Games Used by Politicians Using Immigration

Politicians use immigration in order to cover up more important issues that should be of more interest to the American people. Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, the government was being harassed about the occupation in Iraq. The government had to give speech after speech to the American people to try to convince them that everything was going to be fine, and that the war on terrorism had to continue in order to show the world that the 3000 Americans that lost their lives in the World Trade Center, would not be in vain. The government needed to find something that would deviate the people from the Iraqi war because it was becoming very frustrating to them. The government finally thought of the immigrants because this is a very important topic to most of the people in the United States. Here is where the Immigrants became very handy and the government started the contraction of the border fence and the raids against immigrant.
The Secure Fence Act of 2006 was taken by Republicans to President George W. Bush just before the election (CNN.com). This is one of the ways that the politicians use immigrants to achieve better results on their campaigns. President Bush also visited 5 countries in North, Central and South America, making his last stop in Mexico. President Bush reassures president Calderon that he has not given up on overhauling immigration policy (Asia News). Politicians do their best to touch all matters in order to be in a good situation when it comes to the elections, also when they become frustrated on a certain topic. Immigration will not stop because there are four sides to secure around the United States, but the immigration topic will slow down once a better topic is found or the Iraqi war ends. The information above gives few of the ways that immigration has been used by politicians for their own benefit.
Next blog will have information on terrorist and information showing that they come legally to the United States.

Political Campaigns and the Use of Immigration

Here is some history and information that is going to provide background on early immigration debates. The first debate was between the British and the colonies because immigration was one of the major factors for their desire of independence. In British parliament in 1826, were warned by the committee that immigrants would “deluge Great Britain with poverty and wretchedness, and gradually but certainly …equalize the state of the English and Irish peasantry” (Jones 102). This view of immigration in the British parliament would also close America’s door to immigration. All the rules under British parliament also pertained to the American colonies, and the colonies wanted to have immigrants for the growth of the United States. As time passed the idea of having immigrants in the United States has changed.
One of the earliest political parties to think of using the immigrants in a way to achieve the most votes in their campaign for the presidency was Native American Party. The Native American Party was formed by immigrants or White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, and their ideas help them to elect candidates into the government to restrict immigration (Roleff 27). With the information provided above we can find out that immigration has been use in many ways to help the political campaigns throughout our history in the United States.

In the next blog there will be interesting information on how politicians use immigration to their benefit.

References:

Roleff, Tamara L. Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints Series. Michigan: Greenhaven Press, 2004.

Jones, Maldwyn Allen. American Immigration. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960.

History of Immigration in the United Sates

Immigration has been the number one topic that comes on the news every day but before going on with immigration, it is very important to look at the history of immigration in the United States. The United States is a country that was found by immigrants that wanted to have freedom and economic opportunity. The declaration of independence formed the beginning of the United States and most of the signers were immigrants. “Of fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, eighteen were of non-English stock and eight were first-generation immigrants. Two immigrants-the West Indian Alexander Hamilton, who was Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury, and the Swiss Albert Gallatin, who held the same office under Jefferson-established the financial policies of the young republic” (Kennedy 64,65). This is very important information to know because it shows that immigrants in the United States have been around for quite some time; but most important is that immigrants have contributed to the development of this great nation.
There have been people who wanted to write about immigration but it is very difficult because it goes too far back in time. Oscar Handlin a historian has said, “Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history (Kennedy 64). Knowing the role that immigrants have had in the making of the United Sates, it is very important to take into consideration that immigrants will continue helping to the growth of this nation. The government instead of acknowledging this fact decides to construct a barricade to stop immigrants from coming in to the United States (CNN.COM). This was just a little bit of the history of immigrants; but one thing is for sure, immigrants have made a big contributribution to the power that this nation possesses.
There is more information coming in future posts regarding Immigration and it is going to clear-up many people’s minds, views and misconceptions of immigrants.


References
Kennedy, John F. A Nation of Immigrants. Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1964.

Immigrants in the United States

I have designed this blog to give information on topics that are very important about immigrants that are living illegally in the United States. This is a very sensitive topic and is very important to clarify many rumors that are based on believes rather than on statistics. Immigration in the United States is not a new issue, but it has become the main topic that most of the people want to talk about especially within the last year. There have been many steps taken against immigrants but it would be great to find the real reason on why this topic has become so important lately. Some of the reasons that are used when people talk about immigrants are rumors because they are not based on facts but on ideas that people believe are true.
One of the rumors that I have heard and it makes a great impact on people is that illegal immigrants do not pay taxes and this is not true. Another rumor is that immigrants take the jobs away from the Natives Americans and this might be true in a way but it also helps because of the competition. These are going to be some of the topics that are going to be included in the context of this page. The main idea of this page is to provide the most accurate information in order to have a better view in this topic which is immigration in the United States. I will strive to find the best information based on research because we as Americans have to know the truth.