Deportation of illegal Parents
This assignment was created by students at The City College of New York for the Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar, Web Discourse. Students are researching a social issue in one of four large topics: Urban Life, Public Health, Immigration, and Education. This will result in a final research paper that explores both how the conversations surrounding the issue are enacted and how a CCNY student may enter that conversation in a meaningful way.
Deportation of illegal parents is something that is affecting the lives of illegal immigrants but also the future of their legal children. Many illegal parents fear deportation, but they don’t know the laws or how to prevent deportation from happening. What they don’t know is that there are laws and lawyers that could help them. As well as many legal citizens of the United States that believe deportation is the right measure to take. These people only see that the illegal immigration population will decrease, excluding the fact that many children’s life will be damaged.
Eight years ago I had a best friend named Mary. She was Mexican American, but her parents were illegal immigrants. My friend’s parents cross the border to the United States in 1990, in search of opportunities. A year later they had her. Mary’s parents were very hard workers and had never committed a crime. Unfortunately they were discovered. On a trip to Philadelphia her father was driving a pass the limit speed. He was stopped by the police and was asked for identification. But he had none. Therefore they were arrested and deported. Mary’s mom had a sister who is a legal immigrant. Her aunt was given custody of Mary. I never saw Mary again since she moved to Philadelphia with her aunt. Since then I have been very curious to know if her parents had a chance to stay. To see if there are other families going through this issue, and to know what others felt and thought was the right decision?
My goal as a researcher is to discover these laws and prove that deportation is not the right alternative. I will search online for families that are going through this and that went through this. That would help me discover the different cases and issues that are going on in society. Therefore the solution will benefit all. I would use books, journals, newspaper articles and the web as my resources. The city college website, the Google scholar website, and may other sources will be of a great use for my research. Something that I will also include in the paper will be what legal citizens’ thing and argue. This will be something in my favor, because I can use a counter argument and persuade them. They will realize that deportation is the wrong method in solving issues of illegal immigrants going through this problem.
My main challenge will be researching through scholarly websites to find out necessary information, because there are fewer articles to look at and many times the information given is not enough. But the world is full of challenges and this one will not prevent me from doing my research and completing my goals. Hopefully this research can be a guide to many illegal parents that live with fear and believe they have no hope. I want to give them that hope.
Comments
As I read this blog, I was curious to know if the parents are allowed to take their child back with them when they are deported? This also brings up another question...even though it must be incredibly hard to send parents away from their child, does that make it right for the parents to do this in the first place. The parents are the ones who put themselves and their child in this situation. In America, there are right and wrong ways to immigrate to the US, why should we grant amnesty and citizenship to parents who came over illegally just because they had a child while they were here? Then instead of being a minor issue, all immigrants would come over and have children because they would become safe from deportation. I don't know much about the current system, but I think that the parents are the ones who took the risk by being illegal immigrants who had a child in America. Being deported and seperated from their child was a risk that they took, and I am sure even though they miss their child they are proud of the fact that at least he/she will have a better life.
Posted by: Andrew | October 20, 2009 12:01 PM
Elayne,
The story you tell in the first paragraph after your introduction is very powerful, especially because Mary was so close to you. I believe that if you continue your research in this topic by looking for stories that similarly tap into the readers' emotions, you will have a very telling, pathos-centered paper.
Although it will be difficult to "prove" that deportation is not the answer, I think you will be able to build strong arguments after conducting some in-depth research. I agree that looking into some laws would be helpful.
I wish you a fruitful research: finding useful and credible sources, evaluating them, and knitting them together into a cohesive, comprehensive, and convincing manner. Good luck with your paper!
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