Essay About Immigration Discrimination

When people think of the word “Immigrant” usually, they picture a person from Mexican ethnicity. Because society and the most recent presidential election, most people think of only Mexican groups as immigrants. However, from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the top five Immigrant groups includes Mexico 29.5%, India 5.6%, China 4.9%, Vietnam 3.1%, and the Philippines at 4.4%. The biggest misconception of the word Immigrant is that they only come from Mexico. Society’s connotation of Immigrants is that they are uneducated and illiterate, which is incorrect.

Often, immigrants come to the U.S. to escape war, peril or poverty, though are not given the fair treatment and the chance they need to become citizens. The U.S. government should create a safe yet easy way to allow illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens and provide them with the opportunity for a new life. Time and time again many immigrants are labeled with the terms such as terrorists or rapists. People assume that these words have no impact or effect because their own president continually uses them.

Elie Wiesel shows many instances of dehumanization through the abuse of all Jews and the loss of his own name. Through doing so, he tries to prevent any similar event. Many Jews suffered from dehumanization during this terrifying event. Elie was very affected by these acts of dehumanization, such as when he and other Jews were shaved completely. It made Elie and the rest feel naked and it played a role in destroying his faith.

The Drug Enforcement Administration investigates criminals and drug gangs who distribute paraphilia in the United States (Sacco, 2014). They also work with other agencies to help eradicate the plants in order to reduce the manufacturing of the drugs. The DEA has eleven different programs. These programs

Other incidents at college spurred protest by students Additionally, in October, the Legion of Black Collegians was disrupted by a drunken white student as they were having their meeting. The drunken student is said to have voiced a racial slur when asked to leave the meeting. Then, in that same month, the Concerned Student 1950 group gave the school a list of demands. This list included them wanting Wolfe to apologize and be removed from office, as well as wanting more wide-ranging racial awareness and insertion of a curriculum that would be overseen by minority students and faculty.

Mexican drug cartels are influential in providing the surplus of drugs to America. Some of the most powerful Mexican cartels operate in the US and seven of them prove to be the source of the country’s drug problem. Heroin, cocaine, meth, and marijuana travel across borders and become for sell on the black market. Deemed the most powerful and wealthiest cartel in Mexico and the world are the Sinaloa Cartel. New leadership rocked the foundation of the cartel in the 1990s.

Is everyone else unhappy about this too? " I asked, turning right to face my mother. "Yes, almost everyone is chanting 'taxation without representation ' and writing songs to protest. Some colonists have even resorted to attacking taxpayers. They burned down a taxpayer named Andrew Oliver 's house and buried others alive until they said that they would repeal the act.

Guatemala already had a massive problem with organized crime, especially in Guatemala City, but the Mexico drug cartels are a new, well-resourced threat looking to cash in on the country’s strategic placement on the drug trade trail through Latin America. The country contributes to more than 60 percent of the cocaine trafficked to the United States from the region, according to the U.S. State Department. With Mexico beefing up efforts against the cartels within its borders, and the U.S. helping clamp down on illegal trafficking by air and water, the land routes through Guatemala are even more

There are a lot of races that get offended by symbols, mascots, flags, and statues. for example the natives are offended by the team mascot ‘’The washington redskins”, and another example is the confederate flag, there are a lot of southerners have the confederate flag on mostly everything they own, it is offensive to all the African-Americans in the whole U.S because for them when people owns the confederate flag that means they agree with slavery. From the article “Confederate battle flag: Separating the myths from facts.” says that “The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old battle

to sell it all there making a hefty profit. Most of the illegal drugs in the U.S. comes from Mexico. Although Mexico is only 3rd on the list for biggest producer of illegal drugs it still supplies the U.S. with over 90% of its illegal drugs. This is why a war on drugs is currently taking place in Mexico and had been for 12 years, but hardly any progress is being made by the authorities. Drug lords such as Pablo Escobar and Joaquin Guzmán Loera, a.k.a. "

Choosing to be a Mexican over American Today I feel more like a Mexican than anything else even though I was born in the united states. I may have papers and be American but hearing other ethnicities call my people immigrants and illegal makes me feel more like an immigrant myself. I feel this way because although I am considered an American I would much rather stand by my people and my culture. I would label myself as a Mexican-American, Latina, person of color, and as a minority. I describe myself as a Mexican-American because I was born and raised in Chicago and from Mexican descent.

Attentively, I listened as my grandma began to poor out her life long story to me. At the end of World War II, she had come as an immigrant from Germany with her family when she was only a little younger than I . Then she got her citizenship and raised her family here in America. This story I had known all too well, but until now I had always hesitated to bring up the topic in fear of the asking too much. To my brother and I, she was our Oma.

Coming from A Mexican family, I along with my siblings are the first generation to have been born in the United States. As a child, I lived a great life. My only worries were of missing the paleteros, ice cream man, or being frustrated because nobody in my neighborhood wanted to buy my mud pies, but never was it that I would fear the fact that my family could be taken away. It wasn’t until I was older and heard more comments about there being a thing as “illegal” immigrants when I began to worry for my parents, however, at the same time I began to realize all the suffering and challenges they go through and have gone through to give my siblings and I the best life we can get. Immigrants are an important part of America, yet they don’t get the awareness they deserve.

I woke to hearing the sounds of cars honking, loud music, and people cheering. I was very confused on what was going on that without hesitation, I got up and ran outside to see people running holding flags that with the colors of purple or green on them and people on the back of trucks yelling with excitement. I see my grandmother walking towards me and she shouts “ Laisha, that’s how we celebrate election day in Dominican Republic.” While the whole Dominican Republic was celebrating, I was dying of boredom at a family reunion that was at my great grandma’s house. I sit there complaining about insignificant thing like not having air conditioning, have to take motorcycle to place ,and not having internet.