the other side of Immigration

Wow what a movie. This movie was letting me think in a whole new direction. I never really new what people that illegally immigrate to the U.S. go through and the part when the wife said: "I am not sure for it is harder, the people that cross the boarder or the people that stay back.
I was moved by her family. Her husband went 4 times illegally to the US. He wanted to make money for his family, because there has been no opportunity in Mexico to make money and life from it. In his case they had no other chance. The mexican government gives no support to their people, the government doesn't inform about programs for funding (only if you know someone that works for the government) and the corruption is tremendous. Everyone who lives in Mexico is in for themselves and you can't expect any help from people in a powerful position or neighbors. However, back to the family that stud out to me. The father left his wife and the kids behind and lives in the worst condition in the US, in order to have the least spendings and take most of the money back home for his family.
In mexico you make about 12$ a day and in the US 80-90$ a day, very attractive for many people.
But his kids were small when he left and he would go for one year or up to 18 months to the US. His kids couldn't believe when he came back. Also he describes his crossing under tears, which was hard to listen too. And it is said that it needs to be illegal. He walked in the dessert for days and couldn't feel his legs anymore, he was close to giving up. Another time a men died while crossing the boarder and they carried her but he didn't made it.  I thought it is interesting that 1 mile of a boarder fence coast about 4 million dollars for the US, which we actually pay with our tax money. One of the Individuals interview mentions that america should be responsible for helping out Mexico and I feel the same. I think it would save us money and let the crime and Illegal immigrants rate drop drastically.

Dual citizenship

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-coalition-talks-move-closer-to-new-dual-citizenship-law-a-933523.html


This link is pretty interesting and updates the current status for immigrant born children.and their citizenship status.
Worth reading

Thousands of national racist in Russia

A couple months ago I had to research the situation in Russia. There is a lot of talk about the anti - immigrant and bad management of Fladimir Putin. First example is the winter games in Sochi- which back in the day belonged to natives and millions were killed to extinction because Russian wanted to own the land. The side of Sochi is a memorial and genoside place for those natives. Millions are buried there and ones Olympia started building and digging they found millions of corpses and bones. Putin denied the whole deal...
It is also known that Russian and Putin are anti- gay so a couple days ago I found a performance artist (who is known for his self deflecting pain art) in Russia demonstrating in front of the red palace. He nailed his balls onto the ground and made a point that gay people should be allowed.

And I also found a article that mentioned the growing nationalist (nazi) "appreciating" and exceptance in Russia. There are nazis that go and find colored, immigrants or gay people and kidnap them or even invite them to a party in their house. Those poor individuals than have to deal with physical and verbal abuse. If there are lucky they will survive but some have died. And the there is no law against those nationalist. They can film and broadcast it so everyone can see it without any consequence.

But the article that fitted the most to the last class was the anti - immigration rally ... That happens in Moscow. People are pro nazi and support the approach against immigrants. Because they take jobs away or people that immigrate should life in the country like a guest and not like a citizen. It is really scary that the rate of nazis is growing and that there is Putin, who quietly supports the Russians.
We not only see the rate of nazis growing in Russia we also see it in Germany. Because there were simply so many immigrants. And apparently the standard to move there are not as high as in other countries. Which I simply think by more tolerating and be open minded, increasing the laws to make it harder to immigrate might change things.
Easy said though..... http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/04/us-russia-nationalists-idUSBRE9A30FN20131104

Immigration act of 1986

To me chapter 16 felt quite hard to read. There are a lot of numbers and just plain dry material to digest. 

But I found it helpful to investigate the Immigration act of 1986 that Ronald Regon proposed. I found info to it on wikipedia and one article from CNS.News - In this one American Legion National Commander James E. Koutz argued the reform President Obama is proposing. He calls the grant amnesty for people that are illegal in the United States a "bad sequel" and refers to the Act of 1986. He says those people that tricked the system and became a citizen though a illegal way should be deported or don't deserve to become a legal resident. He states that this would be unfair to the people that went through all the struggle and filling all the paper work. 

Anyhow, the article that I thought would be interesting to post is from the Center of American Progress. 

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2013/06/12/66208/the-top-5-reasons-why-immigration-reform-in-2013-is-different-than-in-1986/

It is very interesting and shows the improvements America has made since 1986. We have more control of our country and that was basically the goal as of 1986 Act as well. But this time America seems to be prepared. 

Residency in germany

I guess reading through the different blogs. I wanted to know how hard it is going to be for my spouse to move to germany.
And it is going to almost the same as it was for me to become a american resident.

Here is a link that list all the things you need and they are defiantly in favor of some nations. Which is the same in america.


http://www.expatica.com/de/essentials_moving_to/essentials/How-to-move-to-Germany-legally_-visas-and-citizenship.html

Immigration reform falls back

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/us/politics/immigration-reform-falls-to-the-back-of-the-line.html?pagewanted=all

I stumbled upon this article while looking or something interesting in order to keep up with all those great blogs this week.

This article is from September 2013 so it is a bit old. But it addresses basically the same thing that Dean is fighting for. Immigrants that been here a long time want to become citizen and fighting for their rights to go back to their home town without being put in jail or deported. They have been fighting and demonstrating for years but again republicans seems to have a problem with that and want to push back.

immigrant driver license in CA

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/3/calif-grants-drivers-licenses-illegal-immigrants/

I actually think it is great to have a difference in each driver licenses. So the new driver license should show that you can drive but not ti be used as a document that says you are american citizen.
Many other countries already differ and have a driving license just for driving and showing their age. But if they are travel they have a identification ID and a different passport as well.
Let's hope that will make a difference in california.

The variety of different cultures.

Capter seven goes into detail about the immigration of Italians, Greeks and Arabs, as well as Armenians.
All of them are located in the middle east but are quite different cultures each for themselves. We get to know which trades they brought to america, which struggles they went through and what religion they brought with them.
Throughout the reading I noticed that many of them are much more critical thinkers and long time thinkers as well as business driven they are. The Greeks, and Armenians started of as small workers or peddlers and saved up all the money they made to become business owners, gain respect and buy land.
The work ethnic as far as I can say, seems more sophisticated and very strong. Those immigrants had a goal and wanted to fulfill it. Even if it meant to work hard and not have a life for a while- in compare   to the Irish that slowly learned but never has such a thrive as the Mediterranean. Overall I am happy all this cultures landed in america because other wise we would miss out on some very smart and world changing ideas like bank systems and variety that made america greater.

In chapter eight we read about the immigration of Poles, Jews and Hungarians. Which I think is an even more interesting chapter. I have a little of Jewish blood in my history. My grandmas grandparents were half jewish. But luckily my grandma was not seen as jewish and survived the second world war. However, in this chapter we learn that jewish people gave up fast the working for other people other than jews. They lived in manly New York city and were involved in religion and even started organizations that helped other jews over sea. They were involved in politics and great thinkers and entrepreneurs. Later on many jews created film and established movie theaters. If it wasn't for them we probably wouldn't had Broadway or great success in Hollywood.
When I red about the building and establishing of movie theaters it reminded me of the movie "Inglorious Basteards". Anyhow, if you haven't seen the film you better watch it. It's pretty good but it is fiction but entertaining. I love all the things that involve Hiltler getting killed.  (JK)

What would america be without the germans?

I been thinking about the last class. We covered the topics of Irish immigrants and German immigrants.
We been talking about all the great engineers, poets, writers and overall well educated people that came from Europe and especially germany. But lets give the Irish a little recognition, even they were first rough on their edges. They also learned to adapt and became successful as well. I have to say that I met a lot of Irish blood people and I have the impression that they have a good sense of humor and stay quite calm in situations that are out of hand.
But back to the germans. I am from a small city called Muehlhausen and we actually had some great people living there back in the days.
As a child in first grade we had to do reports on the people that made the city famous. One person that always stood out to me was Johann August Roebling. He was an engineer that was born and raised in my city and actually went to the same school as me. I always thought of becoming someone that made a change in others people life and this guy probably got me hooked on that idea. This guy helped engineering the Brooklyn Bridge and became very known in this kind of business.  So I guess I feel a sense of bride when I say I am german. And even having a green-card or becoming a citizen doesn't let me forget that I am german. I believe I would always keep the tradition I grew up with an cherish them with others. I do know that I became pretty americanized for germans but I am still much german for americans. I am sure that I am not the only one who has this experience and I believe its been like this for decades even when the first germans came in the 18 hundreds. http://roeblingmuseum.org/about-us/john-a-roebling/

a little something for the people over 21.

Hey guys... If you ever wanted to know what it feels like to be german and act like a german than go to Munich. Emmmm... sorry I meant go to San Francisco. They have a October fest this weekend.
Get drunk, be loud and eat a Pretzel. Make sure you are 21 if you wanna have german fun in america...
otherwise safe all your money and travel to germany... doesn't matter where than beer is everywhere and everyone is aloud to drink there...
Happy hump day... Oktoberfest

Oh one more weird thing... did it every appeared strange to you that Octoberfest is at the end of September???
So I would say another thing people in america need to fix...

reading of chapter 4

I been thinking about this all week and I have to say that a certain part in the book strut me more than anything else and it is something I can relate a lot too as well.
The aspect that immigrants that would come get sixty five to eighty dollars. An unskilled laborer would make as much as one dollar a day and abut eight hundred dollars during his indenture. And it is known that a guy named Bradfield make a tenth of this in his indenture in four years. The expenses of food, clothing, shelter and freedom was a part of his mind but it was defiantly not a great deal. (Going to America p. 74) However, for those times both sides made a bargain for this trade relationship.
This part actually reminded me a lot of myself. Long story short- I wanted to leave germany and signed up with an agency that found me a family (labor giver) in the US. The person I going to contract with for 12 month paid for my flight roundtrip, car, shelter and food. I had to work 40-45 hours a week sometimes even on the weekends and lived with them and didn't got more than $195 a week. That was not more than $4 an hour. Which is under the minimum salary allowed in the United states. But because I was german and under german condensations it was ok. Which no being a Nanny and a permanent resident, which means almost a citizen of United States of America I make over 6 times more and hour  than before. So I can kind of feel for the immigrants and I kind of got a sense how it feels when you are not a part of this country.

the first reading

In the first reading we looked at the way the Colonizing in the New World began. It has been described that many people were told falls things and told beautiful facts in order to immigrant to maryland or New England. Most of the people were told that is the land were Honey and MIlk is flowing and a better future will be preserved and waiting for them. But the opposite was the case. Most of the immigrants would face depth for the next seven years and maybe not even survive the hard labor, disease or the different weather conditions. It has been documented that the immigration rate was 80% and most people died in less than six months. In 1625 3000 people died and only 1200 people were left from many that came. It was devastating and a setback for the english community however it was worth for the rich and glorious people, because it was an investment and for every person that a rich guy paid to immigrate, he would get land and become even richer. Immigrants did not became a citizen for many years - they were servants and would be the poorest. However time changed and over the years those servants started farming and buying land or inheriting land from the owners and moved up on the ladder towards success.
      Another astonishing fact is that woman were used as breeder - this term was described in chapter two. Basically because of the significant dead rate in the 1620's the english men needed to repopulate and they men that would come to the new world were young, ignorant, single, servants and slaves. Woman would be bought and brought over and just be there to have babies that can do more labor and children can help out early. They wouldn't cost the shipment and were easy to get. Woman had no voice or chance and were just glad to be alive and have hope to be freed some day.