Essays on Legal Status

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to expand the readers’ awareness about the philosophical and ethical principles that may be associated with abortion. With that, the topic that will be discussed in this paper is abortion. Abortion can be defined as the process of ending a pregnancy. It is important to note, however, that an abortion can happen intentionally or unintentionally. Unintentional abortion typically occurs naturally. Examples would be when there are birth defects that have been found during pregnancy; this is otherwise known as spontaneous abortion or simply a miscarriage. Intentional abortion, on the other hand, is done ...

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Immigration has been a thorny subject for the past centuries. The issue has been widely debated and talked about since the influx of the movement of people from their original home countries to new countries for various reasons. Immigration can be defined as the movement of people from their native countries to countries where they do not hold citizenship with the main aim of settling there permanently or to take up employment. People who often cross international borders to other countries to look for jobs or with the intention of settling there are called immigrants. Whereas people continue to ...

Question One

ISIS can be said to be in a state that is under demented utopia. They show a lot of love and affection to the fellow Muslims, who obey and adhere to their rules and teachings. ISIS takes a different form of terrorism unlike others who indiscriminately attacked varied groups and cause a lot of death and destruction of property; The organization has adopted a new style that is very deceptive, showing affection to those that only support and oblige to their rule and command. Berger and Stern view things differently, though, and by claiming that they are better terrorists ...

A migrant farmworker or a migratory agricultural worker is a person who moves from his or her permanent place of residence in pursuit of employment in agricultural work. There are also seasonal farmworkers, who are people who seek temporary farm work and unlike migrant farmworkers, they may have other sources of income and do not move from their permanent residence. According to Migrantclinician.org, the US has around 1 and 2.5 million farmworkers and about half million of them are under 18 years. About half of immigrants have the proper authorization to operate in the US. The males comprise of ...

Introduction

In this paper, I will argue that the fact that a certain individual is recognized as an employee, automatically “grants” employer status to the person or entity that hires this individual; the legal status of employer is inherently connected to the status of employee. Both parties acquire certain rights and obligations as soon as their relationship falls under the definition of employment. However, as much as there are no strict criterion that help to determine whether a person is an employee, similarly, whether an entity or an individual is an employer will largely depend on the form of relationship ...

Introduction

Illegal immigration is an issue that relates to violation of law. The Sovereign right of The United states is undermined through illegal entry of foreign citizens in the country and the refusal to leave the nation at the end of an authorized stay. In America, it is estimated that the illegal undocumented population of immigrants stands at 11 million. This continues to rise annually with an influx of half a million persons. The cases of undocumented immigrants continue to rise as people from other nations fleeing from persecution and oppression in their countries continue to rise. Others are simply ...

Question 1 In the mid 19th century, after the Second World War, Jews in the Arab countries faced the gravest ever case of human rights violation. The Arab regimes in the Middle East and northern part of Africa forced Jews to leave their homes or be held like political hostages. The Arabs came up with official statements that completely subordinated the Jews and threatened their civil, political, economic, and human rights. These actions contradicted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Part II and Article2.1 of the covenant states that “each state party to the present ...

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A ‘non-status’ immigrant is a person without legal status which allows him/her to live to reside as a permanent citizen in Canada. A person can become a ‘non-status’ if for instance his /her refugee application has been turned down, and this person does not have legal documents to support his stay there. Some of these documents include visa, student visa or the work permit. Once you possess these documents and they expire, you automatically become a ‘non-status’ Just like any other citizen, the ‘non-status’ immigrant, contributes in developing their communities either by paying tax, and raising families. Due to the fact that they ...