Daily Archives: June 21, 2021


A Whole New World: Facing the Reality that is the U.S Immigration Crisis by Joy Kassel

In our world today, most people know it’s no secret that the United States is currently facing an immigration crisis. Merriam Webster defines a crisis as “an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is pending, especially one with the distinct possibility of a highly unfavorable outcome”. The crisis that U.S. immigration faces can be understood in one of two ways. First, one may understand the crisis in terms of the fact that there are millions of undocumented individuals in our country. For those who view the crisis in this way, the root of the issue lies in the fact that these individual’s sheer presence is “dangerous, unlawful, and/or wrong”. From personal experience, often-times these are the individuals who say that “people should immigrate legally”. On the other hand, there are those who view the crisis through a more systematic lens, citing that the […]