Why Latino Citizens are Worrying More About Deportation

Why Latino Citizens are Worrying More About Deportation

Latino refers to any individual considered to be part of an ethnic background that is Spanish speaking. In most cases, these individuals are from a Spanish speaking country. When the debate about heritage is posted online, the discussion might become pretty and heated. There are some reported cases where some Latinos claim to be more Latino than others even though they all speak Spanish. Others are perceived not to be Latino enough, although they speak the same language, Spanish (Callister, 2019).

According to the news reported on April 6, 2020, at 2111hours SAST by Asad L. Asad an assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University, there have been many cases of fears that Latino citizens are being deported from the U.S. in his report, he claims that concerns on the deportation of Latino US citizens are on the rise. He reports that about 41 per cent of Latino citizens showed their fears on removal in 2007, whereas this number increased in 2018 to 48%.  This represents about 13.6 million of Latino U.S. citizens who were worrying about their deportation. This figure is expected to rise more, especially during this time when Donald Trump is the president of the United state (Callister, 2019). The president, according to (Asad, 2020) report, claims that he does not encourage immigration. This research is abutted several reasons as to why Latino US citizens might continue worrying about the form of punishment which was before thought to ne reserved to the noncitizens.

Deportation fear

To measure the number number of worries among Latino US citizens and noncitizens regular surveys conducted by the Pew Research centre (Asad, 2020). The survey was conducted six times between 2007 and 2018 whereby different questions were asked the same question which stated “Regardless of your own legal status, how much, if at all, do you worry that you, a family member, or a close friend could be deported? Would you say that you worry a lot, some, not much, or not at all?”

In Asad analysis he claims that the answers given by different individuals revealed a surprising pattern.  The answers revealed that both Latino citizens and non citizens, documented and non- documented vulnerable to deportation had an increasing but stable level of fear. The same case was also reported on the citizens both those born in the country and those naturalized immigrants who were ostensibly immune to deportation. They all had fears over the matter. This shows a state of fear among everyone staying in the country. The fears according to Asad were not high during the Obama administrations as it was reported before and after Obama’s administration. Obama encouraged a lot of immigration and he never discriminated anyone on the basis of their country of origin. But since the 2016 U.S. presidential elections things changed abruptly with Donald Trump administration. Trump is reported to have put strict measures regulating immigration in the country (Torres, 2018)

The graph above shows a slight decrease in the amount of fears reported during Obama administration period as compared to other president’s administration. However the amount of fears among the Latino noncitizens is more compared to all Latinos and Latino U.S citizens.

Deportable family members

The U.S. citizens are touched by this issue of deportation through deportable loved ones and family members. According to the research received from center for the study of Immigration integration in the university of southern California reveals to what extent this issue has affected the U.S. citizens. The research reveals that most of the U.S. citizens approximately 9 million have at least one deportable member in their families. This is mostly refers to the undocumented members especially the children. In almost every family in U.S., there is a household member with just provisional status like green card or a visa. Others have deportable relatives (Asad, 2020). Therefore this issue of fear of deportation not only affects the US Latino citizens but also the entire community of the united states. This fear in most cases make the U.S. citizens miss some of the basic services and duties like going to school, fear of calling the police in case of emergency, and fear of getting routine medical care.

Mistaken as deportable.

The immigration laws do not mention anything to do with race but those incharge of enforcing the law have racial unequal consequences with the way they enforce it. In a case where a certain primary law affcts a certain racial group, everybody including the federal immigration officials can mistakenly assume that the U.S. citizens affected are deportable (Asad, 2020). For instance, there was a case where about 200,000 US citizens with Mexican decent were deported by the federal government during the great oppression assuming that they were all undocumented. This is still happening today where many individuals are unlawfully detained because they are suspected to be deportable.

According to (Asad, 2020) the law does not support deportation of the U.S. citizens. However, the state of fear that they all have makes them feel like they will be deported too. They always have a feeling that they will one day be misrecognized and deported. The contemporary immigration policies and laws are racially and unequally enforced leaving everyone living in the country with a lot of fear

There is raising fears among the U.S. citizens on how much the citizenship shields one against deportation. Two recent  events have clearly illustrated this issue. The first one is the enforcement of the public charge rule under the administration of Donald trump. The rule blocks and penalizes the noncitizens who receive public assistance. It further dictates that the noncitizens do to have the right to be given a green card, which serves as a precondition for citizenship

This event of fear has been associated with a lot of disadvantages especially on the americans. Lack of peace and living in a state of fear can prevent one from pursuing their careers and achieving their objectives efficiently. This has affected United States of America in one way or another especially social politician and economical life. People cannot socialize with one another freely because of fears. The economy has been affected since there is no enough workforce (Torres, 2018). Immigrants are said to contribute about 40% of the America’s economy. Most immigrants are ready to provide cheap labor and at the same time work efficiently. Denying them freedom means diminishing their efforts and therefore low production. Most of them when the environment becomes more unbearable, they choose to quit and move to other places and others to their home countries.

Discrimination on the basis of racial differences has played a greater role in increasing the number of criminal cases. Human beings are said to be social beings and if they are denied this aspect of socialization they might opt to behave weirdly and this can raise the amount of criminal cases in a country.