Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Business trip man 'deported from US because of skin colour'
Amreet Surana who lives in the UK was traveling to the US for a business trip when US Immigration officials
stopped him and detained him. Mr. Surana claims that he was detained and deported for his color of race. However US Customs and Border Protection officials say that "an approved ESTA visa did not guarantee a traveler would pass border checks."
Mr.Surana said that he was treated terrible as he was detained for 13 hours and given little food. I think race is a big issue that our country faces everyday and sometimes the way we treat people shows it. He said "I was threatened with fraud, I was threatened with banishment from the USA and imprisonment. You feel dehumanized to the extent that you feel like a piece of dirt on the floor." The way the US handles some situations is why people claim that it is a race issue. If they wouldn't have treated him like a criminal maybe this wouldn't be an article about race more like a "Business trip man 'deported from US because of ESTA Visa". However since they treated him bad he felt like he was being targeted. Mr.Surana is educated with no criminal record and has an international job that involves him coming every now and then to the US. Since the US decided to treat him differently he felt like he was being targeted by his color.
I think there could have been different measures taken to avoid this problem. Like first making sure border checks allows those who have visas to enter as long as they have no criminal record. Secondly the CBP could have treated him better and not cause all this stress on the poor man. Something went wrong with border checks so there has to be a solution so that next time other international workers don't have to go through what he did.
Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-35398937
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Deportations, Rumors Stir Fear Among Immigrants
Recently we have been hearing in the news that the Department of Homeland Security has been planning raids that will target many Hispanic families who are due for deportation this year. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents say that they will only deport those who entered the US recently illegally and are illegal criminals being sought after.
To my family this has been a scary topic because a lot of our family are immigrants who came from Mexico. My mom is not legal in this country and for that reason is that she has feared that something like this would happen one day. I myself fear that my mother can be taken away. My problem with this issue is that they bring fear into a community that has long been targeted in this country. The word itself “raid” is defined as “a sudden attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces in warfare”. The DHS is attacking a community who came to this country to find a better life. Of course not all illegal immigrants are good, there is criminals. But not all of them are bad. My mom came to the US in 1991 and ever since then she has been working constantly to maintain me and my sisters. She is one of the most caring, humble and loving persons you can find.
There is many things that are wrong with this topic! Immigration has always been a problem to this country yet we all Immigrated to this country from Europe or somewhere else. That’s what’s wrong with this topic that this country was made up of immigrants who came from all over the world before it even became the United States. California once belonged to Mexico, it belonged to the indigenous people.
Deportation of illegal immigrants is one of the most traumatizing and scary situations a family can be in when a loved one is taken away. Children cringing to their mothers and fathers, crying not to be taken away from them is one thing that will always be in them for the rest of their lives. So I think that the government is doing something wrong. Raids in my opinion are not the best way to go. Instilling fear into families is not the way to go and attacking a community is certainly not morally right.
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