In this essay about the article redacted by Reese Jones Why to Build a Border Wall? different aspects will be presented. A summary of the topic will be presented to explain what the author is trying to communicate and his point of view in his article. Also, a rhetorical and ideas critique along with a personal reflection will be presented. This article is about the purpose of border walls and their benefits from dividing two different places. In the rhetorical critique, his appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos will be identified and explained briefly, also, in the ideas critique, his ideas will be critiqued to support a different point of view.
In “The Perpetual Border Battle,” which first publishes on The National Interest, Mark Krikotian pokes New York Times’ daydream on solving illegal immigration issues of the United States. Krikotian claims that, although the number of illegal immigrants is decline during the following years, the government of the United States still lack a comprehensive policy to erase the border battle from tomorrow’s papers. From his perspective, the shrunk of total illegal immigrant number is temporally. It is not solved by policy but caused by three other factors: weakened economy, strengthened enforcement, and movements in Mexico. For economic recession, Krikotian argues it as a direct cause of immigrants’ outflow.
According to Hernandez, “ Mexicans in the borderlands, regardless of immigration of citizenship status, were subject to high levels of suspicion, surveillance, and state violence as border patrol officers aggressively policed not only the U.S and Mexico border but also Mexican communities and work sites” (Hernandez Pg. 2). In her book, Hernandez tells the story of how Mexican immigrant workers became
Humans rarely change their ways; they stay in their own worlds and always interact with the same types of people. Unfortunately, this habit often creates unseen barriers that divide and alienate human beings from one another. In Luis Alberto Urrea’s book The Devil’s Highway, Urrea provides a personal perspective to immigration by telling the story of 26 illegal immigrants, known as the Wellton 26, who are abandoned as they cross the Mexico-U.S. border. Through their story, Urrea proves there are invisible borders among people that create prejudice, such as language, ethnicity, and economic status. By reading The Devil’s Highway, it is clear that these barriers must be broken down to ensure harmony within society.
Introduction Informative, contemplative, and different are three words to describe “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco from Rereading America. “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” talks about unauthorized immigration. More specifically, this source talks about the other side of the issue of unauthorized immigrants; the human face of it all. “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” depicts the monster from one of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s thesis in the article, “Monster Culture (7 Theses).” The monster seen in the source “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” is the one that Cohen talks about in his fourth thesis, “The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference.”
American not-so-invisible boundaries Whether it is going to school, or just children playing in a park. Racial identity is judged as a group, part of a whole, and different. These two articles bring out the boundaries that humankind has set for anyone different than themselves. We all bleed the color red, and segregation has been a constant, yet sickening struggle this world has faced.
Woodrow Wilson once said, “We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.” The topic of immigration is a hot debate in many current day political settings. Furthermore, the debate is on the status of current day Mexican immigrants as it was once the immigrants from Europe and China. Immigration can have positive effects on people's lives, it is also possible for it to cause much harm to the native people of the country. In the piece “Our Wall” by Charles Bowden, the author analyzes the subject of immigration to bring up the point of the usage of a
The United States is already a “melting pot” for many different races and cultures already. Building a wall may seem like justice in the eyes of some, the question that is raised is if it will be beneficial for the citizens as a whole. Assessing the issue at hand can lead to the conclusion that building a wall may appear to seem beneficial. If becoming a citizen legally is so rough than how can some immigrants do so and not all? McIntosh’s Invisible Knapsack theory can argue that building a wall to separate Mexico from the United States only adds to our benefits as being citizens.
In the words of Madeleine Albright, “We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.” Immigration is an important factor to the nation’s success, but illegal immigration has become an imminent problem in the United States. In 2008, George Bush created the Secure Communities Act in order to create a better way of removing illegal immigrants, especially the violent criminals. As sanctuary cities started to become popular, Bush’s act lost followers. Due to failure to adhere to the Secure Communities Act through the induction of sanctuary cities, compliance with immigration laws has mitigated, the amount of
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists” (Franklin D. Roosevelt). In The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, Delaney and other characters of the book introduce the racism of most communities by bringing up the topics of coyotes, borders, physically and mentally, and illegal Mexican immigrants. Each topic ties one another together. To most, there shows a problem with the immigrants coming to America, just because they didn’t come legally. T.C. Boyle showed the reaction of people to new people coming to America to try and live the American dream that we are all supposed to be allowed to do.
As a result of their emigration, America was now viewed as “multiethnic and multiracial” and “defined in terms of culture and creed” (Huntington 1). On the contrary, when people traveled across the border from Mexico, their culture was not so widely accepted. Mexican traditions and values were seen as a “serious challenge to America’s traditional identity” (Huntington 2). The “original settlers” of America were incredibly open to people travelling from Europe, but when people came from Latin America, they were
Social Justice The poem ‘Borders’ by Tara Evonne Trudell relates to a current social justice issue by highlighting what it is like to live in a country that segregates. Trudell explains that the border is an obstacle that tells us what to do. It tells us how to act, where to live, and even tells us to separate from our roots. It keeps families apart; it causes death by being trigger happy and it prevents people from living naturally.
Immigration in the past few decades have grown within the world as many are fleeing their own countries for others, by both legal and illegal means. However, with such a large influx of immigrants, this has put a notable strain on the receiving countries. Thus raising the question of what can be done and what to do with those who have illegally entered the country. In the United States the issue of illegal immigration and immigrants has progressively worsened, splitting the citizen’s opinion between either allowing them to stay or deporting every illegal within the country. On November 20, 2014 President Obama gave a speech to answer such questions with his immigration reform.
Despite the multiple attempts at creating a well-rounded immigration reform the United States has failed to achieve the full capacity of the reform. The United States first failure at the reform was in 1986 when congress passed the “Immigration Reform and Control Act”. The purpose of this legislation was to amend, revise, and re-assess the status of unauthorized immigrants set forth in the Immigration and Nationality Act. The content of this bill is overwhelming and is divided into many sections such as control of unauthorized immigration, legalization and reform of legal immigration.
In the rising tensions across national and global markets, these very tensions find their nesting grounds in the new walls that fortify border territories of nations. Even as the bricks of the Berlin wall were being dismembered, buildings of newer walls were underway in the United States along its Southern border with Mexico or even the Israeli wall winding through the West Bank. Even so, there are nations that maintain cruder forms of walling in order to deter movements of refugees and migration from poorer countries, or
