Hausaufgabe vom 07.09.2007

California turns against its force of Latin Labourers

1.) Shortly describe the situation illegal immigrants in California are confronted with.
The illegal immigrants in California live in a hopeless situation. They depend on the american citizen to earn money which they send their deviced families in their homecountries. They haven´t got any rights and so they just can be engaged as temporary manual labouerers who don´t have a constant employment. So they haven´t got any perspective of life and it is day-to-day unsure for them, if they earn some money or not.
Once they have been tolerated by the Californians, but nowadays the legal californian citizen discriminate more and more against the illegal immigrants. The californian attitude has changed, and today, illegal immigrants are a kind of an enemy.
2.) Explain why "Proposition 187" won considerable support in california.
I think on the one hand,one reason is the dissatisfaction of the californian citizens with the increase of illegal immigrants to California. They are feared that the illegal immigrants endanger their employments because they do work for shorter money. They feel approved by the information that the Golden State California has its worst slump since the Great Depression which is caused by the illegal immigrants. On the other hand they are a kind of feared that the criminality increases because of the fusion of individual illegal immigrants to criminal and dangerous "gangs".
Besides there is an financial reason for the considerable support of "Proposition 187" . The californian citizen have to pay taxes for the illegal immigration. But this proposal plans that illegal immigrants get no support by the government neither in education nor in welfare services or health care.