reason 1:Deporting these “illegals” is not the morally right thing to do as human beings. Should illegal immigrants be forced to leave the country? There is a group of individuals, which appears to be fairly large who believe these people shouldn't’ be here in the first place. They believe they should be deported, forcibly if necessary (Taylor 2008). It is against the law, and most people agree that breaking the law is a bad thing to do. Most people believe that the right thing to do is to follow the law no matter what. What if all the individuals in the 1800s who had slaves escape from the south, hadn’t done so. They did the right thing, and the right thing required them to break the law. What if they followed the law and didn’t bother trying to help this individuals, the results would have been much worse. In WWII The people who smuggled and hid Jews were breaking the law and putting themselves at risk of persecution, but they did what was morally right. “Illegal does not mean the same thing as immoral” (Taylor 2008). Doing something illegal is not the same as doing something Immoral. Stealing a candy bar is not immoral, illegally coming to a new country for a better life is not immoral. Doing something immoral is a more damning thing. Denying someone the right to a better life is an immoral act. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBoBC3nBoFs Is it right to punish those who are actively trying to become legal citizens but are stifled by the complicated and flawed naturalization process. Many unauthorized immigrants that are presently in the country are actively in the process of becoming authorized. However, the naturalization process is very difficult, expensive and time consuming. The Naturalization process is monitored by the United States citizen and immigration services. The USCIS receives its funding from prospective new citizens. These Fees have been raised by 69% from 405 to 675 dollars ( Leung 2012). If the citizens income is 150 percent below the poverty line they could qualify for a fee waiver; however since the fee has gone up, requests for the waiver have outstripped the funds to cover them ( Leung 2012). This is significant because most of the unauthorized immigrants presently in America are below the poverty line, therefore should qualify for the fee waiver. However, do to a shortage of waivers, it almost seems impossible or unfair to those who want to become naturalized. In essence, this is “ weeding out” the low income prospective citizens. In the video above, Dhalla states, “ We waited for an approval that just never came. We never imagined our lawyer would turn in the paperwork late, or that an employer would refuse to sign a document in the final stages of a years long process. We played by the rules, and 18 years later we have nothing to show for it, not even papers.” This is the problem with the naturalization process, It's time consuming, and based on Dhalla’s experience seems like businesses don’t care very much about the process or the people. If it takes 18 years just to get papers, how is that fair. Her family, like many others followed the laws, and still did not gain citizenship. If the government truly wants people to become authorized, they need to reform the naturalization process to have more realistic requirements, and a more reasonable time frame, or else the immigration problem they want to solve will not get any better. The United States immigration policy is immoral and unrealistic. “For the past decade or so, market forces have brought some 1.5 million immigrants, skilled and unskilled, to work in the United States each year. But annual quotas admit only about a million, or two thirds of the total. Enforcement of limits is poor in part because the nation is ambivalent about how much it wants to control immigration and also because it is all but impossible to make unrealistic laws stick. And as a result, some half a million foreign workers, most of t unskilled and from Latin America, breach the border every year or overstay visas to remain on a job. It is as if American cars were made with imported steel, but the government maintained such restrictive steel quotas that a third of what was needed had to be smuggled’’ (Taylor 2008). This is significant because those half a million who were denied, could easily be used to fill job vacancies, therefore being able to come here legally. That half a million people are desperate for work, therefore they really have no choice but to cross illegally. Because of the quotas, these people who just want to escape poverty, are painted as criminals, and are often times met with force at the border. “ They may be caught by border patrol or armed militia groups such as minutemen” (Taylor 2008). Border patrol officers are often times very rough, and treat these people like they are trash or the bottom of the food chain. It also doesn’t help the fact that they are, somewhat “vigilante” groups who take matters into their own hands. This would in turn lead to their death or deportation. If the immigration was more flexible and allowed that extra half a million in, it would not benefit them, but the country, because it would allow business and employers to acquire cheap labor. Deportation is immoral because it often times separates families for an extended period of time. Deportation tears apart the families of immigrants who are trying to come to America for a better quality life. Sometimes, the parents are deported leaving their children who were born in the United States alone to fend for themselves.The case study of Federico and Gaby shows how harsh deportation actually is. Federico and Gaby had been living in the United States illegally for 25 years. They had five children who were born in the United States. “He began the paperwork to process a change in immigration status for Gaby and himself, but after the applications were submitted, the couple was contacted by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and told that they were not actually eligible to receive green cards. Instead, Federico and Gaby were placed in removal proceedings and told that they were likely going to be deported” (Boehm 2017). Federico and Gaby waited roughly half of their lives to get their green card approved just to have it be denied. They were given the option to be deported to Mexico or face prison time in the United States. With deportation being the best option, they were forced to leave their children behind in the country they had been calling home for 25 years. How can this be a fair or moral system? To break up a family, who has done nothing but benefit their community and follow the laws? “Federico and Gaby were unable to be present for the birth of their first grandchild” (Boehm 2017). Due to the deportation, the family was torn apart and Federico and Gaby missed the birth of their first grandchild. This would be devastating to any parent, Documented or undocumented, but missed family milestones happen every day. According the graph above 240,255 illegal aliens were deported last year. Although, over the past four years the number of deportations has decreased by about 59%, 240,255 deportations is still too high (ICE.gov). Over the eight year presidency of Barack Obama, deportations rose steadily until his reelection in 2012 where he slowed down the deportation of illegal immigrants to allow a better life for them here in America. If Federico and Gaby had applied for citizenship in 2015 when deportations were at an all time low in the years of Obama’s presidency they would have had a better chance at becoming citizens. Deportation happens every day and families are torn apart regularly, it is becoming much harder to acquire a green card and nearly impossible to gain citizenship.
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