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The general public believes that most of the crimes in the United States are committed by illegal immigrants. This is a mistaken bias because in the reality there are other groups of people that commit crimes. Amnesty would help to cut down crime by giving authorities database to access to each identity of the current illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants who do not obey the laws can be easily identified. Tolerance is one of the characteristics that is encouraged by American identity. Everyone deserves a second chance even though illegal immigrants have committed a crime by coming to the United States without consent. The future generations of illegal immigrants could become the great immigrant that we had in the past such as Albert Einstein …show more content…

In Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal by Aviva Chomsky addresses how the concepts of illegality affect our immigration system. According to Chomsky, “Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are social constructions: abstraction invented by human. What’s more, they are all fairly recent inventions. Today, we use them to justify differences in legal status” (182). There are many politicians exploiting regulations and use their political power as a tool to drive their own agenda for self-interest. For example, Illegal immigrants are allowed to wait for manual labor jobs in work stop stations which were built by the government. Furthermore, the government has also developed funding plans that allowed illegal immigrants to be qualified for housing, medical and other benefits. The government is influenced by politicians who use the immigration problem as opportunities to expand their power and individual monetary gain. The government is contradicting its policies because it wants to keep them out, but at the same time it helps them out when they get here illegally or legally. This is a tug of war. As said by Chomsky, constitutional laws are made by human beings, we should devise a better constitution if there is any loophole that against the values of fairness and equality in our social

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In the essay on realclearpolitics.com titled Our Brave New World of Immigration, The author Victor Davis Hanson addresses the issue of illegal immigration. Hanson argues that immigration is without a set pattern and that today compared to migration in the 19th century is different because people can enter the country illegally. Illegal immigration is transgression of Federal Immigration law and costly to the American government also it is leading to an exponential growth in an already densely populated United States. Hanson points out that there is no forethought of whether people enter legally nor if they learn to speak English. The author also mentions that there is an endless number of illegal immigrants that have not assimilated.

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When some people hear rite of passage they might think of someone making a spiritual walk in to something that will change their lives. These people would not be wrong either. As discussed in class a rite of passage are rituals that mark key transitions in life. In the book, Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society, they talk about a rite of passage that these undocumented Mexican immigrants make to America to find work so they can send money back home to their families. In this passage these immigrants go through three key phrases.

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This causes a major conflict between the federal government and local governments. Because the federal government is working to turn the local police force in sanctuary cities into an ICE force (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), illegal immigrants living in sanctuary cities begin to fear they will be deported if they call the police for any reason. This is another reason some Americans may think crime runs rampid where illegal immigrants are- but the reason an illegal immigrant may not call the police when they see a crime being committed is because they fear that the police that show up may actually be ICE officers. This causes legal and social complications for illegal immigrants and American citizens living around them.

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Immigration has always been a huge topic in the U.S. However, it is until recently that there has been an attempt to stop immigration and to ‘ship’ away illegal immigrants. This has been a worldwide dilemma. When you have a president that strikes fear into the hearts of people, specifically immigrants, you can see why certain holidays won’t take place when they should. In the article, “Cinco de Mayo parade canceled over Trump immigration crackdown fears”, by author Matt Gray, it speaks about a conflict with immigrants in the U.S.

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Tolerance towards the intolerant encourages their ideas because they are deceived into thinking that no one is against them and their intolerance is acceptable. Huntington proves this fact by explaining how their concentration and lack of assimilation causes cultural and language barriers that provide the basis for intolerance. He states that “it is quite different to argue that Americans should know a non-English language in order to communicate with their fellow citizens. Yet, that is what the Spanish-language advocates have in mind” (Huntington 7). It is once again prevalent that American

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Not all undocumented Latino immigrants who try to migrate can make it to the United States (Cammisa, 2009). Some of them do not make it because they die due to all the conditions they experience, and only their bodies are found. Also, the undocumented Latino immigrants that get caught by the authorities and are sent to detention centers where they receive first aid, and then are deported back to their homeland countries (United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General. 2011).

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Allowing unlawful people to stay within our country has created raised taxes and has been slowly, but surely, destroying the nation’s economy. Within our government

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In the United States, there are approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants and most of them don 't have a driver’s license(Passel and Cohn). Because the DMV failure to issue driver’s license, it is hurting the undocumented population and is just adding more problems around the country. The undocumented population has been really affected by this failure of issuing the driver’s license towards them. By having the problem of issuing of driver’s license towards immigrants, a great deal of undocumented immigrants have problems they need to go through.

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Illegal immigrants are a major part of the US labor force and have been an important source of low-skilled labor supply to the US economy for many decades. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that the number of unauthorized immigrants in the US labor force was 8.3 million in 2008, up from 6.3 million in 2003 but down slightly from the 2007 peak of 8.5 million. And there are currently 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States, with an average of 500,000 new entrants arriving annually over the last decade. (Passel and Cohn, A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States, 2009).

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To an outsider, criminal law and immigration law appear to be distinct. Both areas of law govern the relationship between two subjects, in this case, the criminal and the government or an immigrant and the government. Though these two areas of law appear distinct and have their own unique characteristics, over the course of time the two have become rather close and have even overlapped in numerous ways. In a text written about criminal law and immigration law, the author brings up the concept of crimmigration. Stumpf illustrates the process of criminalizing immigration law by saying that “Immigration law today is clothed with so many attributes of criminal law that the line between them has grown indistinct” (Stumpf, p. 376).

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In 2010, there were around 30.8 million immigrants in the United States, of those 30.8 million, 10.8 million of them were illegal immigrants. Most of whom were Spanish-speaking Mexicans. In the late election, the debate over illegal immigration is at an all-time high. According to state government, we need to act because there has been an absence of the federal government on this subject. There are also more than 400 laws in many of the states that have been proposed since 2005 to make immigration harder.

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This campaign season has cast a spotlight onto the unfavorable, and sometimes ugly aspect of immigration. While this topic is inherently political in nature, it can be agreed across all sides of the political spectrum that illegal immigration is a major issue and has been handled ineffectively within recent years. As immigration falls within the national sphere of our democracy, this in essence, leads to many inconsistencies between states regarding criminal charges brought against illegal immigrants. Also, by grouping the nation’s immigration policies under federal dictation, this inherently leads to many systematic flaws.

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Among the illegal immigrants currently living in the United States, continuously crossing the borders and remaining in the United Stated with expired visas each year. Unlawful immigration once an issue of border states such as Arizona or Texas is now impacting all states around the country with problems. Illegal immigration affects all aspects of civilization, from the cost of education, government assistance, and public safety. There is also the matter of when local law enforcement who make it a personal mission to seek out undocumented immigrant 's harassment demanding documents. Although the Federal Government has all authority over the regulating of migration into the United States, the State and local law enforcement and communities are an essential role in improving on the immigration law, and it is effectively enforced.

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