Immigrants, Deportation, And Rights

Immigrants, Deportation, and Rights

Immigration can be dated back as early as the 1700 's. North America as well as other continents have some form of immigration whether its legal or illegal. The united states for example has the largest amount of immigration due to opportunities that many want for themselves and their families. Because the amount of immigrants grew rapidly the U.S. began enforcing an immigration policy. This policy states that the “reunification of families admitting immigrants with skills that are valuable to the U.S. economy, protecting refugees, and promoting diversity.” (immigrationpolicy) The policy does not include people who illegally enter the U.S. border, but the policy does not stop people from wanting freedom from their oppressed country. These actions cause the country to take a firmer stand on the policy, the solution to the growing problem was to deport as many immigrants as possible through programs such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As time goes on the ICE lowers the number of immigrants, finding any reason to deport an individual even if the act committed was minor. The actions ICE makes causes outrage in diverse communities in American which leads to activists searching for answers to why their loved ones are being accused and deported. The people who come to the U.S. to live a honest lives, do the get deported as well. This question also brings up another, what are the reasons an immigrant (legal or illegal) should be deported? Answered by scholarly, peer-reviewed and popular articles they provide the necessary information that addresses immigration policies.

Goodman, Adam. “A Nation of (Deported) Immigrants”. University of Pennsylvania Press: Dissent Magazine, 2011. Web. In ...

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...ale, he has written multiple articles about immigration policies. The article expresses how the prison systems are set up and the issues those systems face. He gives data on the California prison system that is over flowing and is in need of decreasing the amount of inmates it houses. Schuck makes rationale claims that the prison system might be the cause for the economic slowly collapsing. The two points he makes leads to the occurring problem with immigrants in U. S. prisons. He believes legal or illegal immigrants should not see the inside of a U.S. prison, due to the withering away of the economy. Schuck acknowledges that federal government would like for the people who to commit the crime to serve their time, instead of the possibility of the criminal getting off. Because of this many illegal immigrants take the space needed for the actual citizens of the U.S.