Immigration Reflection Paper

When I first walk into class on day 1 of sociology, I did not know what to expect. I did not know much about immigrants however, I knew that I was a child of an immigrants. I though immigration was just a typical way of emphasizing the difference between a foreign and citizen. I know immigrants get an alien card for a minimum of five years before able to apply for citizenship, but only if you come legally. For those who come illegally, I did not know anything about them. I did not even know that they are able to attend to school. I used to think of immigrants as people of color such as Black Africans, Asians, and Latinos because the media always shows the minority immigrants such as when talking about immigration. The media also never shows a white immigrants from Europe or even blaming on them as the job takers unlike the minorities. Therefore, I though the best to describe immigrants is by race which is pretty racism but, I did not know at all because I never hear or see anyone call the
If we look at the pathway to citizenship, there is not exact solution of getting into the line on becoming a citizen. We need a solution now because some of these immigrants do not have home. For example; if you look at Tam’ case, she does not have home because not only does our country deny her but, her native country also deny her just because she was a child of immigrants. Seeing her getting deny of a citizenship make me believe that nothing has changed. I believe we should create a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants. We need an immigration system that recognize the hardship that cause people to risk their lives to get here. In doing so, it will do more good to our nation than expansive and useless approaches like deporting millions of people back or spending billions on boarder control that would not stop people from attempting to