Lizeht's History Blog

The Washington Post released and article about the ICE jails and the deportation. It states that deportations have been lower in the Trump administration than in the Obama administration. But in the Trump administration undocumented immigrants are being placed in ICE Jails awaiting deportation. These jails are getting more and more packed over time. The article also stated that about 70% of the people held in these jails have never been convicted of a crime before. It seems not logical to hold someone with no prior criminal convictions to be put in jail if there aren't going to be deported and even then deportation seems unfair giving that this 70% of the people in there have never been a harm or threat to America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/the-trump-administrations-immigration-jails-are-packed-but-deportations-are-lower-than-in-obama-era/2019/11/17/27ad0e44-f057-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

Trump has announced over and over again that his goal is to build a wall and he has started to do so. This an effort to keep undocumented immigrants from crossing from Mexico to the United States. The wall has costed about 10 billion to build. Recently, people have been cutting through this wall with a tool that costs about $100. The effectiveness of the wall has not been great and quite frankly it probably won't work. Aside from cutting down the wall, people have also built ladders to climb over the wall. The wall really can't stop immigrants from coming. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

This week I decided to focus on France. Their municipal elections are around the corner and as time flies the current French president, Emmanuel Macron, is trying to win voters and shift them from voting for the far right candidate. He has been doing this my announcing new immigration reforms that are much stricter. He wants to deport many immigrants and he also wants to set quotas on immigration to allow certain amounts of foreign workers in. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/world/europe/france-macron-immigration.html