Political Parties and Politicians

Democratic Party

The Democratic Party is one of the two main and oldest existing political parties in the United States. Democrats are sometimes referred to as "the Party of the People," because they focus on issues such as contain immigrants, women and minorities. They believe that the federal government should focus more on people's lives, especially the ones who are in need.

One of the Issues that still continues today that is strongly supported by the Democratic Party is Immigration. In the Democratic party platform, under 'What we believe', in 'Fixing our Broken Immigration System', it talks about their stance on Immigration. Their views, which is stated in democrats.org, "The Democratic Party supports legal immigration, within reasonable limits, that meets the needs of families, communities, and the economy as well as maintains the United States' role as a beacon of hope for people seeking safety, freedom, and security. People should come to the United states with visas and not through smugglers. Yet, we recognize that the current immigration system is broken." In other words, the Democratic Party supports immigration but as long as they get through the border with visas. 

Politician: Donald Trump

Donald Trump is the current president of the United States and is on his second year of presidency. He is part of the Republican party and his goal along being one of his most used quote, is to, "Make America Great Again." In the Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech, Trump gives a speech on his point of view of the topic on Illegal Immigration. Before Donald Trump became president, he gave his speech in Arizona about him meeting with Mexico's president Enrique Pena Nieto. It is stated that they both agreed and came to terms to ending drugs, guns, and illegal immigrants coming to the United States, "We agree on the importance of ending the illegal flow of drugs, cash, guns, and people across our border, and to put the cartels out of business." There was a compromise that they will have a goal to fix immigration system and prevent anything more illegal coming to the United States. Donald Trump also states, "Let me tell you who it does not serve. It does not serve you the American People." He believes that the way the immigration system works right now with the open borders and lower wages is that it is only helping the immigrants and not the american citizens. He wants immigration to be improving laws and policies to make life better for the U.S citizens. In order to start fixing the immigration system, he quotes, "For instance, we have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and it's impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions." In other words, In order to make the immigration system work, we first need to think about how it impacted us. He tells us that the United States lacks a good security system since many american citizen lives were taken away because of illegal immigrants. He then gives a couple examples of the many people who have their lives stolen from immigrants and shares the statistics of how many illegal immigrants were arrested in the U.S and the total cost a year in 2011

POV

Democrats are fighting for all the immigrants who feel threatened and scared by Donald Trump's presidency. They will not stand and watch families be torn apart and stand up to Trump and his idea to defend the border. Democrats will work to fix the broken immigration system, improve border security, and prioritize enforcement to target illegal criminals and not innocent families seeking a better life.

President Donald Trump believes children of illegal immigrants shouldn't not be granted citizenship and immigrants should not be allowed to hold dual citizenship status. He is very passionate about increasing restrictions on its current border security policy and build a wall that Mexico will pay for. In other words, Trump doesn't want immigrants to have any of the privilege that Americans receive.  

Comparison

The two artifacts are similar in a way because they both agree on illegal immigrants with criminal records to be deported and have stricter border security. 

Conclusion

Taken everything into account, political parties and politicians influence an individual's political beliefs by when a politic wishes to be reelected for office or remain in office, they would cater to whatever the citizens want.