SOC 315
Media Reaction
SOC 315
September 9, 2013
Media Reaction
There has been a lot of news lately focused around the topic of immigration and undocumented persons in the United States. With that being said it was really difficult trying to find one media source that would have plenty of new information that I didn’t know and some that I did know.
Illegal immigration has always been present in the United States. Actually, the first law that the United States had against anyone entering was the fact that they didn’t allow convicts or prostitutes to enter the country. Notice how we had a ton of immigrants to come from other countries and arrive at Ellis Island. From 1892 until 1954 Ellis Island admitted over 12 million legal immigrants. Since then the United States put quotas on how many people can migrate to the country. Illegal Immigration started to become more of a “looked-at problem” later in the twentieth century. According to an End Illegal immigration group, “Today, over one million immigrants enter our country per year, while the illegal alien population grows by about five hundred thousand per year. (2011)”.
As I wrote above, the United States have tried to control the masses of immigrants that have tried to come across the borders of America; but what kind of enforcement do we have in place to control all of the areas that can be crossed? Politically that has been a constant problem of elected officials. We know that we cannot do mass deportations and we can’t control every inch of the United States borders. Presidents and congress are trying their hardest to think of new ideas or improve on old ones to get the border control situation under what it’s supposed to be, under control. An article that I read from US News is stating that “Why, then, have we had so many Latin immigrants, many of them illegal? Because the apparatus of state has proved weaker than market forces: The old INS (now CIS) and the understaffed Border Patrol have been
SOC 315
September 9, 2013
Media Reaction
There has been a lot of news lately focused around the topic of immigration and undocumented persons in the United States. With that being said it was really difficult trying to find one media source that would have plenty of new information that I didn’t know and some that I did know.
Illegal immigration has always been present in the United States. Actually, the first law that the United States had against anyone entering was the fact that they didn’t allow convicts or prostitutes to enter the country. Notice how we had a ton of immigrants to come from other countries and arrive at Ellis Island. From 1892 until 1954 Ellis Island admitted over 12 million legal immigrants. Since then the United States put quotas on how many people can migrate to the country. Illegal Immigration started to become more of a “looked-at problem” later in the twentieth century. According to an End Illegal immigration group, “Today, over one million immigrants enter our country per year, while the illegal alien population grows by about five hundred thousand per year. (2011)”.
As I wrote above, the United States have tried to control the masses of immigrants that have tried to come across the borders of America; but what kind of enforcement do we have in place to control all of the areas that can be crossed? Politically that has been a constant problem of elected officials. We know that we cannot do mass deportations and we can’t control every inch of the United States borders. Presidents and congress are trying their hardest to think of new ideas or improve on old ones to get the border control situation under what it’s supposed to be, under control. An article that I read from US News is stating that “Why, then, have we had so many Latin immigrants, many of them illegal? Because the apparatus of state has proved weaker than market forces: The old INS (now CIS) and the understaffed Border Patrol have been
References: Barone, M. (2007). U. S. News & World Report. Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/070527/4barone.htm Blondell, J. (2008). Adverse impacts of massive and illegal immigration in the united states. The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, 33(3), 328-350. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/216799786?accountid=458 End Illegal Immigrantion. (April 11, 2011). History of Illegal Immigration in U.S.. Retrieved from http://www.endillegalimmigration.com/History_of_Illegal_Immigration_in_US/