America’s Rich Legacy with Immigrants Immigration is one of the fundamental building blocks that made America the country it is today. The Europeans traveled to the U.S. in hopes of finding a way to increase their wealth and start a new life. Many other people traveled to the U.S. in hopes of finding a way […]
The Economic Burden of Illegal Immigration: A Deeper Dive Immigration is key for a society to continue building and growing, but while most immigrants settle down legally, some choose to abuse the system or ignore it completely without any regard for the people’s lives they affect. Illegal immigration has affected the U.S. completely by increasing […]
Diversity in Roots: Resilience Through Immigrant Struggles Growing up, I never paid it any mind that my family was completely made of immigrants who spoke English with heavy accents and barely made it past the eleventh grade. My mother came to the United States from the Dominican Republic. Despite the fact that she was unfamiliar […]
Dynamics of Human Trafficking and Exploitation The below-referenced article is a substantial research project on human trafficking. The study revealed some facts about the problem and the lack of specific statistics because of the largely secretive nature of the problem with an in-depth analysis of the individual, criminal, network, and structural factors that influence trafficking […]
Battling Complex Human Trafficking Threats When it comes to security, it no longer revolves around traditional threats such as military confrontations or territorial disputes. The present world’s threats arise from modern, non-traditional threats such as natural disasters and transnational crimes. In the case of transnational crimes, human trafficking is seemed to be one of the […]
The Complex Dynamics of Labor Trafficking Victimization Labor trafficking involves the victimization of people through involuntary labor (De Vries & Farrell, 2018, p. 630). It is considered a form of human trafficking under U.S. Federal law, codified in the Victims of Trafficking Violence Act (TVPA) of 2000, as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining […]
U.S. Visa Limits: A Barrier The U.S. needs to remove the limit they have on employment-based visas. For generations, immigrants from China, India, and the Philippines have brought with them hypercritical expertise. The number of visas issued to immigrants from those countries places limits on bringing skilled workers to the United States, that can help […]
