Illegal Immigration Problems

Illegal immigration is a huge topic of contention in the United States today. Many people fearing for their lives tend to cross into our borders without legal documentation. They are willing to take their chances. Most of them come over from Mexico into Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and California. Immigrants from South and Central America use Mexico as their way into the U.S. Their biggest problem is what happens after they cross the border.
The current event chosen is an article written about an illegal family from Guatemala. They allowed CNN to capture their story as it unfolds. The father, Pedro, came to the U.S. in 2001. His wife, Angelica, and son, Jesus, followed him 13 years later in 2014. They came to America to live a better life and
131). Pedro, Angelica and Jesus crossing into the U.S. without going through the proper channels is against the law. Illegal immigrants are treated with hostility and threatened with deportation when they are found. They did not follow the rules and deviated from what society would consider legal.
Social stratification is the ranking of groups of people by inequality (Chambliss, 2016, p. 157). The family written about in the article are Latino. While the U.S. does not have a caste society, it does have a class society. This family could prosper and move up in society. They need to become legal residents to really have true success. They are currently in lower class society because of their status as illegal aliens.
Social control is where people try to control other people and make them conform to societies rules and norms (Chambliss, 2016, p. 147). The social control is between this family and the immigration office. The family is poor and does not have many resources to help them try to become legal. The immigration office has power over this family and dangles deportation over their