Have you ever been blamed for something you never did, how would it feel to be judged just because of your background. Imagine not being able to see your family just because you don’t share the same beliefs. Should people be kept away from their families for something they haven’t done? As a Muslim-American I believe no one should have the right to keep anyone away from the ones they love. Last month on January 27th President Donald Trump signed an executive order which bans people from 7 major Muslim countries from coming to the United States. The seven major countries are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. There are over 200 million Muslims who live in those countries, and the executive order will affect millions of Muslims who won’t be able to visit the U.S. anymore or see their relatives who live in America …show more content…
One of my cousins who lives in Virginia, is a senior in high school and he is graduating this June. His grandparents, who have been living in Iran there whole lives, applied for a Visa so they could attend his graduation. But two weeks ago they received a letter informing them that their visa was declined just because they were applying from Iran so they won’t be able to attend their grandson’s graduation. I have many Muslim friends that are immigrants and attend college and many of them are scared that they might be forced to go back any day. No one should live in fear of what could happen to them. The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment which states that you can’t single out individuals for their religion and nationality. But President Trump obviously violated the 14th amendment. The equal protection clause was written for a reason and the president’s violation has affected my family and many other families around the
To impel, Trump’s travel ban is flat out illegal. This is in accordance with The Immigration Act of 1965 which was summarized by The New York Times as follows “The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 banned all discrimination against immigrants on the basis
In 1973 a thirty-three year-old Caucasian male named Allan Bakke applied to and was denied admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis. In 1974 he filed another application and was once again rejected, even though his test scores were considerably higher than various minorities that were admitted under a special program. This special program specified that 16 out of 100 possible spaces for the students in the medical program were set aside solely for minorities, while the other 84 slots were for anyone who qualified, including minorities. What happened to Bakke is known as reverse discrimination. Bakke felt his rejections to be violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment, so he took the University of California Regents to the Superior Court of California. It was ruled that "the admissions program violated his rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment"1 The clause reads as follows:"...No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor without due process of the law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."2 The court ruled that race could not be a factor in admissions. However, they did not force the admittance of Bakke because the court could not know if he would have been admitted if the special admissions program for minorities did not exist.
Historically, the United States has prided itself as the most egalitarian and autonomous nation in the world. Political figures and institutions have attempted to uphold the theoretical ideals of the nation, while in practice often fail to fulfill their promises to the people. This gap between our fundamental values as delineated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and our discriminatory practices such as slavery and gender discrimination can be found in competing political ideologies which purposefully exclude marginalized peoples. The framers built the United States for the white man; every other person’s rights came, and continue to come afterwards. Once one people’s freedom is postponed, the same oppressive strategies
Doesn’t equality mean equal? The world gets offended at everything, but wants to continue to judge people based off of the same thing that offends them. If an immigrant goes into an airport, they will get searched—no doubt. If a white man walks into an airport, his chances of being flagged down are slim-to-none. Everyone should be treated with equal rights and respect.
Federal laws and regulations contain many loopholes, are inconsistently interpreted and may be repealed outright (NOW 1). Many supporters claim the Equal Rights Amendment is needed "to clarify law for the lower courts, whose decisions still reflect confusion and inconsistency about how to deal with sex discrimination claims (Francis 2). There is a supporting theory argument that "an amendment to equality would absolutely shift the burden away from those fighting discrimination and place it where it belongs, on those that deserve it.... ... middle of paper ... ...
The immigration debate has been in the news a great deal recently. Most of the attention has been focused on the illegal immigrants entering our country from Mexico, mostly Hispanics and Latinos. Uncontrolled immigration is harmful to the United States. It harms the American worker and it harms the American economy. The open borders are a threat to national security because terrorists, smugglers, and drug dealers can also freely cross the border. These key facts cannot be ignored and outweigh the claims that race and ethnicity are part of the debate. Immigration should be restricted and a better I.D. system would help stabilize the immigration problem.
For example in WWI, the Germans were put in internment camps and put under constant watch as the Americans were scared they would turn on them in the war because they would be loyal to their origin country of Germany. Germans who were citizens of other countries than the US were classified as aliens by the US government. About 250, 000 were to register at their local post office. They had to carry the registration card at all times and to report any change of address or employment. About 6, 300 aliens were arrested while many of them were interrogated and investigated. 2,048 were incarcerated. After 9/11, anyone who looked Arab or had the same skin color as them were suspicious to the US government. Arab, Muslim, Sikh, and South-Asian Americans have been a target of that. Like the Germans, they were thoroughly more investigated at the airport than say a non-muslim caucasian and of African origin. They were kept longer at the airports and many have been interrogated and arrested. In 2006, six Muslim priests were ordered to leave their flight after flight attendants and passengers reported they were doing suspicious
President Trump put a temporary ban on visitors and immigrants from seven muslim-majority countries. It was signed late last friday, and it blocked immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for 90 days and it suspends the U.S. refugee program for 120 days.
Imagine being discriminated anyplace you went, with glares from many and you haven’t done anything to receive those judgments. Muslim Americans in the U.S. have to deal with that discrimination every day post the events that happened on 9/11. Some take drastic measures such as changing their birth name, in hopes that they can avoid being judged by others. Muslim teenager Alisha, told her story that while visiting Six Flags with her family, an American man yelled at her father with the racial comment, “F**k you Osama!” She would also get asked offensive questions, like if she hated Jews too. People who engage in relationships with someone from the Muslim population are harassed for having a romantic affiliation with someone who they would call a “terrorist”. Along with getting called horrific names, many have become objects of suspicion.
Following 9/11 individuals who have ties to the Middle East have been scrutinized. “Muslims have endured alarming rates of prejudice, discrimination, and hate crimes.”(Amer&Bagarsa,2013). According to Amer hate crimes against Muslim Americans have significantly increased since 9/11 to the point of being “the most prevalent hate crime taking place on American soil.” (Amer&Bagarsa,2013). “The racialization of an ‘Arab-Middle Eastern-Muslim’ Other has been constituted by a dual process of cultural racism and the racialization of national origin… This solidified the racial
Star Parkers essay, “Se Habla Entitlement” was published in 2006 on the website WorldNetDaily.com. In the essay, Parker attempts to convince the reader that the United States should not have an open border policy. She uses the techniques of Ethos, Pathos, and logos to present a compelling argument to the reader, which in the end falls a bit short.
The first inception of individual rights began with the founding fathers of the United States, who had a vision in which all citizens would have the right to live in this country without being discriminated based on race, gender, religion, or sexual preference (US Constitution, 2010). These are basic human rights for which many people lost their lives to protect as this country was formed. Nonetheless, today one lives in a society in which one must fight to continue to posses those rights once again. Similar to the rest of history, when there have many examples of individual rights were not protected.
...ape our ideal vision in America as to citizens being protected by a strong government. The Declaration is our lives every day, it is reality. As American citizens we are a very fortunate to live in a place like America because of all that has been accomplished, the people are happy with the government for securing our rights. In other countries people do not have rights we do, they do not have a say in much. For example, if one says something about the president elsewhere, one might be killed or do time. In the United States, if one says something about the president, not much ca happen because we have a say, unless is a threat. In terms of equality, Muslim religious women do not have equality. Muslims cannot be seen as themselves completely in public. Nobody in this world is perfect. Therefore, everyone should get the same respect as to be equal to one another.
In coming to grips, the law needs to do more to tighten the borders in Texas to prevent illegal immigration from crossing over trafficking drugs.
According to Dorothy Q Thomas in her article bringing, human rights home “The most obvious value of human rights in the post-Holocaust world has been to set a limit on government power and shine a light on its abuses. The limit comes from the revolutionary idea, conceived in the immediate aftermath of World War II, that all governments are constrained in their actions by the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of their people” Neo-Nazis cannot remerge in the United States .The president of the United States cannot be the new fascist leader and cause the extermination among race. Due to the existence of Human rights, the propositions of Donald trump on the possibility of creating mass deportation and excluding the Muslim community cannot