In the wake of Tuesday's election, political analysts are busily predicting what the outcome means for Congress and the country. With Republicans now in the majority in the House of Representatives, many policies will probably change radically. What must not change, however, is work on immigration reform. Full Story »
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This short piece really drives a point home from a personal perspective as well as from an understanding of history. The author does a good job of outlining the hurtful effects of the currently flawed system and the potential benefits of reform. The main argument suggests that this is an issue in a large part of families and how they need to stick together: this is a true American ideal. A nice point of this is that undocumented workers are very much a part of the economy and if a big concern of people regarding the immigration debate is a matter of economics then perhaps we might all benefit from our workers being more productive workers. It might be a flaw of the piece that the author assumes that the reader believes already ... More »
This article promotes social capital by emphasizing the importance of uniting immigrants and native born US citizens. The article specific addresses the Reuniting Families Act will successfully benefit all individuals without excluding anyone depending on their ethnicity. The article states, “it is fiscally more prudent to legalize, insure, employ, reunite and educate our immigrants than to keep families apart. “ This is a perfect example of how uniting the community results to positive results for society. This is also a great incentive for American workers to more successfully perform their jobs by having their families close, which positively impacts their mood; creating of strong foundation of unity and progress.
Social capital in this article isn't promoted throughout the government, but it is used to strengthen families to keep immigrants out the country and out of the workforce. Social capital in this article is weakly presented.
This opinion piece from SF Gate by Michael Honda and Scott does promote social capital because the subject of community and the word "we" pop up frequently. Both authors emphasis the importance of having racial communities throughout America, whether it be Asian communities or Latin communities. Also, the last two lines of the article are promoting social capital by wanting uniting America: "It's time to reunite America. No family excluded".
The fault line used for this aticle is looking through the lense mainly of race. Th author is targeting Asians, Japanese-Americans, and Latinos to appeal to whomever is an immigrant, or who has family members that are immigrants and one of these races. Ethnocentrism is used by expanding the view that these immigrants from other cultures actually make for a stronger society in America and lead the audience to believe that to have a stronger government and more stable money flow these ... More »
I feel this opinion story should have been more informative or at least had more details about the possibilities that will come out of more or less border enforcement and immigration. The writer is promoting social capital in his article, because he is saying it's time to reunite and come together. He is promoting civic engagement to make things happen for immigrants. He doesn't exactly speak of what's happening right now as far as civic engagement goes, but he is saying that is what we need to do in order to get immigrants their human rights.
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