Deportability Of Immigration

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Immigration in the United States is a very sensitive topic. Trough out the years the government in the United States have been developing different reforms regarding immigration that unfortunately have not helped to provide a fair solution to illegal immigrants. Looking at the history of immigration it is palpable that over the years immigration laws undergo different ways. For instance in 1950, the Internal Security Act barred admission to any foreigner who was communist because it would be prejudicial to the public interest or would endanger the safety of the United States. Different reforms had contributed to the way that illegal immigrants are treated in the United States. In the essay The Making of Culprits by Nicholas De Genova talks about immigrants being deportable and detainable. Deportability means that immigrants can be extradited to their countries without any reason and without informing them. According to De Genova deportability makes people afraid to fight for their rights. They become docile workers because they live with the fear that they will be deport to their countries. It is well-known that illegal workers have to work …show more content…

It is clear that there is a contradiction between the market and the state regarding illegal immigration. According to De Genova what makes deportability so decisive for migrant illegality and the policing of state borders is that some are deported in order that most remain underported as worker. I believe that it also explain the white privilege because whites in a sense do not want minority individual close to them but at the same time they need them to feel that they still have the privileges. In the case of illegal immigrants the state wants to deport them but at the same time they need them to do the hard

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