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KiAna Jones
Professor Taylor
STACC English 01A
March 17, 2015
Annotated Bibliography for Immigration Reform
Keywords: Dream Act, DACA, Working, Marriage
Source #1: President Obamas Immigration Town Hall
President Obama talks about his plan for Immigration reform. He believes that we are
focusing too much on the innocent people who has been in the U.S for a large majority of time
like parents who are working to make a living or students who have come to America just to
study and get a better education. He says that we should focus more on the criminals and the
people who have just crossed the border and we should focus more on how to get the new people
legal in the U.S. He has a plan that is like DACA but concerning the adults. In addition to
expanding DACA, he also wants to change how ICE and the border control system works. The
Head of Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson is fully supportive of President Obamas
new plan. President Obama also wants to help families who have someone that is in the Army so
that when those people come home they dont have to fear a family member deported. President
Obama also says that the Democrats and Republicans do not play political ping pong when it
comes to Immigration reform.
Source #2: Netflix movie: The Other Side of Immigration

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The documentary is based off the question of why so many Mexicans have chosen to live
in the U.S and what has become of the farms and families that have been left behind. Between
1970 and 2008, the number of Mexican Immigrants rose from 760,000 million to 12.7 million.
The movie was shot in the rural part of Mexico in the city of Michoacn. Some of the farmers are
losing money because market competition on things like strawberries, corn, beans, and wheat. It
is said that the farmers make about 120 pesos per day which is basically $12 dollars per day and
the corn also cost $120 dollars per ton. Farmers who sell their harvest dont get a good price
back. For example, a farmer could sell their harvest for $100 dollars but they dont even get as
much back. People rather sell their land and go to the U.S than to sell their crops and practically
get nothing back. NAFTA has helped a lot for the city of Michoacn by benefiting the Avocado
industry. Mexicans who are in the U.S still try to help the families that are in Mexico and in 2008
they sent $25 billion and it helped Mexico out a lot.
Source #3: The New Immigration Policy Thats Saving American Business
This article tells the story of Ketaki Desai. A woman from India who had to deal with a
lot of difficulty with getting to her husband and actually working in the U.S because of the
policies of Immigration. Since they were both fed up with not seeing each other and the
difficulties they left the U.S and when they came back to the U.S her husband was able to H-1B
visa which allowed him to work in the country. Ketaki was able to stay with him but she was not
allowed to work. Later Ketaki was able to actually work because of the Obama Administration
finalizing a change that made it possible for people like Ketaki to work. People who were the H4 spouses of people with skill that worked in the U.S could build a business or just simply have a
job.
Source #4: The Obama Administrations DAPA and Expanded DACA Programs

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In 2014 the month of November, President Obama said that the U.S Department of
Homeland Security wont be deporting any certain undocumented parents or U.S residents. The
DAPA and DACA programs are expected to help at least 4.4 million people. There is a federal
court district in Texas that has put out an order that is temporarily blocking the DAPA and
expanded DACA from being implemented which puts a hold on people being able to apply for
either until there is an order that allows the court initiatives to move forward and that is why the
USCIS isnt taking applications for DACA or DAPA. The USCIS has continued to take renewal
applications from the people that fit the criteria for DACA of 2012.
Source #5: Immigration Reform: Some Activist Worry Obamas Executive Will Exclude
Undocumented LGBT Immigrants
Immigrants who are Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, or Transgender fear that they will be
excluded from the program President Obama has made that extends deportation relief to millions
of undocumented immigrants. There are about 267,000 LGBT undocumented in the U.S. About a
dozen LGBT activist groups sent a letter to the White House saying that they should believe the
program should be extended to not just those with formal family ties. They are also afraid
because a lot of them come from a place where homosexuality is prohibited and it needs to be
made sure that those people will be kept safe.
Source #6: Immigration Reform and Farm Workers
A good majority of the people who harvest our foods and supply our fruits and vegetables
are undocumented. A lot of the farmers suffer from abuse and threats of deportation if they were
to speak of any of it. Many of them go weeks, months, even years not being able to go back
across the border and see their families. The Center for Investigative Reporting would make sure

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that those farm workers can reunite with their country and families and be kept safe while doing
so. They also believe that there should be strong protection for the workers in work in the U.S as
a guest worker under a H2A Visa and should also be given the chance to become a permanent
resident.
Source #7: Dear International Students: Thank you for your tuition. Now go home. Love,
Uncle Sam
This article is basically about how International students come to the U.S to study and get
a better education and how they pay all the funds with the money out of their pockets but they
dont get that back. Immigration laws are the ones who basically kick those students out once
they graduate. The students who want to work in America have to go thru a series of difficulties
and pay a lot of money and have a lot of their time taken. It is said that before they are even
given their F-1 student visas, they have to proof that they are going back to their home country
after graduating. Currently a foreign student can work for a year of Optional Practical Training
under the F-1 student visa. Students who are in a STEM related field can extend that to 2 years
and five months and when their visa runs out they have to transfer to an H-1B business visa.
There still is no certainty that the issue will be fixed. While congress is working on it, foreign
students are still being turned away from doing something great with their lives.
Source #8: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System through Executive Action- Key Facts
This page just describes all the things included in the Immigration Reform plan and it
breaks each individual one down. For example, first is to improve the border security by making
a new strategic way to effectively enforce the laws on those who are illegally passing the border
by land, sea, or air. Also by separating the focus point into three different sections which would

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be the southern maritime border, the southern land border and west coast, and investigations on
supporting the other two sections. Second is expanding the deferred action to parents or
individuals who arent supposed to be removed under the policy, who has been in the country for
at least five years, who have children who are U.S citizens on the day of the announcement, and
who have no other factors showing that they have to be deported. Third is to support high skilled
workers and expand opportunities for students who want to gain on-the-job training.
Source #9: The Presidents Accountability Executive Actions & Their Impact on Asian
American Immigrant Communities
Asian American population in the U.S has grown a large amount between 2000 and 2010
and it is mainly because of Immigration. There are about 17.3 million Asian Americans living in
the U.S. In 2014 there was a survey and is says that 65% of Asian American votes support
President Obamas plan on Immigration Reform. There are approximately 1.3 million
undocumented Asian American Immigrants and in 2013 South Korea, India, The Philippines, and
Pakistan was among the top 20 from which DACA requested. People from India, Pakistan,
China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Nepal make up over 75% of H-1B visas
in 2012. Nearly 102,000 Asian Americans had green cards given through employment-based
immigrant visas in 2013. President Obamas plan will also give entrepreneurs coming from
China, India, and Korea an opportunity to help the economy by creating jobs and forming new
ideas,
Source #10: Solving the H1B Visa Impasse
Tom Giovanetti believes that instead of a war between who should or should not get a
H1B visa, there should instead be a market mechanism that determines what the market-clearing

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price for the labor of skilled immigrants really is. A H1B visa is on a first come first serve basis
which is a problem because that does not tell anyone how much a worker is worth to an
employer. Giovanetti believes that it is irrational how workers just try to get as many visas as
they can hoping one will pull through. H1B visas should instead be given out by an auctioned
process which would bid from highest to lowest and supply and demand would establish the
market-clearing price. If that method was used it is said that $1 billion could be raised and go
towards funding improvements in border control and a biometric entry and exit system.

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Works Cited
"Full Video: President Obama's Immigration Town Hall." Msnbc.com. NBC News Digital, n.d.
Web. 28 Mar. 2015.
The Other Side of Immigration. Dir. Roy Germano. Netflix. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2015.
Pritzer, Penny. "The New Immigration Policy That's Saving American Business." Inc.com. N.p.,
18 Mar. 2015. Web. 28 Mar. 2015.
"Health Care & Public Benefits." DAPA & Expanded DACA. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2015.
Lee, Brianna. "Immigration Reform 2014: Some Activists Worry Obama's Executive Action Will
Exclude Undocumented LGBT Immigrants." International Business Times. N.p., 29 Oct. 2014.
Web. 28 Mar. 2015.
"Immigration Reform -." National Farm Worker Ministry RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2015.
Groden, Claire. "Dear International Students: Thanks for Your Tuition. Now Go Home. Love,
Uncle Sam." New Republic. N.p., 2 Dec. 2014. Web. 28 Mar. 2015.
"Homeland Security." Immigration Action. N.p., 5 Jan. 2015. Web. 28 Mar. 2015.
"FACT SHEET: The President's Immigration Accountability Executive Actions & Their Impact
on Asian American Immigrant Communities." The White House. The White House, 16 Dec.
2014. Web. 28 Mar. 2015.
Giovanetti, Tom. "Solving the H1B Visa Impasse." The Hill. N.p., 3 Dec. 2014. Web. 28 Mar.
2015.