deportation


 * Deportation** is defined as the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien or other person from a state.

Deportation is an important term to this social justice issue because it reflects the country’s actions to resolve illegal immigration in the United States. Deportation is the removal of unwanted illegal individual from a state, in our case, the United States. Today, the United States struggles, many families are falling into poverty and are losing their jobs. We see many American citizens on the streets, homeless, wanting a job. Illegal immigrants take up these jobs that the American citizens should have. American citizens lose their jobs, houses, everything due to contributing to the United States through taxes, etc. Illegal immigrants don’t because they technically are not citizens therefore do not contribute. Is it fair that we Americans pay and contribute what illegal immigrants do not? Yet they take jobs that American citizens would want forcing many citizens to struggle living while illegal immigrants unfairly live in secret in our borders? This is why deportation is necessary, it is justified for the American citizens who must suffer when they don’t deserve to. The removal of illegal immigrants is only fair to the American citizens. However, this help stands to the overall social justice issue because three fourths of the illegal immigrants in the United States are from Mexico; every day 300 of these illegal people are sent back to Mexico. Most are sent with nothing more than what they got in their pockets. Although this seems inhumane to watch thousands of Mexicans living along the border with nowhere to go, it is only fair. Mexico must deal with the population that they long ignored; the United States should not have Mexico’s population sneaking into our borders. They come because they are ignored and need help but in reaction we the American citizens are limited to things such as jobs, shelter, etc that these illegal immigrants steal. Deportation is a term that is significant to illegal immigration because it brings out a fair solution to the problem.

[] (Debate between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman on the immigration reforms and how we should deal with deportation)
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(Above: A graph representing the estimated # of illegal immigrants that are deported every year in the United States. The number rapidly increases each year.)

(Above: The group responsible for the removal and deportation of illegal immigrants in the United States are the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They are the ones who act in deportation by transporting illegal immigrants to the outside of our borders back to their home country. This is a picture showing the insignia of the group.)

__Work Cited:__

"Deportation." //Dictionary.Reference.com//. Dictionary.com Unabridged, 2011. Web. 25 May 2011. .

"Mexicans Deported from US Face Shattered Lives." //USA Today//. Ed. Brent Jones. The Associated Press, 24 Aug. 2008. Web. 25 May 2011 < http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-08-24-4215780895_x.htm>.