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Farmer wrote The House Of Scorpions as a fictional novel, Nonetheless, Celia’s story about meeting a coyote and the farm patrol, I believe, was written as a reflection of real life issues, which means that this tale was clearly a symbol for illegal immigration. The ‘coyote’ Farmer writes about is actually not fictional, there are many people in the real world who do this for a living; same with ‘farm patrols’. ‘Farm patrols’ themselves don’t exist, however, they are a representation of border guards.
Celia risks her life to attempt to escape. She blindly trusts a man she just met to assist her in doing a crime; illegally crossing borders, and abandons her normal routine in search for a something new. One may ask, why would Celia, or anyone, go through all this trouble of just finding a new country to live in? Why not go through the legal process of applications and sponsorships. As I have learnt through the grade 9 immigration unit, I know that it’s a much harder process than many may think. Countries tend to allow people in who are either family sponsored, refugees in need to find new homes or individuals who are extremely educated. It’s not everyday that a country will allow an applicant who is a cook and isn’t living in a country where war is hurting their daily lives into their already populated nation. However. The circumstances Celia was in; working at a factory all day doing brutal labour, not having the freedom to even walk outside and being deprived from parties, family and interests, was not something any person could survive in without going insane. With that said, there are valid reasons to be performing an illegal immigration process.
In recent news reports, there have been an increasing number of fraud marriage cases. Fraud marriage is when two individuals fake a marriage so that the one can sponsor the other as a family sponsor, eliminating the long and strenuous immigration process of applications. This kind of illegal immigration has tremendous consequences, yet, people still risk their lives to perform this act. Why? Again, if you aren’t an economic immigrant nor a refugee but just want the safety of a stable country, there is practically no way of coming into a country without having to wait for decades.
The article I found on fraud marriages states that Ottawa, Canada has newly proposed regulations on spouse sponsorships in Canada in an attempt to lessen the chance for fraud marriages. It states that the government will bring in a 5-year ban on sponsoring spouses if you have already previously sponsored. In addition, it positions that newly immigrated spouses are required to live under the same roof for a long period of time; a time that has not yet been announced. What the government doesn’t realize is that half of non-fraudulent marriages fail and if we force these two people to continue to live with one another while they are in a conflict, it can result to things like domestic abuse. We cannot force and expect two in conflict individuals to live with one another, that’s is just brutal. Nevertheless, these regulations are still being considered.
Fraud marriages seem to be quite an horrific act with should result in consequences, however, I do understand why people would go through this process to immigrate. Although you may be risking your life, you could also be saving it. There are many people in this world who want to find a new home, but aren’t qualified. They aren’t in life-threatening danger nor are they aren’t fully educated. However, they still want the safety and security that every person desires, which results in actions like fraud marriage. Therefore, I can fully understand as to why someone would go through this dangerous process of illegal immigration. After all, sometimes you have to risk everything to protect yourselves.
Farmer wrote The House Of Scorpions as a fictional novel, Nonetheless, Celia’s story about meeting a coyote and the farm patrol, I believe, was written as a reflection of real life issues, which means that this tale was clearly a symbol for illegal immigration. The ‘coyote’ Farmer writes about is actually not fictional, there are many people in the real world who do this for a living; same with ‘farm patrols’. ‘Farm patrols’ themselves don’t exist, however, they are a representation of border guards.
Celia risks her life to attempt to escape. She blindly trusts a man she just met to assist her in doing a crime; illegally crossing borders, and abandons her normal routine in search for a something new. One may ask, why would Celia, or anyone, go through all this trouble of just finding a new country to live in? Why not go through the legal process of applications and sponsorships. As I have learnt through the grade 9 immigration unit, I know that it’s a much harder process than many may think. Countries tend to allow people in who are either family sponsored, refugees in need to find new homes or individuals who are extremely educated. It’s not everyday that a country will allow an applicant who is a cook and isn’t living in a country where war is hurting their daily lives into their already populated nation. However. The circumstances Celia was in; working at a factory all day doing brutal labour, not having the freedom to even walk outside and being deprived from parties, family and interests, was not something any person could survive in without going insane. With that said, there are valid reasons to be performing an illegal immigration process.
In recent news reports, there have been an increasing number of fraud marriage cases. Fraud marriage is when two individuals fake a marriage so that the one can sponsor the other as a family sponsor, eliminating the long and strenuous immigration process of applications. This kind of illegal immigration has tremendous consequences, yet, people still risk their lives to perform this act. Why? Again, if you aren’t an economic immigrant nor a refugee but just want the safety of a stable country, there is practically no way of coming into a country without having to wait for decades.
The article I found on fraud marriages states that Ottawa, Canada has newly proposed regulations on spouse sponsorships in Canada in an attempt to lessen the chance for fraud marriages. It states that the government will bring in a 5-year ban on sponsoring spouses if you have already previously sponsored. In addition, it positions that newly immigrated spouses are required to live under the same roof for a long period of time; a time that has not yet been announced. What the government doesn’t realize is that half of non-fraudulent marriages fail and if we force these two people to continue to live with one another while they are in a conflict, it can result to things like domestic abuse. We cannot force and expect two in conflict individuals to live with one another, that’s is just brutal. Nevertheless, these regulations are still being considered.
Fraud marriages seem to be quite an horrific act with should result in consequences, however, I do understand why people would go through this process to immigrate. Although you may be risking your life, you could also be saving it. There are many people in this world who want to find a new home, but aren’t qualified. They aren’t in life-threatening danger nor are they aren’t fully educated. However, they still want the safety and security that every person desires, which results in actions like fraud marriage. Therefore, I can fully understand as to why someone would go through this dangerous process of illegal immigration. After all, sometimes you have to risk everything to protect yourselves.
- Nicole Kho.
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