Deportations

Pastor Max, a church leader in Iowa, was detained and deported by ICE agents. In my opinion, deportation should be on a case-by-case basis. Even though the Pastor had broken immigration laws, being that he is a community and faith leader, he should be exempt from deportation.

           

Another matter is the tactics ICE agents used to lure a parishioner, Reynold Garcia, out into the open and detained him. They used the cell phone of his cousin to send him a false message about an accident. That caused Garcia to appear at the church ICE agents were waiting for him. ICE agents need to be under watch on how they perform their duties.

http://americasvoice.org/blog/faith-leaders-pastor-maxs-family-slam-aggressive-ice-tactics-targeting-immigrants/

Supreme Court on immigration

The matter of President Obama’s immigration policy has reached the highest court in the country. With Supreme Justice Scalia gone, it has become a 50/50 split. Had he not died, the President’s immigration policy would have been overturned. Now his policy stands a chance to stay in effect if he can persuade one of the conservative justices to rule in his favor. With so many immigrants future hanging in the balance, this matter needs everyone’s attention as the outcome will affect every level of American society.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-immigration-idUSKCN0XF0B9

Survey of Americans towards immigration

This poll gives us a sense of the mood Americans feel about immigration at present day. Even though the economy is strong right now, not everyone is getting the effect of the upswing. Immigrants have always been blamed when Americans are experiencing economic woes. Terrorist attacks in US and Europe in the last 6 months involved immigrants. That produced further negative views on immigration for Americans.

What is interesting is the diversity of the people who are thinks immigration will jeopardize America. It ranges from in education background to age groups. Even millennials with negative views of immigration were polled at 55 %. Although this is just a poll, historically they had proven to be reliable in its results.  

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-07/americans-really-don-t-like-immigration-new-survey-finds

Expectations of immigrants

This commentary gave me a divided opinion. Granted it was written in 1907 when immigration laws were different from today and discrimination towards immigrants were still prevalent. However, Roosevelt did not anticipate back then how immigrants would change the landscape and fabric of present American culture.

If immigrants want to come to United States, they should place their allegiance to the country and the flag. Even though it still does not happen to this day, they are expected to assimilate to American society. However, Roosevelt did not anticipate back then how immigrants would change the landscape and fabric of present American culture. Most immigrants still speak their native languages in this country daily. To expect immigrants to only speak English in this country is just unrealistic.

Asian immigrants

The diversity of immigrants living in the western states of America is profound, especially in major cities. That is also the case in large cities on the east coast. Immigrants tend to settle in major metropolitan areas as present-day enclaves still exist.

Asians for the most part settle in California and Washington State. The availability of Asian supermarkets selling Asian by-products make the adjustment to live in this country easier for them. That is the reason why they did not move to the Midwest in large numbers because living in California amongst their own specific groups or race gives a feeling of not leaving their home country. It is likely that the current trend of large numbers of Asians migrating to US will continue for a significant period of time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/18/asian-immigration-california-latino-immigration-video_n_2507026.html

Criminal immigrants

This is a case of immigrants deported because of criminal acts. In the case of these two deportees, they probably commit crimes multiple times over the years to cause them to be deported. From 1960s until present day, it will not be a one time violation of the law. As far as Immigration’s refusal to grant them entry into US even with a subpoena by lawmakers is the right decision. First, they definitely already serve time in prison for their crimes before being deported. So there are no warrants for them. Once they get back in US, they can disappear into society as illegals and commit crimes again. Two, once someone is deported, they are automatically barred from entering US for 10 years. Three, we do not need more criminals in this country.

http://kron4.com/ap/deportees-denied-re-entry-to-us-to-testify-before-lawmakers/

Illegal children

Every election year, politicians running for the Office of the President of United States discussed about comprehensive immigration reform. That reform never happened as soon as the elections were over. Either it was put aside over other priorities or members of Congress did not agree on what comprehensive immigration reform is supposed to be. All these years, immigration policies remained pretty much the same. I expect the same to happen after this year’s election is over.

Hillary Clinton said in a debate that she will not deport children entering the United States illegally. What she did not discuss was what to do with these children. They have to be clothed, fed and educated. Which government agency is supposed to be responsible for them? The government is just a temporary solution. Eventually these children will need homes to live in. An adoption program is a possibility but the adoption rate will not be 100%, so what happens to the rest of them? They will likely stay in foster homes until they turn 18.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/clinton-children-immigration-220541