Chapter 16 & 17

Reading through chapter sixteen showed many of the old information being brought up in to much more better understanding and perspectives. There were few sentences that I liked very much and wanted to bring them up in my blog.

"The United States is a nation without meaningful control of its borders. So many Mexicans are crossing U.S borders illegally that Mexicans are reclaiming Texas, California, and other territories that they have long claimed the Gringos stole from them". 

"The argument was an old one: Germans, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, French Canadians, Italians, Jews, and almost every conceivable immigrant group have been, at one time or the other, accused of lowering the American standard of living, and the question of the impact of immigration on the standard of living is a debate without one". 

"After five years of debate congress finally passed the immigration act in 1986 following same last compromises". 

"Amnesty was the carrot of the 1986 act (eligibility requirements and sanctions against employers who persisted in hiring illegal aliens contrary to law)".

"Law specified three different kinds of documents, A,B, and C. A was established eligibility and identity was the best, Americans possessed them. B and C were lists that established employment eligivility and identity respectively. Chinese can be B and C there restaurant fashion, they use a list then a document from list C be4 they can be hired illegaly. List B also consisted of Social security card. List C consisted of DL". 

"Unlike Haitians the Irish were well educated".

"Since most of the Irish illegals came here after Jan 1, 1982, cutoff date in 1986 amnesty law- only few hundred were granted amnesty". (Irish Immigration Reform Movement). 

"There is one further reason to believe that immigration will retain its central position on the American agenda". 

(Daniels) 

Chapter 17 talks more in detail about immigration.

 There are many reasons illegal immigrants cross borders and such circumstances they do because of better oppertunity in a certain state or country. There are many ways they do it and succeed. The one downside about immigration is if you are here living illegally, there is no guarantee you will remain in the state you are in. Officials do catch people and they do not have much sympathy for people when it is time to deport them back. For example, the "Dream Act". There are so many illegal immigrants that are going to school, finding better jobs, and oppetunities. They are striving for the best, the only downside about them is they are classified as "illegal". Does not matter how much you are working hard to support your family or where you are going to school if you are caught you are deported back without and second chances.