Unocumented Immigrants: A Case Study
There are over eleven million undocumented immigrants that are currently living in the United States, this equals out to around 11.3% (2014) of the population. They are your friends, neighbors, and family and are the people who have migrated here using green cards, visas or people who have overstayed their visas. There are numerous reasons why immigrants come to the US illegally, mainly because the long waiting time for family members that can often be an expensive and complicated process Another reason is the limited number of visas for low-skilled workers. Those immigrants live each day and night in great fear of deportation from The terrifying living conditions that are often in Latin America are pulling immigrants to the US, mainly because of gang violence and mass extortion. When
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The life of an undocumented immigrant comes with suffering and hardship. They are limited to almost everything if they have fraudulent, invalid papers, or no papers at all, and this is the case the majority of the time. This means without the proper documentation, immigrants do not have access to any basic services and live in constant fear of immigration raids where they are unable to identify themselves in any way. In 2013, the Obama immigrants from the US, where Obama was called the President Obama established two executive actions that had a massive impact on this pressing conflict. In 2014, he decided that parents of US citizen children should not be deported thus leading to the establishment of two executive actions called DAPA awards '' to certain undocumented immigrants \. DACA allows certain undocumented immigrants \16th birthday and before June 2007 to receive a two-year work permit and immunity from deportation. These two executive actions did improve the lives of many undocumented immigrants but not all, mainly because they didn’t meet the requirements and were not eligible. So are they really living
The life of an undocumented immigrant comes with suffering and hardship. They are limited to almost everything if they have fraudulent, invalid papers, or no papers at all, and this is the case the majority of the time. This means without the proper documentation, immigrants do not have access to any basic services and live in constant fear of immigration raids where they are unable to identify themselves in any way. In 2013, the Obama immigrants from the US, where Obama was called the President Obama established two executive actions that had a massive impact on this pressing conflict. In 2014, he decided that parents of US citizen children should not be deported thus leading to the establishment of two executive actions called DAPA awards '' to certain undocumented immigrants \. DACA allows certain undocumented immigrants \16th birthday and before June 2007 to receive a two-year work permit and immunity from deportation. These two executive actions did improve the lives of many undocumented immigrants but not all, mainly because they didn’t meet the requirements and were not eligible. So are they really living