Essays on Illegal Aliens

Is the U.S Southern Border patrol Effective?

Abstract The primary role of the United States border patrol is to detect and prevent illegal aliens from getting into the country. Furthermore, it also plays a big role in preventing human trafficking. All kinds of people with ill intentions do find their way into America. Such individuals are a threat to the security of American citizens. They participate in acts such as smuggling, robberies, homicides and murder cases. In fact, a significant portion of the prison population in America is composed of illegal immigrants. Moreover, these people become a burden to the government since they increase capital expenditures ...

The debate over unauthorized immigration rages in America for reasons of economics, sociology, politics, morality, and more. The United States is a country with a reputation for providing refuge for victims of persecution and economic hardship. The protection of people requiring humanitarian protection has been a critical component of the immigration policy of America. Considered the “land of opportunity”, access to employment, higher standards of living, political asylum, free education and health benefits, and many other factors encourage immigration to the United States. The detriments and benefits of illegal immigration is difficult to document due to an inability to ...

Immigration policy in the U.S has evolved over the years, yet it has failed to address pertinent issues with regard to immigration, especially illegal immigration, which has continued to rise; a new policy approach would be necessary if the problems bedeviling immigration are to be addressed. America’s immigration policy has over the decades been a major public policy issue, especially during the peaks of election cycles. The immigration policy has by no means been harmonized in the country’s history. As a testament to this, the purview of immigration policy has more often than not been left to ...

At its heart what were the basic public policy issues Obama faced in regard to the matter of deporting illegal aliens? With the message from the President of the United States from November 2014, the administration with Obama in head of it, wanted to work on the immigration system of the country and wanted to fix the emerged issues, because the number of illegal immigrants on the territory of USA is quite big. Pew Research Center reports that in the year 2014 the number of aliens who stay on the territory of the United States on illegal basis is ...

Authors’ biography

David Bennion was born in Springville, Utah in the late 1970s. He was educated in Springville high school, later joined the University of Utah, before he joined the New York university school of law. In the university, he studied immigration law and graduated in 2004. Since then he worked with Thompsons Hine as attorney associate between 2004 and 2006 when he joined catholic migration office in Brooklyn as staff attorney where he worked until 2008 (LinkedIn). He later worked with the Nationalities Service Centre in Philadelphia where he worked as a migration attorney until October 2011 when he ventured into ...

Immigration

Immigration

Introduction

Immigration is the process of people moving from their native country to another country for the purpose of establishing residence in that other country. There are two different types of immigration: legal immigration; and illegal immigration. This paper will discuss the process of legally immigrating to the United States; and the process of people immigrating to the United States illegally. The research will provide data to support that legal immigration is an accepted form of moving to the United States from another country. Evidence will also be presented to show that illegal immigration is an unacceptable means of ...

Abstract

The issue on illegal immigrants has always beset the American society. Many immigrants go to America to pursue what most people call as “the American dream”, often believing that America is the “land of milk and honey”. The problem however, is that there a number of immigrants without the necessary legal documents. Two opposing views on whether illegal immigrants should be beneficiaries of government benefits exist. Benefits given to both legal and illegal immigrants include healthcare, education, housing and employment benefits. This paper aims to show the pros and cons of giving benefits to illegal immigrants in the view that ...

The move to grant driver’s licenses to the illegal immigrants was to ensure the safety of the state road and enable security officials to track residents who lived in the shadows. Although the move was regarded as a political strategy, the immigrants advocated the proposal. The congress signed a bill that allowed illegal immigrants to obtain a driver’s license. However, the plan received great criticism from democrats and republicans, as well as lawmakers who argued that it would provide an opening for terrorists. This also made Hillary Clinton, a presidential hopeful to disavow the proposal after waffling on the issue at ...

Executive Action Plan for Immigration Reform

The immigration laws in the United States are in need of an update. This country is originally made up of immigrants, and immigrants today contribute to our economy. Citizens of the United States have varying views on immigration and the laws that should or should not be upheld. Being an immigrant myself, I feel that immigration is of a large to concern to myself and my family. I would not have been able to come here, receive an education and start a family if the immigration laws were stricter. The Republican Party is upset at President Barack Obama for pushing for a ...

Immigration Enforcement

Immigration Enforcement

Arguably, enforcement of immigration regulations and laws has and remains to be an overwhelming task in the context of the United States. This culminates from various factors that have and continue to jeopardize immigration enforcement. One of the primary issues that jeopardize immigration enforcement is the skewed immigration enforcement on the U.S. borders rather than in the whole United States context. Precisely, immigration enforcement has often been focused on the borders at the expense of the interior contexts of the United States. This is evident by more resources in terms of hours and staff that are allotted ...

Introduction

Issues of racism have shaped the American history for quite a long time. For a considerable period now, African-Americans and other minority groups have been the recipients of harsh and discriminatory treatment. Black Americans and colored people have experienced racial profiling in several instances or areas including enforcement of law. In fact, despite some legislations discriminating racial profiling or creating reasoned frameworks for a balanced community, racism still has a space in the current society. Racial profiling refers to the usage of a person’s race or culture by law enforcement workforces as a fundamental factor in determining whether to engross in application. Racial profiling ...

Immigration Laws: Arizona’s immigration wall-constitutionality

Immigration: Countering the threat or breaking the law? The issue of illegal and undocumented aliens in the United has run the gambit of being perceived as a threat to the economic well being of the United States to undermining the national security of the country. The former deals with the threat of a steady stream of undocumented aliens flooding into the United States to seek a better life for themselves and their families, looking for employment to lift themselves from abject poverty; many in the United States see them as “robbers” taking what should be given to native born Americans. The ...

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The immigration debate has been tackled and contested in numerous forums and in the media as well. Many of these issues have centered on the factors of illegal immigrants taking job opportunities from Americans to the issue of the possibility that illegal immigrants pose a heavy expense on state and Federal coffers and the possibility even that illegal immigrants contribute to criminality. More recently, a new angle, or term, has entered the vocabulary of the immigration debate, one that presumes that illegal immigrants have found a new way to claim citizenship in the United States by way of having babies ...

Introduction

The topic surrounding the controversial debate of whether illegal immigrants should benefit from free education offered by the state and federal government has brought about various views presented by scholars, interest groups, governmental and non-governmental organization. Each group is of the view that there are reciprocal effects associated with views of the opposing group. With regard to contrasting views presented by these two groups, the paper seeks to conduct an argumentative analysis from which recommendations will be suggested based on the realistic and impacts the chosen views have on the socio-economic and geo-political status of various states in America.

States should educate children of illegal immigrants

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The article, “15 years on the Bottom Rung” by Anthony DePalma highlights the tough situation faced by modern immigrants from Mexico by contrasting a typical story of one with that of a Greek immigrant who came to the United States illegally in the late 1940s. The article points out that although both the Greek immigrant and the Mexican immigrant came from roughly the same circumstances, the Greek was able to work his way up the economic ladder well into the middle class, while the Mexican immigrant worked for fifteen years and remains in the lower economic class working entry-level jobs. The ...

Illegal Immigration

Illegal immigration is wrong and not fair to both legal immigrants and taxpayers. Illegal immigrants also referred top as illegal aliens. These people give many reasons for overstaying their visas or unlawfully crossing the borders. For example, illegal aliens could be running away from hostility, searching for jobs, being in political exile, family reunion, escaping criminal activity such for medical care being some of the commonly given reasons. Although these reasons logical and justifiable they should not be excuses for illegal immigration. Some of the major reasons why illegal immigration is unjust are because illegal immigrants burden taxpayers ...

The main theme for the book entitled “The Spirit Level: Why equal societies almost always do better” was about how inequality can affect even those who are not well off. This information is vital for someone in the planning profession because the economy and the labor force affects the job outlook as well as the other important factors in a certain area. The book was well written and was done with extensive years of research, not focusing on only one country, but doing a case study on many. When it comes to someone from the planning profession, it is important that ...

The term Asian Americans refer to Americans of the Asian origin. These include the Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipinos, Indians, Japanese, and Koreans within United States of America. The Consensus Bureau defines Asians as persons having their ancestries in the original immigrants of the Indian subcontinent, the Far East, and the Southeast Asia. The term Asian American was devised in the 1960s to refer to the inter-racial pan-Asian American self-defining political grouping. As regards ethnicity and racial aspects the most conspicuous changes emerged with the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 which abolished the ‘national origins quotas’. The quotas were aimed at ...

Bibliography

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Description

Every individual has a right to obtain Higher Education, though many believe that such rights should only be given to legal citizens in United States. The DREAM Act came into existence through the legislative proposal introduced to the senate in the year 2010. This would enable current, former and future undocumented high school graduates to get United States citizenship through two options: College or joining military. The DREAM Act proposes higher education rights for undocumented students and presses concern on certain human rights to be free from discrimination on basis of national origin. Asses for legal basis on these ...

STRICTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LAWS

There are existing laws in the U.S. that guaranteed augmented struggle to combat illegal immigration including the USA Patriot Act and the Enhanced Border Security and the Visa Entry Reform Act. Aside from these laws, enhanced efforts of the government included reorganization of the federal system and strict implementation of policies by law enforcement agencies to quell illegal immigration within the country. After the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, the country created the Department of Homeland Security to broaden security measures that address terrorism. The department is tasked to prevent law offenders, immigrants, smugglers and terrorists to enter the ...

Business Ethics

Introduction Since the late 20th century, the number of illegal immigrants entering America and other countries has risen sharply. Currently, more than 1million immigrate to America, half of which do not follow the due legal process of movement (Miller 11). In average, 50% to 60% of the illegal immigrants in America enter the region through America-Mexico border. Most of the illegal aliens entering America come from Guatemala, Latin America, El Salvador, and Columbia among others (Miller section 1). Today we continue to face many ethical issues or concerns in relation to illegal immigrants, one being corporations hiring illegal ...

Executive Summary

Executive Summary Immigration laws were enacted to support social order and to protect the land from unlawful entry of an alien. However, immigration law was tainted by wrong perception about immigrants, thus creating a misconception where the law already becomes a threat instead of protective social mechanism. These misconceptions reflect in several issues wherein the immigration law enforcers themselves are involved. Undermining the importance of a law’s constitutionality creates an environment where there is a prevailing absence of respect to the fundamentals human of human rights. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs enforcement for instance appeared to have broadened their scope ...

The United States (U.S.) in the 21st Century has more than one serious problem facing it. Yet, it can be determined that the most fundamental crises facing the nation today is the influx of illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S., taking jobs and using-up resources meant for its own citizens. Admittedly, this issue has caused a furious debate on benefits versus liabilities on both the federal and state levels.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has estimated that around 11.5 million illegal immigrants entered the country in 2011, of which 6.9 million arrived from Mexico ( ...

The 14th Amendment and the Protection of Civil Rights

QUALIFYING CITIZENSHIP Abstract

The 14th Amendment, and its “Citizenship Clause,” has been the means by which questions of citizenship are resolved. Over the past two years, a group of state lawmakers have sought a way to change the constitutional meaning of citizenship by circumventing the 14th Amendment without seeking to alter the Constitution itself. The attempt to create a dual birth certificate system is their attempt to identify and separate the American-born children of illegal aliens. In a violation of due process, this move to redefine what it means to be an American citizen is a legal matter, requiring the amending of the ...

Introduction

Immigration law deals with the state administration policies which direct the occurrence of immigration to their nation. Illegal immigration is the movement into a country in contravention of the immigration laws of that authority. Illegal immigration brings about many economical, political, and social matters and has developed into a basis of chief controversy in the developed nations and the more flourishing developed countries (Proper, pg 203). This paper proposes to examine the U.S. Laws governing illegal immigrants and the need to be reformed.

The purpose of this proposal is to show an overview of my investigation of U.S. laws governing illegal ...

The Arizona State Senate Bill, also known as the Arizona SB 1070 is a legislative Act in Arizona that is so far the strictest anti-illegal immigration steps in ages. It is a matter of national interest as it has brought about considerable controversy in the country. The law expects certain aliens to register with the United States government. Aliens are also supposed to carry with them their registration documents at all times. Not being in possession of these documents is illegal in this state. The law further prohibits local and state officials and agencies from restricting enforcement of federal immigration laws. ...