Gurpuneet Bassi November 1st, 2017 Professor Ann Modzelewski English&101 Good Sanctuary Cities? Sanctuary city or cities are a concept traced way back in 1979 in order to prevent the police from probing a person’s identity. The cities seek to protect illegal immigration; This system is common mostly in the United States of America and Canada. Some examples of these cities include Los Angeles, Washington DC, New Jersey, Chicago, San Francisco and many others. Sanctuary cities tend to harbor and shelter immigrants in the country. “Sanctuary cities” is a term commonly used to refer to cities that do not have a problem with people who have come here illegally from other countries. Sanctuary cities act as a safe refuge site for illegal immigrants …show more content…
Some of the benefits of sanctuary cities are contributions to the economy of the country by the “illegal aliens” through investment in businesses and pay tax to the government. The aliens also help with labor and job creation opportunities. These cities have brought about impacts across states and country as a whole. The impacts could either be positive or negative which could be the advantages or disadvantages too. The concept of sanctuary cities has been adopted by many cities across the country to avert the police or law enforcers from asking the residents or dwellers to prove their legal immigration status. In other words, the sanctuary cities tend to help with police brutality Some of the benefits of sanctuary cities are contributions to the economy of the country by the “illegal aliens” through investment in businesses and pay tax to the government, although some immigrants do not pay their taxes. The aliens also help with labor and job creation opportunities. Sanctuary cities have been used by many cities across the country to help the illegal immigrants that come to their city. They …show more content…
Sanctuary cities are mostly in the United States of America, but also countries like Canada, who have embraced the system. The system is present in some Canadian cities like Hamilton, Toronto, and Ontario. They provide more labor work and job opportunities. They help make cities safer by providing the illegal citizens a safe envoirment to tell the scene to, without the fear of deportation. Lastly, but certainly not least, they help the economy of the United States. Sanctuary cities have a surplus of unemployed illegal immigrants, and as we all know, there is always a need for labor workers in big cities. In fact, many sanctuary cities are huge cities that need these workers, these cities include: Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, and many others. Many economies of various states are also affected by the immigrants. In a study done in 2009 by the Migration Policy Institute, “[They estimated] that unauthorized immigrants make up 23 percent of Texas' labor force in the construction industry, 17 percent in the service sector and 10 percent in the manufacturing sector.” This information supports my claim that these “illegal aliens” help the large cities/states, because without the immigrants nearly a quarter of Texas’ labor work would not be supported, and this would definitely affect their economy (Dallas News, 2017). The surplus of jobs created that are then available to labor workers in sanctuary cities also have helped the
The article by Rob Guerette is a case study involving the widely-reported increase of immigration into the United States. It tackles migration issues as well as related issues such as border security , security initiatives by individuals.. The article also provides in-depth research about the impact of illegal immigration into the United States including migrant deaths, deaths of non-migrants at the border, border security and the challenges faced by United States border patrol officers. The main purpose of the article was to provide an explanation as to whether the Border Patrol has any effect in saving the lives of people attempting to enter into the United States (Guerette, 2007).
While tangible reasons exists for the need to cut on undocumented immigration, the benefits that illegal immigrants bring to the U.S economy still surpass the arguments against providing undocumented immigrants with legal status. The undocumented immigrants are found in all sectors of the U.S economy and their input needs to be recognized by providing them with legal status to work and improve the economy. They in fact, add circulation to the economy and many benefits that most of american-borns don’t see.
The factor of racial profiling comes into play as federal grant programs award police for rounding up as many people as possible. This very tactic was demonstrated by the CompStat system in New York City and further expounded by Victor M. Rios’s analysis of the themes over-policing and under-policing. These themes focus on how officers, police certain kinds of deviance and crime such as, loitering, or disturbing the peace, while neglecting other instances when their help is needed . Rios also stresses how the accumulation of minor citations like the ones previously mentioned, play a crucial role in pipelining Black and Latino young males deeper into the criminal justice system. Rios implies that in order to decrease the chances with police interaction one must not physically appear in a way that catches the attention of a police or do anything behavior wise that would lead to someone labeling you as deviant . Unfortunately, over-policing has made it difficult even for those who actually do abide by social norms because even then, they have been victims of criminalization . However, since structural incentives like those that mimic CompStat are in place, police simply ignore constitutional rules and are able to get away with racial profiling, and thus interrogate, and search whomever they please. Since these targeted minorities acknowledge the fact that the police are not always present to enforce the law, they in turn learn strategies in order to protect themselves from violence that surrounds them. Young African American Americans and Latino youth thus become socialized in the “code of the street”, as the criminal justice system possesses no value in their
The other aspect is that illegal immigrants have positive effects in the U.S economy by decreasing consumer cost. Most of the illegal immigrants came to the U.S to fill the secondary labor market; therefore products and services become cheaper because illegal immigrants work for lower wages, thus providing a kind of subsidy to American consumers. Nadadur Ramanujan in his article “Illegal Immigrants” states that, “Because illegal immigrants serves to allow businesses to minimize their cost of production in the secondary sector, it positively impacts income of all native workers by decreasing
While revenue generated by illegal immigrants help support the federal, state and local governments coffers. The overall costs associated with illegal immigrants and the negative impact it has on social services, education, and unemployment are detrimental to our economy. If Texas doesn’t take a stand against illegal immigration, illegal immigration is going force the Texas economy dry.
Home Land security statistics on immigration verifies that there are approximately 11 million illegal immigrants who reside in the United States. In Arizona, there is an estimate of 460,000 unauthorized immigrants in 2009. (United States). Arizona borders with Mexico and it is implied that the majority of the illegal immigrants are of a Mexican background. These figures are understandable disturbing to Arizona’s local government primarily and the nation as a whole. The large influx of illegal immigrants is causing severe economic and social problems. Prisons, schools, and hospitals are the institutions that receive the direct blows of the state’s immigration problems. For these reasons, law makers in the State of Arizona justify their new “suspicious” immigration law (Matthews Mark K).
This article pertains to the contentious issue of illegal immigration. Following the election of President Donald Trump in the United States, amnesty policies and laws have become obsolete. Furthermore, President Trump has promised to enforce immigration law and deport illegal and criminal aliens from the United States. Canada has seen a huge influx of economic migrants who illegal enter Canada, many of these are crossing from Minnesota into Manitoba, their failure to cross from a port of entry constitutes an illegal border crossing. Recently, there has been a movement among ‘bleeding heart’ politicians to declare cities as ‘Sanctuary Cities’. A Sanctuary City is one which provides safe haven for illegal immigrants and protects them from
Illegal immigration has many diverse effects on the United States economy. Some people argue that the negative outweigh the positive, but there is no doubt that immigrants do carry a critical role.
The mass deportation of undocumented immigrants categorizes them as second class citizens. People assume they provide a burden to society, and many policy makers have taken steps in order to oust them. The first being IIRIRA. In reality undocumented people have every right to be here. The economic slump of their native countries is a consequence of US actions and policies, and undocumented workers provide a great economic benefit to the US. In “Border America: illegal but essential, experts say undocumented immigrants are a driving force in the economy despite a toll to public services and unskilled workers,” by David Streitfeld the benefits undocumented workers provide for the economy are outlined. Streitfeld writes that economist agree that undocumented workers contribute to consumer spending and instead of replacing workers actually create jobs. Undocumented workers have a negative stigma that they misuse resources and steal jobs from citizens, but they do the opposite. The influx of undocumented workers has stimulated the
Rothschild also goes on to state, “San Francisco is leading the way”. Mayor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that prevents city officials from traveling on official business to Arizona” (3). We can see this law hurt states by losing support because of acceptance of racial profiling.... ... middle of paper ...
Illegal immigration has helped in the nation’s economic growth by enabling businesses to prosper as the illegal immigrants have provided cheap labor and long hours of hard work. Businesses benefit from illegal immigration by saving a large amount of money since they are not providing insurance both medical and retirement plans for their illegal workers. This results in a lower production cost for the companies and lower prices of goods and services for everyone. Although illegal immigrants may not contribute directly to the economy of the nation in the aspect of paying taxes like income tax, they contribute to the economy in the form of sales taxes by purchasing the supplies they need in the same way a native citizens or legal immigrants do in order to survive and live comfortably.
The notion that recent Latino immigrants are harbingers of crime and adverse social behaviors has no basis in truth, and in fact, it has been shown that immigrants may in fact have an opposite effect on neighborhood crime. In his article, Sampson (2008) considers the concept of the “Latino Paradox” – the fact that Hispanic Americans often score higher on a wide range of social indicators than expected (including those related to crime), given their socioeconomic disadvantages – comparing and contrasting it with his research collected on Latino immigrant populations in Chicago. Through a case study in 180 Chicago neighborhoods, Sampson suggested that higher rates of immigration in a neighborhood effectively reduces crime rates. The researchers found a significantly lower rate of violent crime among Mexican-Americans compared to Blacks and Whites in the same areas.
Debi Faris recently made the sad drive, again, from her home in Yucaipa, California, to the Los Angeles County coroner's office to retrieve the body of a baby boy who had been left by a dumpster. Ms. Faris, her husband, Mark, and others laid baby Jacob (who was named by the police officer who found the child) to rest in the Garden of Angels, a small portion of a local cemetery the Farises established for abandoned infants in 1996. With the help of donations, they bought 44 plots four years ago. Baby Jacob was the 45th abandoned child buried there, forcing them to look for new space among the tombstones. "I never thought in our lifetimes we'd use them all," said Debi Faris.
Those who support immigrants being protected by the law believe that immigrants help the economy by creating lower wages which enables companies to make better profits. According to Becky Akers and Donald J. Boudreaux, immigrants “should be allowed to contribute to the United States economy in the Constitutional and legal precepts that guarantee all immigrants the opportunity to pursue life, liberty, and happiness in the United States” (22). If immigrants were not here in the United States, the jobs they do might not even get done by anyone else (Isidore 103). Immigrants fill up the jobs that many Americans do not want. “Specialization deepens. Workers’ productivity soars, forcing employers to compete for their time by offering higher pay” (Akers and Boudreaux 25). As researcher Ethan Lewis said, “Economics professor, Patricia Cortes, studied the way immigrants impact prices in 25 large United States metropolitan areas. She discovered that a 10-percent increase in immigration lowered the price...
In the United States, the central tenant of immigration policy reform is the meanly focused on the control over border security and protection from allowing illegal persons for crossing and residing in those states bordering