Analysis Of The Article 'Two Sisters, Two Americas' By Brooke Ross

One important reason that undocumented residents deserve a path to citizenship is that families will be torn apart. According to Senator Charles Schumer, Upfront Magazine, 2016, “The status quo is unsustainable. Without reform, our immigration laws threaten to tear apart families and force our government to expend resources to deport millions.” What Senator Schumer is saying here is that deporting millions is not only tearing young children away from their parents, tearing

In Priscilla Alvarez’s article “Trump Prepares to End DACA,” she informs the reader about the background of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Donald Trump’s impending decision to end the program. The belief of removing DACA is just cruel and like Mr. Obama said, “Self-defeating.” The struggle with having a fair and permanent solution for immigrants. When will immigrants get their fair rights and to finally live life freely without the fear of being deported. Dreamers don 't oppose threats and are productive people in this society.

Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln walked into the presidential booth late at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. They sat next to two of their friends, Henry Rathbone and his fiancé, Clara Harris. The four of them and the audience watched “Our American Cousin” in the theatre. Oh, how unaware they all were of their unknown companion as they laughed at the humour in the performance!

Donald Trump and the Media From the article “ What’s In Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan and How It Could Affect the GOP”, is heavily based on what Donald Trump’s plans to stop all immigrants entering to the United States. The author of the article, Asma Khalid, proclaim that the GOP and Donald Trump are separate in minds of this situation. Overall in every media that involves the presidential election with Donald Trump; it always a force debate on immigration.

He begins this article by illustrating the ethos of Trump, and how he has addressed the issue of illegal immigration, and has shown the picture that he is a hardline conservative where he wants to stop the impacts of illegal immigration all together in the United States. For example, Finnegan states, “Under President Trump, the crackdown has come in many form, beginning with the slapdash ban on travel from several Muslim-majority countries. Trump has voted to triple the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers; expand the Border Patrol…” (Finnegan, 2017). In addition to this, Finnegan addresses the point made by Spakovsky and Attorney General, Jeff Sessions who state that the program is unconstitutional as just utter lies, a direct counterargument.

By all means; the Imperfect Mexican-American When I was younger, I couldn't fathom what my parents meant when they said ‘‘Cruce la frontera para que tengan una mejor vida,’’ In other words, I crossed the border for my children to have the future they longed for; their American dream. I understood the troubles and sacrifices they went through and felt the pain they carried for leaving their motherland, yet I didn't understand what life they were looking for me and my sisters. Years later, one afternoon, my sister greets us with the news that she got accepted to college, I thought this is it, the better life my parents wished for us, the sacrifices they made are paying off, yet to my surprise what was suppose to be proudness turned out to be

In his opinionated news article, “Ignorant Immigration Reform”, author David J. Bier asserts his opinion on a bill that will reduce the legal immigration by 50% in the United States. Bier supports his position by discussing how the bill won’t reduce immigration, stop the way immigrants are affecting the Americans wages and how they’re following Canada’s footsteps by concentrating on the skilled immigrants. Bier’s purpose is to notify the government of basic facts that they should know before making such claims, in order to bring into light what the real issue is. He writes in a very direct and sincere tone for the government and general public to inform them on false information that the government is claiming that the bill will do. Bier makes it very clear on where he stands on this issue by using credible facts, briefly explaining the opposing side's viewpoint, but he also shows that he’s very bias.

For many years, unauthorized immigrants have migrated to the United States looking for a better future for their families. Many immigrants bring their children to this journey looking for a better quality of life, but what they don 't know is that their kids are going to face many challenges like discrimination, not belonging, health issues and most important being undocumented. In the article “I Didn’t Ask to Come to This Country... I Was a Child: The Mental Health Implications of Growing Up Undocumented” written by Jeanne-Marie R. Stacciarini in the Journal of Immigrant &Minority Health. Stacciarini holds a Ph.D. and an RN in nursing and mental health and is well-known for publishing investigations on minority health.

Borders are not simply a physical infrastructure, they set a reputation to those on the outside and mold the identity for those within the boundaries. Samples of borders are, but not limited to, international borders, state boundaries, police precincts, neighborhoods, and private properties. It can be better understood how they affect people’s lives in Reece Jones’s text, Violent Borders; more specifically in chapter 5, “Maps, Hedges, and Fences: Enclosing the Commons and Bounding the Seas”. This is where Jones analyzes the past of borders and argues how people’s possessiveness of territory have not changed, but instead, evolved into a system with multiple aspects. The formation of the enclosure movement and the rise of Westphalian sovereignty,

Skerry offers, “Immigrant leaders and advocates claim that America is a racist society that will not allow "people of color" to become part of the mainstream of American life. Alternatively, it is argued that the assimilation of such individuals into that mainstream is an insidious process that robs them of their history and self-esteem. No one ever bothers to explain how both claims can be true”. Carroll Rodas quantifies assimilation in definition put forth by Richard Alba and Victor Nee as, "the decline of an ethnic distinction and its corollary cultural and social differences”. Speaking of the 11 million illegal resident immigrants, they remain fragmented and disjoined from the country in the underground makeshift community, unable to engage in a society’s common culture as requested of the assimilation process.

Annotated Bibliography Beadle, Amanda Peterson. " Top 10 Reasons Why The U.S. Needs Comprehensive Immigration Reform." ThinkProgress. © 2016 - Center for American Progress, 10 Dec. 2012.

When Americans start to think that immigrants should go back from where they came from even after building a life here in the U.S., they should think about their families. I agree with Smith when he says, “When shaping immigration policy, we should be holding in front out minds that we’re talking about real families, real kids, who have hopes and incredible stories”(Smith

immigration-today-3/ Immigration can be viewed as something that has forever blessed or plagued this country. Perspective plays a big role in the discussion of illegal immigrants that enter America daily. With American society becoming more and more prejudice in each decade since Martin Luther King had his “I Have a Dream” speech Blacks are not the only ones on the discrimination list. This problem has since began to come to a head under President Trump and his term. Unbeknownst to many who support the deportation of illegal immigrants wholeheartedly, immigrants add to the society just as much as people fear they’ve been taking.

Undocumented immigrants live with fear of deportation every day of their lives. Those with control of state institutions who do not consider undocumented immigrants as worthy American residents in our society, take advantage of their power by instilling fear of deportation. The restrictive federal and state laws towards migration in the U.S. has become a way to keep undocumented immigrants and their families living in the shadows. Arrocha (2013) claims that the paradox of the U.S. migration seems be that our free democratic republicanism is viewed as the land of freedom, equality, and justice. Yet, these undocumented immigrants aren’t treated equally or given the freedom to live in our society without intimidation.

In some people’s minds, they automatically assume yes, but in reality, it’s a no, immigrants tend to perform labor, and do minimal jobs that Americans don’t, and won't do, so they mistake that as immigrants taking ‘Americans job’, but it’s actually a missed opportunity. One reason for people not taking the jobs is because of the hours, the next reason is the pay might not satisfy a legal immigrant, and people born in America, another reason is it wouldn’t be able to support a regular American family, but they will be able to support an illegal immigrant. The downside is that the policymakers disagreement is the weak labor since the spread immigrants flow has made a dramatic change seeing that the H-B has issued down by twenty- five percent in 2010. The last reasoning is American people want to have a debate on if immigration is stealing American jobs, but according to evidence immigrants actually increases job opportunity and incomes of Americans. This is wise because even George G. Borjas’s long-run estimates suggest that immigrants raise the wages of people with high school diplomas.”-