Amika's AEH blog

The article I found that was posted on January 26th talked about how colleges and universities around the country are preparing to defend their students from potential immigration raids under Trump. The article also made it clear that they are not sure how much power the universities have to shield their students. School administrators have also issued announcements to assure their undocumented immigrant students that they will not help immigration and customs enforcement agents track them down. Colleges such as NYU, Portland State, and the University of Pennsylvania have embraced the "sanctuary" moniker and announced that ICE agents will need to get a court order to step foot onto their campuses. It has been shown that many colleges stand in solidarity with their undocumented students and want to protect them. ICE also has a policy that its agents should avoid going into and conducting operations at "sensitive locations", such as schools, churches, hospitals, etc. ...

An article titled "Do We Build Bridges or Walls" weighs in on educators' opinion about DACA. The article brings the trump administration and how last fall, decided that they wanted to end the DACA program. The DACA program gives protection and work permits to people who were brought to America illegally as children. Ending the program will leave thousands of people unprotected and they might face deportation. The article also focuses on educators' opinions and whether or not they support the DACA program. The article showed a survey that shows that majority of educators, at least 70 percent are supportive of the DACA program while at least 8 percent thinks immigration is bad for school. The article goes on to show the educators' opinion and what they thought about the DACA program. Many educators have said that legal status does not determine someone's character, they feel for their students and can't imagine their fear, and they are keeping their students...

An article posted from the New York Times yesterday talks about the Trump administration and the white house attempting to link immigrants to terrorism. The administration apparently also presented statistics showing that majority of people who were convicted of international terrorism charges in the United States were born in foreign countries. A quote that Trump apparently wrote on twitter about the report "shows that nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related charges are foreign born." Another quote from the white house fact sheet says "this report shows, once again, that our current immigration system jeopardized our national security". The article goes on to talk about how Trump is also seeking to end the visa lottery and to enact new restrictions on immigrants' ability to bring in members of their families to the United States. This article shows how much the Trump administration wants to give immigrants a bad reputation by connecting them w...

The 1880s to the 1920s was the peak of immigration in the United States. More economic opportunities was the main reason people migrated to the United States from other countries. There was more opportunities to have a better life in America than the other countries people were migrating from. Around that time America received over 20 million immigrants. Immigration slowly started to decrease because of the great depression in the 1930s, but during the1965 things started to progress. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was enacted. The act took away “quotas” that were based on nationalities. In the early 2000 and so on, immigration and foreign-born population started to increase more and more.   Today, immigration has become a big issue in the United States especially because of the recent presidential election. Trump had an executive order that prohibits refugees from coming to the United States, he wants to build a wall along the southern border, and he also issued...