BARACK OBAMA and “IMMIGRATION”

[Barack Obama-sac]

As we all know the immigration problem have been a major problem to many people here at the United States. One is that they are a lot of people that are related to this issue in different ways like they are related because of their family, friends, or just because they are the ones that are going throw that situation. Basically I have write this essay to inform some information about a president and his position about he thinks or plans to do about the immigration plan. First of all I am going to start with a little background of me candidate which is Barack Obama and my issue which is “IMMIGRATION

The issue is about immigration which we all know that it have been around in the United States for several years and that it have involve a lot of people. Immigration happens everywhere on which people enter to another state without having a paper that shows that he or she is illegal to be there. A lot of people think that this people come over to other states just to do something wrong but that is not the true they just come work to have a better life than the one that they are having in their place of citizenship.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform(FAIR) discussed in a 2002 report titled “Immigration Now and Then” about how the patterns of immigration are different today:

"Before 1900, there may have been some marginal fiscal gain from immigration. Today, the estimated annual net cost of each immigrant, on average, is $2700. Then, immigrants’ stay in the U.S. was often temporary; today’s immigrants are here to stay. The Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates that the rate of return from 1900 to 1904 was over 37 percent3; in the 1990s, the rate of immigrants’ return to their homelands was a much lower 15 percent." (“Today’s Immigrants”)

This quote is explain on how it have been change from the years back and then. As we could see it have been that the percentages have change that they are a lot of immigrants that work and leave but also they will just stay to live here. These are the things that are causing the growth of population in many different cases. The FAIR article confirms that immigration problems that we are facing today are different from the ones that we used to face in the past:

"Supporters of today’s immigration like to claim that we should not be concerned about it, because it is no worse than the Great Wave of immigration at the turn of the last century. But in fact, because times have changed greatly in the last one hundred years, immigration now is much more out of sync with our country’s needs than it was at the turn of the last century." (“Why Today’s Immigration is a Worse Problem than the Great Wave”)

Things that we face today are just different than the ones that we had to face in the past. A good summary about challenges that we are facing today comes from Obama’s Senate website on immigration: “The challenge facing President Bush and Congress is how to effectively stop the flow of undocumented immigrants across our borders, better manage immigration flows going forward, and deal with undocumented immigrants who are already living and working in this country.” These are the challenges and differences that we have to face now and in the past about immigration.


Barack Obama plan for IMMIGRATION problems

As we have learn a little about the candidate background and his issue which is immigration his plan have said that he would make a change in this problem that we are now facing here at the United States. To start we have the problem which is undocumented population in the country is growing more than 40 percent since the year 200. Every year more than a half-million people come illegally or legal with the overstay their visas. The immigration is broken and overwhelmed and they are forcing legal immigrants to wait years for their applications because of the overwhelmed. Obama wants to create secure borders he wants people with support additional personnel, infrastructure and technology in the border and also in each place of entry. Also he wants to improve by increasing the number of legal immigrants to keep families together.



Works Cited

Federation for American Immigration Reform. “Immigration Then and Now.” 2002. 29 October 2008

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_researchc67d.

Obama, Barak. “Immigration.” 29 October 2008 http://obama.senate.gov/issues/immigration/.

-----. “Immigration.” 29 October 2008

Written by Johanna Estrada

[Marissa Silva-Garcia]

I agree with Jessica, the immigrants who are already here should just be able to stay but so put more security on the border so less will come. It's sad for those unfortunate families who just want to survive but their own country cannot help them do so. Someone should help out the Mexican government so there can be better oppertunities over there. My boyfriends friend was brought over here when he was a newborn by his parents. They still do not have any papers so he can't even work. I still do not understand really how they are making a living. I just feel bad for him because his parents brought him here for a better oppertunity but really its been a burden because he cant work or go to school! Thats good that Obama keeps in mind to keep families together. Its so sad when they are separated or only the father comes over here to work but has to leave his family behind.

[Jessica]

Well i hope we all made the right choice by voting for Obama, well I just hope he wins!! he has so many good ideas that I hope he makes them all... the immigration problems is such a big issue that is causing so many contrevoersy now days! Well yes thats a good Idea to put more securityi on the border... Im from Mexico and I understand all the people that have to come over here and find a good life or just to make money to support their families, but somehow im agree with the security going on so not only the US but Mexico should make something overthere to fix economy and help poor people. For the people that is already here that passed the border with or without Visa I think they should be helped the same.. I mean they are already here and they are not doing bad things instead they are helping the US they are honeslty working to get money and not only immigrants from Mexico but some other places... I think that people should be heard and hope Obama makes something about this immigration thing!

[Johanna Estrada]

I am totally agree with Obama plan on putting more secure people in borders on each place of entry. That will secure for immigrants not to pass no more and use a correct way to come here at the United States. I know that there are families that really need to come over here to work and have money for there families. Sometimes is just the dad that comes over here to work and the family stayed at Mexico. It is really sad when the families separate from there parents the children’s are the ones that suffer the most. Thank god I have not pass through a situation like this but I do have a related that did pass throw something like this. It was my cousin. She had married a men that was illegal they have been wanting to go to Mexico because my cousin husband wanted to see his mom but he couldn’t because he knew that if he would go he would not come back. So before that my cousin had become citizen and she try to fix his papers they filed out his application and when he had his first call they have told him that he needed to go back to Mexico until it was his turn know he is over there and my cousin over here with the two little girls and also know she have to work to support them both and herself. I really hope for al this to change because each time there are being more and more families separated which I think it is nit fair for the children’s which I have said before they are ones that suffer the most. I am sure that everything would change with Barack Obama.