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Immigrant Rights

Raul Jauregui Sam Perez Christina Zavala Kendra Mendez. Immigrant Rights. Introduction.

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Immigrant Rights

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  1. Raul Jauregui Sam Perez Christina Zavala Kendra Mendez Immigrant Rights

  2. Introduction Its is true that the Constitution dose not give foreigners the right to enter the U.S. Bur once here, it protects them from discrimination based on race and national origin and from arbitrary by the government. Immigrants work and pay taxes; legal immigrants are subject to military draft. Many have lived in this country for decades, married U.S. citizens, and raised their U.S.-citizen children. The laws the punished them violate their fundamental right to a fair and equal treatment.

  3. Some issues on immigrants Immigrants are most vulnerable to abusive spouses. U.S. drops immigrants in Juarez. Mass arrests of legal immigrants in El Paso. Electronic Anklets Track Asylum Seekers in U.S.

  4. Abusive spouses on immigrants Kathy Gomez Lee, case Manager at the De Colores Domestic violence shelter in Phoenix, speaks with an Immigrant women who said Her husband abused her for years. Kacvxvcxvxcvxcvxcv

  5. Abusive spouses on immigrants(continue) 36-year-old women stayed with her husband, the father, of her two children, for 8 years. Things like cultural, religious, economic and language barriers kept her from leaving. Undocumented immigrant, and her husband was her biggest fear, and that a naturalized U.S. would have her deported. Her abuse started two months after the couples married. He began to call her ugly, degrading names and always sexual abuse.

  6. Congress 1994-Congress recognized the problem when it approved the Violence Against Women Act. Included provisions that granted battered undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens the right to apply legal residency. 2000-Congress extended access to special visas to battered undocumented immigrant women, regardless of their relationship with their offender.

  7. U.S. drops immigrants in Juarez • Heriberto Morales Benitez • 20, left, made a phone call while Octavio Lopez Armenta, 35 • Waited in Juarez on Wednesday after dropped off by U.S. Border Patrol Heriberto Morales Benitez

  8. U.S. drops immigrants in Juarez(continue) Unnerved by his first airplane trip of his life, stepped of a Border Patrol Bus and was told to walk back to Juarez was Octavio Lopez Armenta. Had no money, knows no one and lost the number at which his wife and children waited to hear from him. Was part of the second batch of undocumented immigrants flown from Arizona by the Border Patrol on Wednesday to be voluntarily deported back to Mexico. A young man, his eyes brimming with tears, stalled a little. He didn’t want to leave the perceived safety of the bridge. He had heard about Juarez, he told to himself of how dangerous it was.

  9. Electronic Anklets Track Asylum Seekers in U.S. Electronic ankle bracelets to track illegal immigrants facing deportation. Detroit and other two cities see that the bracelets are cost-efficient and humane alternation to detention. Critics are concern over how the tether are being used and who has to wear them.

  10. Conclusion 5.3 million undocumented immigrants from Mexico are living in the United States. Over one in every two Mexican immigrants is undocumented. Compared with about one in every six for the remainder of the foreign born.

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