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Book ReviewChapter 11: Barons and RebelsThis chapter is all about the Railroad Corporations that took over for profit yet made a low-wage job. The Transcontinental Railroad was a continuation railroad of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads commissioned by the Railroad Corporations. The company creates railroads to America and promises greener pasture and full citizenship for immigrants. The construction was done by thousands of Irish and Chinese nationals for 4 years and only to be paid with 1 to 2 dollars a day. Railroad corporations led to a low wage jobs which then led the workers being upset and immigrants who came to US to work, but ended up in the worse conditions working for Railroad Corporations.
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This addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves after the Civil War. On 1870, John D. Rockefeller made secret agreements with Railroad Corporations in order to ship his oils across America in exchange for money. His action closes the opposing or competitor oils business. This was the start of Rockefeller Oil Monopoly. In 1872, Andrew Carnegie traveled to London where he saw the new Bessemer Method (mass production of steel) and brought it to United States where he established a million dollar steel plant.
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Using more intelligence such as federal agents and troopers, is a way that all of this effort can stop certain crimes, immigration, closed down of the border such as other problems. Enforcing several agencies to add more federal agents to the U.S border patrols will more than likely help in immigration problems. President Donald Trump as well Senators and other important people have been struggling and having problems with all this migrant caravan crisis in our border. President Donald Trump demanded a 5 billion bill in order to build the wall.
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For instance, Trump had to shut down the government for 21 days. All federal agents were without pay, they had to struggle and pay their own essentials. Finally, Senate and House came with a bill deal to reopen the government after Trump have his speech and approved a temporary solution. About 800,000 federal agents got paid and kept on track with their payments. While reopening the federal government the border wall money was not discussed nor it was part of the deal. Democrats and Republicans will work together in order to come witha conclusion about Trump funding 5 billion dollars to build the border wall.
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Republicans such as Democrats overturned President Trump’s declaration of national emergency in South Texas. Supposedly, Trump had exceeded his powers trying to build a border wall over Congress objections. Therefore, Congress voted for first time which would block a presidential emergency declaration. Which one of the core promises animated Trump’s political rise. Also, Trump has a immigration policy called zero tolerance, which means the separation of children and adults who cross the border illegally. While on Friday afternoon, U.S Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered to federal prosecutors on southwest border to adopt the policy zero tolerance. During that same week President Donald Trump, attacked Democrats for supporting what he said catch and release policies. Were illegals individuals, apprehended by Border Patrol and released while they wait for their court date. Therefore, it is unclear what the mandate will do with current immigration court cases. According, to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, more than 648,000 cases backup due to not enough Immigration Attorneys as well with so many illegals overwhelmed coming in seeking for asylum. To add more, due to Trump’s administration more than 2,400 children were separated from their families and placed in a shelter and safe place.
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Also, Democrats are trying to convince President Donald Trump and other important political party lines that there’s no crisis in our southern border. This consist, because Democrats say building the Border Wall, is a big waste of money and it’s not helpful for our community. While Republicans try to convince President Trump and other political parties that there’s crisis in our southern border. For example, Border Patrol as well with Law Enforcement agencies have been encountering numerous of illegals and drugs crossing into the U.S. Within the last 24 hours Border Patrols arrested more than 1,000 illegals. Within a month in RGV Sector law enforcement officials arrested more than 14,000 undocumented persons therefore, 2,900 unaccompanied children. Yet, Democrats and other party lines say there is no crisis in our border.
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We need the border wall this would reduce the percentage of illegals crossing into the U.S. Also there has been several delays in our southern border. For example, when U.S Citizens and residents cross into Mexico when they are returning back they experiencing up to 4 to 5 hours of wait line. There’s people from the caravan in several port of entries throughout South Texas seeking for asylum. How would it affect us as citizens if the border shut down. For instance, in economic about billions of dollars, other legal products brought from Mexico and as well people who work over in the U.S. Citizens are not satisfied on what’s going on our border. Democrats are not pleased with President Donald Trump building the wall while, Republicans are satisfied with Trump’s decision. So many problems are occuring in our community such as around the world if political parties and and public officials would come up with some solutions, it wouldn’t be a mess how it is right now.
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Political opinions and parties lines are primarily what the government consist of. In order to reduce the amount of immigrants and drugs coming into the U.S. Is by adding more law enforcement , tactical equipment, enforcing more laws and over all for Congress and Trump to come up with a solution. The media and other people are discussing how we need the border wall and how our community is getting over populated by people coming into the U.S illegally. The White House needs to come up with a solution in order to stop all the problems.
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Student NameProfessor NameCourse CodeDateSports: An Economic and Socially Uniting ForceSports unite people and nations worldwide by giving them a healthy outlet to work towards. Furthermore, sports give billions of people something to root for, whether it is a small town that is rooting for their local baseball team or an entire nation cheering for their national curling team in the Winter Olympics. Within sports, things such as race or political creed matter little, as only individual and/or team excellence matters.
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Overall, sports are a tool for social and economic development because of the way it encourages mutual and international cooperation and competition. Some nations want to be the best in the world and use that for political gain, while other nations use their own natural resources in order to help fuel sport-related tourism. The influence of sports is everywhere, and this essay will explore how sports brings communities together, how it brings nations and societies together, and how in turn sports are used to fuel social and economic development.
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Sports have traditionally brought people together. An example of this would be regarding Canadian immigrants playing sports, which was an important cultural practice for immigrants trying to preserve or create a sense of ethnocultural identity or solidarity (Joseph 29). Furthermore, in order to help a flagging community of people, research has shown that restoring cultural continuity’ is at the heart of the healing process (Kope, and Arellano 396). In order to fit into the communities that they are trying to integrate to, immigrants would pick up the sports that their new countrymen were playing.
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“Journey beyond the Stars” which is written by Deepak Narang Sawhney, describes Los Angeles with a paradox. On the one hand, it appears as a world city, the capital of the First World, on the other hand as the metropolis of the Third World. All the chapters clearly describe the real conditions of Los Angeles and its surroundings.Los Angeles, considers to be one of the most multicultural cities in the world. Being major global metropolise, one can visibly see the extremes of wealth and socioeconomic inequality.
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We could say that it is a land, where homeless camps and multi-dozen million dollar homes sit side by side. There are many communities of great wealth, such as Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood and Malibu. While, there are areas populated by immigrants who struggle to get by. Deepak Narang Sawhney gives the reader a visual understanding of how it looks like across the city, when extreme wealth and poverty mix with each other.
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Many Americans and foreigners see Los Angeles in different ways, depending on influences of mass media, travel experiences, doing business, temporary living or virtually imagining Los Angeles from Hollywood movies. Foreigners, for instance, who are brainwashed with Hollywood movies, imagine Los Angeles as a great place to achieve the American Dream, on the contrary, conservative Americans see Los Angeles nothing more than a sanctuary city full of poverty and crime. The author shows, that Los Angeles is both the home of wealthy people and many immigrants, who try to find their part of the American Dream.
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According to Deepak Narang The American dream is realized, experienced, and lost in the city of Los Angeles. It means that the American dream is not achievable for everyone. The American Dream may seem nearly impossible for some citizens but it just depends on the person’s own definition of The American Dream. There are so many people who strive for that American Dream including immigrants who travel to find that dream but as they arrive they face to many documents and discrimination just to be named a U.S. citizen. In some respects, Los Angeles is the most global city in the world. It always keeps up with the changing faces of globalization around the world. Marketing and advertising plays a great role in the life of Los Angeles. The city is not as rich as portrayed in the entertainment media. It is just good at selling itself to the world via promotion, marketing, and e-commerce.
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Los Angeles has been putting up neighborhood signs since 1963, but officially it has no neighborhoods at all. In his essay “Naming Los Angeles,” Rosten Woo asks the reader to imagine they have a set of crime statistics for all of Los Angeles”how would they summarize the findings? If your data was for Chicago, your task would be simple. The city publishes a definitive map of all the neighborhoods, so you could tally the number of crimes that happened within the boundaries of a given neighborhood and list the number. No one has to debate whether or not something happened in Irving Park or Avondale, it’s there on the map. But your data is for Los Angeles. So you’re left with a mishmash of geographies that you might be able to organize the information into: zip codes, police precincts, community planning areas, census tracts”none of these mean much to most people. You might know your own zip code, but you probably don’t have any idea of how big it is or where the next one begins. If your data was for New York, you could say something definitive about a borough. But even the broadest regions of Los Angeles have trouble finding a firm definition. The Eastside? The Westside? Forget it. Woo explicates not only the process of naming Los Angeles but also writes the recent rise in the names of new districts across the city. He recounts true-life stories about neighborhood namings and renamings, and how important those names are to the residents of those places. For example, when the city creates an official process for neighborhood name changes the residents start to collect thousands of signatures and in order to be considered for a change they need to collect about 5000.  He also notes how areas like San Fernando Valley and South Los Angeles have an ever-changing number of specific neighborhoods depending on who you ask.
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Some residents like to be associated with specific neighborhoods for status purposes, whether it is a hipster from Silver Lake or a poet from Leimert Park. The example Woo uses is a resident that tells people they are from Sherman Oaks, but they are actually from Van Nuys.  There are people, who grew up east of Western in Korea town but would always tell others that they are from Hancock Park. In conclusion ‘Journey beyond the Stars” by Deepak Narang Sawhney reveals the third world geographies, cultures, and populations of Los Angeles. It examines the social, cultural, political, and literary climate of the city by bringing together diverse responses. It shows the paradoxes and ironies of the global city. The paradox of increasing homelessness and rising prosperity has finally got Los Angeles talking about inequality. It means the middle class disappears as the wealth gap grows. In a word Los Angeles is portrayed as ‘an epic tale of disharmony, territorial conquest, and the attempted extermination of original people “.
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In fact, the phrase L.A. is a city of immigrants typically excludes white people from its imagination of place, casting them as neutral and natural occupants of the land. It is also a city of the indigenous and a city of settler colonialists; a city of the formerly enslaved; a city of refugees; of migrants, and all kinds of Americans. The city always keeps itself up to date with the changes that occur around the world. Foreigners believe that Los Angeles is the right place to achieve their American Dream. In his essay “Naming Los Angeles,” Rosten Woo makes clear that maps have also literally defined the city for its residents. Woo reviews some of the byzantine politics of place-naming, where the line separating Van Nuys from Sherman Oaks may be arbitrary but still influences real estate prices and community identities. A lot of residents in Los Angeles want to be associated with specific neighborhoods for status purposes.
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Refugee crises have increasingly become a problem in today’s modern day society. There are several reasons that have contributed to this situation namely global inequalities, people fleeing persecution and regimes, people fleeing from violence and outbreak of wars. Recent examples include the Kosovan refugees who were forced from their homes by the conflict with the Balkans; Columbian refugees on exile due to drug syndicates; genocide in Rwanda; Afghan, Iraq and Iran refugees fleeing regimes etcetera.
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Before the Sangatte camp was opened, refugees were sleeping on beaches, parks and on the streets. The sangatte camp was previously a warehouse for equipments during the construction of the Eurotunnel which was later converted into a camp to hold refugees. The effect of this was that many began to target the tunnel itself hiding and boarding trains heading for Britain and other European Countries. Mass illegal immigration began to the United Kingdom of which the Eurotunnel prevented 18, 500 of them from reaching Britain between January 2001 to June 2001. In January 2001, gangs of Romanians were detained for tampering with railway signals to stop trains so that they and other asylum seekers could climb aboard the trains.
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A main consequence of the refugee situation which has aggravated a crises is the resultant clashes between ethnic groups amongst refugees example Afghan and Kurdish refugees. In April 2001, an Iraqi Kurd was stabbed and left to die when he was involved in a fight with other Kurds. In May 2002, a riot broke out at Sangatte Camp following announcements to tighten security due to problems caused by refugees at the Channel tunnel. The Red cross who were there to help refugees and provide assistance were eventually forced to withdraw from Sangatte and the Camp was eventually closed down by March 2003.
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Macaedonia and Albania were countries which have had to deal with an influx of refugees at some stage from Kosovo. Refugees continued to leave Kosovo for Macedonia, where there were received by host families. Relief efforts were made such provisions for camps etcetera. Lack of co-ordination and coherence caused by excessive numbers of refugees in Macedonia and Albania led to desperate overcrowding, unpleasant conditions, threats of diseases, and threats for the welfare of the refugees. Relocation and evacuation to neighbouring countries became inevitable.
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According to Mr Guy Goodwin-Gill, “refugees have come to be seen as objects or problems rather than individuals with rights”. The result of the refugee crises is that many countries particularly wealthy western societies seek to deter asylum seekers and migrants. Detention camps are becoming increasingly adopted. Similarly, Rachael Reilly conceded that “European Countries, as well as North America and Australia have systematically diluted their responsibilities towards refugees over the past ten to fifteen years”. Many also argue that the rights of refugees are being compromised and encroached upon due to factors, some of which include “offshore-processing” of refugees- a process in which foreign governments geographically closer to States with refugee crises take in those fleeing to Great Britain in exchange for financial compensation; imposition of visa requirements; refusal of entry of asylum seekers in cases of generalizes civil conflict such as Columbia; the transfer of the responsibility for protection of refugees onto poorer States in Europe where less protection can be afforded.
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An innovative move by the United Nations is on the agenda for implementation. It will seek to respond to criticism on the slow reaction to refuge crises. The United Nations plan rapid reaction aid which will involve aid workers who will be deployed to attend refugee emergencies. The purpose of this is to provide some initial protection for civilians fleeing internal conflicts who are susceptible to violent attacks and killings. This move is being supported by the united Kingdom, United States of America and some Scandinavian countries. These countries are prepared to finance the project and get it up and running. The idea behind the project is to deter violence from the perpetrators who will know that their actions are being watched through the mere presence of the deployed workers. It is anticipated that a list of workers will be made available in ninety-six hours in these times of emergencies.
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In conclusion, the trend for refugees seeking protection away from their homes is seen as a dilemma in some western states including Britain. There is a conscious effort to protect rights of these individuals but the difficulty arises where this has to be balanced with the right to protect its territory. Measures have been introduced which arguably encourage xenophobia and hostility to these refugees. Poorer neighbouring states, which were initially quite welcoming of refugees, are now being squeezed beyond capacity and their citizens are becoming increasingly xenophobic. National states and governments including international communities that aim to address the current trend of refugee crises are drawing up measures that are innovative. It has now been recognised that root causes such as poverty and global inequalities should be identified and corrected where possible prior to escalation to emergency situations leading to people fleeing their countries. Richer Countries in the West are seeking to address poverty in third world countries and summits on the topic are being held in order to come up with a long standing solution that will fundamentally serve to potentially benefit all nations as a whole.
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Trafficking and exploitation affect also the nation because immigrants smuggle people into it. Many people every year are smuggled into the countries and most of them have no legal documents or have their papers and identification documents taken by those who smuggle them in, especially women and children. Exploiters can force women to do illegal jobs under payment and under their working conditions. The young children are traded in the market for adoption with mafias coordinating the activities and the majority of them are trafficked to be sold off to those people who are not interested in going through the process of legal adoption.
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The competition between the illegal immigrants and the citizens of the country on the job opportunities that were available and that happens because the illegal immigrants accept less than the required minimum payment and do the job without asking other benefits such as insurance. Another thing that we have to notice here is that illegal immigrants accept to do a job that other citizens are not willing to do, that’s why the economy depends on them. All these results negative to the citizens because the employers prefer to hire someone with low payment and without insurance covering.
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It is very difficult to find a solution for the illegal immigration but there are some methods of reducing it. One method is to building security barriers on the borders to prevent immigrants from entering the country illegally. The borders, sea and land should be checked more strictly. The police can play an important role by arresting those immigrants when they are found to be in the country illegally without the proper documents and send them back to their countries. Also police should arrest those people who help them to pass illegally in the country. The national authorities must be always informed in cases that illegal immigrants committed a crime, when they destroy properties or when they use violence over people. Employers should not hire any immigrant without verifying that his documents are legal but this is difficult and the reason is that employers prefer to hire those people because they pay less money.
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Increasing border security has been an ongoing discussion in the United States for many decades, particularly in recent months since the 2016 election year. The elected president, Donald Trump, used this matter to garner supporters during his campaigning, and since elected, has still been a proponent with constructing a border wall between Mexico and the U.S. There is a notion from this perspective that with a higher and stronger border, undocumented immigration will halt and supposedly will allow America to be “great again”.
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The president elect initially sought for the funding of the wall to come from Mexico, nevertheless, that funding has now shifted to the U.S. Congress paying for it and claiming that Mexico in some form or another will reimburse the costs of the construction. Increasing border security through this “wall” however, will bring even greater conflicting issues such as environmental damage, increase the dangers of the lives of immigrants when attempting to cross, and unreasonable costs to create and sustain this wall.
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Securing the Unites States border between Mexico has been a developing matter through history since the Treaty of Guadalupe was signed in 1848 that allowed the acquisition of new territory and the Rio Bravo becoming the political border line between these two countries. Movement through this border has always been present, shifting in its increase due to economic hardships whether in Mexico or United States such as the bracero program where the U.S. requested help from Mexican farmers to work their lands due to shortage of labor because of their involvement in World War II [1]. However, Mexican immigration did not end once the war was done. President Eisenhower administration executed the Operation Wetback, “a governmental campaign that forcibly repatriated 1 to 2 million Mexicans [whether undocumented or not]”[2]. Despite the force, immigration from Mexico and Central America has yet continued. Before the 1990’s, immigration crossings in the U.S – Mexico border had waves coming in through urban crossing points such as El Paso – Ciudad Juarez, San Diego – Tijuana, McAllen – Reynosa, etc. Nonetheless, the United States government implemented fence-buildings, closing off these urban crossings points, influencing a change of routes into dangerous points such as Arizona’s desert[3]. With putting up barriers at these points, “deaths in the border region have increased nearly 150% as migrants enter through more remote and rugged terrain” in the last decade and half [4]. Dead bodies of unknown immigrants have been found throughout these harsh geographic areas. As depicted in the picture, these graves show the sacrifice these immigrants will put their lives in[5]. The construction of this proposed wall, will unquestionably further the risks that immigrants will challenge when trying to cross to the United States, still placing themselves through deserts, underground tunnels, and even sea. These environmental situations have been counterproductive to the “securing”, alternatively, creating inhumane barriers for immigrants whose goal is to have a better life on the other side of the border.
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The proposed wall not only will create needless dangers to humans crossing attempts, but an environmental effect for the flora and fauna found and living in this region. Wildlife had not been thought through when these fences were implemented having to only take account humans as the focus for these constructions, being “motivated by security concerns that are considered paramount over most other considerations”[6]. Since the border fences and security of the 1990’s, immigration crossings did not decrease but rather shifted from urban areas to the remote areas where the ecology is most concentrated[7]. Research has shown that the fence border that is suited between Mexico and the United States has indeed “disrupted movements and distribution of [for instance], animals such as the ferruginous pygmy owl and bighorn sheep and could isolate small populations of large mammals in Arizona, including black bears and pumas”[8]. By building the wall, it will disrupt evermore the ecology, inhibiting wildlife to move naturally within its natural habitat[9]. Environmental activists and communities have been vocal over the repercussions that the wall will bring to the environment and the dangers that the threatened and endangered species will have to face from this development. Species such as the ocelot and jaguarondi (wild cats) that “are tropical species at the northern limit of their natural habitat range, the barrier would …certainly expedite the disappearance of these species from the U.S.”[10]. However, the Trump administration has ignored these environmental consequences in recent news. Even so this avoidance has been seen during the early 2000’s, where “federal legislation adopted [to sideline] all environmental laws such as the Endangered Species Act” for the sake of not disrupting the “construction of the barriers”[11]. Protecting the environment and preserving species in their natural habitats allows for the ecosystem to flow accordingly, if disrupted, humans will be effected since they’re dependent as well to these natural habitats. It would be selfish and vicious for humans who coexist with these variety of species to construct an artificial border that will knowingly harm them.
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The wall project that will stretch 2,000 miles will evidently create more damage but as well be costly and ineffective[12]. $21.6 billion has been a recent cost projection for the construction, with perhaps putting the United States into more debt[13]. This billion-dollar wall will not stop undocumented immigration since those who enter the United States come in with visa and outstay their visit, [outnumbering] those who cross the border without permission[14]. This gives an example of the forthcoming ineffectiveness of this wall that these billions of dollars will go into when comparing it to today’s border fence that hasn’t necessarily stopped undocumented immigrants from coming from the south of the border. Another matter as well, as Josiah McC Heyman explains in their journal, “human smugglers have apparently kept ahead of the government, despite the post-1993 tactical shifts, added technology, and the buildup of forces”[15]. Such as the picture above, these human smugglers or coyotes as they have been named as, have found ways in the last two decades with smuggling unauthorized immigrants into the United States, despite the increase of money and labor that has been put for the “securing” of the U.S. – Mexico border since its construction in 1993[16]. Immigrant individuals or families will give thousands of dollars to these coyotes to sneak them across the border, putting their lives into these individuals’ hands for a better life than the one they had in their home country. In addition, patrolling the extent of this 2,000-mile border wall will need additional border patrol agents. The Trump Administration is considering hiring another 5,000 agents, significantly increasing their budget to hire, train and maintain these agents, with an estimate of $328 million for 2017 and 1.884 billion dollars for the year of 2018[17]. Hiring these much personnel will not come easy, these patrol agent applicants must go through extensive training and tough exams where hiring them can take about seven months[18]. With shortening and easing the processes, however, could do more harm than good since they will not have the adequate training to patrol rough and dangerous terrain. Thus, building this wall as Trump has been consistently vocal about doing will only bring predicaments to the United States economic condition, since this proposed funding will not bring much triumph with stopping undocumented immigrants from coming into the country. With this wall, it would only reflect irrational money waste to the eyes of the national and international public, disregarding other departments such as education and health that would most benefit and outweigh the 20-billion-dollar funding for the greater future of the country.
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Most undocumented immigrants who are coming from Mexico, Central America and other South American countries are trying to flee either poverty or violence or even both. It is human nature for people to want to push forward with their lives to seek a better future for themselves and/or families even if it means putting their lives at risk for days in the harsh terrain that this border is located at. Building this massive wall will not stop immigrants from trying to go over, under, or around it, but rather do more harm to the environment, economy and people. The “American Thing Do” has been to spend billions of dollars to not necessarily “secure” our border, but rather to stop people from seeking the American Dream. This nation has been built by immigrants and no shape and form will people stop immigrating to this melting pot of a nation. It is in the nation’s interests to change its perspective on immigration, a comprehensive immigration reform and assistance to these underdeveloped countries would do more justice for its self and other countries.
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Immigration has been part of legislation since the founding of the nation. In 1790, Congress established a process saying ones that are born in the United States become citizens automatically. The first federal law was passed in 1875 limiting immigration qualification in order to prohibit the entry of criminals and prostitutes. Currently, there are two forms of immigration: permanent admission and temporary admission. The ones that are allowed permanent admission are granted permanent resident and a green card. Permanent residents are allow working in the United States and are able to file for citizenship.
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In 2004, there were about 946,000 people that were admitted to the United States as a permanent resident. Temporary admission is for foreigners who want entry to the United States for a limited of time on behalf of a specific purpose such as visiting families, tourism, temporary work, or school. These people are classified as “nonimmigrants”. Temporary admissions are not allowed to apply for United States citizenship. If they want to apply for citizenship through naturalization, they need to submit an additional application for permanent resident before they can do so.
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Lastly, by letting people from foreign countries immigrate to United States, it allows us to become a more diverse nation. Even though United States has goals for immigrations, there are still many rules and regulations involved; not anyone can just enter United States and become permanent or temporary residents. United States may deny visas or admission on either the temporary admission or permanent admission for many reasons. Some reasons may be because of criminal records, health records, or terrorism concerns. Immediate family members of a United States citizens are allow immigrating to the United States without many limitations. Citizens of the United States are allowed to sponsor relatives for permanent residents under the family-sponsored preference program.
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According to Garnett Hardin in his paper called “Lifeboat Ethnics: The Case against Helping the Poor”, he thinks that United States should simply not provide aid to people in the poor countries. Hardin started out his essay with a metaphor comparing the earth to a grand spaceship. Hardin said, “Since we all share life on this planetâ€¦ no single person or institution has the right to destroy, waste, or use more than a fair share of its resources” (402). Hardin is more practical rather than liberal. He imagined United States as a lifeboat and the people that are out in the ocean are the ones that want to immigrate to United States. Hardin says, “â€¦we must recognize the limited capacity of any lifeboat. A nation’s land has a limited capacity to support a population and as the current energy crisis has shown us, in some ways we have already exceeded the carrying capacity of our land” (403). The way that Hardin think is correct. United States have more people being born each day then people dying; if United States accepts anyone as an immigrant, the nation would not have enough land to support them. Furthermore, there are many lazy people in this world. As what Hardin was saying, let’s assume that we have a fifty people capacity on our lifeboat. To be generous, we can make room for ten more making the total capacity of sixty people. If we can make room for ten more, then we would need to make room for the rest of them also. Pretty soon, the lifeboat is going to overfill and everyone can possibly drown. To make that short, if we take one person into the nation, we would need to take the rest. There is no point letting them into our nation if they are not going to make any contributions. I believe that United States should only take immigrants that can contribute to the nation. Currently, there are many permanent residents in this nation that does not make any contribution whatsoever. Many immigrants have the mentality that if their relatives in the United States are able to sponsor them to come over, then they can sponsor them for the rest of their lives. In my opinion, ones that have an education, have a specific reason to come over to the United States, and ones that can help out the nation are allow becoming permanent residents in the United States.
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In John Tierney’s paper, “Angels in America”, he believes that the United States immigration policy is too strict causing many immigrants to come illegally. Tierney used his grandfather and an illegal immigrant, Angel Espinoza, as examples. Tierney thinks it is unfair that Espinoza is not allowed to apply for citizenship while others can. Tierney continued onto explaining Espinoza’s situation. Espinoza left farm just like Tierney’s grandfather and came illegally to the United States with little education. Later, he married an American descendant from his native country just like what Tierney’s grandfather did. Tierney’s grandfather applied for United States citizenship afterward and got approved while Espinoza did not. Espinoza was once caught at the border and violated the law which made him ineligible for a green card and permanent residency. Tierney goes on to explaining how Espinoza and his grandfather both worked hard, chasing the American’s dream, to support their families. Espinoza had to go to work every day with the fear of being departed from the United States for working illegally but his grandfather did not had to go through that. Tierney believes that if one is willing to work to achieve their goals then they should be treated equally. Tierney said, “I’d like to see Republicans on Capitol Hill explain to Espinoza why he’s less deserving than their immigrant ancestors, but that’s probably too much to expect. Espinoza has a simpler wish: ‘I would like them to tell my American daughter why her father can’t stay with her’” (704). I personally disagree with Tierney’s idea of immigration. Just because one is hard working does not necessarily mean they deserve to be a United States citizen. I believe that in order to become a United States citizen, one must have a moral character, knowledge of the United States history and government, and willingness to support the United States politically and militarily. Because Espinoza was caught at the border at one point in time, he does not have the moral character. Tierney stated, “It’s been argued that Mexicans are different from past immigrants because they’re closer to home and less likely to assimilate. Compared with other immigrants today, they’re less educated, and their children are more likely to get poor grades and drop out of school” (703). As I stated before, if one does not have an education, they are less likely able to contribute to the United States and have knowledge of the history and government.
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There are over a million immigrants that enter the United States legally or illegally each year. Having immigrants allow employers to have cheap labor but in the meantime, as David Masci stated, “American workers suffer because the newcomers take jobs and suppress wage levels.” Many people also argued that native-born people are unwilling to do low-wage jobs but that has been proven wrong. According to Mark Krikorian, an executive director of the Center of Immigration Studies, said in the article “Debate Over Immigration”, “In parts of the country with few immigrants, low-wage jobs still get done, and by native-born people.” Americans are not unwilling to do such jobs, but we prefer not to do so. If these immigrants did not take these low-wage positions, native-born Americans will be forced to take these types of jobs. Krikorian also said, “Employers could find Americans to do these jobs if they wanted to, but they’d have to provide training and raise wages to do so.” It is just easier to allow immigrants to take these positions. There are also arguments stating that immigrants are over-crowding the United States and “preventing immigrants already here from assimilating into American society” (Masci). Masci also said that immigrants came to United States in the past because they want to be here, but currently, immigrants immigrate here for job opportunities and the concept of freedom. A lot of immigrants from foreign countries have the mentality that if they come to the United States and not able to find a job then they can get governmental aid such as Welfare. I believe that these are the type of people that are not allowed to immigrate to the United States. They do not truly love the country, but instead they want to come here for the freedom and for a better environment.
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In conclusion, immigration is a problem in the United States. People from foreign countries want to come to the United States for freedom and job opportunities. With all these people coming over and taking jobs from the current Americans, it causes the citizens to suffer. The extra people that are immigrating to the United States are overcrowding the nation. It is making it harder for new immigrants to adapt to and experience the American society when there are so many new immigrants coming into the nation each year. United States need a more strict immigration policy in order to keep out all the criminals and prevent terrorism. I highly agree with Garnett Hardin’s view of immigration where we should keep out as many immigrants as possible, and I strongly disagree with Tierney’s view of immigration. He thinks that the policy right now is too strict causing people to come illegally. Without a strict policy, our nation would be in more danger due to criminals and terrorism.
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The California Gold Rush brought in more, and others came later, lured by the prospect of making a better living here. Sometimes the Mexicans were invited, as they were during World War II by a treaty that allowed an unlimited number of temporary workers to fill agricultural jobs here. By the end of the program in 1964, more than 4.5 million Mexicans had come to work temporarily in the United States, far exceeding the number of permanent legal immigrants.
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The U.S. government has cracked down over the years. It has erected barbed wire fences and high metal walls along the long border. It has raided businesses that purposely employ illegal workers in order to pay lower wages. Some of these businesses degrade the immigrant. They make them work endless hours and they do not pay overtime. They offer no insurance benefits and they allow them to live in very poor living conditions. Most of the immigrants do not know their rights. But still the immigrants come, sometimes risking their lives to cross the guarded borders, and when they do, most manage to keep their ties to their families in Mexico, something that few other immigrant groups can do.
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Immigration has lasted for many decades and to this day it shows little sign of slowing down. Immigrants come into the United States from all over the world. They come in for reasons such as to gain a better or higher education. Some come in seeking their fortune. Most immigrants come in to the United States because they have nothing, and only want to be able to survive. This is especially true for Mexican immigrants because of their country’s poverty. “The United States became a poor Mexican’s protection, his escape hatch, his alternative to the submission expected of him in the Old World. This may jar Americans who see the rough lives many immigrants leadâ€¦To the man who departs pesoless yet returns with cash to spend, the United States affords dignity, respect, and sweet vindication.” 1. Sam Quinones, Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007), 8.
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Not every man that leaves their county to seek a better life in the United States of America is able to fulfill their dream. This may be because some U.S. companies may contribute unwittingly to the exploitation of foreign workers. According to an article written in Business Week by Steve Hamm and Moira Herbst, “In some cases companies target young men and women hungry to get well-paid tech jobs in the United States and charge them with exorbitant fees for visas, which is not allowed under American immigration laws. Even after paying, some workers never get a visa; those who do may find that the company they paid has no job for them.” 2 Steve Hamm and Moira Herbst, Business Week: America’s High-Tech Sweat Shops, (The McGraw-Hill Companies, October 12, 2009), p. 034.
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Those immigrants that go back to Mexico to leave their families money and gifts are demonstrating to their people some of the American ways. Millions of money is transported from the U.S. into Mexico every year by illegal immigrants. Yet there are those times when law enforcers humiliate the immigrants by taking their belongings away from them. They take their hard earned money and the immigrants are deported, going home with nothing to show and penny-less as before. Then there are those that not only take their belongings, but also abuse them. The book Tangled Destinies: Latin America & The United States by Coerver and Hall, talks about many incidents dealing with immigration. Two particular incidents really caught my attention. This is what I read, “Two incidents in 1996 brought the tensions over illegal immigration, particularly from Mexico, into high relief. On 1 April 1996, Riverside County sheriff’s deputies in southern California were videotaped beating two unresisting illegal aliens, while others scattered, after an hour-long, high-speed chase. One was a woman, Alicia Sotero Vasquez, who was dragged by her hair out of the pickup in which the illegal’s had been riding. Clearly ill and terrified, she appeared on television the next day with the Mexican consul to protest her treatment. Latino protests in Los Angeles accelerated through the week, culminating but not ending in a 6,000-person protest march in downtown Los Angeles on April 7. He two aliens brought suit against the County, later settling for $740,000.” 3 Don M. Coerver, Linda B. Hall, Tangled Destinies: Latin America & The United States, (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1999), p. 214. The second incident involved seven migrants that were killed in an accident. They were assumed planning to evade the Border Patrol and instead had a taste of bad luck and ended up in a ditch. In neither of these two cases were the victims immediately identified, when to begin with the victims in both cases were supposed to have been “smugglers” that the Border Patrol was searching for. Unfortunately the real smugglers got away while innocent people were brutalized and some even killed. The question is, “Could this have been prevented if handled differently by law officers?”
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The Mexican migrant, also known as a “Wetback,” who only violates the immigration law does not consider himself a criminal or lawbreaker. He is playing a game, trying to outwit the authorities, in hopes of bettering himself. To be sure the stakes are high (his survival), but there are few sanctions. If he stays clear of the drug traffic, stealing, drunkenness, fighting, etc., that is if he does not violate local, state, or other federal laws, the worst that can happen to him when apprehended is a trip to the closest detention center. He is held there for a short period of time and then he is taken back to Mexico. This procedure seems a rather inconvenience because, more than likely, the immigrant heads for the United States once again, in hopes of returning to his job. Knowing the life in the U.S. as compared to the one in Mexico will keep him going back, regardless of the inconvenience. Becoming a wetback has been more the role of the male, since it entails long journeys, working with groups of men, hard labor, and a dangerous undertaking. A small percentage of the aliens who are apprehended are women and children. Unskilled women can work in a variety of jobs in agriculture, as dishwashers in restaurants, as hotel maids, as housemaids, or in custodial jobs. Nevertheless; they are most likely treated like the slaves of our history.
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Why would any individual in Mexico want to play this game? Many times they learn of commuters and they hear the exaggerated stories about the wealth of the United States, the jobs available, the high wages and the ease of crossing the border. It is not difficult to comprehend the poverty-induced desperation which will compel a man to endure whatever hardship and humiliation in order to be able to obtain a few pesos for the sheer survival of his family and himself. Most wetbacks understand that they will not be successful. But when one is at the bottom of the social heap, there is no place or position below. This leaves people with hope. Hope that they can hold on to a job without official detection. Many wetbacks have high aspirations. Some talk of saving money to buy land back in Mexico. Others seek to buy a car and go into the taxi business.