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.