Sadaf Sadiq- Section 3- Week 7

Sadaf Sadiq

Section 3

Week 7 Reading

“The Criminalization of Immigration and the Privatization of the Immigration Detention: Implications for Justice” brought up extremely valid points of how American law works against people of color, without the same debilitating effects against Caucasian people. For example, schools are required to check the status of immigrant students, cannot obtain driver’s licence, and making it illegal to obstruct traffic flow to pick up immigrant workers (253-254). Just these three simple laws attack immigrants so that they are hindered from pursuing opportunities that others are not. If a student feels that they cannot attend school because they fear that their or their parent’s immigration status will be revealed, then they are deprived of the most minimal education, and thus most opportunities to be employed in the future. By having rules like not being able to obtain a driver’s licence, it pushes a person’s hand to have to knowingly commit a felony if they need to get around for work and make money. Also, the laws that are directly put into place to hinder an immigrant from finding a job is also detrimental, without giving them a chance to find any work or means of providing for themselves. It seems that many laws geared towards immigrants deprive them of equal opportunity, which leads to higher levels of incarceration when they are driven to drastic measures. It looks like these established laws need to be looked over so as to lower levels of unfair criminalization of immigrants.

Question: are these laws being updated on a regular basis, or what is the correct procedure for that?

References:

Ackerman, R. A, Fruman R. (2012 November 19). The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: implications for justice.

Granlund, D. (2012) Broken System. (Digital Image). Retreived from https://brokenprisonsystem.weebly.com/uploads/5/1/4/4/51447327/6336171.jpg?301