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The Pros And Cons Of US Immigration Policy

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Many scholars have broadly revealed the guises under which U.S. immigration policies have racialized and criminalized immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries by engaging them as low-cost employment without offering paths for citizenship (Chock 1996). Immigration Policy does not want the ‘illegals’ to be anything but. Because it benefits the system to have them. Yet here we have all of these nominees trying to stop the ‘immigration problems’, and as Lakoff’s framing article explains. One cannot understand the issue as a cheap labor issue when it is framed as an ‘immigration problem’; concurrently a solution to the ‘problem’ will never address cheap labor since it is not within the immigration framework (Lakoff 2009).

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