Jumping the Border
Imagine this, living in a very small town, smaller than Kachina Village, with only one store where you could make and receive phone calls, there are no public phones, no residential phone lines, no electricity and no running water. The roads are not paved until you get to the main road where people travel the most. The next town is about thirty minutes away, and there is only one bus that comes to this small town once a week, so people can go shopping and do other things. In this small town there are hardly any vehicles, people either walk, bike, or ride donkeys. There are hardly any jobs and so the only thing you can do is to leave for another place and look for a job to support your family. If someone told you that there was a place where people had many opportunities to find work and make better money, would you go? This small town I am describing is a place called La Huertilla in a state called Oaxaca in Mexico; it is the place where my son Mauricio’s grandparents live.
Many young children are being torn apart from their families. Many parents come to the United States to make money and send back. They would leave their children with grandparents or other family members, until they are able to bring them up to the U.S.
Is there a way the United States could open up the Mexican and United States border? If we as American citizens can cross into Mexico without showing passports, visas, and driver licenses, why could we not turn around and do the same for Mexico’s people who would like to enter the United States. The United States should allow Mexican Immigrants to migrate and visit freely, because I believe it is not fair for the Americans to not have to show papers, while Mexicans have to.
Imagine yourself leaving for another country only with one belief that it will be to better support your family. With this engraved in your mind you pack a small bag with only three pairs of clothes to change into. You are finally at the border, after leaving your loved ones behind, reassuring them you will send money to support them. Now you have to decide when you will jump the border.
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In the treatise named “Leviathan” published in 1651, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) proposed an early variant of equality among men that inequality did not exist in natural condition, meaning everyone is born equal; however, inequality's existence was the result of civil laws (Hobbes & Gaskin, 1998). In this sense, inequality is generally referred to social inequality which is characterized by the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society; plus, this negative social phenomenon contains structured and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods, wealth, opportunities, rewards, and punishments (Crossman, 2012).
Rowlingson, K. ( 2011). Does inequality cause Health and Social Problems? Birmingham: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The highest earning fifth of U.S. families earned 59.1% of all income, while the richest earned 88.9% of all wealth. A big gap between the rich and poor is often associated with low social mobility, which contradicts the American ideal of equal opportunity. Levels of income inequality are higher than they have been in almost a century, the top one percent has a share of the national income of over 20 percent (Wilhelm). There are a variety of factors that influence income inequality, a few of which will be discussed in this paper. Rising income inequality is caused by differences in life expectancy, rapidly increases in the incomes of the top 5 percent, social trends, and shifts in the global economy.
When it comes to sociological research, Grusky and Weisshaar give specific layers or information about the four parameters of inequality and what they mean. These factors give common over views of the category in which the unfair distribution of goods and income are spread. The four parameters are listed as the amount of inequality, rigidity, ascriptive processes, and crystallization (Grusky and Weisshaar
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As a consequence, low-income households suffer more health problems due to the lack of income. "Despite social assistance programs such as TANF, Women, Infants and children (WIC), food stamps, and Meals on Wheels, malnutrition exists primary among the old and the young in the United States". The American health care system which is based on ability to pay is not adequate to provide immediate services to poor people. Among the common health problems associated with children in poverty include asthma, lead poisoning and vision deficiency. (Koppelman and Goodhart, 2007)
Deportations has has been in mind to our country but I will make our way of peace with our families a disaster. Most families which are being deported till this moment are mexican which really impacts their families in many ways. The author insist, “ Children are suffering house instability, emotional harm, and financial stress which are led to decline in school performance.”(Ewing, 2012) This shows that deportation have not only affected immigrants but children which are citizens and are trying to be someone in life but are being held behind by
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This is a lost generation of children, they all have witnessed extreme trauma. They are growing up without the proper access to education and the proper health care and most of them living in tents or basements. Most of the Syrian children do not attend school, because some parents can’t work about ten percent of Syrian children are involved in child labor. Some parents make their daughters get married early because they could not afford them anymore (Syrian Refugees: All You Need to Know).
Poverty can have damaging effects on children. Poverty rates amongst children are higher than another other age group according to Dalaker, 2001. Though there have been many improvements made, there are still approximately 1.2 million children still living in poverty. In terms of race and ethnicity, the poverty rate for children under 18 years of age are as followed; 30% African American, 29% Latino and 13% White. This extenuates the statistics ...
One may argue that the U.S. shouldn’t be providing these resources to “outsiders,” since thousands upon thousands of our own people are suffering every day, but hey let’s help those not from here. On that same note, why should the United States allow so many individuals into the country who are not able to contribute significantly, when they could have other asylum seekers brought in from all parts of the world who can be a productive member of society? Not to mention, others could claim that these children, that we would willingly allow access into the country, could possibly be drug users or criminals, and eventually corrupt the American values and create more problems. Although, these are majorly innocent kids, who were just caught in between situations that were beyond their control, and wanted to be able to live without worrying about being recruited into a gang or being gunned down on the streets. Many U.S. citizens don’t even know about their countries interference with these countries, so they believe that it’s the other countries problem, not
Stewart, Charles T., Jr. "Inequality of Wealth and Income in a Technologically Advanced Society." The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies 27.4 (2002): 495-512. Print.
Poverty, also know as the “silent killer” (Causes of Poverty), exists in every corner of the world. The death rate of poor children is a staggering number; about 9 million die each year. Some view poverty as people not being able to afford an occupational meal or having to skip a meal to save money. This isn’t true poverty; poverty is where people live on $1.25 or less a day. According to Causes of Poverty, 1.4 billion people live like this. Even more shocking than the last statistic is that half of the world’s population lives on $2.50 per day.