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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.
For example, incapable of coping with crowds of Syrian refugees, Hungarians have been trying to fence off the flow of Syrians. They had to close Keleti train station in Budapest not to let them further into the continent. A number of Syrian immigrants were halted on their way to Austria and taken to the camp in Bicske, not far from the Hungarian capital. The problem is that no country in the European Union has a valid immigration policy to deal with the current situation.
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.
The picture of Lady Liberty with open arms outstretched to the poor and down-trodden throughout the world is an inspiring symbol for conservative and liberal citizens of the United States of America. They are united in the desire to continue living out the Founders’ vision in the modern age. However, they are divided in their interpretation of exactly who is included within that embrace. The terminology of ‘open immigration’ sounds appealing to many residents of the USA. After all, why shouldn’t everyone be able to enter our wonderful homeland?
Immigration policies are then central to bordering and ordering society because they are the written rules of legal migration. However, these policies, like laws in general, are interpreted differently depending on who you are. Immigration policies affect people differently based on their socioeconomic status, race, nationality, education, and purpose in crossing borders (Nick Vaughan-Williams, 2009). Policies are implemented to keep certain people out by enforcing imaginary borders of different strengths, but it is also used to order society by keeping a close eye on people through careful documentation such as passports and visas. I will be focusing mainly on migrant workers and how policies changed in response to them, and also explaining how extensive paperwork to enter a country is a method in which immigration policy orders society within the borders, examples mainly concerning the United States.
Deporting back these immigrants will cost a lot of money. Donald Trump wants to build a long wall between the United States and Mexico. According to Reuters, a website on the internet, the estimated cost of the wall they are helping the US economy will be up to 21 million dollars. According to the U.S Government debt, the US is already in depth trillions of dollars in depth. It would be pointless too waste that amount of money into this deportation plan.
Immigration conundrum will never be felt as acutely by second generation immigrants because things change and people forget about the right way it is awfully to think roots can and should be so easily discarded. I prefer Jhumpa Lahiri's narrative voice over Smith’s no inflection of moral no pronouncing of judgement on flawed choices but a restrained attempt at humanizing all characters. I feel this is something that happened to most people because some people have like family things they do and as people get older and others don’t do what has always been done or the new person that takes over forget it or does do it right. Also with religion people have a different outlook than someone else and each people will take it different and to me
Immigrants do not only help the economy by increasing the employment rate, they also increase taxpayers that benefits the US economy positively. There are a lot of misconceptions about undocumented immigrants and paying taxes. Many believe that since they are unauthorized immigrants they do not pay taxes. But in reality, many undocumented immigrants do pay taxes just like everyone else. They may not have a legal document that allows them to be in this country, but they find ways to pay for their taxes such as a Fake Social Security Numbers (SSN) or Individual Tax Identification numbers (ITIN)
What if you were kicked out of somewhere you called home? One significant reason that undocumented immigrants should acquire a “path to citizenship” is that America is a country of immigrants, founded by immigrants. According to Senator Charles E. Schumer in Upfront Magazine, 2016 “I can see the statue of Liberty, which welcomed my ancestors so many years ago. That statue is a symbol of hope to the world.
“There is no duty of the federal government more important than ensuring the protection of the American people” stated by Rep. Babin in his letter to the House Speaker of the United States Paul Ryan. The security and safety of American citizens should come first and the FBI has gone on record to say that they cannot properly vet the Syrian refugees arriving in our country. Furthermore ISIS has declared they plan to infiltrate the refugee population in order to carry out their desired acts of terrorism. Senator Jeff Sessions, Chairman of the Senate 's Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, has refuted claims suggesting that no refugees had been linked to terrorism by releasing a list of twelve refugees who were sought, indicted,
The population in the United States is increasing every year. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants, legal and illegal from around the world, come into the United States. Some immigrants have many different motivations, such as hoping to get a chance to a better life, escaping persecution and civil wars in their home country. However, the large number of immigrants is affecting the native-born citizens of the United States. As the result, the President Trump decided to get an executive order that is about protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.
Huntington also complains that the more immigrants that enter the United States and move to neighborhoods where there are people who speak the same language, the more they are not willing to assimilate themselves into the Anglo-Protestant culture and values. But one thing is for certain that the increasing population of Mexican immigrants and other Hispanic groups will be more difficult when trying to learn English as a second language as well as for their descendants. One reason for this is because they stay in their own race communities. Huntington argues that most Latino immigrants find it more of a challenged to assimilate themselves into the United States culture than it was for past immigrants. But, Huntington also points out that it
Throughout the 20th and 21st century, there has been a debate in the United States about whether there should be a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. At this time, there is a border wall between the states of; Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona and Northern Mexico. The main purpose behind having a border fence is to stop illegal immigrants, criminals, and terrorist from coming into the United States. Currently, in the United States, there are approximately an influx 11 million unauthorized immigrants.
In response to the current refugee crisis, many States in Europe have built or envisage to build walls or fences on their borders in an attempt to stem the continued flow of asylum seekers, and prevent them from gaining access to their territory. The decision recently taken by the Hungarian authorities to build a barbed-wire fence along the country’s Southern border has triggered a domino effect across Europe, leading many neighboring States, including Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Macedonia, to seal off their borders by raising fences and other barriers designed to prevent the entry of refugees. Other States, such as Austria and Slovakia, announced that they would shortly follow suit. The use of fences as a means of controlling migrant
When it comes to the question about “what is the solution”, opinions start flowing, but to the best of my knowledge, I see that the solution will never be one-sided, in other words, I see no perfect solution from the common options. Blocking the refugees would fail – but to open doors without limit is the most reckless decision. The only solution is treating the root causes in migrants’ countries. “When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.” ―
