Short Story about Annotated Bibliography

Arian Campo-Flores et al. "America's Divide." Newsweek 147.15 (2006): 28-38.

The article provides a scope of discussion on how the American government and governmental organizations struggle against illegal immigrants exclusively from Mexico. On the other hand, the paper projects special attention to the unfair division of employment and other law issues for those living in the southern states of the USA (Texas, Florida). It is both a research and a discussion about the way America goes toward managing its population rates and ability to stay for equal rights with all nationalities inhabiting it. Moreover, the article relies on the anticipation of the problem with the illegal immigration in the Congress, and how Sen. John McCain and Sen.

Ted Kennedy suggested letting 11-12 million of new immigrants get legal jobs in the United States (not approved). It is also about the ineffective policy by former president George W. Bush in making this issue solved. Based on the live story of Irma Palacios and her family the article represents a living evidence of how Mexicans still fail to keep up with the American law and are obliged to tread a dangerous part in becoming Americans.The article is valuable, because it provides a realistic statistics and state of affairs correspondent to illegal immigration of Mexicans who cannot deal with the American law fairly.

However, the article gives quite general notes on the situation at the southern borders of the United States which needs more details on current legal obstacles for migration. Nevertheless, the article is helpful for those seeking the real resilience in social life for immigrants in the US. Thus, I would recommend it to people in need for answers as of how to overcome the barriers of law in getting legal employment in such a multinational country, as the USA.Barone, Michael.

"Get Immigration Right. 139.18 (2005): 53." U.S. News and World Report 139.

18 (2005): 53.The article points out the issue of the border patrol through the period of its intensive evolution, so to speak. The overall discussion by the author starts in 1920s when the first stations appeared on the border to navigate the rates of migration at the border with Mexico. The author provides a paradoxical statement that those first stations were more efficient for tracking every single immigrant than today’s model for doing this taking advantage of high-tech innovations. Moreover, the discussion goes to the point that cheap labor power (immigrants from Mexico) provoked the same decrease in salaries for the rest of Americans.Thus, the author focuses more on the inability of the state power to work this problem out through more reliable methods than just deportation.

The issue of the law amnesty is highlighted, as a possible way for making immigration at borders a snap for the government. The immigration acts of 1965 and 1986 are analyzed in their appropriateness for current misbalance and disorientation in the immigration policy yielded by the US government. The author claims for new bills and new mechanism to stop social destruction of the American social growth.The advantage of the article is in its historical continuum which lets observers run the gamut of how the immigration process was negotiated and supposedly improved. On the other hand, the discussion lacks some data on census comparison as of the earlier and current times.

However, the article is noteworthy for me, as it has no point on bigotries in discussing how illegal immigration breaks the stability of social life in America. Hence, it would be helpful for people dwelling on the factors impacting their levels of living.Beinart, Peter. "Mexican Standoff 234.

12 (2006): 6." New Republic 234.12 (2006): 6.This article is a holistic discussion with elements of criticism on George W. Bush’s policy to maintain and stabilize the illegal immigration.

The overall passage on the ineffectiveness of the Bush’s border patrol program sticks to the point that all initiatives proved to fail and got the illegal Mexicans in living a hidden life in the US. On the one hand, the article poses the attributes of the democratic society and wills of those joining it.On the other hand, the author takes notice of the guest-worker program and visa regime for Mexicans searching for new job opportunities in the southern states and throughout the United States. It is remarkable that the article outlines the steps done by the former president and the outcomes they provoked for the country and fairly for those people surrounding him (republicans). The immigration reform is deemed by the author to be totally out of rational solutions.

Bush did everything to make it dug into the pit of fallacies and mismatch. This made the reputation of the former president lost in the shadows of political criticism, as the author call it.It is vital to mention a sincere critical position of Beinart who provides a clear and true discussion along with exhaustive information and facts proving the lack of administrative regulations in Bush’s administration. This advantage is supported by numerous statistical data and researches. However, the article is implemented without back-up information on the supporting close-knit researches in the same areas of social and political studies.

Thus, it makes it a bit subjective. I would like to recommend this article, as a manifestation of inefficiency of the federal power in coping with illegal migration rates. Moreover, the article is full of arguments on how unpopular and dangerous the guest-worker program is.