Unethical Immigration Issues

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” A quote from the U.S. Statue of Liberty; she has represented freedom and opportunity in the United States for over 130 years. Immigration has a been a prevalent, reoccurring topic throughout the years, and there is no stopping the flow of immigration anytime soon. Immigrants are exceptionally entrepreneurial, determined, and adaptable (Immigration, 75). The amount of advantages immigrants bring to the U.S. is increasingly substantial. Furthermore, immigrants are victims of unethical treatment from the law, employers, and the general public.

Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history” (Padilla-Rodriguez, Ivón). In a sense, the United States is a nation of strangers, and Americans have a tendency to speak of themselves with the unintended irony as natives. They tend to be proud of their ancestry, but fear the arrival of unfamiliar immigrants. Although people migrate to the United States from all over the world, immigration from Latin America, more specifically Mexico, seems to be the focus of the immigration debate. It was not until the Mexican-American war, during which the United States was less than one hundred years old, that the U.S. gained control of nearly 600,000 square miles of Mexican territory. During this time, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty had been signed only forty years earlier, and the U.S. Civil War had not occurred yet. Conspicuously, Latinos originate closer to the U.S. than their white counterparts; Latinos are from the North American continent, whereas the majority of people who identify as white came from a continent four thousand miles

Should there be numerous exceptions along with a significant price-tag to have basic human rights? How many Americans would be willing to meet those standards and pay that price? Additionally, border mobility is extremely biased; the wealthy can travel all over the world with no problems. TRANSITION Former president, Barrack Obama, deported more immigrants than any other president. Nevertheless, despite the President 's high rate of deportations, his deportation priorities focused on criminals rather than children and families (Zug, Marcia). EXPLANATION American immigration laws are keeping out willing foreign workers. Allowing the free-flow of healthy, non-violent foreigners does nothing to diminish the United State’s nation sovereignty. In January of 2017, President Donald Trump implemented an executive ordered “travel ban” that lowered the quote of refugees allowed to be admitted into the United States, discontinued the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, suspended the entry of Syrian refugees, and banned the admittance of anyone whose country does not “fit” the U.S. Immigration Law’s standards (Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, and Libya). The president claimed the ban is to “protect the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States” (“Executive Order”). The ban received a substantial amount of criticism and was accused of being extremely prejudice towards people of