When I read the recent article about immigration legal system which turns out to not protect rights for immigrants by Suzanne Gamboa, I was shocked to realize how judicial systems are different between immigrants and US citizens. We think that everyone has the right to have a fair hearing and remains innocent unless judges find them guilty with proven reasons, but when it comes to the immigrants, it becomes complicated.
With fewer judges to make tons of decisions within a given time, so many people are being deported. Once they get arrested and sent in jail, they cannot have a fair hearing with a lawyer unless they can pay for one. They could not even use a phone call for free in jail for immigrants until this January, making people with no money to use phone cards to be stuck in jail without having a way to contact with their family members. They can be arrested without a warrant. When it’s not criminal cases, their rights are not even read. Some are deported without hearings made. Sometimes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement makes mistakes with US citizens, and they are not released until they had proved the citizenship with proper documentation such as a birth certificate. The problems that exist with the immigration legal system are extremely important and so in need for change, but another growing problem is that people are sent to immigration system based upon their ethnicities. Because of this problem, not so funny happenings such as mistaking US citizens occur frequently. Even when the one in jail requests to check the Social Security Number for checking and confirming the citizenship, it is not checked properly as it is supposed to.
Prejudice against certain ethnicities and their discriminated treatment toward immigrants in judicial system are leading the whole nation to the continued racism and segregation among races whether the people with different ethnicities have obtained the citizenship or not. United States call the nation itself a mixed country. However, if people do not try hard to work through in living with different races and ethnicities, conflicts among races would be continued and would eventually lead the society into more complicated issues.
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I think that all the illegal immigrants are here for one reason or another. Many have families to support and others wanted to live a better life. It's a shame that US citizens can go anywhere they want and do anything they wnat and have no problems. Why should it be any different for them? It shouldn't, The US legal system should make it easier to come into this country. There is a lot of opportunities here in America and in my opinion everyone should have the right to take advatage of them.
ReplyDeleteI really did not understand why the Mexican where over crossing the American border, and did not have a full understanding about illegal immigration. I gained full understanding of illegal immigartion after the topic was presentted or covered in class. i felt so bad and sad after seeing some video about the illegal innigrants story. the distance their walk from, how some of them die along thier way, and son on. I would done the same if i was in their shoes.
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