Bush visits Latin America countries (he visits mexico)

On March 13th, 2007, the media announced that Bush was visiting the Latin countries. One of the Latin countries he visited was Mexico. While Bush was trying to recover relations with Mexico, the president from Mexico gave him a decent reception. The decent reception was called on “Bush to live up to his longtime promise to make Mexico a priority and criticizing American plans to build a 700-mile fence along the border.” The President from Mexico, Felipe Calderon stated, that the only way you can stop the illegal immigrants to go to the United States and guarantee regional security is to increase the way of living in Mexico. As President of Mexico, he wants the best for his country. He also wants Bush to keep his promise that he has said before. For example, Mr. Bush “took the slight chastising in stride and promised,” a while ago to thrust for an immigrants bill, which would permit more guest workers and offers a path to citizenship for many Mexicans that are currently living in the United States illegally. It would be great if Bush actually does this promise because it could decrease the illegal immigrants that have residence in the United States. Mr. Bush adds, “Mr. President, my pledge to you and your government — but, more importantly, the people of Mexico — is I will work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/latinamerica/images/2-fox-latin-america-p14998-22-ed-web-398h.jpg

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5081FF83A550C778DDDAA0894DF404482

Supporting deported immigrants

In many cases deported immigrants come to the United States because they want to meet with their families again. Those immigrants that don’t have don’t have documents travel to the United States hoping that deportation will never become a reality. Deportation is a nightmare for those immigrants because once you get deported there is a huge chance that you won’t be able to come back. “Some will try to cross the border again. Others, however, see deportation as an opportunity to return to their homeland, especially during the holiday season.” However, the United Methodist Church’s Joint Commission Project on Border Issues in San Diego opening a program to aid those deported immigrants who chose to return to where they were living in the origin in Mexico. People that represent the Church in San Diego are working with their Baja California counterparts to give the immigrants a “Hope Pack,” which provides “basic products for the trip back, such as food (five granola or breakfast bars), four pints of water or juice, a pair of new underwear, a new t-shirt and personal hygiene products (soap and toothpaste).” The United Methodist Church has three temporary shelters in Tijuana that delivers the Hope Packs to the immigrants. In addition, “the majority of boarders at the Methodist Church shelters in Tijuana are men who have no family or friends in the area.” These men have chosen to leave everything they had to find a better future. These Hope Packs were needed to those immigrants that have been deported because the Rev. Luis Garcia of First United Methodist Church in Chula Vista says “Talking to immigrants at the shelters, we noticed that many times when they needed the most help it was with how to return to their home towns.” People that have been in the shelter find that looking for jobs is hard because they don’t have permanent address or most of them have lost their official documents. In fact, the church is planning to spread the programs to the cities of Mezicali and San Luis Rico Colorado, Sonora. Garcia adds, the Church offers them aid in all kinds of way, such as physical, emotional, and spiritual. Immigrants that have been deported seem to have no hope and the people in the church give them the word God, which gives them hope to their lives. Garcia says, that the Methodist Church have always supported the immigrants that have been deported and that is what being Christian means. It’s important to support those that are less fortunate. “One of the goals of the program is to help immigrants in their home states to get jobs, continue their studies or start their own small businesses.”


http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=b230960beed9cd2fdac9d0151579e045

Deported Immigrants

There have been many immigrants in the last few years that have been deported for several of reasons. For example, some may have done a crime, such as a murder, rob, or even come with a visa and last in the United States for a long time. However, when immigrants commit these crimes it usually takes long for the immigrants to gets deported. “According to Tara Tidwell-Cullen of the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago, a federal judge must first approve the deportation order, and then ICE must obtain travel documents from the detainee's country.” However, after the attack on September 11th, the record of immigrants being deported as decreased. The only record that probably increased is immigrant detention. Besides, after the 9/11 there wasn’t an increase among South Asians and Middle Easterners getting deported, or any of the nationalities that are known as “Muslims.” However, the races that have definitely increased are the Black immigrants (Caribbean or African nationalities) and Brown immigrants (Mexican, Central American and South American nationalities). In other words, “Black immigrants have higher numbers of deportations than Asians, Middle Eastern or White immigrants.” Like in 2002, the total number of Black immigrants being deported was 8,921, for the Whites is 3,090 and the total of the Asian and Middle Easterners is 4,317.
http://www.nathanielturner.com/blackimmigrantsdeported.htm www.alternet.org/rights/45495/

www.latinamericanstudies.org/deportation.htm

What I have to say about all THIS!!!

For the most part, I sort of agree with some of the laws that have already been established and proposed. I feel that most of the laws have well security with immigrants entering the United States, especially after the whole terrorist attack of September 11th. I mean, its good to be aware of who is coming in the United States, because you never know. For example, after the 9/11, there have been alot of securities not only the trains, streets, and local places but if you read some of the laws that I have mentioned in my previous posts you see that they have strict security guards at the border when immigrants try to enter. In my opinion, this law is extremely strict towards the immigrants. For example, in the H.R. 4437 people that are entering the United States such as, immigrants, victims of human trafficking, and victims of domestic abuse aren't allowed to come in. If so, then they will be removed out of the country or taken into jail. Because of actions of security, I believe that it is well done of them to check who is coming in because that way violence and all the environments will be less dangerous.

I strongly agree on the what Nathan Moore said, "Mexicans did not attack New York on September 11th", so why don't they just focused on those that look like terrorist and let those immigrants come into the United States and let them work. They aren't killing anyone, so let them have their American Dream!

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http://www.nashvilleistalking.com/2006/03/27/h-r-4437-protest-reactions

Kicking out immigrants...The people's reactions

The general public has had different opinions relating to the proposed law on immigration (Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and the Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005); Many forum sites have been established which ask the public to comment on the H.R. 4437 law and express their opinions. The site nashvilleistalking.com asked people to comment on the law and they received different point of views. For example Nathan Moore states: "We cannot seal the southern border. It is too long, too porous, and would require too much manpower. We would do better to use those resources to scan every cargo container that enters the country." He then adds: "Mexicans did not attack us on 9/11 - if national security is the real concern, we shouldn't overlook our much longer and less monitored neighbor to the North."

While the previous point of view clearly steered against the proposed law others have different takes on it. Bear Creek Ledger writes: "The socialist mind thought is Americans have it too good and need to brought down to the standard of living of those third world countries in which illegal aliens are fleeing." He also states: "For those Illegals who don’t want to be treated like a criminals, don’t enter the United States illegally! For those who say a “Fence” won’t work then I guess the effectiveness of the wall in Israel is a lie and the same goes for the fence along the U.S. border at San Diego."

These two point of views come directly from the people who experienced the on going debate over the H.R. 4437 law, but what did the politicians have to say? The very same politicians that would have to deal with voter turn outs from the Hispanic, or generally immigrant, population which compiles a large number of their voters.


http://www.nashvilleistalking.com/2006/03/27/h-r-4437-protest-reactions

http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/sumoflegis1.html

Justice for the Immigrants!

According to Justice for Immigrants, the proposed laws for immigrants currently are the H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and the Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. In fact, all these laws were passed through the House of Representative on December 16, 2005. It is said that if any undocumented immigrants commit a crime or a felony they would have to go to jail for a period of time. In addition to that, the immigrant would not be allowed to re-enter into the country or do future legal status. Part of the H.R. 4437 is that if any certain people enter the United States such as, immigrants, victims of human trafficking, victims of domestic abuse, or "children who are apprehended along an internation border", will be avoided to enter the United States for a certain time as they are being kicked out of the country. In California and Arizona the law proposes to grant $2.2 billion to build double-layer border fences. The law also states that it will eliminate the Diversity Visa program, which gives visas to immigrants that are underrepresented in the immigration system.

The H.R. 4437 has restricted that any organization needs to see documents of anyone entering the United States. If they don't obey this law then they would have a penalty of five years in prison. For example, "church peronnel who provide shelter or other basic needs assitance to an undocumented individual."


http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/HR4437.html>



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Security is our concern! Or is it?

“The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) estimates that in January of 2000 there were 7 million illegal aliens living in the United States, a number that is growing by half a million a year. Thus, the illegal-alien population in 2003 stands at least at 8 million.” Surprising numbers one might think with all the established laws mentioned in the previous posts we would be led to think that the number of illegal immigrants would be minimal. While the Mexican “border's total length is 1,951 miles (3,141 km), according to figures given by the International Boundary and Water Commission. It is the most frequently crossed international border in the world, with some 350 million people crossing (legally) every year.” The length of this border may sound surprising but it does not compare to our friend in the north.

“The Canada-U.S. border stretches more than five thousand miles across North America.” That is more than twice the length of the Mexican border yet much greater attention is focused on the southern border. It is necessary to note that the very terrorists who infiltrated our land and the very same people who planned and later carried out the 9/11 attacks crossed through the Canadian border, yet it remains highly under guarded. All this emphasis is to put on the established laws for the border and how they are supposed to thwart the illegal immigrants crossing. However, the numbers show that there is no sign of slowing the people out to attain "a better life". Both the northern and southern borders are too immense to contain, there are too few border patrol officers to monitor all the land. In the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore, there is a section where Moore interviews a border patrol officer in the Canada-US border and he testifies to having the sole responsibility to monitor over 100 miles on his own. With these lack luster efforts in the north its a surprise another security breach has not yet occurred. With all this, the focus still remains on the Mexican Immigrants coming in from the south. While the government advertises homeland security and stopping terrorists, it is clear that "SAFETY" is not their main interest.

http://canadaonline.about.com/library/weekly/aa040300a.htm

http://www.cis.org/topics/illegalimmigration.html

http://codac.uoregon.edu/HomelandInSecurity.shtml

Hitting the immigrants with those laws!

There were many laws established in order to keep immigrants from entering the United States. For example, the Immigration Act of 1891, made an Office of the Superintendent of Immigration within the Treasury Department. The Office of the Superintendent was in charge of “admitting, rejecting, and processing all immigrants seeking admission to the United States and also implementing national immigration policy.” At the U.S. ports of entrance, there were immigrant inspectors that were ordered to collect manifests of passengers that were coming into the United States. The largest station of the U.S. ports was located on Ellis Island, which was in the New York harbor. In addition, every immigrant that was entering the U.S. ports, was charged fifty cents by immigrant inspectors.

The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service which is also known as INS was associated with the United States Department of Justice. INS used to work with the legal and illegal immigration and naturalization. The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service was then transferred to the Department of Homeland Security in March 2003. The Department of Homeland Security is composed of three agencies, which are U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). "The administration of immigration services, including permanent residence, naturalization, asylum, and other functions became the responsibility of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS), which existed only for a short time before changing to its current name, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The investigative and enforcement functions (including investigations, deportation, and intelligence) were combined with U.S. Customs investigators, the Federal Protective Service, and the Federal Air Marshal Service, to create U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE). The border functions of the INS, which included the Border Patrol along with INS Inspectors, were combined with U.S. Customs Inspectors into the newly created U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Naturalization_Service

The Immigration and Nationally Act of 1962, which is also known as McCarran-Walter Act controlled the immigrants that were entering the United States. The Immigration and Nationally Act usually were in charged of immigration and citizenship in the United States. Prior to the Immigration and Nationally Act were many laws regarding immigration but they weren't tied together in one single document. This Act in turn, gave solidity and unified all the naturalization and immigration laws. After the 9/11 immigration and nationally has gone through revisions "regarding the admissibility and removability of terrorist suspects has received much media and scholarly attention."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarran-Walter_Act

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The Immigration Reform and Control Act (Simpson-Mazzoli Act) (IRCA) was an attempt to reduce illegal immigration to the United States which was currently seen as a threat to the U.S. economy. At the time the law was passed the immigrant population was largely illegal or unemployed. The law made hiring illegal immigrants a crime in an attempt to undermine the employment of illegal aliens. Similar to what is currently happening, in the 1980’s, the high number of illegal immigrants employed in low wage jobs and many other positions was seen as a “threat” to the ability of Americans to acquire jobs. While attempting to lower the number of illegal immigrants who would be hired, the legislature granted amnesty to people who had already been working and living in the United States. They proposed to allow regularization of status and eventually full citizenship. That decision was something non-synonymous with this eras attempt to lower illegal alien employment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986