Lesley Baeza
March 26, 2014
Mr. Tallar LA – P.5
Immigrants VS Government
There is a lot of conflict in the world right now but a major struggle that is happening right now is when that needs, want or actions of a minority group come into conflict with the need, want or action of a majority group. We see this happening with congress and immigrants. Immigrants feel like their rights are being desecrated because immigrants are being deported for insignificant reasons. Immigrants are getting deported for minor or non-serious criminal records and because of government laws and programs, this is causing family separation.

Both legal and illegal migration happens all over the world and the USA is no exception due to this deportation is happening a lot, which is shown in the article “Many immigrants deported for nonviolent crimes” by Andrew Becher and Anna Gorman. In the article, it talks about immigrant being deported because of minor crimes such as drunk driving and how it is creating family separation. In the article it says “Nearly three-quarters of the roughly 897,000 immigrants deported from 1997 to 2007 after serving criminal sentence were convicted of non-violent offenses, and one-fifth was legal permanent residents.”(Becker & Gorman) The difference between non-violent and violent crimes is that non-violent crimes are those crimes that do not involve the use of any force or injury to another person and violent crimes or violent offenses involve the use of force or injury to the body of another person. The quote here is saying that not all the immigrants deported were serious criminals. This is unfair because if they did nothing wrong than they shouldn’t be punished. Also what is even more prejudicial is that some people were legal residents. They shouldn’t be penalized like this because their legal here they should be punished then like any other legal citizen, if they did something wrong.

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