immigation assignment
spits | 26.05.2002 16:21
I would like to present my essay assignment to you, my people. Since it is a particularly interesting and difficult question, I wanted to share it with you to see any ideas y'all might have, so as to be a sort of dialogue for me to engage with with the hope of enriching my essay. So without further adu here is the question.
-It is a well known adage that America is a "Land of immigrants." Very few, other than First Nation peoples, can claim the United States (turtle island)as their ancestral home.Yet throughout our history the polocies we have adopted to deal with immigrants, whether legal or illegal, have been somewhat "schizophrenic." We have welcomed immigrants in the good times or when we have neede them and then selectivley shunned, deported or imprisoned them when they were no longer useful, wanted or needed. Nor can it be easily argued that we have treated European immigrants the same as we have immigrants from Asia or Latin America.
Shortly after Bush took office he engaged President Fox of Mexico in a dialogue that, among other things, raised the possibility of asylum for illegal immigrants in the US. Talk of loosening on immigration and on immigrants stopped abruptly after Sept. 11. The current wave of nationalism/ anti-immigrationism is not unique to America, as the recent French elections demonstrate.
The essay question is as follows:
Design an immigration polocie that incorporates humanitarian, economic, social and legal values in a way that you believe is fair to those seeking asylum or entry into the United States and, at the same time, protects it's national interests, security or otherwise.
spits
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my policy
26.05.2002 17:47
gwb
whew
26.05.2002 19:53
spits
Capitalism is not for everyone only the few
26.05.2002 20:33
babsdebrawl
immigration not immigation
26.05.2002 20:48
miss pelt
hmm?
26.05.2002 23:50
Please don't put all of us who happen to live on this continent into the sterio type which you hold of everyone who lives here (America). For we are not all the same, just as all black people are not good at basketball. So please use the term "you people" more intelligently and don't be such a prick. Besides I just thought it would be perhaps interesting to present this essay question here. I never said I agreed with immigration, and I am not one of those people who think that everyone in the world eather wants to live here, or is out to get us. And to everyone else who can't seem to get past my occasional mistpelling, I hope it's not throwing you off of the point.
spits