Discussion

Your exam question requires you to discuss the issue of undocumented migrants in the US based on Barack Obama’s speech, “Address to the Nation on Immigration”, and one other internet source on the topic.

In what follows, we will present an article related to the topic and offer you some points for the discussion based on the two texts.

“Immigration Reform 2016: Where Do Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton And Other Presidential Candidates Stand?”

The article “Immigration Reform 2016: Where Do Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton And Other Presidential Candidates Stand?”[1] was published in “International Business Times”, on February 29, 2016, and it presents the opinions of US presidential candidates on the immigration reform Obama has been advocating since his 2014 speech “Address to the Nation on Immigration”.

Before discussing the article, you should know that the Republican Party in the US is generally against immigration and implicitly in favor of stronger border controls and deportations. Hardliners advocate for mass deportations and criminalizing immigration while the moderates are more tolerant and advocate for reasonable deportations and for improving the rates and the process of legal migration as a solution to undocumented migration.

The Democrat part is against deporting illegal immigrants who do not pose risks to society or and have been in the US for a longer period of time. They advocate for finding ways to help illegal immigrants enter legal...