Categorical Imperatives
It is both unethical and immoral for undocumented immigrants to use legitimate identification to receive similar benefits of those who are citizens of that country. The framework developed in this paper incorporates three main ingredients, firstly Kant’s first and second formulation of categorical imperatives as well as duty, secondly the social contract theory; primary the state of nature, and lastly honesty.
Exposition: Admittedly, an ongoing controversial issue, especially with the newly elected president Trump is undocumented immigrants. This phenomenon is not new and millions of undocumented Hispanic immigrants have come into the US; specifically, continuing the customs of acquiring a falsified social security number. This is not …show more content…
This means that illegal immigrants are not “undocumented” they just have fraudulent documents. “Experts suggest that approximately 75 percent of working-age illegal aliens use fraudulent Social Security cards to obtain employment” This is not including the forged drivers’ license, fake green cars, and phony birth certificates that immigrants use.
This imposes a serious taboo to Kant’s second formulation of categorical imperatives. “Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only." This means that to act out of moral duty, one must act in a way that would be acceptable for everyone else to act. Which makes “undocumented” immigrants immoral because their action of using another person’s identity as a mean to reach an end, in this case the end goal is citizenship.
Furthermore, Kant intensified that since we humans are rational agents, we are free to make decisions freely, set goals, and guide conduct by reason. Therefore, if we are rational agents that make immoral decisions then we must be ready for the consequences that follow. There are no …show more content…
In this case, the burglar would then be the illegitimate immigrant that gets caught using a forged identification. Whereas, the cop would then be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE is an American federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ICE duty is to identify, investigate, and dismantle vulnerabilities regarding the nation’s border, economic, transport, and infrastructure security. In the same way as situation one was presented, would it be right to condom the use of falsified documents to continue the stay of illegal immigrations?
In response, to condone illegal immigration is to condone anarchy. If illegal aliens are condoned for breaking the law because they are only escaping poverty, then by such logic we should also condone burglars who are poor. And pretty soon there would be an excuse for violating every law. The inevitable result would be
Exposition: Admittedly, an ongoing controversial issue, especially with the newly elected president Trump is undocumented immigrants. This phenomenon is not new and millions of undocumented Hispanic immigrants have come into the US; specifically, continuing the customs of acquiring a falsified social security number. This is not …show more content…
This means that illegal immigrants are not “undocumented” they just have fraudulent documents. “Experts suggest that approximately 75 percent of working-age illegal aliens use fraudulent Social Security cards to obtain employment” This is not including the forged drivers’ license, fake green cars, and phony birth certificates that immigrants use.
This imposes a serious taboo to Kant’s second formulation of categorical imperatives. “Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only." This means that to act out of moral duty, one must act in a way that would be acceptable for everyone else to act. Which makes “undocumented” immigrants immoral because their action of using another person’s identity as a mean to reach an end, in this case the end goal is citizenship.
Furthermore, Kant intensified that since we humans are rational agents, we are free to make decisions freely, set goals, and guide conduct by reason. Therefore, if we are rational agents that make immoral decisions then we must be ready for the consequences that follow. There are no …show more content…
In this case, the burglar would then be the illegitimate immigrant that gets caught using a forged identification. Whereas, the cop would then be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE is an American federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ICE duty is to identify, investigate, and dismantle vulnerabilities regarding the nation’s border, economic, transport, and infrastructure security. In the same way as situation one was presented, would it be right to condom the use of falsified documents to continue the stay of illegal immigrations?
In response, to condone illegal immigration is to condone anarchy. If illegal aliens are condoned for breaking the law because they are only escaping poverty, then by such logic we should also condone burglars who are poor. And pretty soon there would be an excuse for violating every law. The inevitable result would be