Let's Give Justice: A New Immigration Law

What if your loving household was taken apart? Illegal Immigrants are those who have migrated to the United States from another country without the consent of the government. These people who have built a life and families in America live in constant fear of being deported. They live in fear that one day they may be sent back to their homeland, while leaving their loved ones behind. The issue has yet to be resolved because of the conflicted attitudes that the public and politics have towards illegal immigrants. The current Immigration Law disadvantages mexican immigrant families by deporting parents, forcing them to leave their children behind. In order to fix the problem we must establish a new immigration law that protects families by giving them amnesty.

At an early stage the law presented concerns which constantly required new reform. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Americans encouraged free and open immigration until the late 1800’s when the population of immigrants rose and the economy was heading a downfall. The reaction in America was to put the blame on illegal aliens because they believed they were at fault. Americans were losing their jobs to the mexicans that didn’t mind being payed less. They also struggled to find jobs because most employers would hire the mexicans. They were also targeted because mexicans didn’t have to pay taxes but still used the resources that the government offered. At this point Congress began to establish new legislations concerning immigrants. It contained problems with who the United States would allow to receive citizenship. The law made it difficult for immigrants to be approved for citizenship by having them They wanted to keep out idiots, lunatics, convicts, and persons li...

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...cies. Most commonly immigrants establish family roots and often with children who are citizens of America. Vinita Andrapalliyal discusses the threats to immigrant parental rights. “child protective agency officials may be more willing to recommend that a court remove a child from his parent’s custody or terminate parental rights because… they view some immigrant parenting traditions as undesirable and disfavor parents who cannot speak English.” (179) Immigrant parents with citizen children are seen as unfit to care for a child because at any moment they may be deported. The law makes it justifiable to do the immoral thing of separating a loving household due to the parents legal status.

A way to resolve the issue is by providing amnesty to those families that respect the law. A pardon shall be given to the good people who work hard for themselves and their family.