This paper will attempt to answer this question. Other discussions within this paper will be such as who are considered illegal immigrants and why are they in the United States. I will also discuss an employer’s role and responsibility towards the illegal immigrants. This paper will also discuss the Immigration Reform and Control Act and how it affects and/or whether it helps the illegal immigrants and how it compares to the National Labor Relations Act as far as whether illegal immigrants should be protected under this Act. Illegal immigrants is one term used to describe anyone who is not a national or citizen of a country (in this case the country referred to is the United States) and/or those who are residing in the country without the legal documentation needed (ww.usimmigrationsupport.org/irca.html).
Further, local governments need to request for information regarding suspected aliens. Information from the federal government may take a while before it is processed. Enforcement of immigration laws at the state level is open to challenges too. Many states have passed laws that prohibit local officers from enforcing immigration laws (Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws at the State and Local Levels, 2010). For instance, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles have passed laws that limit officers in the enforcement of these laws.
This quote is trying to say is that there are Americans with the struggle that José Vargas has that didn’t get the same equality that he has. His struggle of being an imposter and fear the guilt of getting caught by the state law. To me I believe that Esther Cepeda interpretation better because if I could put myself in Jose Vargas shoes I would have got caught as soon as I would have showed them my green card. Like Cepeda said in her essay that “illegal immigrants who
Hemingway mirrors brutal events in his novel, through the similar traits of brutality found between the Republican massacre in the unnamed town, and the Falangists’ (the Spanish Fascist party) rape of Maria. Pilar recalls a massacre in an unnamed town, where Pablo has twenty fascists “beaten to death with flails and thrown from the top of the cliff above the river.”1 The Fascists would each be beaten and driven through two lines of flail-armed men, until the crowd threw them off the cliff at the end of the lines. Pilar notes that this brutal, collective killing of the Fascists was intended to motivate the Republicans in taking greater action against the Fascists. Initially, the massacre is described as akin to passing “a holy image in a procession”2,
Whether by choice, by necessity, or both, they are also Americans." Americans have been constantly fed fear from policymakers and the media. Especially with this current election, we have been told that immigration "present a significant threat to national security and public safety", yet, the census data shows men ages 18-49, immigrants were one-half to one-fifth as likely to be incarcerated as those born in the United States. The media also only portrays the negatives of immigration, instilling fear to the viewer while demoralizing innocent immigrants. If the media portrays the good, showing the humanization of immigrants, viewers wouldn't be as instilled with fear.
Immigration Laws Many Americans continue to debate over immigration and its effects to the United States. Recent bills have passed that allow for state and local law enforcement to have control over immigration laws. Immigration laws should be enforced and controlled by the federal government rather than state and local law enforcement. State government in Arizona passed SB 1070 which allows state and local police to check the immigration status of anyone whom they arrest and allows police to stop and arrest anyone whom they believe to be an illegal immigrant. Such bills go as far as making it a crime if people fail to carry registration papers.
My assumption that all illegal immigrants were Mexican migrant workers was proven to be wrong. This was evident as events such as 9/11 and drug running came to the forefront. Through this, I found my point of view shifting in favor towards visa overstay regulation and implementation of an interstate connected National ID program. In developing a reasonable solution to the immigration question, I weighed the pros and cons of several different perspectives and solutions. I recognized my beginning assumptions and inferences were a superficial approach to the problem and that more educated thought had to be implemented.
Immigration has been such a controversial topic. America what was once considered land of the freed and an immigrant based country is now shaming others from where they come from. To add on to that also turning their back on people who have actually helped built this nation to what it is today. With that said in 1965 the immigration act was placed which created a new system to let more immigrants into the country. That is being battled nationally and federally.
The strangest aspect of America’s immigration debate is the intense opposition among right-wing hardliners to allowing more immigrants into the country. Most opposition to illegal immigrants stems from an admirable respect for the law, but there is a curious belief among the far right that being on the wrong side of the border—purely through an accident of birth—makes you undeserving of equal rights. They wish to deny citizenship to those who are willing to work for it, when they themselves acquired it through no effort save that of having been born on the right side of the border. These same people, curiously enough, are also of the following opinions: no one is entitled to anything, people who work harder than others deserve more, and the economy should be free from government regulation. This much the amusingly named teabaggers have made clear in hundreds of “tea parties” organized to protest government policies they view as “socialistic”.
The student movement of 1968 The student movement of 1968 was a social movement in which in addition to students from the UNAM and the IPN, participate teachers, intellectuals, housewives, workers, and professionals in Mexico City and that was repressed on 2 October 1968 by the Mexican government in the massacre in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco. The crime was committed by the paramilitary group called Battalion Olympia and the Mexican army, against a peaceful demonstration organized by National Council of strike. As told by himself in 1969 and by Luis Echeverría Álvarez, responsible for the massacre was Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. Due to government action to claim to hide information, has not been able to clarify exactly the amount of official killed, wounded, missing and imprisoned. The official source reported at the time 20 deaths, but the current research deduced that the dead could reach several hundred and responsible directly to the Mexican State.