CI#3: Presidental Candidates

A hotly debated topic for the United States for the past few years has been immigration.  What effects does it have on United States society and how to reform it?  It seems that every presidential candidate has a certain idea on how to go about immigration reform.  No ones proposed ideas have gained as much attention negative and positive as Donald Trumps reform idea.

It seems for the past four or five months when you turn on the news you are almost ensured a new soundbite from Donald Trump of him saying something blunt and controversial.  Hear are few of his quotes on immigration.

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems to us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."-Trump Presidential Campaign announcement

 

-       "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." — Campaign Press Realsese

 

-       "Build a wall with a big beautiful door for legal immigration." —GOP Debate, August 2015

 

-       "Our leaders are stupid, our politicians are stupid, and the Mexican government is much sharper, much more cunning. [So] they send the bad ones over because they don’t want to pay for them, they don’t want to take care of them.” —GOP debate, August 2015

 

Of course when all you hear are these soundbites, Donald trump sounds like an ignorant bigot, and it is easy to become polarized against or for him.  As with anything you have look into the whole story though.  You cannot just read the cover of a book and decide if you like it.  In political campaigns candidates are just trying to say or do something to draw public interest.  What you see on the news is never any actual information about a candidate and his policy.  It is always a shell of his/her ideas that the news uses to try to polarize people.  When people come on as guest for news programs all the anchor wants to do is ask question to try and get a controversial or polarized answer out of them.  This is the same strategy used by candidates.... Donald trump is just the best at it.

The problem with immigration is that it hurts the people who are the worst off in the United States; low-income minorities, who end up competing with immigrant for jobs in the labor and service markets.  Why would an employer pay an America citizen more to do the same job illegal immigrates will do at a much lower price.  They will not.  Immigration in the US provides an over supply of labor in the US market. 

Trump wants to completely shut down illegal immigration by increasing boarder security.  While also ending many of the legal benefit these illegal have such as protection in sanctuary cities and end birth right citizenship.

The term “Sanctuary City” applies to cities that do not allow municipal funds or resources to be used to enforce federal immigration laws. These restriction of resource usually do not allow local police to investigate  the immigration status of suspected people, or federal Immigration and customs enforcement (ICE).  These cities are effectively legally breaking the law.  Which is a place were illegals can come to take advantage of the birth right citizenship law.

While in a sanctuary city illegals can have children which are then due the Birth rich citizenship law legal US citizens.... This is a major problem with the system.  The US is a favorable place for illegal immigrant to venture to because of its lenient and immigration policies. 

While Donald Trumps Ideas on immigration may not be the best or the smartest course of action to pursue; some form of action is definitely necessary in the US to reform immigration.  It is a good time to do your own research and form your own opinion.