Alabama article

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/opinion/on-the-rise-in-alabama.html?scp=4&sq=alabama&st=cse

The article that I chose was "On the Rise in Alabama" I found it on the New York Times. I read about the immigration law that Alabama is trying to pass on immigrants. Alabama wants to create a law to ban immigrants without papers the ability to work, travel, rent, and buy a home. This law is bringing fear to illegal immigrants and makes them not want to work in their jobs or do farmwork. This article reminded me of last class lecture because we observed if these actions are racist or not. I believe that its not completely racist, I find it more unfair because i believe that many immigrants come here for hard work and the governemtn judges them as different people. This article makes me upset because it shows that immigration laws are still a big problem in our society today.

Chapter 14

The stuff that really stood out to me in this chapter was the huge population of Asian, Chinese, and Japenese in America. Japense took over much of the population during the 1910-1970 and were very succesful in this country. I read that most Japenese were making more money and graduating from college than an average "white" American. This really struck out to me because I would expect people who are in their own country at their own comfort zone would achieve more but Japense came into this new country and achieved alot and made a higher income than any other American. The immigration of Japense was very huge to our country it increased population and it changed lives of many of the refugees that were coming to America for a better life.

Chapter 13

Chapter 13 discussed about The Immigration Act of 1924 and the national origins system which ended the total exclusion of racail and ethnic groups from naturalization and immigration. There was a big controvery and tension between the U.S. citizens and immigrants that chapter 13 discusses, it showed how different our country was before and how we still have some racial controversy going on today. It was very interesting to read about the bill that was passed which was the refugee policy which was for a displaced person that had been adopted by the UN's International Refugeee Organization. So basically if you were a victim of the nazi, fascist, Spanish republicans, or refugees of the second world war you were put under this category. I found these laws and controversies against immigrants to be very interesting, I looked at both persepctives. For example Americans didnt want any more immigrants to come into their country because they feared communist and danger of nazis and on the other hand immigrants wanted to leave their country because of the cruelty and unfairness that was happening. Reading this helps me understand how our laws work today and how much they have changed when it comes to immigration. Although immigration laws are still a big issue today in our society i believe it has gotten better than it was back then were everything seemed more unfair and unreasonable.