North Haven, CT Deportation
Deportation is defined as the expatriation of an individual deemed a foreigner out of a country that is not their native country and sending them back to their initial country. Examples of why a person may be deported is if they renounce their citizenship, lose their citizenship, is residing in the country illegally, was brought to the United States as a child and does not have a status, violates an immigration law, and so on. The topic of deportation has become popular over the years because the United States has been experiencing a rapid influx of immigrants entering into the country, however, the problem is whether or not they are all entering legally or not.
Renouncing your citizenship is a subject that should be thoroughly contemplated. The official way to renounce your U.S citizenship is by contacting the designated Embassy of the country where you plan to live. It would be wise to maintain a U.S citizenship (if you already have one) and work towards obtaining citizenship for an additional country because once your citizenship is relinquished, it is extremely difficult to reclaim.
Losing your citizenship is another valuable loss. According to the Business Insider, the United States is viewed as the 11th best countries to live in and people are desperately looking to attain some sort of access to the American Dream. “You could lose your U.S citizenship if you run for public office in a foreign country, enter military service in a foreign country, commit an act of treason against the U.S, or intentionally acquire citizenship in a foreign country except if you acquire it through marriage to a foreign national; you may become a dual national instead.”
Access to the United States is in high demand and there are many people that discover alternate ways to enter the country. Some individuals enter the country legally and end up falling out of status by not checking into the specific checkpoint, which was indicated on their documentation. They may also fail to go through the proper channels of extending their stay in the U.S and end up falling out of status by overstaying the time allotted by the government. An issue that has been happening for quite some time is people being smuggled across U.S borders illegally, which will allow them temporary relief if they are able to find work. The problem with this route is that the illegal individual ends up getting comfortable and adjusts to the U.S lifestyle. They end up establishing their families, but when it comes to their personal status, they are still labeled as an illegal immigrant, however, the family that they established are born U.S citizens. This in turn can cause a family to be separated, as the illegal immigrant will most likely face deportation. The longer people procrastinate on updating their immigration status, the worse it may look when they finally take the time to establish a legal status. If children entered the country with their illegal parent (s), they suffer by not having a status and may also encounter issues when they are old enough to apply for a Permanent Resident Card. Having an illegal status regardless of the reasoning is a risk you take which may ultimately lead to deportation. The situation causes
more of an inconvenience for all parties involved so it is best to be patient and apply for the appropriate status to enter the country legally.
The United States is focusing on many new agendas, one in particular being deportation, as it tops the list of priorities of the new President, Mr. Donald Trump. This current agenda is causing major adjustments and controversy for those residing in the United States with an illegal status because the President is enforcing the country’s Immigration Laws. As of June 26, 2017, the U.S Supreme Court “allowed parts of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to go into effect and will hear oral arguments on the case this fall. The court is allowing the ban to go into effect for foreign nationals who lack any ‘bona fide relationship with any person or entity in the United States.’ The court, in an unsigned opinion, left the travel ban against citizens of six majority-Muslim on hold as applied to non-citizens with relationships with persons or entities in the United States, which includes most of the plaintiffs in both cases. Examples of formal relationships include students accepted to US universities and an employee who has accepted a job with a company in the US…” (Vogue)
Deportation is causing people to be separated from the families that they’ve established, while they were either “In” or “Out” of status. We are all individuals and are responsible for
making our own decisions, so if a person chooses to violate immigration laws of the United States, it was simply their own decision. If you are not a U.S citizen or permanent resident and are currently living in the United States, chances are you may be hesitant to do any travelling outside of the United States because once you are caught, you will be deported.
Works Cited
“Renounce or Lose Your U.S. Citizenship.” Renounce or Lose Your U.S. Citizenship / USAGov, 6
Feb. 2017, www.usa.gov/renounce-lose-citizenship. Accessed 26 June 2017.
Garfield, Leanna. “The 11 best countries to live in around the world.” Business Insider, Business
Insider, 27 Mar. 2017, www.businessinsider.com/best-countries-to-live-in-2017-3/#11-the-
united-states-the-us-ranks-high-in-financial-wealth-americans-earn-an-average-of-53245-
per-year-1. Accessed 27 June 2017.
Vogue, Ariane de. “Supreme Court allows parts of travel ban to go into effect.” CNN, Cable News,
26 June 2017, www.cnn.com/2017/06/26/politics/travel-ban-supreme-court/index.html.
Accessed 27 June 2017.
