Essays on Immigration Reform

Imagine that you have lived in America your entire life. You have gone to school here, worked here, and have always done everything right. It comes time to apply for a driver’s license or a college scholarship, and you find out that you are an...

Imagine walking through a dry, lifeless landscape, clutching a nearly empty water bottle with one hand and holding onto your child’s hand with the other. Your child begins to cry of hunger, you feel helpless and alone. You are on edge at the possibility that...

Immigration happens every single day. Thousands of immigrants come into the United States. Most of them are working illegally. They are coming to the United States to look for better lives. Most companies take advantage of immigrants. They don’t get paid that much and can’t...

As someone with a relative who is currently applying to become a permanent citizen of the United States, I can attest to the difficulty in the immigration admittance process. My aunt has to fill out several packets of paperwork and has to attend English classes...

Donald Trump said the following in his presidential announcement speech on June 16, 2015, “I will build a great wall… I’ll build them very inexpensively… I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” It’s been over 4 years, and Trump has yet...

Reading ‘Undoing Border: A Queer Manifesto’ is an inspirational read which talks about the legal restrictions and dangers that immigrants face on almost a daily basis. The US/Mexico No Borders Camp of 2007 brought together 10 members of HAVOQ or Horizontal Alliance of Very Organized...

Both Daniel HoSang’s “They Keep Coming! The Tangled Roots of Proposition 187” and René D. Flores’s “Living in the Eye of the Storm: How did Hazelton’s Restrictive Immigration Ordinance Affect Local Interethnic Relations?” touched on state and local immigration policy. HoSang discusses Proposition 187 in...