Panel Name

Colliding Social Worlds and Paradigms: Racial, Ethnic, and Economic Encounters in the Modern World

Location

Lecture Center 20

Start Date

3-5-2019 3:15 PM

End Date

3-5-2019 4:45 PM

Presentation Type

Oral Presentation

Academic Major

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies

Abstract

Dear United States of America: We Are Children is about the way undocumented unaccompanied children are treated by the immigration system in the U.S. I focus on the two different presidential administrations, the Obama and Trump administration. I will started from the Obama administration, fiscal year 2014 and end on the Trump administration, fiscal year of 2018-19. This is important because undocumented children are treated unfairly, they are being thrown from one department to another, denied asylum, deported to their countries that they do not desire to go back, put in cells, and put into the immigration system by themselves. I want to know why the first responder, when the children enter the U.S., is not from the HHS? Since these children were entering the United States of America in large numbers from 2014 and continue to enter in large numbers, how has the past and present presidential administrations (i.e. Obama vs. Trump administration) have treated undocumented immigrant children? Comparing two presidents that are considered to be completely opposites, one is all about human rights while the other is not, is good to see if either were treating these children differently too.

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Senior Thesis/Project

First Faculty Advisor

Christine Vassallo-Oby

First Advisor Email

cvassallo-oby@albany.edu

First Advisor Department

Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies

Second Faculty Advisor

Joanna Dreby

Second Faculty Advisor Email

jdreby@albany.edu

Second Advisor Department

Sociology

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May 3rd, 3:15 PM May 3rd, 4:45 PM

Dear United States of America, We Are Children: Unaccompanied Immigration Children under the Obama and Trump Immigration System

Lecture Center 20

Dear United States of America: We Are Children is about the way undocumented unaccompanied children are treated by the immigration system in the U.S. I focus on the two different presidential administrations, the Obama and Trump administration. I will started from the Obama administration, fiscal year 2014 and end on the Trump administration, fiscal year of 2018-19. This is important because undocumented children are treated unfairly, they are being thrown from one department to another, denied asylum, deported to their countries that they do not desire to go back, put in cells, and put into the immigration system by themselves. I want to know why the first responder, when the children enter the U.S., is not from the HHS? Since these children were entering the United States of America in large numbers from 2014 and continue to enter in large numbers, how has the past and present presidential administrations (i.e. Obama vs. Trump administration) have treated undocumented immigrant children? Comparing two presidents that are considered to be completely opposites, one is all about human rights while the other is not, is good to see if either were treating these children differently too.