Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants

Paper Summary:

The paper calls for the creation of new policies and general guidelines for solving today's current immigration problems in America. The paper asserts that illegal immigration needs to be controlled, but immigration in and of itself should not be automatically discouraged. The paper is of the opinion that productive, law-abiding illegal workers deserve work permits and/or alien resident cards, perhaps even amnesty on a case-by-case basis. The paper discusses the need for leaders to make fair and firm, yet humane decisions.

From the Paper:

"The very first foreign settlers from Europe to arrive here, as a united group intent on making America their new home in 1630 (Morgan, 1998), included John Winthrop and Simon Bradstreet, the first and second democratically elected governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Sailing with them was an erudite (especially for a woman then), accomplished, prolific, and now much-anthologized poet, Simon Bradstreet's wife Anne. Today we would turn their ship away. Immigration issues in America are plainly very different now; still, it is worth reflecting that had it not been for a ship full of what would now be called illegal immigrants, the United States we know would not exist (Zimmerman,)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Illegal Immigration." Wikipedia. 4 May 2007. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration.html>.
• Espenshade, Thomas J. "Unauthorized Immigration to the United States" Annual Review of Sociology. 21 (1995). 195-200.
• Flores, William V. "New Citizens, New Rights: Undocumented Immigrants and Latino Cultural Citizenship" Latin American Perspectives. 2003. 30(2). 87-100.
• "Love Unites Them, La Migra Separates Them." El observador, 30 Nov. 2006.<http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id= b2579269c3c901ad0ae85bd42dd2920d.html>.
• Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop. New York: Longman 2nd Edition, November 20, 1998.

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