ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
Topic: immigration

Immigration laws affect U.S. citizen children through multigenerational punishment. The author, Laura E. Enriquez, examined the complex relationship U.S. citizen children of undocumented 1.5-generational young adults have with immigration laws. In the article “Multigenerational Punishment: Shared Experiences of Undocumented Immigration Status Within Mixed-Status Families” Enriquez (2015) states that U.S. citizen children of 1.5-generational parents’ experience multigenerational violence. Enriquez argues that immigration laws create multigenerational punishment because the legal ramifications intended for undocumented immigrants affect the lives of U.S. citizens. For the study, Enriquez interviewed undocumented 1.5-generational young adults who had U.S. citizen children. The term 1.5-generation refers to a person who immigrated to a new country as a preteen or during their early teenage years. Enriquez conducted 32 interviews with undocumented 1.5-generational young adults. 21 of the interviewees were mothers, 8 were fathers, one couple were expecting a child and one woman who had been pregnant and decided not to have the baby. All the interviewees’ children were U.S. citizens between infancy and 15. Enriquez supports her claim by examining the effect immigration laws have on undocumented 1.5-generational young adults and their U.S. citizen through deportation fears, driving, travel and legal employment. Many of the parents interviewed said that they had discussed deportation with their children. This exchange leads to multigenerational violence because their children then feared being deported. Most interviewee’s feared being pulled over without a license, so they used risk management strategies to prevent getting pulled over. Many of their U.S. citizen children became hyper-vigilant when in the car with their parents; and adopted their parent’s risk management strategies.
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It impressed me that Enriquez’s interview subjects had a widely diverse educational background. Throughout the article, Enriquez cited other studies to explain multigenerational punishment and the effect it had on transnational families and first-generation parents and their children. I liked how she brought in additional information that strengthened her conclusion. I wish the article discussed Enriquez’s interview questions along with the responses. Enriquez’s study is one of the first that focuses on multigenerational punishment regarding 1.5-generational parents and their U.S. citizen children. I think it’s important to prove that the questions asked were not leading questions.
Topic: immigration

I found this article worth reading. Enriquez’s study is the first of its kind; other studies focus on transnational families or first-generation families and their children. Enriquez takes an in-depth look at how America’s immigration policy affects U.S. citizen children. In today’s political climate, many children are experiencing multigenerational punishment. I think it’s important to acknowledge that immigration laws not only affect immigrants but also their U.S. born children.
Topic: immigration

“Clashing Dreams: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands” by Hung Cam Thai discusses why highly educated Vietnam women are marrying low-wage earning Viet Kieu husbands. In this study, Thai interviews with Minh and Thanh. Thanh is a highly educated woman in Vietnam while Minh is a low-wage earner in the U.S. making them unmarriageable by Vietnamese standards. Thai states that women like Thanh, who are older and highly educated view eligible men in Vietnam to be disrespectful to women and underachieving. Viet Kieu men, in their eyes, are more respectful and will offer an equal partnership marriage because they live in westernized countries. Minh is an unmarriageable to Viet Kieu women because he is a low wage earner. Viet Kieu men adhere to the traditional Vietnamese culture and demand respect and difference from their wives. Viet Kieu women do not respect their husbands unless they make a lot of money which is why Viet Kieu men do not marry Viet Kieu women. Viet Kieu men like Minh are looking at women from Vietnam to get the respect they desire. Thai concludes that the high trend of transpacific marriages is because of Vietnamese culture ostracizing educated women in Vietnam and low-wage Vietnamese men in the United States. These highly educated women in Vietnam hoping to escape strict traditional gender roles by marrying a low wage-earning husband won’t find the equal partnership they are looking for. Instead, they will face the same expectation from these traditional Viet Kieu men.
Topic: immigration

I like that Thai tried to stay as neutral as possible. He refrains from putting his own inherent biases into the article. I appreciated that Thai explained how the double marriage squeeze and globalization play a part in transpacific marriages. I enjoyed reading the first-hand accounts from Minh and Thanh. I appreciate that it adds a personal touch to the article. I dislike how Thai only interviewed one couple because their experience can’t be generalized. Thai’s reliance on Minh and Thanh’s accounts weakens his argument.
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I found “Clashing Dreams” to be worth reading. Thai provides a look inside Vietnam culture and how it influenced transpacific marriages. The article highlights how culture still controls these highly educated women regardless of where they are. These highly educated women married low wage-earning husbands to escape the strict gender roles in Vietnam only to be trapped. Women like, Thanh, hoped to be equal in the marriage but their new U.S. husbands still keep to the traditional Vietnam culture. Thai’s article shows the complicated relationship between women’s equality and culture. Vietnamese women will continue to experience rigid gender roles unless the Vietnamese culture changes.
Topic: immigration

Katherin M. Flower Kim examines the social construct of desirable and undesirable children in her article, “Out of Sorts: Adoption and (Un) Desirable Children”(2007). Kim interviewed 73 adoptive parents from 1997 to 1997 who adopted children from Korea in the 80s and 90s. Throughout this study, Kim was investigating the sorting and ranking of children throughout the adoption process. In the interviews, Kim, asked specific questions like “when thinking about adopting a child, what was important to you?” (Kim, 2007 p.348). All the parent’s responses expressed a healthy child. Most parents began exploring domestic adoptions for a healthy child. Kim states “domestic adoptions” acts as a code word for white babies. When Kim asked Amy, an adoptive mother, if she and her husband looked at children that weren’t white or healthy infants, Amy responded by saying she didn’t think to look at any other nationality. Here “nationality” was used to sort out the “undesirable” children. Half of the adoptive parents never considered adopting a child that was not white Kim also states the “American” was also a code word that means white child. According to Kim (2007), many parents who wanted to adopt would not consider children who were not white because they assumed that they would be “adopting” their cultural practices regardless of how they might socialize the child. Participants such as Molly used negative stereotypes to weed out undesirable children. Some parents only considered adopting a nonwhite child such as an African American child if that was their only option. Some parents didn’t mind adopting a black child but didn’t because their extended family thought of it as unacceptable. When parents looked at intercountry adoption they looked to Korea. Parents viewed children from Korea as desirable because they thought Asian culture was good and Koreans were beautiful. Parents also felt that Korean children wouldn’t look too different from themselves. Kim discovered that racial matching played a large part in deciding to adopt Korean children. Adoptive parents felt connected with their adoptive children based on how similar they looked. Parents also avoided engaging in racial and social dynamics that they deemed negative when adopting children from Korea. While interviewing these parents Kim discovered that parents have social constructs of desirable and undesirable children which are based on a society’s larger norm surrounding race and gender. Kim noticed that adoptive parents desired a child that looked similar to them, or would not a child who would act like they were from “the hood.” Parents used coded language, a healthy baby, really meant white baby or Asian baby classified as “honorary whites.” Stereotypes that Asian babies are better suited for white-middle class culture than a black or Latino baby would be.
Topic: immigration

It disappointed me that all but one of the adoptive parents used in the study were white which makes the study non-generalizable to anyone who isn’t white. Kim should have not only interviewed white adoptive parents but adoptive parents are of another race. I appreciate how the study had a large sample of 73 adoptive parents. In most qualitative studies the sample normally small. I appreciated that Kim’s questions were open-ended. The open-ended questions reduced unintentional leading or influencing the responses. Open-ended questions also allowed the participants to share their thoughts and experiences without censoring themselves.
Topic: immigration

Kim’s article, “Out of Sorts: Adoption and (Un) Desirable Children” is worth the read because of how relevant adoption is in our society. Kim’s discussion on racial desirability creating undesirability is worth reading about. Kim’s article emphasizes that an individual’s choices and preferences are linked and shaped by social, cultural and historical contexts. I found it interesting how the adoptive parents’ preferences are based on historical contexts and preconceived bias. The article also explains how adoptive parent’s preferences continue to promote racial inequality. Others should read Kim’s study because she discusses how an individual’s choices and preferences are linked to social, cultural and historical contexts which continue to promote racial inequality.
Topic: immigration

Rhacel Salazor Parre?as article “Mothering From a Distance: Emotions, Gender, and Intergenerational Relations in Filipino Transnational Families” (2001) examines the emotional impact of transnational mothering. Parre?as conducted 72 open-ended interviews with female Filipino domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, the two main destinations for Filipino migrants. Parre?as tape-recorded and transcribed her interviews conducted in Tagalog or Taglish into English. Parre?as collected interview in Rome in 1995 and 1996 and then interviews in Los Angeles between April and September 1996. Key differences between the two groups were regional origin and median age. Some similarities between them are that most are legal residents of their host societies and more than half of the interviewees are married women with children. While interviewing these women Parre?as found that mothers negotiate emotional strain in three ways: the commodification of love, repressing emotional strains, and rationalizing the distance by using regulation communication to ease distance. Transnational mothers often try to make up for the lack of maternal love by giving their children material things. One mother said, “because I am lacking in giving them maternal love, I fill that gap with many material things” (Parre?as, 2001, p. 259). Parre?as found that transnational mothers often downplayed emotional strains or even deny emotional strains. To maintain their mothering role, the women interviewed often used phone calls and letters to overcome the geographical distance. These mothers believe constant communication makes it seem like they are right there with their children. Parre?as states that children like their mothers suffer from the emotional strain of geographical distance. Parre?as found that children disagree with their mothers that commodities are sufficient markers of love. They do not believe that their mothers recognize the sacrifices that children have made to the successful maintenance of the family. The children appreciated the efforts made by migrant mothers, but they still question the extent of their efforts.
Topic: immigration

I like how Parre?as participants were from various churches, parks, and plazas. By getting participants from various locations, she diversified the study. I appreciated that Parre?as acknowledged the emotional insecurity experienced by families with transnational mothers is partially because of traditional gender ideologies. In Filipino families the emotional care is the mother’s responsibility; when there is a transnational mother there’s an increased emotional insecurity because the responsibility still falls on her. I don’t like that the interviews were originally conducted in Tagalog or Taglish and then transcribed into English. When transcribing colloquialisms and alternative means belonging to certain sayings can get lost in translation. There is also a chance that parts of interviews could have been translated incorrectly which puts the validity of the interview responses into question.
Topic: immigration

I found Parre?as article worth reading because gender roles is an interesting topic. Parre?as examines the emotional strain transnational mother’s experience and the emotional insecurity it causes their children. Parre?as acknowledges that the geographical distance between parent and family impacts emotional security, but the continuation of traditional gender roles makes the emotional strain even worse. Traditional gender ideologies make the responsibility of emotional care and security the responsibility of the mother even if the mother is a thousand miles away. Parre?as article is worth reading for anyone who wants to explore the impact of traditional ideologies has on families.
Topic: immigration

I appreciate that Brown and Porter explained where they received their responses from and who they contracted. I liked how Brown and Porter used two nationally represented surveys to create a large sample size for their study making it generalizable to women in the United States. I also liked how they defined and explained the dependent and control variables. By defining those variables they made the study easier to understand. I didn’t like that they only included women in the study. The non-inclusion of men makes the study only generalizable to women.
Topic: immigration

This article was not worth reading. Brown and Porter spent the majority of the article discussing the methods and all the variables used in the study. They didn’t spend a lot of time on the implications of the results. Most of their conclusions were similar to past studies, so I found part of their study redundant. I found the article hard to get through because of how uninteresting it was. I didn’t find this article useful because I already assumed most of the results. I would not read this article again or recommend it.
Topic: immigration

“More than 10 million illegal immigrants live in the United States, and 1,400 more arrive everyday… they are rapidly moving into non-traditional areas…Willing to work for low wages, the migrants are creating a backlash among some residents of the new states” (Katel 1). These people will work for next to nothing to make sure they at least have a job a day be it landscaping or pretty much anything. Immigrants are willing to do the impossible to keep going.
Topic: immigration

“To Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., reform means enabling illegal immigrants to stay here legally because, he contends, the nation’s economy depends on them. ‘As long as there are jobs to be had… that won’t be done by Americans [illegal immigrants] are going to come and fill those jobs,’ he said in April.” (Katel 395). Americans are used to jobs that have air conditioning, not too hard, and will pay them good money. Immigrants are looking for something that will put a roof over their family’s head and fill their stomachs with food. That’s the difference between an American-born citizen and an Undocumented citizen.
Topic: immigration

Politically, immigration hasn’t really gone anywhere at this point. Many people have given up, but others hold their faith firm in that one day there will be an amnesty and millions of people will be able to visit their homelands and see family that they haven’t seen in years. ” Pro-immigration groups say…State legislators ‘have chosen to scapegoat immigration instead of solving tough economic challenges. There are politicians who would rather treat this as a political hot potato,’ says Noorani with the National Immigration Forum., ‘instead of offering ‘practical solutions.'”(Jost 247). Latinos are beginning to involve themselves more in the communities and are coming out and speaking their minds. “‘The Latino community has an opportunity to make itself felt and heard in Chicago as well as nationally,’ Jesus”Chuy Garcia, a Mexican-American said as voting got underway in Chicago for mayor.” (McCutcheon 291).
Topic: immigration

Coming out Illegal by Leslie told her story about how she wanted to go to college after being an exceptional student in high school but was afraid she couldn’t go because of her legal status in the United States. Thanks to the Dream Act she was able to attend U.C.L.A as a history major. “The federal bill, a version of which was introduced in Congress in 2001, would create a pathway to legal residency for immigrants who arrived in this country as children, have been in the United States for at least five years and have graduated from a U.S. high school or obtained a G.E.D. To gain status, they would have to finish two years of college or military service.” (Jones 1). This bill has helped millions of students all over the country go to their dream universities and pursue their dreams. Hence why it’s called the Dream Act. This allowed for them to be like people like you and I, at least legally, because they are human too. This is the first step in a long process that will eventually lead to the legalization of millions of people. And those millions of people will finally have reached their goal to provide a better life for themselves and their families that they had fought for their entire time in this country.
Topic: immigration

Immigrants come to this country seeking one thing and one thing only. They come looking for something better than what they left behind, something that will bring purpose to their lives. The doors for Hispanic immigrants are opening up and their influence is spreading like a wildfire. They now have a voice in America and their presence is making drastic changes. Immigrants now have the ability to educate themselves and be independent and amnesty seems like it’s right around the corner. Everything is changing. It will be interesting to see what the future holds.
Topic: immigration

Individuals emigrate from their original countries to the host countries for various reasons. Reasons for migration can range from making a better living economically for themselves and their children to getting a better education (Beyer, 2005). Here the word immigrant refers to an individual who is, or has ever been, a permanent resident or landed immigrant in Canada (Statistics Canada Dictionary, 2017). According to Statistics Canada in 2016, immigrants represented 21.9% of Canada’s total population. Immigrants face many challenges in their host countries, such as getting familiar with new values, beliefs, and language, while attempting to assimilate and maintain their traditions (Berry, 2003).
Topic: immigration

A study concluded that first generation immigrants and second-generation youth had similar levels of depression and lower levels of positive well-being when compared to native-born youth due to various factors such as demographics, family and ethnic background characteristics (Harker,2001. Another study revealed that a marker of acculturation was the declining health of pregnant Hispanic woman over the generations. It was further revealed that anxiety and depression got worse over the generations as well (Ruiz et al, 2012). These and other studies indicate that acculturation unfolds over generations and is a process that affects people’s well-being.
Topic: immigration

country, are known as first-generation immigrants (Cassano, 2018 )( Merriam-Webster, 2019). Whereas, second-generation immigrants are the children of first-generation immigrants or people who were born and raised in the host country (Merriam-Webster, 2019). Third-generation immigrants are, therefore, the children of second-generation immigrants and born in the host country (Merriam-Webster, 2019). Intergenerational immigrants are individuals who are born in the host country with parents who hold two different generation statuses. First-generation immigrants go through the process of acculturation once they have arrived at the host country. Merz, Ozeke-Kocabas, Oort and Schuengel (2009) found that first generation immigrants placed higher values on family solidarity when compared to second generation.
Topic: immigration

The terminology of second and third generation, while common in the literature on immigration to use United States and Canada, is not an accurate label for individuals who are born in Canada of immigrant parents. In this paper, the second and third generation are referred to as second and third generation Canadians. One is a Canadian citizen by definition when one is born in Canada and second and third are by definition citizens, therefore they are Canadians. However, an immigrant may also become a citizen by going through the process of applying if they so choose, but they don’t have to, so for the first generation it is still most accurate to call them first generation immigrant to Canada.
Topic: immigration

Over the past few decades, there have been many studies regarding the psychological experience of immigration. One of many studies conducted by Abouguendia and Noels (2001) revealed that the first-generation immigrants had higher knowledge about their native language and had more contacts with families back home than second-generation immigrants. In-group hassles are mentioned as conflict or stressors that arise from one’s ethnic group due to lack of fluency in the native language, and out-group hassles include racial discrimination and conflicts that arise from the mainstream members of the society (Abouguendia & Noels, 2001). In-group hassles are associated with depression in immigrants. However, In-group hassles associated with low self-esteem in second-generation immigrants (Abouguendia & Noels, 2001). Second-generation immigrants have more knowledge regarding the English language and depression is associated with out-group hassles. (Abouguendia & Noels, 2001). This shows that first-generation immigrants are well more connected to their heritage culture than second-generation.
Topic: immigration

Another study concluded that rates of risk behaviour were higher in 1.5 and second-generation migrants than native-born Jews in Israel; however, it was the highest in 1.5 generation migrants (Ora et al., 2012). The study describes 1.5 migrants as children of initial immigrants who arrived at a very young age and have remained in the country. Additionally, reported mental health symptoms were worse in 1.5 and second-generation migrants than native-born Jew. Non-Jewish migrant youths who have assimilated in Israel reported the highest number of mental health symptoms when compared to other acculturation strategies (Ora et al., 2012). An additional study conducted by Berry & Hou (2017) determined that second-generation immigrants in Canada who integrated had higher scores in life satisfaction and self-rated mental health, and that experiencing discrimination influences an individual to choose separation as a strategy of acculturation. The process of acculturation has a major impact on well-being in first-generation immigrants when compared to second and third generations, along with other impacting factors like discrimination and hassles. A study done in Sweden showed that at the age of 12, second generation immigrant children did not differ in self-reported mental health when compared to non-immigrant children (Dekeyser et al., 2011). It can be concluded that psychological well-being degrades over generations. A study comparing psychological well-being of immigrants, second-generation, and third-generation Canadians with south Asian background has yet to be conducted
Topic: immigration

Acculturation can occur at the group level, as well as the individual level (Matsumoto.D, & Juang.L, 2016). At the group level, acculturation is defined as cultural changes which occur due to the adoption of new values, ideas and belief from another culture (Berry, 2005). At the individual level, acculturation is defined as modifications (changes) that arise inside a person due to the influence of the host culture and their original culture. This happens due to the daily interaction with the mainstream culture (Berry, 2005).
Topic: immigration

There are four different types of acculturation strategies, which are integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. Integration occurs when individuals hold on to their original culture and participate/engage in the mainstream culture (Berry, 1997; Matsumoto.D, & Juang.L, 2016). These individuals are more likely to be bicultural or multicultural and often speak more than one language (Matsumoto.D, & Juang.L, 2016). On the other hand, assimilation occurs when an individual prefers to blend in with the mainstream culture while not holding on to their own culture (Berry, 1997). Individuals will start speaking in the host country’s language and decrease interactions with other individuals from their original country (Matsumoto.D, & Juang.L, 2016). Separation strategy is described as individuals who value their original cultural and avoid the mainstream culture. Finally, marginalization is defined as individuals who maintain a little interest in their own culture while opening up a little to the host culture (Matsumoto.D, & Juang.L, 2016). Immigrants in various countries have been found to adopt these four strategies, particularly integration and assimilation (Berry & Hou 2016; Berry et al. 2006; Ora et al., 2012). Furthermore, these four strategies of acculturation have been found to relate to different levels of well-being.
Topic: immigration

For example, Berry and Hou (2016) found that integration was the most preferred strategy, followed by assimilation, and these two had the highest scores for life satisfaction in Canadian immigrants. However, mental health was scored highest in integration and separation. It was also found that immigrants had higher mental health and life satisfaction scores when compared to non-immigrants in Canada. A meta-analysis conducted by Nguyen and Benet-Mart?nez (2013) revealed that high scores of psychological well-being were associated with an integration strategy. Immigrants and second-generation immigrants would benefit from the integration strategy of acculturation because it leads to a healthier psychological well-being.
Topic: immigration

Another study done by Berry and Sabatier ( 2007) compared the second generation immigrant youth in Paris, France and the second generation immigrant youth in Montr?al, Canada and their acculturation strategies and its effect on self-esteem. Researchers concluded that youth who preferred integration scored higher on self-esteem than those who preferred marginalization and this pattern was more prominent in Canada than in France. Berry et al. (2006) found that youth who prefer marginalization reported the highest amount of discrimination, whereas youth who prefer integration reported the least amount of discrimination. Youth who prefer separation reported moderately high discrimination, whereas those who prefer assimilation have reported moderately low discrimination. A comparison of different acculturation strategies at the individual levels of immigrants, second-generation, and third-generation Canadians with south Asian background has not yet been done. It is not just the psychological well-being of first-generation immigrants, but also second and third generation Canadians, who are impacted by four types of acculturation strategies and by achievement motivation.
Topic: immigration

Deci and Ryan (1985) proposed the Self-determination Theory and believed it was three dimensions of motivation instead of uni-dimensional in 2000 after doing some reviews of the theory. The three dimensions of motivation are intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation (Deci & Ryan, 2000). Intrinsic motivation is described as engaging in an activity that the individual finds pleasurable, exciting, and enjoyable (Deci & Ryan, 1985). There is a link between intrinsic motivation and academic achievement (Areepattamannil et al, (2011). There are three subcategories of intrinsic motivation, which are intrinsic motivation towards knowledge, accomplishment, and stimulation (Vallerand et al. 1989, Deci & Ryan, 2000). On the other hand, extrinsic motivation is defined as engaging in an activity to attain rewards after its completion. There are four subcategories of extrinsic motivation, which are external regulation, introjected regulation, identified regulation, and integrated regulation (Deci & Ryan, 2000). Amotivation is described as not engaging in an activity due to lacking intention (Deci & Ryan, 1985).
Topic: immigration

Over the past few decades, researchers have addressed correlations between achievement motivation and first, second and third- generation immigrants. A study conducted by Areepattamannil & Freeman (2008) concluded that immigrant adolescents students when compared with non-immigrants adolescents students in the GTA ( Greater Toronto Area), had higher scores in all three subcategories of intrinsic motivation- to know, to accomplish and to experience stimulation- as well as in two out of four extrinsic motivation -external regulation and introjected regulations-. There were no differences in the identified regulation, which is the subcategory of extrinsic motivation. Furthermore, this study stated that students who are intrinsically motivated tend to have higher academic achievements. Another study stated that there are lower academic achievements if students are extrinsically motivated (Becker et al., 2010). There is a pattern of overall motivation achievement to decrease as the generations progresses and motivation achievement descreases over generations and students who are intrinsically motivated achieve higher grades.
Topic: immigration

An additional study conducted by Areepattamannil, Freeman and Klinger (2011) showed that Indian immigrant adolescents in Canada performed better than adolescents in India regarding academic achievement. It was also reported that Indian immigrant students in Canada were more intrinsically motivated than students in India, whereas students in India were more extrinsically motivated than Canadian immigrant students. It shows that being an immigrant adolescent has higher levels of intrinsic motivation. Furthermore, a study concluded first and second-generation immigrant young adults in Qatar scored higher on intrinsic motivation to learn mathematics, instrumental motivation to learn mathematics and had lower mathematics anxiety compared to their native peers (Areepattamannil et al., 2015). However, first-generation immigrants scored the highest on intrinsic motivation to learn mathematics, instrumental motivation to learn mathematics followed by second generation and non-immigrants scored the lowest. It can be concluded that as one become more part of the mainstream culture motivation achievement decreases.
Topic: immigration

American citizens work tirelessly every day to earn money to make a living and provide for their families. It isn’t easy for everyone, and that’s why we are given the benefits like food stamps and unemployment. So, imagine the frustration in rewarding someone with benefits and jobs who break the law. There are many financial and social issues concerning the illegal immigrant outbreak that’s documented over the years. This problem is being repeatedly disregarded. We currently house 11 to 12 million most of which come from central and southern Mexico, South America, and Latin American countries.
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For example, “Households headed by immigrants illegally in the country have higher use rates than native households overall and for food programs (57 percent vs. 22 percent) and Medicaid (51 percent vs. 23 percent)” (Meyer, WashingtonBeacon). Bad is when they now live in this “American Dream”, and still commit crimes like killing American citizens because of gangs or just plain ignorance. Most importantly, it’s gotten bad when illegals become so entitled that they parade cities and streets demanding rights given to legal citizens, downright forgetting they are here illegally and without citizenship.
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President Donald Trump has been seeking to prevent more unjustified deaths, some because of illegal immigrants, administering crucial immigration laws and pushing for a border wall. This comes straight after the new rise of American deaths. For example, “Gustavo Perez Arriaga, a 32-year-old Mexican illegally living in the U.S., was arrested for the murder of California Police Officer Ronil Singh, 33. Officer Singh was shot and killed during a morning traffic stop involving Arriaga on December 26, 2018. Two days later Arraiaga was captured in Bakersfield, CA, 280 miles away from the City of Newman.
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Police stated they believe Arriaga was attempting to flee back to Mexico. Arriaga, reportedly had been involved in a gang and arrested twice previously for DUI. He had also been previously deported back to Mexico” (Salvi, ojjapc). Officer Singh recently welcomed a baby around Christmas and now his child has to grow up without a father. This is where the problem starts and never seems to end. If there were tighter security and stricter laws on illegal immigration, this could have been prevented. Now granted, not ALL illegal immigrants are like this, and people see that, it’s just that we’re tired of seeing our citizens die, because yours chooses to be unlawful. Another example, “Gustavo Garcia, 36, an illegal alien has been arrested for the murder of Rocky Paul Jones, 51, of Visalia, California.
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Garcia was caught on store video confronting Jones in a convenience store parking lot at 2:30a.m on December 16, 2018. Garcia is then alleged to have shot and killed Jones. That night Garcia was involved in multiple shootings, including the shooting of a farm worker and robbery of a gas station in another town. Garcia is alleged to have a criminal record dating back to 2002 and apparently ordered to be deported in 2014 and had past multiple immigration holds” (Salvi, ojjapc). This further proves the point that actions need to be taken by Congress and the Executive branch to secure our borders and put U.S. immigration laws into place. In current studies put together by fairus.org, 12-15 American Citizens are killed every day by illegal aliens. It is almost impossible to keep track of the illegals that flood into the country, so by not cracking down on regulations for them and making excuses that they need to be here, it becomes that much easier for these immigrants to violate the law. A border patrol agency identified 240,000 illegal immigrants who were convicted for criminal charges in 2017 alone.
Topic: immigration

An important and heated debated, especially between politicians, is the effect of illegal immigration on the economy and work force. A 2017 approximation stated 12 million unlawful immigrants in the United States today, can have both a positive and negative effect on the economy. Lower wages provided to illegal labor workers in low-skill jobs slash the price of manufacturing. This helps lower costs of American people in well-known professions such as chefs, farmers, and or construction workers. Undocumented workers are known to come to the U.S. to send some of the money they make to their home country. They still have effects on the economy because of the money they make and spend. Undocumented immigrants also help to save jobs in ways. For example, “By providing work at low cost, for instance, undocumented workers keep firms from investing heavily in new, expanding technologies that would make thefirms significantly less labor-intensive and more automated (Payoo, 2018). Another well-articulated argument relating to illegal immigration usage of services provided by the government. Illegal workers (not all), get payments by cash most of the time and don’t have to are not exposed to pay federal taxes. Therefore, many people try to express how illegal immigrants are damaging the government and making it lose lots of money. This is because they are acquiring free things like public education, health care, and welfare. So, there is no definite answer to the issue concerning the effect on economy because of the fluctuating pros and cons.
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She states that in 2018, the number of people crossing were as low as what is seen in the line graph in the early 1970s. As 2019 started to come, the number of people crossing started to increase due to the violence children and families started to encounter in Central America (Living Undocumented). They also discuss different laws which have affected these immigrants’ lives. One includes how a new law was passed in the last few months of 2018 to detain pregnant women as well. One of the immigrants, Amadou, was detained and had a lawyer named Julie Nemecek. She talks about how Mauritania has the highest slavery rate in the entire world (Living Undocumented). She includes this statistic to prove that ICE tries to do everything in their power to send these family members back to their countries which are threats to their lives. Returning to that country is a death sentence for them.
Topic: immigration

Every day, Americans who fought so diligently for the right to live in and be free to do whatever they pleased in such a great, amazing, un country, have to deal with a nagging and annoying pest that feeds on everything they have struggled to construct, Immigrants. Those good for nothing, poor, diseased, uncultured, dirty swines have no place in any part of the world, much less America, but here they are. They usually try to travel in packs of 5 or 6, trying to stay under the radar and try to stay undetected, but recently almost all of Latin America tried to come over to the US, almost about 10 bajillion if my calculations and sources are correct, and seek “asylum” because their birth country is never good enough for them.
Topic: immigration

They constantly try to find excuses to say that their country isn’t suitable for them to live in. It’s always either too poor or lacks the resources that any good country would be able to offer their people, but as everyone can tell, they’re not even remotely close to being good countries, let alone be able to care for their nasty citizens and provide for their needs, or it’s being attacked by someone or a group of people, whether it be their own president sending in troop to kill his people, a narco affiliated gang, a government affiliated gang, a rebel group or just because someone chose to go out and start killing people.
Topic: immigration

Its citizens fear for their lives every day, having to fight through hunger that may last up to 5 to 6 days when their are able to obtain enough money to buy even just a piece of moldy, stale bread, but things in America aren’t that great either. The other day, they had announced that they would start raising the prices on cars by about 2% of what they’re priced now. Now Americans will have to work harder at the jobs they work at, even though they hate working in any job and only want to live off they pension that they receive from their jobs who reward them for working so, so hard. Americans struggle with many things as well, but that doesn’t mean that they should go out and try to invade other territories that weren’t meant to inhabit such “humans”, especially ones that take for granted what that country has tried to give them. They have helped immigrants that have had the privilege to be allowed into or allowed to stay into the country countless programs and funds that will help them start up their life and get them get what it is they so forcefully came after. An example being DACA, a nation-wide program that helped and is helping students get to their goal of actually doing something with their lives, not just grow up on the streets selling drugs and raping innocent people. They are allowed to believe that the job and life they struggled so hard for will make them anything more than just the hopeful, crusty, dusty immigrants they were born to be. All of these are just plain facts that I’m stating and all of this is just the tip of the iceberg because one can expect just about anything from these immigrants and after gathering all the information I could and talking it over with some very wise and intelligent folk up north, the parents of our great and powerful leader, Dictator Donald J. Trump, or how most oblivious people call him, President Trump, and we have all agreed that there is only one very substantial solution to this whole mess that started so long ago.
Topic: immigration

The one and only solution to end all of this madness is to,…. kill any and all of those unwanted immigrants who have made of America a sad, drained, infest hell house of what it was once before. There are many ways to go about enacting such a plan. One could easily fool them into coming to America, seeing as they are fresh out of the Rio Grande and will still be too tired from swimming across it, round them up in a secluded area, such as Texas or California, seeing as how they just love protecting immigrants from the law, and completely obliterate them, whether it be with bombs, poison gas, ground troops, et cetera. Now I know that there will be lots of criticism following my opinion, but as we get the plan rolling and things start being put into perspective, everyone who wants this country to be as great as it once in the old glory days, will help aid in the mass genocide of immigrants who try to enter onto our sacred land. Americans must act now and show of their American pride by showing everyone that no one who tries to step onto their land will survive. Forces from around the country must be gathered and people should be aware of what’s going to happen to anyone who is a natural, pure blooded American who can clearly show they contain 0 trace of any type of non-American blood bond. We should have to live with such scumbags, but now with my thoughts in the open, people will soon learn that I speak only the overwhelming truth and that I must in order to complete my vision of seeing American become even greater again. Some people with try to defend the intruders stating that it is morally wrong, but if they had just stayed where they were born, none of this would have to be employed. People must understand that living in such a country requires of them to participate in any circumstance that must be enacted to ensure the benefits that we so rightfully deserve.
Topic: immigration

As we view this problem through a bigger lens, we see that immigration actually is becoming a huge problem for many different reasons such as over population, excessive violence, or increases in drug sales/ usage. We must take action now and if not with the plan I have offered as a solution to such an urgent matter, then something must be thought of and fast because the numbers are rising and purging some people out isn’t something that’s too far fetched to not be considered. Another idea being that we waste more of our resources to send them back home and increase our security measures to make sure that they stay out of our borders, schools, jobs, and other places where they have taken over. As i lay this collection of thoughts and considerations before the people, let us remember the motto that we all must recite in order to truly understand the real “American Dream”, ” Let’s make America great again.”
Topic: immigration

My mother, born and grew on a ranch in Michoacan, Mexico. She is the oldest of 6 sons and daughters. She only attended school till the sixth grade. Because she was the oldest, she was expected to care for her younger siblings and run the ranch. At 17 she felt if she really wanted to support her family, she should get a good job. That only meant one thing, to cross the U.S./Mexico border and work in the United States. She had the “American Dream”, (the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative).
Topic: immigration

Meanwhile, she crossed through the desert on foot. She traveled with two groups, she walked in the second group behind the first. Once in the United States, the first group was caught by immigration officials. She ran and hid as fast as she could in a backyard of a San Diego residence. She was so grateful to have not been caught. Later she met up with the person her cousin had sent and headed for Los Angeles. Years later she met, married my father, and earned her citizenship.
Topic: immigration

Since the our president was elected in 2016, Donald Trump has made a couple of big moves on immigration, like the refugee and travel ban executive order as well as his administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. Trump’s ban indefinitely suspends the issuance of immigrant and nonimmigrant visas to applicants from the Muslim-majority countries Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria and Yemen; plus North Korea and Venezuela. Our vote in this year’s midterms won’t directly affect current immigration law. Congress has control over most immigration-related regulations because they are matter of federal law. In the midterms, we are casting our ballot for members of Congress. They are the ones who handle immigration law, so when we vote in the midterms, we are voting for the people who create those laws and regulations. We must vote for senators who will support immigrants in the U.S.
Topic: immigration

My vote matters because my mom and 37,000,000 legal immigrants that migrated the U.S. since 2000, want a better a better life for their families. They came as far as to migrate to a different country to work, risking everything to support their loved ones. My vote matters because an end needs to be put to these nonsense travel bans. My vote matters because there needs so be change in the way immigrants are treated. My vote matters because our xenophobic president must realize that hard-working immigrants are the heart and soul of this country.
Topic: immigration

President Trump’s plan includes full border security (Corasaniti, 2016) that could make connections back to countries south of the border harder to access, and changes to the legal immigration system via the RAISE Act that would half the amount of green cards given to applicants (Congress.gov, 2017) making it even harder for undocumented Hispanic immigrants to become legal. Also, his administration is pushing for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, including Hispanics (Gass, 2015), and ICE raids are being conducted that are arresting people in their homes and at their places of work (Hauslohner, 2019).
Topic: immigration

Each year, 10 percent of all births or almost 400,000 children born are to those who are unlawfully in the United States. (“Why We Should Have a Debate on Birthright Citizenship.”) These children automatically receive many of the same rights and privileges as United States citizens despite their parents’ illegal status. Birthright citizenship also grants these individuals billions of dollars in federal benefits each year in the form of Social Security, Medicare, Healthcare, refundable tax credits, nutrition and housing assistance, and eventually work consent. (“Why We Should Have a Debate on Birthright Citizenship.”) This practice also serves the parents of these children as well. Since they are the wards of these children, they will unlikely be deported and will continue, in many cases, to receive many of the benefits our country provides.