A New Definition of the American Identity
Many Americans take pride in the United States for being culturally diverse, yet, at the same time, many of those same Americans also place an expectation on immigrants to assimilate. […]
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We Are Siamese If You Please
As kids, Disney movies filled up our movie shelves and were the feature presentations of our family movie nights. But as we watch these movies now, being the older and […]
Immigrants in prison system finally getting a break?
The prison system in the United States has always been rather punitive and unjust. However an event last week had some immigrants looking up about their futures. It was ordered […]
Children Face the Consequences of Illegal Immigration Alone
One of the most controversial issues in the United States is that of immigration. Most people have an instinctive fear of what immigrants will do, or have preconceived ideas of […]
Asians Expand Influence In U.S. Through Increased Immigration
In the New York Times article “In a Shift, Biggest Waves of Migrants Is Now Asian”, Kirk Semple discusses the rapidly increasing immigration of Asians to the United States. According to […]
The Deportation Process
Though I have always heard about deportation, I never had a complete understanding of the deportation process. My understanding was that an alien is apprehended by a law enforcement […]
Can Dreamers Dream of Health Care?
In early June, President Obama used “existing legal authority“ to allow undocumented immigrants, who came to the United States as young children, to remain in the country with temporary legal status […]
Tenga Un Nice Day
It may be a slow process, and it may be met with criticism along the way, but believe it or not, languages evolve. When was the last time someone corrected […]
Filipino Nurse Frenzy
Is it fair for the United States to take advantage of the well educated, experienced nurses from the Philippines when it is known that it will leave nursing shortages back […]
Will He Be The First Hispanic President of the United States of America?
In 2008 Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the United States of America. This begs the question, Can we expect more diversity filling the White House in the […]
Immigration Talk 