End the Discrimination against Immigrants

  We have talked and learned about discrimination against immigrants and how we can address it, but what about ourselves? When we can’t even take care of ourselves and keep ourselves healthy, we can’t take care of, understand, and emphasize with others. Self care includes things that are very simple such as eating healthy and exercising well. These sound very easy, but they are the most important aspects in our lives because they are the basis of our wellbeing. If we are not physically healthy, our mind will not be capable of dealing with other aspects in our lives such as work and relationships with others. Mental health is also very important, of course. We should integrate some activities, such as seeing friends, doing something fun everyday, finding ways to relax, etc. in our daily lives in order to stay mentally healthy ( Mental Health America, n.d. ). Benefits of self care are significant because self care does not only help us to stay healthy but also makes us better carer for o

  When I look up organizations that try to eliminate discrimination against immigrants or address any similar goals, many organizations and coalitions can be found. For example, Interfaith Immigration Coalition is a partnership that fights for immigrant justice as well as tries to improve freedom of religion and confront any discrimination against minor religions (Interfaith Immigration Coalition, n.d.) . Also, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization that tries to improve systemic equality among all people who live in the states. One of the ACLU's areas of focus is immigrants. They explain, “The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project is dedicated to expanding and enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of immigrants and to combating public and private discrimination against them” (ACLU, n.d.) . Moreover, Oxfam is a non-governmental charitable organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice (Oxfam, n.d.) . Oxfam is a British founded organiz

  Have you ever avoided anyone just because they look different than you? Most people think that they don’t discriminate against anyone and that they treat everyone equally, however, the fact is that most people have taken actions based on their various biases. Most times, they discriminate against someone implicitly, while some people may have done it purposely. Discriminating behaviors against immigrants occur both implicitly and purposely as well as other types of discriminations, but in both cases, how you naturally perceive impressions when they encounter immigrants is often the cause of the bias and discrimination. According to Why We Instinctively Reject Immigrants (n.d.) , it is human’s natural reaction to avoid people who look different and unfamiliar in order to protect ourselves. People naturally feel uncomfortable being with someone who they don’t think belongs to their own community, and they instinctively divide those “outsiders” into different groups from themselves ( “

  According to Romero (2020) , “nearly two million college educated immigrants labor in jobs for which they are overqualified, or cannot find work at all (para. 1). Even though a lot of immigrants in the US are highly educated or qualified for professional skills in their home countries, they still struggle to find jobs because of various barriers and discrimination. Many of them end up taking lower paying or lower skilled jobs, which forces them to lower their living standards as well. There are many different reasons why employers hesitate to hire immigrants, but major reasons include the bias where they think that immigrants are all illegal and it is a hustle to hire them. Even though it is illegal for employers to pick who to hire based on candidates’ national origins or citizenships, they can still implicitly or purposely and secretly prefer hiring US-born citizens. This fact does not only affect immigrants’ lives but also companies’ or the whole country’s growth because so many t

  According to Camera (2016) , a quarter of all children in the US are either first or second generation immigrants. This means that their academic skills play a significant role in schools’ achievement as a whole. However, there is a big achievement gap between immigrant students and US born students. One of the biggest reasons is their languages. Murphey (2014) explains that English-learning students scored 40% lower than native English-speaking students in both reading and mathematics. This means that if schools successfully improve immigrant students’ academic skills, that will significantly improve the entire school’s achievement. All schools highly value an improvement of their students’ academic skills. However, how can we do so? Of course, practical and organizational strategies are needed, such as hiring more teachers who can teach English as Second Language, but there is a thing that everyone, including board members and teachers, can start in every educational setting today