Alex Bahena
Mrs. Nieminski
Juniors Honors English
5 November 2017
Borjas, George J, et al. “Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers.” POLITICO Magazine, www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216
Summary: The article first goes into detail on why and how Donald Trump uses his data for the “immigration crisis” and goes into detail on how Hillary uses his data to prove that illegal immigration boosts the economy. It later goes a little in depth on how undocumented immigrants do not help the United States economy. George also has a series of books on economics, immigration, and wages.
Evaluation: George J Borjas is a Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. People typically define him as America's leading immigration economist. George J Borjas also has a series of books on economics, immigration, and wages.
Reflection: The editorial state's reasons on why the impact of undocumented immigrants does not help the United States economy. It helps me understand why when an increase of undocumented workers rise, wages fall. It gives examples which makes it much more clear and gives me a concept to grasp.
Friedberg, Rachel M., and Jennifer Hunt. “The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment, and Growth.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 9, no. 2, 1995, pp. 23–44. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2138165.
Summary: The academic journal goes into depth on how illegal immigrants affect the individual wages of workers, human migration, how it affects the employment rate, how it causes unemployment, it gives employment statistics, and how it drives the economy. It goes into all the negatives about illegal immigrants getting jobs.
Evaluation: The academic journal has a credential as it was accessed using google databases. The authors have gone under the assessment of experts, therefore, being published into a Google database.
Reflection: This academic journal gives me good examples and also gives me an even better understanding of why the immigrants may affect certain things in the economy. For example, immigrants who have blue collar jobs have a higher rate of being employed in manual rather than an American citizen, as they can be undercut in payment since they are not legal documented citizens, and mostly get employed since most of them work at a faster rate than regular American citizens.
Germano, Roy. “The Other Side of Immigration on iTunes.” iTunes, Roy Germano, 1 Jan. 1970, itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-other-side-of-immigration/id393203266.
Summary: The Other side of Immigration is a 55-minute documentary that is based on over 700 interviews with Hispanic men and women who live in the Mexican countryside. The documentary investigates why so many families leave their small Mexican hometowns to work and start a new life in the United States. The documentary also explores what happens to the communities and families that are left behind.
Evaluation: The filmmaker Roy Germano wrote, directed, and edited The other side of Immigration while doing a Ph.D. research in rural Mexico. His research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including migration studies, Latino studies, research and politics, electoral studies, and many others. Roy Germano also has other documentary films called A Mexican Sound and Immigrant America.
Reflection: The documentary goes into depth as for why the citizens of the Mexican countryside cross the border to work and live in the United States.
Immigration, www.pollingreport.com/immigration.htm
Summary: Polling trend is an independent, nonpartisan resource, on trends in American public opinion. All of the polls on the link are about immigration and the general opinion about them. The site offers many polls about immigrants and where the public stands on immigration. They also get polls from other sources like CNN, CBS, etc. The poles receive more than thousands of truthful votes on every survey.
Evaluation: Polling trend has credentials as it asks for people's actual opinions about controversial topics such as abortion, euthanasia, and much more. They ask critical questions with unbiased answers.
Reflection: These polls give me a better understanding on the how the public feels on immigration and also how many people feel the way they do. The polls themselves are great questions which I would consider unbiased. The public opinion on the website states that most of the users who vote on the polls are pro-immigration, but to an extent on citizenship. For example, some voters stated that immigrants could stay in the United States but not get citizenship. These polls give me ideas on how the public has split ideas on immigration to an extent.
“Immigrants in the United States.” CIS.org, cis.org/Report/Immigrants-United-States.
Summary: This article is all about the statistics about legal and illegal immigration. I will only talk about the population size of the legal and nonlegal immigrants, and labor. The population continually grows every year according to the article. It also touches on all the illegal and prohibited immigrants who are in the workforce. An immigrant has a higher chance of being in the labor workforce than a natural born citizen of the United States due to the fact that they can be well underpaid for entering the United States illegally.
Evaluation: This information was initially used as a statistics source but was accessed using an online database, so the author has credentials in the statistics.
Reflection: The article goes into detail about the statistics of the legal and illegal immigrants who migrate to the United States every year and gives more in-depth detail about how immigration affects the schooling system and the economy. The article also provides some data tables of immigration through the years.
Press, The Associated. “U.S. Border Patrol Launches New Push to Stop Illegal Immigrants from Mexico.” NY Daily News, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 17 Jan. 2012, www.nydailynews.com/news/national/u-s-border-patrol-launches-new-push-stop-illegal-immigrants-mexico-article-1.1007538.
Summary: The image above displays a United States border patrol agent containing undocumented immigrants who crossed the Rio Grande into the United States. Fortunately for them, they were sent back to Mexico with no punishment at all. This image shows that the Rio Grande should be monitored more carefully for any people who try and swim across it.
Evaluation: A photographer has taken this photo, this photographer is from the Associated Press. The associated press is a nonprofit news agency that has credentials.
Reflection: This photo depicts that our border patrol force needs to be bigger. Although they were caught, many immigrants in this picture could have quickly run away from the border patrol agent. Many of these immigrants will likely try to cross again in a different spot of the border. The border is 1,954 miles wide. Which means not all areas are under tight surveillance. A more significant force would mean more space being covered and surveyed which means that the risk of immigrants not getting caught would be lower than what it is today.
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Summary: This photo portrays a border patrol agent surveying for any potential illegal immigrants who may want to cross the unfinished border wall between Tijuana, Mexico, and the United States. He was stationed there by one of his commanders and switches off with another agent every couple hours because of the intense desert heat.
Evaluation: Gregory bull is a member of the associated press which is a nonprofit news agency that has credentials.
Reflection: The border wall between the United States and Tijuana Mexico is one of the reasons why illegal immigrants cross-border. Also not to mention that the border is not well guarded, nor is it a vast and sturdy wall which makes it easy to cross. Primarily during the night when it is hard to see, especially if they try to cross only half a mile away from where the border agents may be stationed. Building a wall would be sufficient for keeping immigrants out.