Immigrants+are+People+Too!


 * For this project, i am searching how and why people are intolerant of illegal immigration and how it mainly affects the U.S. I am also searching how we can build tolerance towards undocumented immigrants and immigration
 * [|Illegal Immigration]
 * [|Illegal Immigration]

"Whatever their nationality, they are first and foremost people" ("//A Day Without a Mexican")// "There are currently millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States," the brief states. "The apprehension, detention, and removal of these immigrants necessarily implicates the rights, liberties, and personal freedoms of human beings. Most of these undocumented immigrants are otherwise law-abiding, fully contributing members of society" ("//Calif. wants Arizona immigration law overturned")//

__What is immigration and why does it happen?__ according to the dictionary, immigration is the " arrival of settlers in new country: the act of entering a new country to settle permanently" .But **//illegal//** immigration means " the migration into a state in violation of the immigration laws and sovereignty of that nation" Immigration happens because people want a better life for their family

__why is there intoleration?__ The reason there is intolerance is because people don't know what really goes on. They are ignorant, going on about what they "believe" in without knowing the truth, because they want to be right and not wrong. . Nativists say that ilegall immigrants take up jobs, but they take up jobs that most Americans think of as dirty or below them. In the article "//Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs",// it explains that ever since the HB 56 was passed in Alabama, a law that gave police the right to question subjects about their immigration status, immigrant workers that worked in farmss and fish factories, were hotel keepers and construction workers have fled the state, leaving jobs behind. But now that there are jobs, unemployed Americans aren't taking them. Illegal immigrants don't pay taxes, or become ctizens.

__Acts and Laws__ Congress has passed laws for Arizona, Alabama, Missouri, Georgia, and North Carolina that are anti-immigrant. But some acts/laws have been passed to help immigrants
 * Arizona: SB 1070 //("Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration)"//
 * This bill makes the failure to carry immigration documents a crime, gives police the power to detain anyone that is suspicious of being in the state illegally.
 * Alabama: HB 56 //("Alabama House Bill 56:////The Immigrant Trespassing Law Explained")//-
 * this anti-immigration bill, pased june 2011, gives police the right to ask for an immigration status, requires immigration status check for workers, it makes transportation a crime, and all of this could result in jail time until a status can be verified. Effect: This law has scared many immigrants, legall and illegal, because they are scared of being harrassed and of being deported. This causes a chain effect of many businesess going out of market or having low employment because of all the empty jobs left. Most businesess had illegals working for them, and naturally, they are against this law. **"As a result, Addy estimates, the state’s gross domestic product will decline by $2.3 billion to $10.8 billion for every year the law is in effect and will cost $56.7 million to $264.5 million in tax revenue."** ("//Alabama's Immigration// //Law Could Cost Billions Annually")//
 * 5 other states have passed laws or were thinking of passing similiar laws that reflect's Arizona's SB 1070
 * Georgia-HB 87, Indiana-SB 590, South Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri
 * Dream Act: //("Creating Opportunities for Immigrant Students and Supporting the U.S. Economy.")//
 * This act is a pathway to legal status for undocumented students who graduate from high school and want to go to college. Before this act was passed, students that were not citizens could not work after college, finish high school, or go to college. This helps them with those problems, while also giving a rise to the economy.
 * Utah, HB 497 //("Utah Bill: Illegals Could Work Legally")//
 * Grants illegal immigrants a 2 yrear work permit to work legally in Utah, but it requires for police to check the person's immigration status

__How Does This Affect the U.S.__ It could benefit workers and the unemployed Both illegal and llegal immigrants have fled the states, because they are afraid of being deported or of being harassed People leaving a state that passes an anti-immigrant law results in an economy that loses money and employees. Businesses that employed immigrants have almost nobody left to work for them now because most of the jobs were low paying. For ex: farms, fish factories, manufaturing companies, constuction

__How Can We Be Tolerant?__ Some people don't know why immigrants, legal or ilegall, come to the U.S. They don't know that they cross the border and endanger their lives to make a better life for their children to support and educate them. They leave their life of poverty, of living in cardboard houses, of selling gum, to have a better life. Protests are a voice that demands to be haerd, demands that people try ti understand the truth of other's lives Research stories, and information or facts about immigration so that you won't be blinded by other peoples judgement. Just get the facts straight before you go criticizing.

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