Security, Illegal Immigration, And Legality

In view and in light of recent events that have just happened in United States history, there have been seen occurrences and instances of where the present laws of the US were ill equipped in dealing the modern and present issues made visible as a result of marked events. The handling of cases involving people were proven innocent of terrorism acts should have been handled much better, and without a doubt in certainty, there have been some unjust final decisions made on people to be deported out of the country. The reason for such an assertion is because to my knowledge, there are no guidelines or laws that would best delineate whom to deport or whom to allow staying within the country, outside the obvious fact of immigration rules being breached. There are always possibly extenuating circumstances for certain people, such as being brought to the United States at a very early age but was never made a citizen due to parental neglect. Such a circumstance should be viewed with some leniency, and perhaps a judgment can be made to allow continued residency in the US by the basis of certain criteria, such as age, time spent within the US, criminal history, prior work history, academic history, and perhaps a legal method to apply for citizenship as well as a citizenship exam. This should be done due to the fact that certain people, due to fear of being found out an illegal immigrant, due to their parents poor judgment, would be immediately arrested and deported without due proper process. And even if there is due process, from my knowledge, the way to go about having the court understand your circumstances and the facts of why you never had a citizenship and be given an opportunity to acquire it through your own volition is vague at best. It should be allowed that an opportunity be made for people with this sort of situation be made available, just for at least the chance to prove that they are truly worth allowing to stay.

As for the deportation of groups with certain political association, such as the Liberation of Palestine or the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, there is again an issue of lack of guidelines in how to best deal with situations such as these. Cases such as these, during times where the nation is being attacked, should have been handled with their prior histories taken into consideration, as well as their political ties. If a group should have a prior history and a reputation of violent action, then deportation is in fact an acceptable course of action.

Then finally, there is the problem of using ex post facto in court cases involving individuals that have committed crimes, specifically individuals who may or may not be actual US citizens. Again, it falls back to the possibility that such individuals may have had parents that have neglected to have that person, who was a child at the time, be applied to citizenship. For something as that, as being the case, then the factors that should be looked at in concerns with the individual who has committed the crime the following: the seriousness of the crime, prior offences and their level of seriousness, the age they were when they first entered the country, their completion of at least high school, prior work history, and whether they are proficient in their parent's native tongue, and whether they have family in their parent's country of origin. The last two criteria perhaps should not be considered, since this may impede into their private family history, but depending their criminal history and present offence, they may have to either go to prison in the country they are most familiar with or be sent to a country they have little next to no familiarity with. As the later could be a very real result, they should make it very clear that they though they may be deported, they would not only be alien with their environment, but would and could not be able to immediately communicate in that society, and that such an actuality should be put into consideration within their final assessments.

Overall, I believe that though the US Supreme Court is in the right with some of its decisions made, there is still a great deal more cases that should have been handled better and there are even still decisions made by them that should have never been made.