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Sometimes people bring their own regrets upon themselves, when faced with reality. That’s when they offer all types of excuses. Good example is when illegal immigrants/citizens kids get caught in between a rock and a hard place. By them being American born they automatically becomes legal citizens surrounded by illegal parents afraid to seek legal citizenship.

The word deportation should scare them because they knew the consequences going into the problem of their very own future. If, it’s against the law then it stands out that you will serve some type punishment. What hard to earn will be easy once you earned it correctly.

It’s like a criminal crying foul because he was caught for a crime he committed. But was on the run, from law enforcement. We understand why crooks, takes advantage of illegals because they afraid to report criminal activities for fear of knowing they ust return to their homeland.

They no different then Americans getting in trouble in ther countries because of not following the protocol, of their visited country. Sure, our press and politicians gets them off with pleads of certain obligation, with the country. But, we can comprehend that fear touched their hearts when they was behind those bars of prison.

Oh, they are good workers. Sounds great! But still they aren’t legal citizens. And many times the ones going to bat for them is guilty for not trying to encourage them to try all ways to be legal. What more can you prove to those you work for that you’re not rying to get them in trouble? After all, the federal , local authorities will get involved. And sometimes those that means well can’t do anything.

I would like to express an idea I have concerning all citizens of Earth. I think there should be one law that is universal across all nations. The law of no violating another person. By violating another person I mean intended harm, whether it’s physical or mental. I understand it is sometimes hard to determine what harm is intended and what’s not, but under the right review things could be figured out.

I know there are already many laws in place that are related. I am thinking it would be better to have one law rather than many dividing up what violations of persons are. I would hope that with this law in place we could take steps to less violence in our word and happier citizens. I know for a fact too many people are violated because of ignorance or lack of strength. I also this is just an idea. I think if this idea was to be discussed in the right setting it could become something great.

A seperate thought I have being a younger citizen, I think many laws need to be reviewed and adjusted if not abolished to be relevant to the times.

Thanks for reading.

Today in the United States everyone is legally equal, blacks and whites, men and women, minorities and majorities, Hindus, Catholics, Taoists, Muslims, followers of any religion, belonging to any social or economic group, they are all equal— except immigrants. Immigrants to the United States without passports or visas or “papers” are treated and viewed as a social group that does not belong and that is less important or less deserving than the social group of people who were born in the United States, or who went through the proper channels to be legally allowed to live in the United States.

Legally allowed to live in the United States? To most everyone this is normal, if you want to come to the States from some other country you have to get permission, and if you want to stay, you need even more permission. But everyone who was born here can stay for as long as they like, they have the right to live here and pursue happiness. As the founders of the United States wrote, pursuing happiness is an inalienable right that every man, woman, and child has because they are a man, woman, or child, not because they were born some place, or because they are a certain color, speak a certain language, worship a certain god, but because they are people. Why is it then that people who are not from here, people who have a different social background than us, ​are not freely allowed to pursue happiness in what most Americans will tell you is the greatest country on Earth?

There are a lot of people who want to come to the United States, and some would argue that we cannot possibly let them all in, but why? Someone seeking a better life in the United States has just as much of a right to do so than anyone legally in the country has the right to buy a nicer house. What is the difference between an immigrant seeking a better life here and a citizen seeking a better life across town? Unlike all of my other questions, I will answer this one for you—they are not like us. Someone from another country belongs to a different social group; we do not share a culture with them. That is why people rally for stricter border control while they complain about the wait at US Customs. The United States has a long history of segregating people for being different, and it also has a long history of later realizing its mistake and granting equal rights to those people, but it has always overlooked immigrants.

However, America is not the only country to overlook immigrants. In June of 2009 some Kurds living in Japan were seeking to be granted the legal status of Refugee. The Japanese government was not cooperating and the Kurds staged a 72 day sit-in protest, which ended when they were forcibly removed.  In Japan  “citizens possess an exclusive right to political speech and action. Protests by refugees undoubtedly question citizens’ monopoly of this right” (Shindo).

The protesters were human, and the people who removed them were human, yet they were separated into the two mutually exclusive groups of “Citizen” and “Non-Citizen.” Even though Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states “Everyone has the right to a nationality,” and “no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.” Non-Citizens were denied basic human rights. As refugees without ​legal Refugee status these Kurds had no nationality, and were being denied the right to stay in Japan. On top of this it was popular opinion that, “in retaliation for the sit-in, the Kurd refugees might not only be denied recognition as ‘refugees’, but also be detained for a longer period than others” (Shindo). Because these people were not citizens, it was widely believed that they would receive punishment for doing something which all citizens of the country have the right to do.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document made by the United Nations, of which both Japan and the United States are members. By being members they agree to the rights granted by this document, yet because there is no United Nations enforcement agency, the rights are free to be trampled upon. In some regions of Mexico, living conditions could hardly be called “living” conditions, where necessities such as food, water, and shelter, are not met. People experiencing these conditions often pursue happiness in the United States, and are subsequently expelled. This occurs despite article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.”

It is easy for a powerful country like the United States to deny Non-Citizens basic human rights, such as those from Article 13 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights concerning the freedom of movement, which is elaborated on by Human Rights Education Associates.

The right to free movement affects economic migrants, those who have fled their homes not in fear of persecution but in search of a higher standard of living, which would bring increased job and educational opportunities.

Immigrants are directly affected by this freedom due to the fact that ​they have entered a new nation intending to settle there. If they are not allowed into that nation, or the government in any way restricts movement within their new society, then clearly this is in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 

All people have the right to be exempt from expulsion from their country of origin or nationality as well as countries they have immigrated to. This right applies to individuals as well as large groups of people.

It could be argued that merely putting up a fence between the United States and Mexico is denying passage between the two to those who seek it. And because there is no agency or military body to enforce the United Nations’ declaration the United States frequently ignores it.

If illegal immigrants manage to find work in the United States, it is often low paying work that legal residents and citizens do not wish to perform. Food harvesting is often done by illegal immigrants, at wages below state minimum, and it is because of this that the food can be sold so cheaply. Under article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, sub-standard payment is forbidden.

Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

But because this group of people is segregated by the Citizen/Non-Citizen line,​ citizens feel that they can treat the illegal immigrants in this manner. That because they belong to this other group they are inferior people. This is very similar, if not identical, to the views that were held about women and African Americans in the United States until they were legally defined as being equal to all others.

In the United States it is a well established more that immigrants apply for citizenship and not stay illegally. This more is so strong that it is even fashioned into a law, becoming a formal norm. It is from this law that the term “illegal immigrant” derives. A very interesting term, as it labels a person as illegal. It is not their actions or their possessions that are illegal, but their presence. Treating a group differently for demographics they cannot change is discrimination. The only thing that these people have done wrong is having been born in another country, much like African Americans were discriminated against for merely the color of their skin decades ago.

One thing that is very different between immigrants and African Americans however is the law, the formal norm that allows others to inhumanly treat this group of people. African Americans have all the same legal rights as every other citizen, but illegal immigrants are not citizens, and do not have any of the rights of citizens. By keeping this group of people legally distinct from others, it only enforces the more that keeps them from being welcomed into the country.

Referencing back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights yet again, Article 5 states that, “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Often the first part of this article is cited in cases of prisoners of war, or suspects of treason being tortured and dehumanized into revealing some information that their captors seek. But all too often the rest of this article is left out. It is a human right to be treated as ​human, something that is easily derived. Yet what it means to be treated as human has gray areas, which is why the article adds that no one should be subjected to degrading treatment or punishment. Degrading, while not of perfect diction itself, is a much more defined term. Few people would argue that being deported is not degrading, or that performing labor for a lower wage than a citizen would be given is not degrading, yet the United States government and its citizens continue these practices.

A functionalist approach to this situation would state that the lower earning illegal immigrants are crucial for the economic development of the country, as they enable the cheap production of raw goods. An extended look at this could include the goods produced from the immigrant-harvested food. Something simple and seemingly insignificant can play a large role in the functioning of society. Non-Citizens produce food for the Citizens, and in return the Citizens offer a stable job and some financial compensation, though the two groups often do not interact directly, they rely on each other intensely. Citizens and Non-Citizens are far more likely to be around people of their own group, and it is because of this that Citizens may never know someone who does work for a degrading sum, which brings us to the interactionalist perspective.

Interactionalists would see this as a separation. The two groups hardly interact with each other, a Citizen may only see a Non-Citizen if they are the person who hires them. Often, it is the case that the two groups will not speak the same language, so their interactions would be even more limited. Hand gestures and facial expressions would have to go a long way for these communications. Approval and disapproval may only be expressed as a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. On top of this the Citizen group interacting with the Non-Citizen group may very well view themselves as superior, leading in to the ​feminist view.

Not only are the illegal immigrants treated poorly because they belong to the Non-Citizen group, but also because some of them are women. When it comes to picking oranges, anyone can do it, but employers will often view jobs as suitable for certain genders and selectively hire employees based on that view. This is something which is illegal in the United States, gender discrimination is not allowed in the work place, but when an employer is hiring someone who is an undocumented illegal immigrant, they can be as discriminating  as they want. Feminists would view this as an inequality between genders, as the males pick oranges, their female counter parts clean houses, and without an equal balance of genders doing both jobs it certainly is an inequality. The Non-Citizen group struggles to find work, and is even faced with gender discrimination if work is found. The Citizens and Non-Citizens conflict, taking us to the Conflict view.

From the Conflict perspective, the Citizens are the Haves, and the Non-Citizens are the Have-Nots. The Non-Citizens struggle to increase their quality of life, while the Citizens take advantage of their cheap labor.

Historically, conflict always leads to rebellion, and perhaps one day the illegal immigrants will rebel in large enough numbers with a loud enough voice that the Citizens may feel their plight and realize the extreme discrimination and violation of human rights.

​Works Cited

Shindo, Reiko. “Struggle for Citizenship: Interaction between Political Society and Civil Society at a Kurd Refugee Protest in Tokyo.” Citizenship Studies 13.3 (2009): 219-37. Print.

Gees, Sarah. “Freedom of Movement.” Hrea.org. Human Rights Education Associates, 2003. Web. 20 Oct. 2010.

Despite all these trials, still Israel managed a fairly secured existence: they have a robust economy, a super mighty ally, the U.S.A., and a superbly equipped military, the envy in the Arab world.

Just decades ago, those who are itching to leave Israel, were persecuted to death by holocausts in EU places like Poland and Germany. Now, these country’s have granted their requests and tens of thousands have received the citizenship they need. With an EU passport, they can travel freely and work in the unions 27 nations giving them access to quality and subsidized government education.

In between some Israeli thinkers hovers some fear for the future. One shrewd Israeli student observed and said that “it is better to devise an escape route” if anything happens to them at their adopted homeland and where decades back, their relatives where subjected to a shameful and macabre gassing. Moti Albertstein, a 36 years old doctoral student in biochemistry who has just received his citizenship from Poland continued “that life in Poland entails so much uncertainty that there is need to have some security”.

Generally, Israelis are favored to have access to foreign passports because a majority of them and their parents were once citizens of countries in EU before Hitler almost extinguished them.

This phenomenon which we can call a diaspora began between 2004 and 2007. Until now, Israelis accession to EU nations are continuing for millions of them have roots in east Europe. The biggest is Poland where a whooping 3 million Jews were executed and gassed. Romania is second with almost one million killed.

Granting of citizenship to Israelis by the countries involved in a crime committed against them is some form of making amends and for the Israelis to overcome their excruciating history.

Motivation and state bodies within goal agencies, specially those with a place possible for dishonesty

• A operation for appointing special commissions of investigating in which the commissioners are prescribed by a bi-partisan knowledge

• An autarkical analyze duty

• A local authorities error role

• Unimprisoned and sporting elections

• An authorised community

In addition to the above ‘regime’ institutions, it is also historic that remaining institutions be nowadays and athletic in performing their roles. Each of these should feature their own wholeness grouping to increase the chance that they present fit their functions within the person wholeness system/ethics plan and charged up to the justifications for the various privileges that they generally possess:

• An breakaway bar

• A aweigh and diverse press

• Active professions -especially journalists and lawyers

• Astir nongovernmental organizations

• Unconditional pedantic institutions

Governmental parties humour a pettifogging enactment in the surgery of democracies. By swing alternative agendas to the electorate and beingness answerable for their conveyancing, they are a necessary move of any wholeness grouping. Still, they also provide few of large opportunities for corruption. It is thusly discerning that wholeness systems are in site to exploit the chances that they quantity that scholarly persona, kinda than act as a conduit through which payment can subvert a mix of measures to concentrate the reliance on semipolitical donations and to pee those that stay straight! The concrete problem of political donations is expose when we ask the lyrate mull: would sane donors move donations without an belief of regaining? Where donors are corporations who otherwise posit on their repair area to amount investor wealthiness, a ‘yes’ work makes one reflect how they expect they are accelerando the wealthiness of their shareholders!

The uninteresting effectuation to secure that semipolitical parties romp their persona demand faithful updating to flock with those who leave assay to get around them. The temptations to exercise are so zealous that honourable.

This transparence may fuck to go so far as all meetings between donors and either set officials or members of semipolitical parties holding governmental duty and appointees of political parties.

Nevertheless, it is obligatory to accentuate the primal role of philosophy in this emerge to co-ordinate lawful and uninteresting change. Politicians should be aware of the evaluative part they perform in a democracy and assay to charged up to that part and modify the subversion of that portrayal a outstanding proceeds.It is these trinity components unitedly with remaining parameters attain their actions or intents.

To realise this phenomenon it is indispensable to distinguish a product of concepts with vernacular points.

Citizens are those who hold the title of citizenship.

Aliens are citizens of one country passing through or residing in the territory of another country.

Principles that govern the acquisition of Citizenship:

1. jus sanguinis (rule of the blood) is a rule that a person’s citizenship is determined by his blood or the citizenship of his parents.

2. jus soli or jus loci (rule of the soil) is a rule that a person’s citizenship is determined by the place of his birth.

Types of citizens:

            1. Citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution

2. Citizens under the jus sanguinis rule

(1 & 2 are natural-born citizens or those who are citizens of the Philippines from birth without having to perform any act to acquire or perfect their Philippine Citizenship

            3. Citizens by election3. Under the 1935  Constitution, a child born of a Filipino  mother, who          

as a married to a foreigner, is  born an alien and remains an alien during his

minority until he elects Filipino citizenship (generally, within three years after reaching that

age).

3. Naturalized citizens are those who acquired the title after undergoing the  process of

naturalization which is the  act of formally adopting an alien into the political body of the state and  clothing him with the rights and privileges of citizenship.

Loss of Citizenship

            1. Voluntarily:

                        a. By naturalization

                        b. Express renunciation of citizenship

                        c. Subscribing an oath of allegiance to a foreign country

                        d. Rendering services to a foreign armed force

            2. Involuntarily:

                        a. Deserting the armed forces in times of war

                        b. Cancellation of certificate of naturalization

                        c. (on extreme cases) Collective naturalization

Reacquisition of citizenship:

            1. By naturalization

            2. Repatriation of deserters of the armed forces

            3. Direct act of Congress

Doctrine of Indelible Allegiance. Filipinos who marry aliens shall retain their citizenship unless by their

act or omission they are deemed, under the law to have renounced it.

Duties and Obligations of Citizens:

1. To be loyal to the Republic.

2. To defend the state.

3. To contribute to the development and welfare of the state.

4. To uphold the Constitution and obey the laws

5. To cooperate with duly constituted authorities.

6. To exercise rights responsibly with due regards for the rights of others.

7. To engage in gainful work.

8. To register and vote.

   We are regarded as “Adults”. We find ourselves in strange situations: Working for businesses that mean “business”, married, raising children, buying homes, managing households and, in some cases, our own businesses. We are the reason why the Market exists. We are also the reason why the Government exists.

     We, the People. We, the “grownups”. There is only one thing missing…the Adults.

     With everything we hold dear: Country, livelihood, freedom and liberty. With all the responsibilities entrusted upon us: Family, children, a place in Society, a sound economy and a respectable lifestyle. With all these things at stake, we have forgotten our place and our impact on the economics and the politics which have a direct effect on how we live our lives and what legacy we will leave our children beyond our passing.

     We, the People, are the reason why the Government of this country was instituted as it was. The Government of the People, by the People and for the People. How did we become the Subjects of a Government that Robs the People, Subjugates the People and has nothing but Contempt for the People? How have we come to a place where, if any Patriotic Citizen invokes the Constitution, he(or she) is treated by the corrupt Ruling Entity and by the “Brainwashed” among the People like an absolute “Nut-Job”? How can we, the People, stand by and do nothing about the so called “Representatives” of the People who “humor” the Constitution as being a “Living and Breathing” joke of a document which can be interpreted in any way politicians choose to in order to push their agendas. And their agendas are rarely intended to benefit the People.

     We, the People, are so busy posturing on “Talk-Shows” and kowtowing to hosts whose only purpose is creating “shock and awe” for ratings and sponsors. We, the People, are so busy playing “armchair political commentators” that we lose sight of our responsibility as citizens and voters in this great Country.

     It is time we took a real honest look at the candidates who put their hats in the ring and claim that they have the answers to the grave problems which face our Nation in these trying times.

     People, get off your “Media Manipulated High Horse” and vote…your conscience.

Let’s be honest, we all know what middle class refers to – a certain value and commitment to education, a certain value and commitment to the family and a healthy personal ambition in terms of professional status and progress based on merit.

A persistent source of confusion surrounding the term ‘middle class’ derives predominantly from there being no set criteria for such a definition. Middle class salaries tend to be determined by middle class occupations, which in turn are attained by middle class values.

Katie’s time as a female topless model instantly shot her into the public limelight; she gained wealth and fame through reality television shows, which required in return no set academic status or positive values. Price left school at sixteen, with far from outstanding academic grades, however, admittedly succeeded in creating her own outstanding wealth.

Our general conception of social classes is incorrectly determined merely by wealth. Attitude, contribution to society and ethical values are all major aspects which determine one’s social standing. It is concerning that we as a society would regard a women which has not portrayed any positive or graceful values as a ‘middle class’ citizen.

There can be classification of jobs so that people who immigrate and want to become citizens have to do such types of works before being considered good enough for the country. Such stern measures can perhaps reduce illegal immigrants.

The description for the project from my proposal almost exactly matched the action plan for my citizen project. It was missing many details due to I received most of the information late in terms of turning in my proposal already. I got all of the work I would have missed that day for the project and I completed it on the day that was scheduled. I did end up coming back earlier than expected though and so I took some extra steps in order to get my work I needed for certain classes.

I worked with many different people during the project , but I don’t remember all of their names. I worked with Ms. Lapsys, Ms. Fossum, Melia Barnes, Matt Feher, Larry Hailsham, two SCA counselors, and many other students from city high. I think I will work with the SCA soon again, because I am hoping to get some sort of summer job with the organization. As for the people I doubt I will be working with them again because I will be leaving the school soon. I will be seeing Ms. Lapsys in Costa Rica for the school trip though.

I learned that its important to wear pants for removing invasive species because you don’t know what kind of area you will be working with. A good resource to have would be the conservation portion of our school that Ms. Lapsys works in. according to the student who organized this project, it may be difficult to organize a project like this. It requires planning way ahead and making sure people know every detail about the project or event before asking for help. It also takes some reliability, and sometimes finances to put certain projects together. Teamwork is very important in the process of planning and organizing an event. Most of the time taking action only requires asking. Asking is the first step to taking action in most cases.

I wonder if we will ever completely eliminate the invasive species on accident to a point where they become endangered species. This action may be finished it depends on what I will be doing with my job that I may obtain with the SCA. If the job requires me to do something similar to this action then I would be doing the action again. Since I have never taken a job I think that getting job will further my vision of human excellence. Also my experiences in college will probably further my vision of human excellence the most because of all of the different activities available to me there. I will then try to strive in each and every activity I start in college. This process has made me realize that working with people is the way to get things accomplished. Also it takes initiative and some reliance in order to organize an event like the one I took part in. Also reflecting on the action makes me look at the background of what the whole experience was like, when I was presently doing the action I never thought about all of the background elements that were taking place at the time.