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Andy Cheng
Mrs. Stanford
ENG 124
9 December 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Anderson, Stuart. "America's Incoherent Immigration System." CATO Journal 32.1 (2012):
Americas Incoherent Immigration System by Stuart Anderson details the immigration process
that many people go through and the complexities involved with it. Some of these complexities
are the difficulties involved with becoming a citizen when the immigrant is an unskilled
immigrant. Also the difficulty for even skilled laborers to become citizens and for sponsored
immigrants too. These difficulties are mainly the ability to get approved for unskilled laborers
and the long, tedious process for the other categories (20+ years for philippines and ~10 for
Mexico.) The source also states that the best, and the simplest, solution to these problems is to
allow for more visas/green cards. This article will be used to support the difficulties and the long
process that immigrants face and how the system is terrible. It is similar to other sources in
regards to the immigration system but is unique in the aspect of talking about the problems with
the system.
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Coronado, Roberto, and Pia M. Orrenius. "Crime On The U.S.-Mexico Border: The Effect Of
Roberto Coronados article Crime On The U.S.-Mexico Border: The Effect of Undocumented
Immigration and Border Enforcement talks about the idea of of the correlation between an
increase of illegal immigration and an increase of border crime. The results of this paper are a
significant correlation was found between an increase of illegal immigration and border crime.
The article suggests this result is probably from the illegals immigrants relying on drug
traffickers to cross the border which increases crime in the area. It also details how law
enforcement in a particular sector just pushed crime to a neighboring one. This causes crime to
be more evenly distributed along the border. The purpose of this source in my paper is to talk
about how illegal immigrants cause crime and a new way is needed to remedy this problem.
Coronados paper is unique in my research as it is the only one that talks about crime.
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Gerking, Shelby D., and John H. Mutti. "Costs And Benefits Of Illegal Immigration: Key Issues
For Government Policy." Social Science Quarterly (University Of Texas Press) 61.1
Shelby Gerking and John Muttis paper Costs And Benefits Of Illegal Immigration: Key Issues
For Government Policy explains the negative aspects of illegal immigration and also some of the
benefits of it. The negative aspect mainly falls onto the cost aspect of illegal immigrants in
relation to jobs. US employees who work in the same job sector as these illegal immigrants will
have to compete with them in the job market which will cause their wages to decrease. The
article states that this might be good for the company owners but not for the common people.
This source also says that if all these negatives are solved, then there is a benefit to the economy.
This article will be used in my paper to describe the negatives of illegal immigrants and why
people dislike them. It is not really unique as this source describes a negative of illegal
immigrants just like Crime On The U.S.-Mexico Border... only it is jobs not crime.
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From A Flow Of 500 Million Travelers." Population & Environment 23.3 (2002):
Measuring Illegal Immigration At US Border Stations By Sampling From A Flow Of 500 Million
Travelers by Palmer Morrel-Samuels describes the number of people who cross the border at
border stations and how many of them should be excluded from crossing the border. This study
was conducted with a total flow of 500 million crossings in mind and found that .56 million were
currently excluded from crossing through screenings. These are not all the people that should be
excluded as the study found that anywhere from 3.51 to 6.01 million people should have also
been excluded in border crossings. This source will be used as a statistic of how many illegal
immigrants are entering the country through an easy process as legal immigrants are going
through a long process. It is different than my other sources as the actual number of illegal
immigrants appear in this source, unlike the others which detail the effects of the immigrants
only.
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Samson, Frank L. "Asian American Attitudes Towards A US Citizenship Path For Illegal
Studies 41.1 (2015): 117-137. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Dec. 2016.
Asian American Attitudes Towards A US Citizenship Path for Illegal Immigrants by Frank
Samson analyzes the specific mindsets that Asian Americans have towards a citizen path for
illegal immigrants. It entails a study that was conducted by Frank Samson which involved
surveying 3624 people who fit the requirements of the study about their thoughts on immigrants,
their social status, and monetarily status. The article states results that shows how specific social
economical brackets have effects of the results of the survey on if illegal immigrants should have
a path towards citizenship. These results were 34.3% in favor of a path for illegals and 50.6% in
negation of a path towards citizenship with 15.1% in abstention. This source will build up a
major point of my essay of the feelings that legitimate immigrants have towards illegal
immigrants and if the process should be changed. It is a unique piece of information that is
different from other articles in the sense of the paper talks about how Asian Americans view the
process and it has specific stats about how they view a path to citizens for illegal immigrants.
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Xiao, Luo. "The Unintended Consequence Of Section 601 Of The Illegal Immigration Reform
And The Immigrant Responsibility Act: The Rise Of U.S.-Based Claims And Their
Impact On The Board Of Immigration Appeals, Federal Judiciary, And Mass Media."
Asian Pacific American Law Journal 20.1 (2015): 31-69. Academic Search Complete.
The Unintended Consequences of Sec. 601 by Luo Xiao examines the purpose of section 601
of the Illegal Immigration Reform Act and the actual impacts that it has on immigration. The
intended purpose of Section 601 was to provide a way for asylum seekers in China to file for
asylum in cases of persecution based on population control. This targeted Chinas One Child
Policy and the cases of forced abortion that were attributed to it. Instead of the intended purpose,
section 601 was used by thousands of Chinese who resided in the US to claim asylum (and
therefore legal residence) on the basis of having more than one US born child. This paper will be
used to support my claim of illegal immigrants finding ways through pieces of legislation to
become citizens. It is a source that has info I had not previously found in an article before.
Thesis: Illegal immigration is a rampant problem in the US and it is causing a decrease of the
draw that the American Dream has towards immigrants through the grief that is involved with