue speaking their language and stick with their own cultural backgrounds as well. The controversy is that becoming a citizen of America immigrants are required to learn about the American cultures and traditions and as Gjelten quotes Robert Putnam at the end of his article “is that at the end we shall see that the challenge is best met not by making ‘them’ like ‘us,’ but rather by creating a new, more capacious sense of ‘we.’”
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WW2 came to an end, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemburg came to an agreement in London which aloud free transport of goods within their borders. Later on in 1951 Netherlands went on to join other countries in forming the European coal and steel community which played a big impact in economic growth as it rebuilt the countries from WW2. The treaty of Rome was then signed in 1957 by these same countries in which thus treaty guaranteed free trade within the region. Netherlands is one of the largest exporters of agriclutural products thanks to the EU’s development of agriculturak policy which started in 1958 when agricultural minister Sicco Manshors was made European Agricultural commissioner.
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In the most recent Prime minister election Mark Rutte’s centre- right VVD won. The Dutch citizens as well as all other EU members saw this as a victory for the EU. Many saw this result as a victory fir democracy and against extremism and many believed that it was a very – pro european result. This victory also had positive affects on other members of the EU such as France and Germany. Germany wo seats in parliament and france was to elect a bew president with the right national front forecast to increase its votes thanks and these are both thanks to the victory.
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Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy since 1815 and the people party for freedom and democracy is a conservative-liberal political party in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is ranked 10th among the 44 countries in the European region and its overall score is above the regional and world averages. Its freedom score is an outstanding 76.2 percent. Its unemployment rate is a 3.7 percent which is much lower then the European Union average which is a 6.7 percent. The GDP per capita is an amazing 53,598 USF compared to EU average of 36593 USD, and its GDP anual growth rate is a developing 2.4 percent compared to the EU’s that is only 1.9 percent. Its emplyment rate is 78 percent and its yout explyment rate is 62.3 percent, these as well are both higher then the EU average which is 72.2 percent emplyment rate and only 34.7 youth emplyment rate.
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The Netherlands has a diverse and stable econmy ranked as 5th largest in the Eurozone. Immigration is huge in the Netherlands. Almost 20 percent of dutch population are immigrants or children of immigrants. The majority of immigrants that came to the Netherlands are people originally from Turkey, Surinam, and Morocco. Most of the migrants reasons for coming to the netherlands are to reunite with family or form a new family with a none dutch partner. In 1998 37 thousand migrated for these reasons. Also in 1998 Over 15,000 people came to the Netherland because of Labour issues in their countires, making them not able to sustain themselves thus, they had to migrate to netherlands in search of a better way of life. In addition, in 1998 Over 17 thousand Asylum seekers came to Netherlands to fleed war and possible death. Most of these asylum seekers came from Iraq and Afghanistan and now one in three non- dutch immigrants arriving to the Netherlands come to seek asylum or rejoin someone seeking alylum.
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Immigrants do lower the country’s economic status. Unemplyment rate for immigrants is higher then that of Native Dutch people because of the poor knowledge of dutch, low levels of education, and limited work experience. Average immigrants also have less money then the Average Dutch person. As well as crime rates are higher then average among the young immigrants. 8 percent of immigrant youngsters have been suspected of crime while only 4 percent of the Dutch. Policies were made to increase the self-sufficiency of newcomers. Immigrants were required to pass an integration exam that tests their knowledge of the Dutch language and society. The Netherlands is currently the only country in the world to demand knowledge of language and society from its inhabitants before allowing them to stay.
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For an innumerable amount of those living in the late 19th to the early 20th century, one common desire was held. The abstraction of immigrating to the United States held promises of prosperity, freedom, and limitless opportunities. Like others, Chinese immigrants were no exception to the sudden influx of unfamiliars who came to America looking for work. Large numbers of Chinese chose to pursue work in America during the California Gold Rush of 1848 in order to escape poverty and political freedom as a result of the Taiping Rebellion.
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However, after the boom of the California Gold Rush ended in 1855, the country fell into a landslide of economic downturn. As gold and prosperity diminished, so did the respect that Americans nativists held for the Chinese. Many Native-born Americans were unable to find employment that sufficiently paid enough to support their families, however, at the same time many of such were unwilling to work unfair hours for low wages. Because of this, many companies and employers looked towards hiring Chinese immigrants, who were mostly unaware of acceptable wages and labor laws.
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An exceeding amount of Chinese immigrants were willing to work long hours for less pay, leading to many Native-born Americans to resent the Chinese and believe they were pilfering them of job opportunities. Animosity grew due to American nativists desiring a scapegoat to blame for their economic misfortune. Hate crimes against the Chinese became prominent; racist graffiti adorned various areas, anti-Chinese riots occurred, and many people even went to such lengths as to suggest the barring and deportation of all Chinese-Americans. This dissatisfaction ultimately lead to the racism-fueled Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which was the first time that race had been used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States.
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Reactions to the Chinese Exclusion Act were considered to be mixed, with various groups in support and in opposition of the act. Anti-Chinese groups took this event as an opportunity to rise to power, such as the Supreme Order of Caucasians, which was supported by California’s governor John Bigler. Advocates of the act called Chinese immigrants and Chinese-Americans racist terms such as “coolies” and solely blamed them as well as other ethnic groups of immigrants for their economic downfall and hardships. On the other hand, the Chinese collectively and passionately opposed the law, as it persecuted and oppressed them and destroyed many lives by deporting and tearing family members apart. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the very first of its kind, despite growing hostilities towards immigrants in general.
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Never before had the United States barred immigration, especially for a singular ethnic group. After this act was brought into effect, Chinese still wishing to immigrate into America were not allowed for an extensive period of time. Unsurprisingly, racism towards Chinese as well as other immigrants was not considered to be a completely foreign concept before the economic difficulties that arose during this time. Before the Chinese Exclusion Act, Congress had actually banned Chinese women from entering the United States in 1875, under the pretext that it would preserve the health of white citizens by lowering the amount of Chinese prostitutes. However, this exclusion allowed immigration authorities to ultimately bar Chinese men’s wives and children from gaining entrance into the country.
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As a consequence of this act, many Chinese were criminalized and suffered immense racial discrimination and violence. In the face of the American public, the Chinese were seen as inferior and unworthy. Because of this, thousands of Chinese immigrants, as well as Chinese owned businesses and residences were assaulted and expelled from various towns. In only two years time since the Chinese Exclusion Act had been enacted, the population of Chinese immigrants had dwindled to the number of 75,000. Additionally, American-born Chinese were no exception to the prejudice that resulted from the Chinese Exclusion Act. Many born Chinese-Americans as well as the Chinese immigrants who remained post-exclusion worked hard to assimilate and better themselves to fit into American society, but they were no match for how deeply the consequences of the exclusion act would affect their lives.
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Many of the Chinese immigrants who were able to avoid deportation in 1882 were denied jobs and lived in fear that the exclusion laws would eventually catch up to them, leading to many to go great lengths to hide their identities and evade them. Chinese immigrants such as Lee Chew, described how his race had been “shut out from working on farms or factories or building railroads or making streets or digging sewers” immediately following the exclusion acts in the year of 1882. Chew similarly describes how the Chinese are treated the poorest in comparison to other ethnic groups of immigrants, stating “The Americans would not dare treat Germans, English, Italian, or even Japanese as they treat the Chinese, because if they did there would be a war…” Many desperate Chinese would attempt to enter the United States through means of crossing the Mexican or Canadian borders despite the risk and danger that becoming an undocumented immigrant entails.
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The Chinese ultimately became the United State’s first illegal immigrants by taking advantage of loopholes and error in the government’s immigration and border enforcement. By 1907, many highly organized Chinese and Mexican ran businesses had established illegal immigration businesses, with one of the most prominent ones headed by Chinese-Mexican José Chang. Important steps in Chang’s operation included physically and mentally disguising the Chinese arrivals as Mexican residents, as well as exchanging their clothing for “the most picturesque Mexican dress.” The immigrants received fraudulent Mexican citizenship and documentation, and were taught how to speak basic and minimal Spanish. For those who aspired to enter by means of Canada, many from China simply chose to move to Canada for an extended period of time in hopes of eventually finding a way into the United States. In comparison to the Mexican border in the south, the Canadian border was considered to be largely unguarded and feasible in terms of executing crossings.
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This was possibly due to the difference regarding Canada’s attitudes toward Chinese immigration laws. Although Chinese immigrants continued to face discrimination and racial prejudice in Canada, cracks in Canadian policies allowed for easy and uncomplicated passage into the United States. Rather than replicating the United States and practicing methods of direct exclusion, Canada chose to restrict Chinese immigrants by indirect and ineffective means, such as imposing taxes to be collected by ship captains when departing and arriving, which allowed for Chinese immigrants to enter Canada given that this tax was simply paid off. It was ultimately determined that an estimated 300 to 2,000 illegal Chinese immigrants made their way into the United States every year during this time.
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The effects of the Chinese Exclusion Acts afflicted not only the Chinese, but foreign country affairs which reached the United States itself. In a letter to the American Secretary of State Elihu Root from diplomate William Franklin Sands in the year 1907, Sands describes how Guatemala had similarly decided to deny the Chinese permission to immigrate in 1896. The Palace of Executive Power in Guatemala saw Chinese immigrants as repeat abusers and attempted to force them to leave by requiring all those staying legally in their country to present passports to authorities. It was made clear that “any Chinese that will fail to show to any authority or to any guardian… the passport mentioned… shall be immediately expelled from the country.”
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However, the government made acquiring said required passport for the Chinese very difficult, with the process being conducted by authorities with the sole power to concede or deny anyone a passport. Said authorities were also given the right to practice investigations on the Chinese whenever deemed necessary, leading to bias and corruption. This proved that the Chinese faced hardships not only in the United States, but outside as well, in reference to the aforementioned Canadian as well as Guatemalan exclusion laws. In the end, the Chinese Exclusion Acts and their consequences remained unchanged for an extensive length of time lasting 61 years.
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The acts were not revoked until the year of 1943, though this took place solely because of the growing interest of acquiring China as a wartime ally during the course of World War II. With China’s political turmoil already set in place by events of the time such as the Opium Wars and the Treaties of Wanghia and Tianjin, the exponentially increasing harsh restrictions on Chinese immigration, amalgamated with the rising discrimination against Chinese alreading residing in the United States in the late 19th to early 20th century, resulted in a tremendously strained and unforgettable diplomatic relationship between the United States and China.
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S.A or Mexico. Currently the country taking most of Canada’s work force is the U.S with their grip on technology they are in fact luring Canadians, the media has called this the “Brain Drain”. NAFTA has also created environmental issues such as a four-lane highway just for trucks, to make it easier to transport products to one side of the border to the other, which may or may not be built. But if NAFTA intended to be a good for the nation then why has it turned out to be so bad, would it be in Canada’s best interest that NAFTA is re-signed.
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It has come to my attention as of recent how devastating racism is today. Despite social laws and equality rights, racism still plays a huge part in society in the United States.There are many active hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists and more. Racism is difficult to define because it has so many meanings, but it usually classifies as a belief that one race is most pure and more superior than any other race. Common races that are discriminated against in the United States are African Americans, Mexican Americans, and people of Middle Eastern descent (this includes refugees).
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So many races are discriminated against due to stereotypes. Many people, such as Middle Easterns, are judged based on the act of a couple of people from their race (The attack on 9/11 being one example).Immigration is also a huge problem in the racism epidemic currently in the United States. There are countless heros that have contributed greatly to the end of racial discrimination and immigration rights of all people like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Eva Longoria.
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The United States accepts people from varying points in their lives and takes them in as if they are our own. Or so it seems. In reality, there is a large amount of America’s citizens that believe only the white Christian majority should be allowed to live in the United States. The main organization who believes this is called the Ku Klux Klan. Many people in this group also classify as white supremacists and black separatists. This means that they believe the white race is superior and that the white race should not mix with any other race, such as African Americans because it would taint their skin color. The KKK are very proud to be white. There are many ways that citizens protest against this group. They do marches and they also promote the hashtag black lives matter and all lives matter. However, these protests aren’t doing much to end the seemingly growing Ku Klux Klan. The KKK on average had twenty nine active groups around the United States in 2017 and they all compete for members, media attention, and the title of being the “true heir to the Klan”. Since around 2010 the group has steadily been on the rise, due to anxieties towards illegal immigration and same-sex marriage. Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, has gained a lot of support from the Ku Klux Klan because of his intention to rid America of illegal immigrants. In 1865 the Ku Klux Klan was created by six confederates from Tennessee. They wanted to protest that slavery should not have been banned. They would kill innocent victims in the dark of night with their faces hidden in an effort to fight the new civil rights law. In the 1860’s, the group was a secret organization. At the time, most of the Klan members were veterans of the Civil War. The first “Grand Wizard” of the KKK was a confederate general by the name Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Grand Wizard in the Klan was considered the head of the organization. The most famous Grand Wizard Klan member who recently left the post was David Ernest Duke, white supremacist and convicted felon. He was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Duke has published three books on his beliefs of Judaism, racism and communism. Though the Grand Wizard only applied to the reconstruction era, high ranking members are able to be inducted as a Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Many KKK members deny any form of Communism, stating that it is against their beliefs. Most Klan groups don’t accept Neo-Nazis.
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White Supremacists are individuals who believe that the white race is superior to any other race and should therefore be commanding over the other races. Different white supremacist groups highlight a certain race as the enemy. White supremacy had foundations both before and after the American Civil War. During the 1800’s in the United States nearly all white supremacists owned slaves. Throughout most of America’s history, humans of a different race than caucasian were not allowed to vote or hold a government office job. They had practically no rights at all. Post 1960’s white supremacists held the “far-right” ideology. Neo-nazis typically fall under this ideology also. The far-right, or alt-right as it is also called, reject mainstream conservatism and embrace racism and white supremacy. There really isn’t an alt-left because alt-right is white supremacy but everything else, believing in equal rights, doesn’t fall on the opposite side of the spectrum. There is simply an alt-right, and an everything else. White supremacy also classifies as white pride and white power. The Ku Klux Klan is composed of white pride individuals. White pride characterizes as loving the caucasian race above all other races. People in the white pride belief system disagree with interracial relationships. This is when two different races are together. Whether it be friendships, or romantic relationships. In the present day, white supremacists are generally okay seeing different races, and sometimes they will even interact with different races, but they absolutely hate seeing a couple mix. They would prefer to see an African American man than a mixed race man. Because of this belief, white supremacy has a bad reputation. They are known for sticking with old traditions and aren’t afraid to resort to violence. On the other hand, some well known hate groups prefer the peaceful protests, such as the Ku Klux Klan group in Madison, Indiana, who held a peaceful picnic for recruitment. It wasn’t unless protests broke out on the other side that things went downhill.
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The races that are discriminated against find it very upsetting that there are so many laws aimed towards equality and yet racism is so prominent. African Natives were brought into the United States against their will, forced to stay here without any rights, and then fought for freedom but was still discriminated against. Over 179,000 African American men fought in the American Civil War in over 160 units. Some slaves were even forced to fight on the Confederate side of the war in labor positions. Many of the African Americans who fought on the Union side were previously slaves who sought freedom. They did not receive equal pay for fighting, though. African American men typically collected ten dollars a month, while white men made thirteen. Today, about ninety two percent of African Americans reported feeling discriminated against at some point in their lives according to a recent study by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The people who submitted the survey were of many backgrounds and ages. Beverly Reeves, who was in an interview about African American individuals, being an African American herself, said that being treated differently than caucasians was “duh”. It was to be expected and she had experienced racism throughout her life. She goes on to tell a story about how she booked a manicure appointment for her and her friends. It was a mix of black and white women. The white salon owner looked right past her and helped the white friends before helping her, even though she was there first and was the one who booked the appointment. The conductor of the interview states that this sort of situation isn’t uncommon. Another individual reported being told there were no houses available for real estate in her area, but gave a different answer to a white couple. This stereotype isn’t just expressed within African Americans, but many other races as well, such as Mexican Americans.
Topic: immigration

People have heard innumerable rumors about Mexican Americans, or Mexican immigrants such as “mafia members”, “they steal our jobs!”, “all they do is drugs”, etc. There is minimal truth behind these stereotypes. It’s like saying that all Americans are fat. They simply aren’t. There might be a percentage who are, but still many who diet and workout. The same goes for Mexican Americans. There has been racial discrimination towards Mexican Americans since the 1840’s. It was at that time that it was officially announced that Mexican American segregation was present in American schools. There was also illegal deportations and lynching that echoed Jim Crow laws. When the United States won the Mexican-American war in 1848, a large portion of Mexico became property of the United States, therefore granting immediate citizenship to those who decided to stay in that area. As the nineteenth century went on, Mexican American discrimination became more prominent. Mob violence killed thousands of Mexican Americans in the early twentieth century. One case noted in 1851 the accused murder of a white man by Josefa Segovia resulted in a lynching after a fake trial. Over 2,000 men came to watch. Today Mexican American discrimination doesn’t typically result in violence. However, it is still very outstanding the amount of racial discrimination directed towards Mexican Americans. America’s own president, Donald Trump, has made a great number of stereotypical remarks towards those who immigrated to the United States legally. In one of his speeches, he stated that “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” This of course caused many outbursts from the American people, some of whom even support Trump because of that remark. He also said “somebody’s doing the raping!” which can translate to the fact that he doesn’t think anybody born in America could possibly be raping anyone, only immigrants. Donald Trump said that America is the dumping ground for everyone else’s problems, even though America proudly interferes with wars. As previously mentioned, America is known as a diverse country, so Trump saying that remark didn’t make any immigrant happy, especially refugees. Refugees aren’t here because no other country wants them, but because they don’t have the basic needs to survive.
Topic: immigration

began officially on March 15, 2011. Since then, hundreds of thousands of citizens of Syria have been killed. Wynn Flaten, a Syrian response director, stated that “It is utterly heartbreaking to see the constant calls from humanitarian organizations to put an end to the violence, suffering, and devastation of Syrian people, go unnoticed.” Donald Trump was incorrect to say that people are dumped here because the United States wants to help people. That’s why many refugees come to America; it is one of the only places in the world where people have complete freedom. 5.6 million Syrians have fled Syria as refugees and about half are children. Despite Donald Trump’s claims that America deals with the world’s problems, many other countries took in refugees. Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt total 5.5 million of the refugees, whereas America has taken in a little over 18,000. Many religious groups are also fighting each other. In 2018, there are still 2.9 million people not getting help in Syria because they are in hard to reach places. To make matters worse, they flee to the United States of America only to face racial discrimination. Syria isn’t the only country people are fleeing from. Afghanistan, South Sudan, Myanmar, and Somalia are other major countries refugees are escaping from. The racial discrimination they are facing is horrific. One UUSC article expresses that “In the United States, President Trump has drastically lowered the refugee admissions cap and signed an executive order that barred entry to the United States to refugees from 11 countries, including war-torn Syria. The United States is also witnessing a surge in xenophobic and Islamophobic political rhetoric, and with it a rise in reported hate crimes against Muslims and other minorities.” and because of these so-called helpful new policies in the United States, people aren’t getting the help they need, while also facing racism.
Topic: immigration

A hero who made a difference in her fight against racial segregation and discrimination was Rosa Parks. Parks was most known for her fight against bus seats. She was told to get up from her bus seat to allow a white man to sit and she refused. This activated many protests campaigning for her and against. Though the bus boycott of 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama is her most famous moment, it isn’t all that Rosa Parks did to drive the new law towards complete equal rights. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks was one of many to be a negro in the wrong place and time. Nevertheless, the fact that she didn’t have many rights didn’t stop her from fighting to get some. She left school at sixteen to care for her dying mother and wouldn’t return for many years to get her diploma. In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, who was an active member in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Being an African American woman in the early twentieth century brought many challenges. She could only drink from a certain water fountain, borrow books from a certain library, and attend certain clubs, schools, etc. Parks was arrested in 1955 due to not giving up her seat to a white man and was later released by bail. This led many other African Americans to do the same. There was a planned boycott on the day of her trial, Monday, December 5. Many were informed of said trial and the planning had been completed. Homes were bombed, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s. This didn’t stop the boycotters. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional and Parks was named the “mother of the civil rights movement”. In the years following, Rosa Parks wrote an autobiography. In 1999, Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and after she died at 92 in 2005, she became the first woman in the nation’s history to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.
Topic: immigration

Yet another hero who fought for the rights of African Americans is the famous Harriet Tubman. She was born in 1820 in Maryland as a slave. Tubman was deeply religious but remained illiterate for her whole life. She found courage in rescuing friends and family from the tie to slavery. Harriet Tubman was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, a network of secret houses and routes used by African Americans to escape to the north. It is estimated that Tubman helped over 300 slaves receive freedom. During the Civil War, Harriet acted as a scout and spy. She helped to raise money to aid soon-to-be slaves. Harriet had eight siblings, and was nicknamed “Minty” by her mom. Harriet successfully escaped in 1849, along with two of her brothers, Harry and Ben. They ended up having second thoughts and soon returned to the plantation. In her very last trip to help free slaves, she brought the Ennals family, who had to drug their infant to keep from making noise. She was also the first woman to lead an assault during the Civil war. When Harriet was fifty nine years old, she married Nelson Davis, who was twenty two years younger than her. Nelson had tuberculosis and could not work. They adopted a baby in 1874 named Gertie. After the Civil War, Harriet began advocating for women’s suffrage. She gave many speeches in large cities such as Boston, New York and Washington. Due to an injury to the head when she was a slave, she underwent brain surgery but refused anesthesia. Instead, she chewed a bullet which is what soldiers did during the civil war. Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia but was buried with military honors.