Undocumented Immigrants: A Case Study

Jose Vargas tells the story of his life; from coming to America, finding out that he is residing here illegally, learning how to live with that, and finally to sharing with everyone that he is an undocumented immigrant. Jose has a difficult task in front of him, though. He must win his audience over to his side so that he can further his agenda of developing an easier path for undocumented immigrants to receive citizenship. There are many ways he could go about this, trying to skirt the topic of his illegal activities, but Jose is an intelligent man and knows how to influence his audience. He uses the story of his life to connect with others, and in connecting with them wins them over, even if only indeterminably so. In My Life as an

If it were up to you, and you had the choice whether or not to give undocumented citizens a chance at citizenship, would you? Many people believe that they should not have a chance at citizenship because they came here illegally. Every person has their own opinion on this topic. This debate is one of many debates going on in between the candidates or even the politicians, but of course they all have their own views and reasons on it. Everyone should consider that they should because either we are hurting families or they can help improve our economy. In the next three paragraphs this argument will be influencing you to side with my claim, that undocumented citizens should get a pathway to citizenship.

Many of the undocumented immigrants have both successfully and unsuccessfully tried to find different ways to migrate into the United States. They have traveled by swimming across borders, driving, trafficking, from many underdeveloped countries around the world like Mexico, Cuba, Africa, and many others. Many have become part of such a vulnerable population because they have come to the United States to seek a better life for their families, the healthcare, job opportunities, as well as having been in the united states and staying past the time allowed on their visa.

Anthropologist Leo Chavez presents a very descriptive and detailed account when he wrote Shadowed Lives, UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY it takes readers into the lives and experiences of illegal immigrants. Chavez is detailed within the book points are placed regarding people's choice to migrate as well as their stories of crossing the border into the United States We can learn a lot from Chavez's book, making distinct opinions on immigration itself, and the difference in immigration culture after migrating.

There are many arguments against allowing undocumented immigrants a path to permanent residence in the United States, and many of them are demonizing, dehumanizing, racist, and xenophobic, and sometimes poorly informed.The arguments that follow are not of that disgusting kind. This case must be considered without denigrating immigrants as ‘illegals’ or lesser people, but while also placing the needs of lawful U.S. citizens and residents first, and ensuring the continued prosperity of the United States of America. Undocumented people should not be allowed a path to permanent residence in the United States, because such actions would financially hurt the government through increased demand on government assistance, possibly invite even more immigration

The eleven million illegal immigrants living here in the United States of America should be allowed to receive a ‘Path to Citizenship’. A majority of these people are struggling to get into America for valid reasons and not for the wrong reasons that most people think are unreasonable excuses of attempting to cross the borders illegally. Democrat Charles E. Schumer states, “By fulfilling reasonable requirements such as paying fines, learning English, and waiting their turn to be considered, these immigrants could become law-abiding citizens,” (Schumer 22). If they have been paying their taxes, following the rules as if they were an actual

Some may never realize that most people who decided to move here would have liked to have moved to the US legally but since it usually takes decades until someone is able to acquire a visa. Most also do not realize that since the Great Recession, a world market problem that did not affect the US as much as it did in Mexico, many Mexicans, Central or Southern Americans have had trouble with their economies in their countries. Most people are hard-workers who will usually do whatever jobs they can find so that they can just live. A way so that these people are not harmed is to make a sort of governmental program that will help undocumented immigrants by giving them amnesty if they work for it or even join the army or if they are children, for them to go to school and actually try their best so that when the time comes for them to graduate, they will earn legalization and get the path to become residents or even citizenship, if they actually really are grateful for being in America. Of course there are always going to be people that broke the law past just coming to this country without permission, and according to how big the offense was, they should pay for it with jail time, fines, or if necessary, deportation. This could be way that we could handle all of the people that are coming into this country without permission or who

The Illegal immigrant population in the United States is a controversial and key immigration issue. Our Author John Savant (2009) talks about illegal immigrants in his article “Imaging the Immigrant: Why legality must give way to humanity”. He is a professor of English at Dominican University of California. Illegal immigrants immigrate in search of a better life. On the other side author Lamar Smith (2014) talks about legalization of illegal immigrant in his article “ Should illegal immigrants be legalized”? Rep. Lamar Smith is the former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and its Immigration Subcommittee. Illegal immigrants cause people of America to become the victim of unemployment. Illegal immigrants are a problem that affects all Americans, take away jobs from citizens, increase crime rate, and should not be legalized.

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 has a mandatory detention provision in 8 U.S.C 1226(c). The issue this pathfinder explores is whether §1226 (c) requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain a noncitizen offender who committed a qualifying offense “when the alien is released” from custody immediately or any time after they are released from criminal custody. The language of the statute is ambiguous because it does not provide a time frame for when an alien can be detained after being released from custody for a qualifying offense. The statute is not clear whether “when released” can mean a couple of days after release from custody or years after release.

David and I have been best friends for as long as we can remember. Part of what brought us together was how similar our stories began. We were both born in Portugal but came to Canada before the age of one where we grew up in neighbouring basement apartments. We would spend most of the day together: our parents would drop us off at the same babysitter before going to work, we were in the same class during the day, and we would play late into the evening while we waited for our parents to return. While we were very similar children, our situations were vastly different: while my parents came to Canada as landed immigrants, David’s parents came as visitors that never returned, or

Undocumented immigrants should get a pathway to citizenship because it will improve our economy. Even though many people assume that that undocumented immigrants don’t pay tax, they contribute a lot of taxes to our economy. In fact, as of the year 2013, undocumented immigrants pay about 11.64 billion per year. However, if they are granted citizenship, according to a 2016 report from Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy, this number can go up by 2.1 billion; thus their nationwide effective state and local tax rate would increase to 8.6 percent. In other words, even without legal documents, undocumented still pay tax, and if given citizenship, they will positively contribute to our economy even more. On top of that, Marielena Hincapié, the

Americans have the idea of illegal immigrants having a huge effect in the United States and giving an impact to political issues. Thousands of immigrants migrate to the United States yearly and increase the number of workers and consumers; giving U.S. Citizens a form of competition in employment. As of 2012, an estimated amount of 11.5 million immigrants have covered the entire United States population, giving a 59% illegally immigrants migrated from Mexico and a 25% from other countries. Mexicans are the vast majority of immigrants who come and pursue the “American Dream” but due to the political changes throughout the years, it has been more difficult for them to move up and start a life after crossing the border, though it has never been easy to come across. The Unites States offers more than what their country does which is why they choose to come and settle down to look up for a better living. It is not a huge concern the population should have towards illegal immigrants; as we can find those with well morals following the idea of becoming a hard worker and helping their families; as also helping the government with quotas and those with crucial intentions that may harm the government. My theory is that these innocent immigrants should have the opportunity in the United States to follow up and gain some benefits that will help them become characterized as more of a citizen and not considered an “alien”. Immigrants have no intentions to harm anyone; there idea is to

Illegal immigrants are coming into the United States at an alarming rate and it is affecting the United States in negative ways. Immigrants are drawn to America to escape poverty, corrupt government, crime, severe danger, drugs, or persecution in their own countries. Immigrants that come to the United States of America are supposed to apply for a Visa when they first arrive. To get a Visa, the people need to apply at the US Consulate. The applicants must prove that they do not have an infectious disease and that they are not criminals. Applicants can end up waiting years before they are granted their Visa if they don’t have a work skill

The cost of a college tuition has dramatically risen since the late 1980’s, and left the country in a staggering trillion dollar student debt*. Citizens have been affected in having to pay massive fees and finally resorting to loans or having to leave school. But, for immigrants the cost of higher education is different. Recently, In state tuition for immigrant students was granted to various states such as New York, California and even Florida; which lowered the cost to a group of students called Dreamers (Bousquet 2015). The Dreamers are a group of students who have been given amnesty and the right to pursue a higher education. Being a Dreamer or student immigrant does not mean receiving a full ride to college, nor does it mean having the

How would you begin to solve the illegal alien worker situation in the U. S. today?