How do you address undocumented immigrants and what are some affects of having them? JR

Jonathan Ramirez

Professor Charlie Warnberg

ENGL 1301

04/03/2019

Annotated Bibliography

Fazel-Zarandi, Mohammad M., et al. “The number of undocumented immigrants in the      United States: Estimates based on demographic modeling with data from 1990      to 2016.” PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 9, 2018, p. e0201193. Opposing Viewpoints      in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A557752378/      OVIC?u=txshracd2500&sid=OVIC&xid=ce39a14c. Accessed 3 Apr. 2019.

Fazal discusses immigration policies and how to address undocumented immigrants. His approach to represent the size of the population is to attempt to utilize parameter values that understate inflows and outstate flows. Many undocumented immigrants are visa overstays or illegal border crossers. His conclusion estimates 11.3 million undocumented immigrants.

Fazal raises interesting methods regarding how to represent the amount of undocumented immigrants because there may be a visa overstays and illegal border crossers. One has to figure out how to track how many individuals are crossing border illegal. Finding a way to calculate that magnitude is a difficult task. The amount of people is has to be a percentage. I find that a challenge and this article has helped me understand many methods of calculating immigrant population.

Kane, Tim. “Population Power: Ever since America began, immigration has meant      strength.” Hoover Digest, no. 1, 2018, p. 54+. Opposing Viewpoints in      Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A526575460/      OVIC?u=txshracd2500&sid=OVIC&xid=cf3b0826. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.  

Kane argues that immigration is the key to a powerful country. Where immigrants are vital to building channels for positive change as well as military power. He believes the reason why America is the wealthiest country is because of immigrants coming to work and build economic strength.

Kane doesn’t offer any opposing viewpoints of the argument. His focused on financial benefits of immigrants to the economy. The fact that Kane is bias to the argument makes this article unhelpful for my research. I wonder if I narrow down my research question it will help me find better results to develop an argument. Although the Kane does not talk about policies, I found his article interesting but not very useful.

Kane, Tim. “Sanctuary and sanctimony: defying the law is defying the law–even      if it’s immigration law.” Hoover Digest, no. 3, 2017, p. 69+. Opposing      Viewpoints in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A506674597/      OVIC?u=txshracd2500&sid=OVIC&xid=28637798. Accessed 5 Apr. 2019.  

Kane believes that sanctuaries have been an open rebellion over the federal authority. Sanctuary cities are municipal laws to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation or prosecution, despite federal immigration law. Not only it seems it is braking the law but also, how do you to put a limit on law and make moral decisions about an issue? Kane explains many cases in which these cities have been an issue to presidents such as Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

Kane does a remarkable job in this article and has many supporting details about sanctuary cities and how these cities are morally correct but also braking immigration laws. This article helped me develop a better understanding and has improved my research. Although this article is about sanctuary cities, I find this topic relatable in how people are just trying to help immigrants.