Many cities all around the country are going to move forward and give documents to undocumented people. The city of Los Angeles approved a proposed ID card to be given to all residents of its area no matter their immigration status in the country. Even though receiving this ID it does not protect them from been deported. It will only work as a proof of residency. In the city of Los Angeles the Public Policy Institute of California estimates that there are 916,000 undocumented immigrants only in the County of Los Angeles. The author explain, it is better for the government to know who this undocumented people are and where they live rather than stay in the shadows. Perhaps, in this way it is easier for undocumented to integrate in society and
As a young child, I had a feeling of resentment towards my parents as I naively believed that they were not working hard enough to obtain a career that would result in them being able to fulfill the necessities of the family. I thought that my parents were incapable of providing my siblings and I with a stable place to live and with a reliable source of transportation. That was my assumption until I saw a documentary on what undocumented immigrant families left behind in their countries for the better of their family in addition to the setbacks they must undergo to make a living in the land of opportunity.
Voter ID laws in the United States have begun to create controversy since the beginning of its adaptations in the early 2000’s. Voter ID laws in the United States is a law that requires U.S. citizens to have a special form of identification in order to vote in an election. The idea with Voter ID laws is that the state must make sure that the laws do not pose any sort of burden on the voters. These laws have been proposed in order to stop voting fraud. However, the institution of Voter ID laws have made trouble in states, including Texas, regarding to the various amount of identification requirements needed.
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles also known, as CHIRLA is a Los Angeles county-based organization focusing on immigrant rights. The organization serves people, institutions, and a coalition to build power, transform the public opinion, and be able to meet the full human, civil, and labor rights. Furthermore, it aids in the passing of policies and laws that benefit the immigrant community regardless of their documented status. CHIRLA is considered to be one of the oldest organizations advocating for immigrant rights. In addition, CHIRLA is funded by Ford Foundation in efforts to help educate immigrants about the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Following the funding from Ford Foundation, CHIRLA was to help
The United States of America, being a country founded by immigrants, is known all over the world as the land of great opportunities. People from all walks of life travelled across the globe, taking a chance to find a better life for them and their family. Over the years, the population of immigrants has grown immensely, resulting in the currently controversial issue of illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are the people who have overstayed the time granted on their US, visa or those who have broken the federal law by crossing the border illegally. Matt O’Brien stated in his article “The government thinks that 10.8 million illegal immigrants lived in the country in January 2009, down from a peak of nearly 12 million in 2007.”(Para, 2).
In 2011, one of these laws was passed in Texas. As a result, 93-year old Viviette Applewhite was not able to cast her vote in the general elections of 2012, as she had no driver’s license and was adopted as a young child. This woman, who had voted in every election since 1960, is one out of many who have been negatively impacted by the latest forms of strict voter ID laws that have been passed in more than 10 states. Besides causing disenfranchisement, voter id laws create barriers between citizens and the polls. An estimated 21 million people (11% of the population) do not have a driver’s license, and therefore would have no photo ID to “deserve” their right to vote, a right that no American citizen should have to earn. Most affected are the elderly, low income, and minority groups that tend to lean to the Democratic side. It is also detrimental to those living in rural regions far from areas to acquire the necessary documents in obtaining an ID. These people are eligible vot...
Currently, there are 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the United States; 6 million of those immigrants are Mexican-born (Preston). Within that undocumented population are individuals who were brought to the States as children. These individuals have grown up in the American culture and consider themselves American, but struggle with being treated as second class citizens due to their undocumented status. On June fifteenth of 2012, the Obama Administration announced the executive order Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This order will allow immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children to apply for work permits and avoid deportation (Hennessey and Bennett). President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is not only beneficial to it applicants but also to the United States as a whole.
The idea is to allow any authorized person to verify the identity of a person. This would help in certain isolated situations, but would only have a limited effect on crime. The ID card contains, name, address, sex, photograph, fingerprints. That might also include place of employment, data of birth, perhaps religion, perhaps name of children, spouse, and health insurance coverage, may be credit records. Here I am talking about someone’s privacy. Since the ID card contains all the data about a person on it, then where is the privacy when the card is swiped? More high tech national id system would enable the federal government and its contractors to follow and...
Over the past years, Alice Antonovsky and her team of immigration lawyers have helped hundreds of immigrants from different countries achieve their immigration goals. We have been winning complex immigration cases along the road and we take great pride in sharing real-life success stories of immigrants that achieved the American dream. These stories are real and not just what you hear on the street.
According to the author, border control, law enforcement and employers to police the workplace are good debated ideas in congress but all have flaws and even creating a National ID would be very costly. He claims that illegal immigrants work in places with
Alan M. Dershowitz states in his thesis that he supports having a national identity card with a chip that can match the holder’s fingerprint. He states that having a national identity card with a chip can be an effective way of preventing terrorism and reduce the need for other law enforcement mechanism like racial and ethnic profiling. The evidence he provides is that we are already required to have photo ID’s for driving, drinking, and flying. The majority of Americans already carry on them their photo ID’s so it would not be an inconvenience to have to carry another photo ID. Alan then states that the way to combat any fear people of the government being too intrusive is by having only specific government officials ask to see your national
The cold war was in 1946 through 1991; which was the struggle of ideas of the United States and Soviet Union to stop the spread of communism. Although the cold war was going on, there was domestic problems in the United States. During the 1960s the increase of civil rights and liberties was more powerful for all minority’s groups. However, for the purpose of the assignment I will only be talk about the Mexican American civil right movement of students in California.
There is a common consensus among people around the world that the United States of America is the greatest country in the world because it is the land of opportunity, and the land of immigrants. In fact, the United States of America has always been the epicenter for the world 's greatest minds, and where hard work is recognized and rewarded. A place where boys become the future leaders of the world. A place where everyone, regardless of the color of their skin and their religion collaborate to solve the world’s future/current problems. Recently though, many Americans claim that undocumented immigrants steal their jobs, don’t pay any taxes, and still reap the benefits such as free public schooling. However, the author of “My Life as an Undocumented
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Most American taxpayers are critical of their taxation being used for the well-being of other people. Additionally, most Americans think that welfare benefits are not allocated to illegal immigrants. However, their perception is not informed since immigrants still receive welfare benefits in the form of Medicaid and food stamps used on their American-born children. An enormous amount of welfare benefits costs is still consumed by illegal immigrants through the birthright citizenship policy. Even through the country places barriers towards illegal aliens with the aim of preventing their access to federal welfare programs, they will still access it through the birthright citizenship loophole. The financial implication of the policy can be manifested in the fact that the occurrence costs the taxpayer in Los Angeles up to one billion dollars annually without including the costs of education (Shachar,