Lizeht's History Blog

This week in class we talked about essential hypocrisy, how ICE does not interfere with immigrant farmworkers because they are essential to the economy. I came across an article on the San Francisco Chronicle about immigrant farmworkers getting citizenship. House lawmakers are coming up with a bill that would give immigrant farmworkers citizenship or a 5 year visa. They want to give them citizenship because they are what feed America essentially. It would be a good idea because these workers are helping the economy and it makes since to legally give them an opportunity to be in this country legally. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/House-lawmakers-reach-agricultural-immigration-14573030.php

This week I came across an article by CNN that caught my attention. This women who is a Human Rights Researcher, Angelina Godoy, found out that many immigrant teens were taken by ICE to Juvenile detention center away from their parents or guardians. It also came to her attention that the federal government had gone court to keep information private. It took a lot of investigation for Godoy to find some of the detention centers that some immigrant teens are brought to. In these detention centers it's often hard for immigrant teens to have access to a lawyer. The whole situation seem very unfair because it really is. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/24/us/ice-kids-detention-invs/index.html

As some people have already heard, Trump will try to enforce a new law that will affect many seeking green cards. This law states that in order to receive a green card, people must show proof that they will be able to cover their own medical costs. If people fail to do so, they will be denied a green card. This will be a struggle because as we know Health Care in America is costly, so to say that someone is denied a green card because they can't afford medical expenses is absolutely ridiculous. American struggle to pay for medical expenses on the daily, this is a huge problem here in the United Sates. It's honestly unfair to deny an immigrant a green card based of something that we know for a fact that even citizens of this country find hard to afford. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/us/immigrant-visas-health-care.html

In the latest of the Trump Administrations invasion of privacy, they want a regulation that would give border patrol officers to take DNA from immigrants detained at the border. They want to send the DNA to the FBI to store in case it's need fro criminal investigation. Advocates told the New York Times that this is an invasion of peoples privacies and it taking advantage of immigrants. Knowing what the Trump Administrations feelings about immigrants, we know they want the DNA to keep track of the immigrants here in America. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/us/dna-testing-immigrants.html