Debate on Immigration

In class we had a debate on immigration and asylum seekers. When we first voted if we were for what trump was saying and trying to inforce, or against it, I thought I had no opinion. As I started to learn more about the topic and hear more opinions from other people I started to take more of a side on the issue. Also, I figured out that politics can actually be interesting.

Some things I learned from the podcost and taking notes was there are specific reasons only that immigrants can be allowed to enter America. These reasons are race, religion, nationality, political beliefs and social groups. Eventually Obama added domestic violence to the reasons. Along with this, I found out that metering goes hand in hand with asylum. The podcast desribes metering as the limiting of people that can apply for asylum and it is currently around 30 people a day. I don't think this if a good idea to limit the amount of people trying to enter our country. This will backup the system and make the process a lot longer. This may increase the amount of illegal immigrants because people are trying to avoid a situation that must be pretty desperate for them to try and immigrate. Also, another fact I leanred was the Trump administration has made it so that women who are victims of domestic violence, and anyone who is a victim of gang violence cannot be granted asylum in the United States. I think this is also a bad idea because this will increase the amount of illegal immigrants as well for the reasons I listed above. I learned that they are keeping people who are trying to get into asylum in Mexico, which will not help in my opinion. There are people trying to escape bad situations and even though Mexico may be better compared to where they are, there are many people trying to leave Mexico so it will be adding on to the problem. 

Overall I felt it was a very engaging class and I liked sharing my thoughts about this topic. I think our class handled it very well and we could try this with another topic because I feel it gives people room to formualte their own opinions and learn a lot.
I thought that Sydney Walsh had very good points that I agreed with and I enjoyed hearing what she had to say. Also I feel like Colin did a good job trying to bring up solutions and comprimises to the problem. I did not agree with most of Trent's ideas because I felt like he was not very good at defending his arguements and he was making points that may even harm many poeple, which I do not agree with. Overall I feel like the class did well adding points to each side of the conversation and the fact checkers did well.
The question "why do people immigrate" was clearly answered in this discussion. All of us saw the different reasons why people want to immigrate because they are in very danger and being hurt ot discriminated against. They are trying to find a better place to live or raise a family.