The term "undocumented immigrants" refers to very different people, and differences lie in the answers of when, how, and mainly why they arrived to the USA. It means that every case needs specific approach and government can never find single and simple solution to this issue. What unifies undocumented immigrants is that they cause a social problem. First of all, the number of illegal immigrants exceeds, according to the press, 11 million, and it is already a large society (comparable with population of Belgium). Secondly, more significantly, illegal immigrants influence all sphere of American social life such as education, healthcare, labor market, crime rates, budget, and so on. I think that functionalists would said that undocumented immigrants are necessary for our society and perform their unique function in it because American labor market needs them. Functionalists would suppose that illegal immigrants do law-paying blue work, especially in agriculture and services sectors of economy, which American citizens do not want to do. I believe that DREAM Act would fairly provide a legal status for undocumented immigrants who have been living in this country for more that five years and showed good moral character. Most of them were brought here by parents. I chose this topic because it touches on me personally. By the time my wife won green card, our son had already been 21 for just seven day, but thus he stayed out of our case. We applied for him in Immigration Office. We have been living separately for almost five years and probably will for a few years else. For that point of view,the proposal immigration reform would benefit former lawbreakers, whereas other people who are not less eager to live in the USA but respect the law, have to wait.
Due to the fact that undocumented immigrants is such a huge issue in the United States, this would be considered a social problem. The word “undocumented immigrants” means people coming to the United States from different countries not just one specific country. There are about 11 million people that are illegal here in the United States, the majority of the people are from Mexico and Central America based on what the press has said and still today more people are crossing to come to the United States and this causes more problems because the population is getting larger and larger every time a person comes here illegally.
I think that a functionalist theorist would see this as a necessity for our society because immigrants would be useful in the American labor market which includes the pickings of fruits and vegetables in the fields and being paid less than the minimum wage. The reason why immigrants would be useful for the American labor market is because they would be really easy to manipulate and be paid less for what they do. These are jobs that immigrants would take to earn at least a little bit of money to provide food for their families, and Americans would not take these jobs because they were not made for these jobs. A functionalist theorist would also say that the majority of immigrants would take any job that they find even if it’s working in the fields under the hot sun and earning less than the minimum wage they would do anything so their family can have a better life. And if it’s not for these immigrants that work in the fields everyday we would not have fresh fruits and vegetables in our supermarkets.
I feel that if the Dream Act and the immigration reform does pass it would provide fairly legal status to all the undocumented immigrants that have been living here for more than 5 years with no criminal history and have shown that they really want to live here. The Dream Act would be able to benefit all the students that were brought here to the United States when they were kids. Many of the children were brought by there parents when they were kids so they could have a better life and a better chance of getting a good education than what they had when they were living in their country. The reason why I commented on this specific topic is because I have cousins and family members that are immigrants and I feel that they should get the same opportunity to go to college after high school like any other student. Have the chance to work, get their id, and their driver’s license and have the same benefits as any other citizen in the United States. I think that one solution to this problem would be that the House of Representatives would have to agree to pass the immigration reform and the dream act so everyone can become a resident of the state the person lives in and then from there they can apply for US citizenship. This solution is needed because if the representatives do not agree then there is a chance that the reform or the dream act might not pass.
An argument among republicans and democrats in the nation is raging on the issue of immigration reform. This issue is about societal control because 11 million undocumented immigrants in America who are mostly from Mexico and Latin American countries,and about 10 percent from Asia,seek to gain citizenship but the U.S. government has made laws against immigration to prevent Illegal immigrants from entering the U.S. Undocumented immigrants brought by their parents face adversity while seeking to not only gain citizenship, but opportunities for college education and jobs. This is a social problem because it offends a powerful groups standards, that being the United States government and it's supporters who believe it is not in their best interest to allow these people to become citizens or stay in the country. Also the massive number of 11 million people directly affected by the reform, the uncounted that will be indirectly affected as well as taking into account the reactions of documented people in support for the reform believing that it is their right to become citizens and enjoy those privileges are a powerful group who's standards are not being met. Both of these entities are proof that a huge societal dilemma is on our hands. It is clear that supports documented and undocumented alike are both pushing for change and this is continuing to persist. There is an overabundance of proposed solutions but Democrats and Republicans are not seeing eye to eye on exactly which measures to take. And the most important aspect as to why this is a social problem is the effect it has on the people on an individual level as well as holistically on a societal level. Individually the affected person is denied opportunities for income, education and social privilege. The individual will attain a role and status which will be demeaning and will result in a loss of social networking and potential to join institutions. This may also cause deviance among both groups. Some of the affected may consider suicide or other harmful behavior. In a larger view this problem can create a stigma, or a negative social label towards the immigrants that can cause a change in behavior and attitude towards both the immigrants and those opposing the reform. There is also an over abundance of solutions none of which are being enacted causing this problem to be on going. There is always multiple theoretical perspectives to view a social issue with and in fact should be viewed by more than one perspective, but to choose one for this topic i would say that a Macro theory explains it better.
A Conflict theorist would day at the heart of this issue is a conflict of competing interests are animating a change in society and traditional societal standards. Interests of those who have gained positions or benefits may oppose the reform because of the threat of use of supplies resources and competition in the job market. Economic and interest group rivalry create conflict and those in less powerful positions find themselves not to be worthy of privilege and find themselves to be "allowed" certain things which they believe is their right. This may lead to revolution or deviance. The traditional social standard that, children of immigrants should not be allowed to get a college education or job, will change by the persistence of those in favor of the reform constantly trying to change this standard. This kind of social change is necessary for society. In order to solve this problem we need to find solidarity between not only the arguing Democrats and Republicans but the people themselves who are affected. People need to become educated about the issue by multiple forms of media that being the news, but also testimonials, expert opinions, and directly from those affected by this. Also some kind of agreement must be made to come to terms on the reform. Perhaps a temporary visa to those attending school can be one solution. I think that Immigrants deserve the right to receive an education and enjoy the right to compete in the job market. I chose this topic because I know people who will be affected by this and i know people who are not U.S. citizens who live their lives avoiding conflict but deserve the right to carry out their lives normally. They can contribute to the growth of U.S. Society socially and economically as well by paying taxes. I state these opinions objectively as my personal relationship with these people do not account for the group as a whole in which I still believe deserve these rights.
Macy M. Immigration in general has always been a major issue in the United States.But in most recent years the number of undocumented immigrants has gotten higher. Undocumented Immigrants & Dream Act is a major social crises in United States. One of which Congress is still debating over. And can not come to some sort of agreement whether to pass it or not. There are many pros and cons to this Act. Many Americans would argue that the Dream Act is a bad idea. Why should America give legal statues to someone who is undocumented? Why should legal Americans have to pay taxes for someone who (education, healthcare etc)who is undocumented? Many Americans would argue that these undocumented immigrants are taking jobs away from those who are in the country legally. But an argument for those who are her undocumented is that they were brought here by they're parents or relatives in hope of a better life here in America. One of which they have no control over when brought here to America. If the Dream Act passes it will grant those living in America legal status. which will probably get them a better education which leads to a good job and a better life for them. The Dream Act will benefit the young people who are looking to go to college in search for a higher education, and without legal status they can not go to college and get a higher education. In my personal opinion if this Act does pass it will be good for America. Why deny somebody who has was brought here illegally when they were a baby be denied legal status? When all they want is to go to college get a good job and provide a better life for their family. I commented on this topic specific topic because around senior year of high school when it was around time to apply to colleges I noticed some of my friends saying they could not apply because college applications require a social security number. Which they didn't have. It was a sad feeling because they had very good grades and could have gotten into the colleges of their choice but because they were undocumented they couldn't apply. All in all the dream act will benefit those looking for a higher education.
The reason the Dream Act hasn't passed is because of fear that if this legislation is passed, conflict theory will take an effect in this country. Those that believe in conflict theory fear that undocumented students that will be given the right to work in their professions when the Dream Act takes effect, will make some undocumented college graduates unable to obtain this opportunity. Those that believe in the functionalist perspective know that by allowing the Dream Act to be passed, millions of students will be contributing to society. Functionalist perspective will take an effect in the Dream Act, because it will benefit the future of the country. - Laura M.
The person I am analyzing is Sergey, I do agree with what he is saying. When he said that the reason the US uses such a vague term such as “undocumented citizens” it is because of the fact that everyone arrives the US in such different ways and with such different circumstances. I chose to comment on this peers entry because of the fact that I agreed with much of what was said and I wanted to put my own opinion on the matter. I think that it is a very unfortunate topic because of how difficult it makes peoples lives when they are just trying to make better for themselves in a foreign country they don’t know. I think that this is a social problem because it affects everyone. It affects employers when they have to deny work cause of no work permit, it affects schools because students are trying to achieve a diploma in a field that they wont even be able to work in because of no citizenship. It is a domino affect. My peer wrote about functionalism and so I am going to correlate this problem to conflict theory. I believe a conflict theorist would argue that they want people to believe that this is a social problem because they want to take they blame away from the rich (elite) and have them blinded so that the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. This case being the undocumented stay undocumented and they work the jobs that the rich do not want to work so that they have an abundance of money paying the undocumented illegals less than they would have to because they have no real work permit. A proposed solution would be to help those who are trying to better themselves if they have lived here and continuously tried to work or attend school/college then they should be prioritized on the list to get their papers rather than those who are doing nothing. It will be a never ending list but at least they will be helped faster.
I choose adriadna response because I believe that the dream act should be passed for the reason that it is a fair thing to do for the people who come to this country to work in search for a better way of life that is sometimes hard to obtain in their own country. Not passing the dream act is denying many benefits that undocumented immigrants have earn with their hard work and sacrifices and by sacrifices I mean taking jobs that many U.S. citizens would not do because of the pay, hours, danger and hazards. A conflict theorist would argue that the government is greedy and all they want is to keep the poor people poor and the rich people wealthy. Every year many undocumented immigrants work and do not collect their taxes due to their illegal status therefore the money is kept by the government, so I’m sure the government does not mind keeping millions of dollars in revenue but do mind giving undocumented immigrants the opportunity to become legalized and earn all the benefits that a resident gets such as being able to go to college, medical, welfare, driver license, social security, and more options in the work fields. I don’t know if the rise of undocumented students who want to go to college scares the government because there would be less undocumented high school students working for the minimum wage or is it the fact that they don’t want overall students to prosper and unbalance their ideal social class.
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The term "undocumented immigrants" refers to very different people, and differences lie in the answers of when, how, and mainly why they arrived to the USA. It means that every case needs specific approach and government can never find single and simple solution to this issue. What unifies undocumented immigrants is that they cause a social problem. First of all, the number of illegal immigrants exceeds, according to the press, 11 million, and it is already a large society (comparable with population of Belgium). Secondly, more significantly, illegal immigrants influence all sphere of American social life such as education, healthcare, labor market, crime rates, budget, and so on. I think that functionalists would said that undocumented immigrants are necessary for our society and perform their unique function in it because American labor market needs them. Functionalists would suppose that illegal immigrants do law-paying blue work, especially in agriculture and services sectors of economy, which American citizens do not want to do. I believe that DREAM Act would fairly provide a legal status for undocumented immigrants who have been living in this country for more that five years and showed good moral character. Most of them were brought here by parents. I chose this topic because it touches on me personally. By the time my wife won green card, our son had already been 21 for just seven day, but thus he stayed out of our case. We applied for him in Immigration Office. We have been living separately for almost five years and probably will for a few years else. For that point of view,the proposal immigration reform would benefit former lawbreakers, whereas other people who are not less eager to live in the USA but respect the law, have to wait.
Due to the fact that undocumented immigrants is such a huge issue in the United States, this would be considered a social problem. The word “undocumented immigrants” means people coming to the United States from different countries not just one specific country. There are about 11 million people that are illegal here in the United States, the majority of the people are from Mexico and Central America based on what the press has said and still today more people are crossing to come to the United States and this causes more problems because the population is getting larger and larger every time a person comes here illegally.
I think that a functionalist theorist would see this as a necessity for our society because immigrants would be useful in the American labor market which includes the pickings of fruits and vegetables in the fields and being paid less than the minimum wage. The reason why immigrants would be useful for the American labor market is because they would be really easy to manipulate and be paid less for what they do. These are jobs that immigrants would take to earn at least a little bit of money to provide food for their families, and Americans would not take these jobs because they were not made for these jobs. A functionalist theorist would also say that the majority of immigrants would take any job that they find even if it’s working in the fields under the hot sun and earning less than the minimum wage they would do anything so their family can have a better life. And if it’s not for these immigrants that work in the fields everyday we would not have fresh fruits and vegetables in our supermarkets.
I feel that if the Dream Act and the immigration reform does pass it would provide fairly legal status to all the undocumented immigrants that have been living here for more than 5 years with no criminal history and have shown that they really want to live here. The Dream Act would be able to benefit all the students that were brought here to the United States when they were kids. Many of the children were brought by there parents when they were kids so they could have a better life and a better chance of getting a good education than what they had when they were living in their country. The reason why I commented on this specific topic is because I have cousins and family members that are immigrants and I feel that they should get the same opportunity to go to college after high school like any other student. Have the chance to work, get their id, and their driver’s license and have the same benefits as any other citizen in the United States. I think that one solution to this problem would be that the House of Representatives would have to agree to pass the immigration reform and the dream act so everyone can become a resident of the state the person lives in and then from there they can apply for US citizenship. This solution is needed because if the representatives do not agree then there is a chance that the reform or the dream act might not pass.
-Ariadna Q
An argument among republicans and democrats in the nation is raging on the issue of immigration reform. This issue is about societal control because 11 million undocumented immigrants in America who are mostly from Mexico and Latin American countries,and about 10 percent from Asia,seek to gain citizenship but the U.S. government has made laws against immigration to prevent Illegal immigrants from entering the U.S. Undocumented immigrants brought by their parents face adversity while seeking to not only gain citizenship, but opportunities for college education and jobs. This is a social problem because it offends a powerful groups standards, that being the United States government and it's supporters who believe it is not in their best interest to allow these people to become citizens or stay in the country. Also the massive number of 11 million people directly affected by the reform, the uncounted that will be indirectly affected as well as taking into account the reactions of documented people in support for the reform believing that it is their right to become citizens and enjoy those privileges are a powerful group who's standards are not being met. Both of these entities are proof that a huge societal dilemma is on our hands. It is clear that supports documented and undocumented alike are both pushing for change and this is continuing to persist. There is an overabundance of proposed solutions but Democrats and Republicans are not seeing eye to eye on exactly which measures to take. And the most important aspect as to why this is a social problem is the effect it has on the people on an individual level as well as holistically on a societal level. Individually the affected person is denied opportunities for income, education and social privilege. The individual will attain a role and status which will be demeaning and will result in a loss of social networking and potential to join institutions. This may also cause deviance among both groups. Some of the affected may consider suicide or other harmful behavior. In a larger view this problem can create a stigma, or a negative social label towards the immigrants that can cause a change in behavior and attitude towards both the immigrants and those opposing the reform. There is also an over abundance of solutions none of which are being enacted causing this problem to be on going. There is always multiple theoretical perspectives to view a social issue with and in fact should be viewed by more than one perspective, but to choose one for this topic i would say that a Macro theory explains it better.
A Conflict theorist would day at the heart of this issue is a conflict of competing interests are animating a change in society and traditional societal standards. Interests of those who have gained positions or benefits may oppose the reform because of the threat of use of supplies resources and competition in the job market. Economic and interest group rivalry create conflict and those in less powerful positions find themselves not to be worthy of privilege and find themselves to be "allowed" certain things which they believe is their right. This may lead to revolution or deviance. The traditional social standard that, children of immigrants should not be allowed to get a college education or job, will change by the persistence of those in favor of the reform constantly trying to change this standard. This kind of social change is necessary for society. In order to solve this problem we need to find solidarity between not only the arguing Democrats and Republicans but the people themselves who are affected. People need to become educated about the issue by multiple forms of media that being the news, but also testimonials, expert opinions, and directly from those affected by this. Also some kind of agreement must be made to come to terms on the reform. Perhaps a temporary visa to those attending school can be one solution. I think that Immigrants deserve the right to receive an education and enjoy the right to compete in the job market. I chose this topic because I know people who will be affected by this and i know people who are not U.S. citizens who live their lives avoiding conflict but deserve the right to carry out their lives normally. They can contribute to the growth of U.S. Society socially and economically as well by paying taxes. I state these opinions objectively as my personal relationship with these people do not account for the group as a whole in which I still believe deserve these rights.
Macy M.
Immigration in general has always been a major issue in the United States.But in most recent years the number of undocumented immigrants has gotten higher. Undocumented Immigrants & Dream Act is a major social crises in United States. One of which Congress is still debating over. And can not come to some sort of agreement whether to pass it or not. There are many pros and cons to this Act. Many Americans would argue that the Dream Act is a bad idea. Why should America give legal statues to someone who is undocumented? Why should legal Americans have to pay taxes for someone who (education, healthcare etc)who is undocumented? Many Americans would argue that these undocumented immigrants are taking jobs away from those who are in the country legally. But an argument for those who are her undocumented is that they were brought here by they're parents or relatives in hope of a better life here in America. One of which they have no control over when brought here to America. If the Dream Act passes it will grant those living in America legal status. which will probably get them a better education which leads to a good job and a better life for them. The Dream Act will benefit the young people who are looking to go to college in search for a higher education, and without legal status they can not go to college and get a higher education.
In my personal opinion if this Act does pass it will be good for America. Why deny somebody who has was brought here illegally when they were a baby be denied legal status? When all they want is to go to college get a good job and provide a better life for their family. I commented on this topic specific topic because around senior year of high school when it was around time to apply to colleges I noticed some of my friends saying they could not apply because college applications require a social security number. Which they didn't have. It was a sad feeling because they had very good grades and could have gotten into the colleges of their choice but because they were undocumented they couldn't apply. All in all the dream act will benefit those looking for a higher education.
The reason the Dream Act hasn't passed is because of fear that if this legislation is passed, conflict theory will take an effect in this country. Those that believe in conflict theory fear that undocumented students that will be given the right to work in their professions when the Dream Act takes effect, will make some undocumented college graduates unable to obtain this opportunity. Those that believe in the functionalist perspective know that by allowing the Dream Act to be passed, millions of students will be contributing to society. Functionalist perspective will take an effect in the Dream Act, because it will benefit the future of the country. - Laura M.
The person I am analyzing is Sergey, I do agree with what he is saying. When he said that the reason the US uses such a vague term such as “undocumented citizens” it is because of the fact that everyone arrives the US in such different ways and with such different circumstances. I chose to comment on this peers entry because of the fact that I agreed with much of what was said and I wanted to put my own opinion on the matter. I think that it is a very unfortunate topic because of how difficult it makes peoples lives when they are just trying to make better for themselves in a foreign country they don’t know. I think that this is a social problem because it affects everyone. It affects employers when they have to deny work cause of no work permit, it affects schools because students are trying to achieve a diploma in a field that they wont even be able to work in because of no citizenship. It is a domino affect. My peer wrote about functionalism and so I am going to correlate this problem to conflict theory. I believe a conflict theorist would argue that they want people to believe that this is a social problem because they want to take they blame away from the rich (elite) and have them blinded so that the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. This case being the undocumented stay undocumented and they work the jobs that the rich do not want to work so that they have an abundance of money paying the undocumented illegals less than they would have to because they have no real work permit. A proposed solution would be to help those who are trying to better themselves if they have lived here and continuously tried to work or attend school/college then they should be prioritized on the list to get their papers rather than those who are doing nothing. It will be a never ending list but at least they will be helped faster.
I choose adriadna response because I believe that the dream act should be passed for the reason that it is a fair thing to do for the people who come to this country to work in search for a better way of life that is sometimes hard to obtain in their own country. Not passing the dream act is denying many benefits that undocumented immigrants have earn with their hard work and sacrifices and by sacrifices I mean taking jobs that many U.S. citizens would not do because of the pay, hours, danger and hazards. A conflict theorist would argue that the government is greedy and all they want is to keep the poor people poor and the rich people wealthy. Every year many undocumented immigrants work and do not collect their taxes due to their illegal status therefore the money is kept by the government, so I’m sure the government does not mind keeping millions of dollars in revenue but do mind giving undocumented immigrants the opportunity to become legalized and earn all the benefits that a resident gets such as being able to go to college, medical, welfare, driver license, social security, and more options in the work fields. I don’t know if the rise of undocumented students who want to go to college scares the government because there would be less undocumented high school students working for the minimum wage or is it the fact that they don’t want overall students to prosper and unbalance their ideal social class.
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