This article sheds light on how the economic downturn has played a roll in immigration. It uses a very light term to refer to illegal immigrants by referring to them as undocumented, making the article seem to have a liberal view. This article possibly evokes political participation because the article is seemingly liberal friendly. The article can help people form a connection to the undocumented people in question, who are also having trouble finding jobs just as Americans are. After reading this article, people may feel the urge to join in public groups either for or against illegal immigration. This article can cause people to publicly discuss whether or not immigration will stimulate the community in sense, civil ... More »

This article speaks about and agency that uses fingerprinting to identify illegal immigrants previously with criminal backgrounds, also deporting them. This article can cause communities to come together either against or for this method of identifying illegals. The author of the article is definitely in support controlling immigration. The system seems to be quite effective since many illegal immigrants convicted for the most serious of crimes were identified through this method. This article can cause people to participate in public discussion about this program, or cause them to form public groups that engage in these activities. This can also cause political participation because certain political groups won't agree with ... More »

This article is made is part of the blog section, so that already would make it seem like an opinion-piece. The article speaks about race. It used a quote that might imply that the author believes that latinos should just calm down about immigration reform. It seems like it may be biased against latinos who are frustrated about the stalled immigration reform. It sort of makes Obama seem like he is calm about the issue. The author uses a quote that says basically latinos need to stop worrying about getting even with their enemies and sit out of the election, and encourages people to vote because the latinos are going to vote hastily, as the quote seems to imply.

This article calls to attention something that hasn't really been focused on in immigration stories. It reveals that while Native-born Americans are losing jobs in this time of recession, Foreign-born workers are gaining jobs. Also there is a correlation to race and job loss. The people losing the most jobs are non-Hispanic, Native-born workers. Native-born Hispanics also lose jobs, but it is much less a loss than non-Hispanic workers. Also the article describes, vaguely the class of the foreign-born workers through stating the jobs they will take. And the article refers to the Foreign-born workers more desperate.

This story uses one immigrants struggle to reference the Dream Act. It is not directly an opinion-piece. For the most part, it's purely informative. It provides dialogue from the immigrant and and also dialogue from the director of immigration policy. There is also background on the Dream Act topic, describing what it is , and how democrats responded to it.

Although, this is clearly an opinion story, it is good journalism because it has relevancy to today's immigration issues. Also, it references to a new immigration law passed in Arizona. A strong belief that the Federal government has sort of ignored the issue of illegal immigration is evident in the story. The facts, however, are not of substance because there are no cited sources. This story prompts people to think a little more about the issues surrounding immigration.

This article doesn't trustworthy because the facts aren't presented in a believable way. There aren't many sources. The article is written alright, but jumps a around a little bit. The general idea that the author is trying to get across is clearly stated, but the facts seem sketchy. The article doesn't draw from enough views on the issue.

1. The article did explain complexities to the issue in fairly great detail. It gave explanations of the vast inaccuracy in numbers of the poverty cause by faulty counting and lazy reporting. 2. It offered a really good understanding of the issue that the poverty rate is actually much worse than is reported because it states all the specific ways in which the government doesn’t account for much of the demographic of people living in poverty. 3. It raised more questions because I now, would like to know how high the poverty rate actually is and how many people are unaccounted for, and if it will improve. 4. People will become more aware that something must done about these numbers and possibly discuss many probable ... More »

1. This article explained the complexities of the issue of having the Dream Act passed and also the Republican’s great opposition expressed by stalling of the Senate’s measure to pass this Act, which enables children of illegal immigrants to be placed on a road to citizenship. 2. This article didn’t go extremely in-depth about this issue. Just enough information, so that the reader could understand the issue, not much more information was given regarding immigration. 3. It raised more questions because I would like to now to more about immigration laws that I am unaware, the number of illegal aliens residing here, the reasoning for the strong nativist attitude of the Republicans, and the reason Obama wants to pass this ... More »