Talk:Undocumented youth in the United States

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Draft feedback
Hi Sean,

I enjoyed reading through your draft and think its a great work in progress. Have you thought about discussing how these youth come into the countries in which they are deemed to be undocumented? Are there resources that distinguish between how many entered without inspection vs. how many overstayed their visas? Keep up the good work!Camotero2013 (talk) 14:56, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Moving towards first draft
Hi Sean.tyl.and! To get the draft ready for this Friday, I would plan on blocking out 2-3 hours to: Craft a lead paragraph (I fixed the formatting so you have the start of one). You need to expand on what it means to “learn to be undocumented.” What do peer-reviewed sources say about the psychological and social processes involved? What responses have youth made, such as “coming out” as undocumented? You can also seek verifiable sources to describe:
 * What are special issues faced by ‘’youth’’ because of immigration status?
 * Does Gonzales establish causality between “learning to be illegal” and dropping out?
 * What role does non-access to financial aid have in not continuing to college?
 * What about drivers’ licenses and obtaining employment?
 * Please incorporate information to answer Camotero’s feedback.
 * Where will you put in hyperlinks?

This article has a great deal of potential, but there is still a great deal of work to do. Keep going! Cheers!Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 19:17, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Peer edit
Sean,

I think that this is a great topic to look at, but I do think that it is still very much a work in progress. I think there is much more that can be included on the page. More detail on the challenges that they face I think would be good. I think that most of the detail that you have us very general and could use more detail, but I think that this is a good start. Also, you could always add a picture. Dcole12 (talk) 22:10, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Draft feedback
Hi Sean.tyl.and. I've left some feedback for the current draft on your talk page. Gobōnobō + c 23:22, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Purpose of Article
The purpose of this article is to distinguish the unique transitions into adulthood for undocumented youth. I have done significant research on this topic which distinguishes the work done on this topic versus the Undocumented students in the United States page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sean.tyl.and (talk • contribs) 02:27, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Why "youth" should not be so narrowly defined.
I have twice tried to update this article with the professional licensing opportunities that have opened up career paths for undocumented youth in the US and each time they've been removed. The last time an explanation was given akin to- youth are not eligible for professional licensing, because that is after attending law school, medical school, etc.

I disagree. While the age a youth is likely to complete graduate school and move on to professional licensing is mid to late 20's, the word "youth" is generally ambiguous and its definition therefore, is tied to its context.

Here, I'd argue the context is the page's audience, and the most valuable, and incidentally vulnerable, audience demographic is undocumented youth themselves. They've been told their whole lives they can't be doctors or doctors, and finally in 2014, there is a narrow exception where indeed they are eligible for licensure for professional careers in just one of fifty states. Having timely access to this information, here, could mean the difference between an undocumented youth choosing to surrender hope, or choosing instead to study hard and pursue higher education that ultimately culminates in a lawyer who fights to end oppression, or a doctor who saves lives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curtster3 (talk • contribs) 01:24, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge
I would like to propose merging this article with Undocumented students in the United States -- a similar article on an overlapping topic. This is a large and complex issue, and having two articles doesn't help explain the topic. Thoughts? -- phoebe / (talk to me) 22:10, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per nomination. Articles appear to have been started separately in good faith. Wikishovel (talk) 22:44, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support Same topic, no sense having the same article in two places.  D r e a m Focus  21:57, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, but the direction of the merge is unclear (one template suggests a merge to Undocumented immigrant students in the United States). My view is that the merge should be to Undocumented youth in the United States as it is the broader topic and would more accurately describe the scope of a merged page. That the immigrant students page is currently larger isn't a bar to the proposed merge direction. Klbrain (talk) 10:49, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 13:03, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

misc references
from the history of the article, now cut: ^Perez, Zenen. "Removing Barriers to Higher Education for Undocumented Students." Scribd. Center for American Progress, 1 Dec. 2014. Web. 21 Apr. 2015. . "Undocumented Immigrants' State and Local Tax Contributions." The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), 16 Apr. 2015. Web. 21 Apr. 2015. . ^Athanasiou, Joy. "Basic Facts About Undocumented Students." Together Colorado. Higher Education Access Alliance, 1 Jan. 2013. Web. 21 Apr. 2015. .

Visuals
Hi Sean, after reading the article I noticed that there wasn't a lot of visual content in this post. I would like to post visual context in the form of diagrams to show some statistics. I feel that including visuals allow for many different types of readers to really understand the content and be able to illustrate the article. In saying this do any other users have any thoughts or ideas before I post this to the main page? I will be getting the visuals from quality sources to ensure the credibility of this article to provide a good addition to the post! Some of the Cites that I will pull information from: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2018/09/14/facts-on-u-s-immigrants/ https://www.apa.org/topics/immigration/undocumented-video.aspx https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/13/who-daca-dreamers-and-how-many-here/333045002/

They are not "Undocumented students", they have ample documents on them
It is ridiculous to try to eliminate the word "illegal" and replace it with "undocumented". This article is in the Category:Illegal immigration to the United States and most articles do use "illegal immigrant" since its more encyclopedic. I don't see any discussion for this article getting its name changed to Undocumented youth either. I say change the name back and stop trying to eliminate the word "illegal" in the article when you don't have a word that makes sense to use instead.  D r e a m Focus  06:54, 15 January 2019 (UTC)


 * I agree with you, but just try and change it in Wikipedia! (This article was written as part of a student project and is full of redundant content that is sometimes just wrong, as it doesn't even agree with the sources provided.) The same objection as you made in this article also apply to Illegal immigration and Illegal emigration (the latter is really bizarre, and I cleaned it up a bit, but it is kind of out of control; sorry, I digress.)--FeralOink (talk) 12:38, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Slur?
The lede says ""the term "illegal" when applied to people is considered by some a slur"" This is an example of weasel wording, and does not belong in an encyclopedic article. "some people" believe almost anything about almost any topic. The citation reads as an opinion piece. If an op-ed is enough to substantiate this type of statement, why don't we say that "some people" view teaching the theory of evolution as an example of religious bigotry? It's ridiculous ofcourse.

Also, whether someone is offended by legal terminology is entirely irrelevant. The word undocumented is used a total of zero times in the US code. We can't have a rational discussion about what is appropriate to include in articles if we refuse to use the legally defined terms. Anything else is ambiguous, imprecise, and too open to interpretation. 2601:18F:4101:4830:2E:902E:E675:FD68 (talk)•

2601:18F:4101:4830:2E:902E:E675:FD68 (talk) 04:01, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Disgraceful language
"Undocumented." This topic avoids use of the descriptive term "illegal immigrant" to obfuscate that the topic is about young illegal immigrants, due to political bias of editors that wish they were legal immigrants.

In its place is what I believe is a US centric euphemism for an illegal immigrant, an "undocumented" immigrant, whose purpose, as I repeat, is to obfuscate what the legal status of that immigrant is for all of the readers of this article because the editors want to misrepresent illegal immigrants as other than that. 63.155.55.168 (talk) 19:30, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

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UndocuAlly trainings
I plan to add in information regarding UndocuAlly trainings in areas of higher education. I plan to expand on this under the additional barriers sub-topic of the article because I feel that it will be a great way of showing how these barriers are being addressed in areas of higher education. Sunflower110902 (talk) 18:43, 22 April 2024 (UTC)