1. Your personal stance on areas of social concern involving waste disposal practices or other socially relevant questions (e.g., poverty, animal rights, immigration). Your stance should include your understanding of varying perspectives on each issue)
Personally, I support immigration, but I support it when it is completed legally. The United States it about wanting to better yourself and have that classic “American Dream”. Everyone on this earth is entitled to that success dream and if immigrants believe they can achieve that in the States, I completely support it. My stance on immigration is that people who wish to come to the states are more than welcome but do need to go through the process of being a resident then becoming a citizen. Having a foreign mother, I have experienced legal immigration personally. She has given me knowledge about the process and how she came to the states legally and
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Mainly because of lack of knowledge of what is really going on in the world. As my college experience continued, I began to learn about issues such as pay difference in men and women, environmental issues, and racial issues. The more I found out about these injustices, the more I became passionate about wanting to do something about it. Personally, environmental issues have been my biggest passion throughout college. Coming from a small town in the county filled with trees, and wildlife all around me, I never really thought about how much is destroyed to expand city and suburb life. When I moved to the DFW area for college I instantly noticed the pollution in the air and the minimal amount of nature. Of course, I do understand that it is necessary to have cities and how that does affect our environment, but I feel like at this rate, the more we continue to deforest land and forcefully move animals out of their homes, the closer we are to a complete hazardous
Immigrants are often viewed in a negative perspective in their new country. Currently, 41% of U.S. citizens believe immigrants are a burden to the U.S. because they take jobs and limit health care and housing (Pew Research Center, 2015). Additionally, many Americans believe that immigrants are not providing to the economy, instead of taking. This has led to discrimination in different environments toward immigrants such as in school and work. In Abu-Lughod’s (2002) interview Attitudes Toward Muslim Women of the West, she discusses how there are different aspects of other societies that Western people are not capable of understanding.
Why Undocumented Immigrants Should be Granted a Work Visa There are approximately 12.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States as of 2017, according to the Federation of American Immigration Reform. Each one fearing deportation every day, hoping that homeland security officers don’t barge into their homes and take their chance at the American Dream away. Undocumented immigrants are people who have no choice but to come into the United States illegally and they deserve a path to take to become a legal immigrant. The hatred towards undocumented immigrants is mostly formed by inaccurate beliefs. Whenever people think of any type of immigrant, they often form an abhorrence and fear towards them, thinking that they are taking
Being a child of immigrant parents is not easy. You are constantly living in the fear that one day you’ll wake up and you parents won’t be there with you anymore. Specially now that we have a new president, things are getting more challenging. But don’t get me wrong, I live a happy life. I am proud to call myself a Latina.
Since Trump was elected to be the President of United States of America, he has been terrorizing immigrants here in the U.S. He tried many ways to eliminate and reduce the number of immigrants in the U.S. as much as possible. I recently discovered that President Trump is trying to end DACA plan. DACA or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was initiated by Obama to helps undocumented immigrants traveling with children and allows their kids to stay in the United State to study, work, and they may obtain legal identifications. Now, President Trump decided to end DACA.
Hispanic Americans, or Latinos, are a very large and diverse ethnic group in the U.S. Altogether, they make up about 44 million people or 15% of America’s population. Individuals who make up this category can identify with various nationalities and backgrounds. However, the 2010 U.S Census – as stated in the textbook -- reported that 75% of its total Latino respondents identified being of Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban origin. According to the lecture notes, 65% of Hispanics claim to be Mexican Americans, while 8.5% are Puerto Ricans and another 3.5% are Cuban Americans.
The migration of Hispanics to America differ from other groups who have migrated over the years. Mexicans made contact through conquest but the majority of immigrants came to the United States voluntarily. Hispanic Americans consist of several different migrant groups Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Mexicans and Dominicans. All of which have each dealt with prejudice and discrimination.
At the time of the founding, the population of the United States was only 3.9 million, almost all of them white except for 760,000 blacks. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, Germans and Scots came to the United States in such large numbers that they caused panic among Americans. To prevent these immigrants from becoming self-contained and posing a threat to the Republic, the United States Congress passed the Alien Rebellion Punishment Act in 1798(Document2,3). The Naturalization Act of 1790 limits the "good moral character" of white people who are free to ship.
In times such as now, immigration policy is a topic of controversial and emotional discussion. The key in having educational, progressive, and prosperous conversations is understanding the theoretical foundations behind the argument that a person stands for or believes in. Having factual evidence to support ideas on concepts such as: the opportunities that immigrants bring to a country, what the international rules actually are that govern the entry and exit of people from one country to another, and the causes, trends, and consequences of international immigration. Finding reason and support for these claims can take the discussion behind immigration policy from one of heated and emotional argument to one of educational and beneficial conversation.
Ten years ago, I immigrated to the United States and ever since I have been an undocumented immigrant. Due to my legal status in the United States, I felt like I was restricted from certain situations and possessions and would never be able to succeed. I was not living the normal life of a seven-year-old. Instead, I had to learn to cope and adapt to a whole new culture. Even though the drastic change at such a young age was a challenge, it has shaped who I am today.
An immigrant family wants the best for everyone lives, however moving to a new country brings struggles. There struggles include finding a home, a good paying job, avoiding to be deported, being separated ,and continuing their education. Immigrants expect a better life because their old home and country did have much benefits as the new country gives them. The advantage of an immigrant family is family values which tends them to be closer. Disadvantages of an immigrant family are the struggles that were first mentioned and including that they face other people calling them a threat.
Throughout the history of the United States, immigration has and continues to be an issue that is present today. Undocumented immigrants face many hardships living in our country with limited access to attain a lifestyle as any other American. These limitations affect undocumented immigrants in their daily lives and they face downward social mobility. In the workplace along with anywhere else, immigrants face fear of deportation and exploitation due to their ‘illegal’ immigration status, therefore they remain living in the shadows and in extreme distress. If opportunities such as a work permit was granted to immigrants, their chances of succeeding in the labor market would be rewarding.
Immigration is a ubiquitous topic. People constantly debate over whether or not we should let immigrants come into our country and stay. I’ve seen stories about families forced apart and people being sent off to a place they know nothing about. People in the media can also influence people’s opinions on immigration, too. For example, if a famous person spreads their opinion about a topic it could influence their fans' opinions.
There are many challenges that immigrants face throughout their lives. Many immigrants are able to come to the U.S., but it is not easy as it seems. One challenge that immigrants go through is being able to have respect that the U.S. citizens have. Another challenge that immigrants face is being able to adapt to the new environment. People who arrive in the U.S. might not be able to speak English.
There is a major problem in this country today. Millions of migrants are traversing the U.S. and Mexico border, hoping for a better life for themselves in the “Land of the free, home of the brave”. These people are having to cross miles and miles of desert, all the while being attacked by dehydration, heat stroke, poisonous animals, and worst of all roving gangs of “minutemen”, vigilantes killing and maiming immigrants to “protect” america. Yet once these peaceful people reach the gate to “the american dream”, they are often turned away, and often thousands of miles away from home, the desperate people will illegally cross the border, but why were they not let through in the first place? The politicians in Washington may debate, and re-debate,
Emigration, the act of such persons leaving their country and heading to a country of foreigners for different reasons. Immigration has never been an easy choice, but recently factors have made it easier. Immigrants, in my point of view, can be divided into two kinds, the first are people leaving their countries looking for a source of money and escaping the struggle of poverty, and the other kind are people looking for a peaceful life with no bombs damaging their hometowns every day, escaping wars and political persecutions looking for the freedom they have always been missing. I see that the immigration crisis nowadays is in its worst, as we can see, according to the UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency), there are 65.6 million displaced people worldwide,