The waves push the boat in to the American port and freedom fills the noses of the people subjected to religious persecution, economic instability, political tyranny, social oppression, etc. Many of these people duck and hide from inspection centers and run to create a better life in the land of the free. Over the years of hiding and working vigorous hours at a facility where they are over-worked and under-payed, these people create a family. As they tend to their everyday lives, their world is suddenly torn apart when their door is broken down and everyone is snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The parents worry about their children as they are being shipped back to their homeland and their children are sent to a distant …show more content…
born children each year. Elise Foley reported on the Huffington Post website “Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year carried out more than 72,000 deportations of parents who had U.S.-born children.” The definition of inhumane is“without compassion for misery or suffering”. To take a child away from its parent is to completely separate a family. To completely take apart a family, one must do so without compassion; without pity for that family’s suffering. The act of separating a family is just inhumane. K.I.F.T. stands for Keeping Immigrant Families Together. K.I.F.T. is a proposed program that helps immigrant families with permanent residency. K.I.F.T. will not only be for immigrant parents that have already been deported, but also for immigrant parents prior to deportation. K.I.F.T. will be a federally funded program hosted by a community, offering courses such as English, career and life skills, US culture and government, that also helps immigrant parents to maintain a permanent …show more content…
Americans are the pot calling the kettle black when the word “foreigner” or “illegal alien” rolls off their tongues. We are all descendants of immigrants. Well, that is, except for Native Americans. K.I.F.T. will be a non-racist organization that does not allow the term “foreigner” and “illegal alien” to define a person. Illegal alien is one of the lowest terms to be used to define someone. Since we are all immigrants, there is no use to label one another. It is just like calling someone a human. Just like a boy calling another boy “male”. K.I.F.T. will not allow these racial slurs in the organization, because we are all