In Key West, Florida, Cubans, and Haitians migrated illegally from other islands by sea journeys: some by swimming and boats and helped by local residents. In the last few weeks, about 177 Cuban migrants got turned back home while Haitians were into custody by the US Coast Guards. DeSantis, the contender for this party’s 2024 presidential nomination, blames Biden for the lawlessness of immigration policies. Meanwhile, DeSantis was accused of sending Venezuelans to Massachusetts at the expense of taxpayers and the mockery of the immigration system through political stunts on shows. More and more people are migrating illegally, causing them to arrest undocumented individuals and adjusting laws and policies.
In this New York article, Richard Luscombe, writer of the article ” US turns back growing number of undocumented people after arduous sea journeys,” looks at the correlation between Biden’s new policy of increase humanitarian Visa numbers for Cubans, and others and the verge of design which is mostly in favor of migrants who already had connections in the US. This means that the those who not have access to this these things and are fleeing for their lives without income nor planning is pointless. Luscombe goes on to state that the US would also only accept people if they could afford to sponsor themselves, apply for visas online and pay for their own they would be able to receive funding and airfares.
In the article, the writer does state numbers to show the growth of immigrants over the year. It is mostly backed up by good sources but has no proper statistics. The information shows his point on the topic but doesn’t give room for the reader to interpret the data. In some cases, the writer pointed out how many people were migrating from 1st October and added up in the last 12 months to 30th September. I think a graph showing the percentage of people migrating would have given the readers more room to fully see a depicted analysis of the growing number of people. Additionally, the article mentions a lot about Biden’s administration policies. What would have really captured the reader’s attention is a graph the number of people getting visas through connection in the US versus the number of people applying for visas with no form of connection. This lets the reader know the differences between those who already have connections and considered migrants and those who have no connections whatsoever.
I think the best about this article is the prominent use of qualitative evidence. There is a lot of flow in the article that with very word, there is a solid backing to it. With all this research and study, Luscombe uses this is express the other hidden issues of the current laws and policies have. He does a great job of showing how the contrasting views of professors, and sums of data of recent updates to the incidents of migrants which mostly focuses on Florida.
Overall, Luscombe indeed did a great job of portraying the current issues on migration and how this all leads back to how in the 1900s, the US only approved of things if they would gain profit off people who would be later be bondservants. I say this because of how Luscombe states by the professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York that these schemes were clearly meaningless. If it only works for people who had already had connections in the US, then they must be useful and that’s the only way it would work. People who have no financial stability and can’t afford to pay airfares are not seen as dominant. I loved this article and I loved how the flow of complexity and context go hand in hand when reading.
Source
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/16/florida-immigration-migrants-joe-biden-ron-desantis
January 26,2023 Carmen Darbah uncategorized