Presentation Title
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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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.