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A good response to others is not something like "I agree." Please find something that you can analyze, add to, critique, explain, disagree with, or something. It should be a few cogent sentences. It should contain something that shows your knowledge of the subject, as well as additional materials you might bring from the web and elsewhere. Apply relevant professional, personal, or other real-world experiences. Supports position with applicable knowledge
You should create substantial responses to your peers. Think of this as your opportunity to teach. Create substantial responses which expand on a point and present information on the topic. Your responses should demonstrate your critical thinking on the topic.
Respond to the following discussions (6X). Write how you would respond to their discussions. (No word count.) Be thoughtful and insightful and it must demonstrate critical thinking and analysis.
How would you Respond to the following students
1. One reason I think that gang members are able to operate within the military’s guidelines and function/thrive as a gang is because having gang connections and being a member of a gang is not a disqualifier for entering the military (Valdez 2009). Also, because less than 1% of enlisted military members are gang affiliated, it has been hard to pinpoint them as such. However, from 2009 to 2011, the enlisted military has seen a 40% increase (up to 1.4 million gang members) in gang member recruits (Johnson 2011). Also, military standards require uniform apparel, uniform rules of engagement, and an overall standardized way of living. As long as gang members are able to stay between the lines, the gang activity itself likely goes unnoticed.
They participate in all types of gang activity from robbery, to committing acts of violence, to gun and drug smuggling (Valdez 2009). One way that the military actually helps nurture gang activity is actually through the structure and discipline. If you think about it, the military with its uniformity, brotherhood, and physical and mental training are not much unlike infiltration into the gang world. The line drawn in the sand for most people is the difference between committing crime and protecting the greater good. Same business model for success, just different businesses being ran.
2. Gang members are able to operate in the structure of the military, because it’s easy to just do your job, which equates to being a “great solider.” Me being a Forward Observer in the military I am in a branch that's considered combat arms. I can tell you from experience that our main tasks are to learn how to shoot, communicate, and move effectively under fire. These gang members can enter these combat arms specialties and fit right in without missing a beat. They also will get the best training. Some are given the opportunity to go to Ranger School learning advanced infantryman skills amongst elite soldiers. The military is a brotherhood, so fitting in is not hard if you are part of the popular crowd within a unit. If a soldier is performing great and has no problems at work, the leadership isn’t going to dive deep into their personal lives. This gives these individuals the opportunity to do whatever they want outside of work without detection. Some of these activities include weapons trafficking, drug trafficking, and training gang members on military tactics (Johnson, 2011).
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Gang are organized groups that commit activities that are aimed at disrupting the order and peace of a region, economic stability and social soundness through robbery, and other religions or anti-racial activities (Martinez & Huerta, 2018). The situation seems to continue to surge against all the policies that have been installed to combat it.
It is possible for the gang groups to operate in a structured and disciplined organization such as the military. In the United States, gang membership in the armed forces has increased since 2007. The majority of street gangs in the military include Crips, Bloods, Black Disciples, Hells Angels, Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Nortenos, Mexican Mafia, Surenos, white supremacist groups and Vice Lords among others. They have been reported on military installations in both domestic and international levels. According to the FBI report, the gang activities are perverse across all the military branches, but it’s most common among the junior enlisted ranks. Determination of the enlistment of the gang in the military has been difficulty since the enlisted members do conceal past gang affiliation. Some use fraudulent documents during enlistment. Some recruiters may be inclined to the gang and thus will not report such cases. Some are due to alternative for incarceration. Most gang members join the military to get away from the gang, then find it difficult to break away (Chin, 2017).
Military gangs have been noted in criminal activities like drug trafficking, robberies, weapon offenses, assaults and homicide incidence. Some Fort Hood Soldiers in Texas were identified to be involved in theft, burglaries, assaults and robberies both on and off base. In Fort Lewis, Washington, 130 members were indicated in much criminal misconduct on base. The military evade the law due to the military policy of training, such as in the urban military warfare and in combat hostile gunfire environment like Iraq. Some evade through organized operations that lead to non-documentation of their activities (Brigden & Andreas, 2018).
3. They're there. They're doing crime. They (apparently) remain. Why?
4. The criminal background check for DACA applicant is ineffective as it is not done for each individual. Sadly it ends up permitting those with past criminal history into America. "The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services found that approximately 8 percent of DACA beneficiaries had previously been arrested, including for crimes such as assault, rape, and murder, yet were still approved." (Spakovsky 2018)
As far as concerns with the military, the Military Accessions Vital to the National Intrest program (MAVNI) has been put on a halt to conduct an extensive background check on each of the "dreamers" who were fortunate to join the U.S military. According to Tara Copp from the Military Times so far "more than 40 may soon be weeded out – and it’s possible that the majority of the remaining 1,000 or so participants in the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest, or MAVNI, program will be let go before they can be cleared for duty." (2018)
With any program such as welfare or SSI, there are few who don't honestly deserve it and rig the system and get away with it. Hopefully, within the next four years, DACA tightens up its admission guidelines check. If not it will just go downhill with criminals.
5. I think over the next four years the immigration problem will be a battleground that will involve some wins in the right direction and some losses as well. I today’s world the President is having to battle not only trying to fix the devastation caused by our former President but also the same people he is sworn to serve the “American People”. The is a very difficult task since there are such large numbers of American citizens that seem to have no clue what they are supporting when they are for programs such as DACA. And with these large numbers, which are voting citizens, not only does it affect the uphill battle to fix an illegal program such as DACA but then the President has to fight a separate battle with the political system. The DACA program was “Obama’s unilateral executive action setting up the DACA program was beyond his constitutional and statutory authority and dangerous (Baldacci, 2018).
I think over the next four years as well as President Trump’s second term we as a nation will make advances to get our country back to where it needs to be. However, I am sure eventually we will have this problem with immigration and problems that DACA has caused repaired depending on if we can keep decent non-corrupt Politicians in the White House.
6. I think that the DACA will be abolished or at least heavily modified. I personally don't know too much about it. But I believe stricter background checks are needed in order to help keep the American people safe. I think its unfair that the president can enact such a policy without going through the proper channels. It appears as though Trump is trying to take the appropriate action by removing certain policies that would hurt the criminal immigrants and benefit the ones who deserve to be here.