Immigration Nation? Raids, Detentions and Deportations in Post-9/11 America

The lecture given by Dr. Tonya Golash-Boza of the University of Kansas talked about the effects on the actual immigrants who come to America.  The United States is largely at fault on a number of moral levels when it comes to the handling of immigrants, both legally and illegally residing here in the States.  Figures and stories helped provide vivid images of the horrors of how we treat those who have come to live in America, if they happen to be here as illegals.  If a person is born in the US, no matter what their parents status is, they are automatically citizens of the United States.  One story in particular talked about ICE raids in Massachusetts and how illegal parents were arrested and even deported, leaving their legal children behind with no parents to look after them.  This blatant disregard for people, particularly children, was a main point of Dr. Golash-Boza's lecture.