Vanessa Najarro

Immigration and separations of families

Immigration

Mexico, for many years has been the country where many immigrants came to the United States (Carcamo,2018). In the year of 2016, 47% of immigrants crossing were Mexican but since then the number have lower because of the fact that many people in Mexico started having less kids making the poverty levels go down(Carcamo,2018). Poverty is one of the view reasons someone might immigrate to the United States. Fear is another reason people immigrate to the United States, fear from their own country because many of them have to deal with serious violence in their home country (Armenta, 2017). About 5.9 million children who are U.S. citizen have at least one parent who doesn’t have a legal status in the U.S. (Langhout, Buckingham, Oberoi, &alt. 2018).  Latino individuals become the target for policies and institutional practices, for immigration which create systemic racism (Armenta, 2017). Some of the the people who are being targeted and institutionalized  because of the polices and  getting incarnated while crossing illegally. It has created a term called crimmigriation.

What is Crimmigration?
 Immigration is a topic that has criminalized the people affects many people creating the word crimmigration. Crimmigration is the merging of the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems (Armenta, 2017). Many of the people who are deported or are immigrates aren't criminals and are criminalized.This calms against people who are are immigrants have received a lot of backlash and due to the Presidency has created a lot of racism against people who aren't from the United States as well for people who don't "look American".

Statistics

This chart shows the number of each nationality and as you can see people of Mexican nationality and Latinx American are being target and some of this countries in the charts have high violence statistics.

You can also see the ages in which families are being separated and many of children who are targeted as criminals for coming trying to come to the United States

Why it Matters?

Immigration is a issue that needs to be talked about because it has caused tensions in the United States. It also create a stigma that all people who are being deported are criminals because the President has made those remarks. Yet this issue matters a lot to me because my own mother was deported a year ago. I never thought in a million years this would have happened to me but it did. My mom got deported on January 1, 2019. It was very hard for my family and we struggled now we still struggle a little bit without my mom but we used to my mom being gone. It makes me mad would people don't know why people are getting deported and assume they are criminals. My mother is not a criminal she is was just trying to do the right thing and become a resident of the United States but was label as a criminal for coming to the United States illegally. 

This was the last time I saw my mom and my family were together as a family.(January 1,2019)

This the last time I saw my mom.Since my  dad and I work we can't see my mom together (January 23,2020)

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References

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Gilman, D., & Romero, L. A. (2018). Immigration detention, inc. Journal on Migration and
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Jervis, R., & Gomez, A. (2019, May 2). Trump administration has separated hundreds of children from their migrant families since 2018. Retrieved from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/02/border-family-separations-trump-administration-border-patrol/3563990002/

Langhout, R.D., Buckingham, S.L., Oberoi, A.K., Chavez, N.R., Rusch, D., Esposito, F., &
            Suarez-Balcazar, Y. (2018). Statement on the effects of deportation and forced separation
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McCarthy, N., & Richter, F. (2019, December 17). Infographic: The Nationalities Deported From The U.S. In 2018. Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/chart/20316/ice-removals-by-country-of-citizenship/