...Many immigrants come to the United States for a better future for their families and themselves, but not knowing the difficulties they must face crossing the border to get here first. Immigrants know it is not an easy thing to do migrating to the United States because it is not that simple as getting on a plane and heading over here. They must face many challenges and risks crossing the border without getting caught or killed. Once they finally get here (the ones that survive) they realize the danger is not over, but it just beginning. Immigrants that migrate to the United States in pursue of a better life for their families and themselves, but face the first challenge even before crossing the border, which is leaving their families behind. “When men and women immigrate illegally to the United States, they often leave much more than a town and a country. They leave fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters. The children sometimes grow up not knowing their parents — and sometimes never seeing them again. In some cases, they come to resent the parent who isn’t there at Christmas or on their birthday or to tuck them in at night.” (Trevizo) leaving family behind is the most difficult thing for a parent because you do not know if you will die trying to cross the border or how long it will take to be reunited with the ones you love. They have to say goodbye to their love ones like if it is the last time he or she will see them again. Immigrants pay money to be...
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...immigrants play a vital role in driving economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship, helping to create a more dynamic and prosperous society for all. Immigrants have become a big topic to talk about. Immigrants have become a big topic to talk about. Some people say that they are breaking the law and shouldn’t be in this country. Other people say that immigrants can boost the economy and the labor force. Letting immigration in would boost climate change, poverty, and crime. We need to let immigrants in because it would help the economy and it would also boost the workforce. Immigrants are an important component of the US workforce and help the economy. Immigrants support the U.S. economy and its workforce by filling unmet labor market...
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...English161 The competition between immigrants and natives for low-wage jobs Among all nations, immigration is always a hot topic especially in the Untied States because the country is highly mixed with people from different nationalities. Immigration contains two kinds of immigrants, legal and illegal. Undocumented immigrants that come to the U.S. under the low are illegal immigrants. Their presence come into notice by people who naturally born in the U.S. Some people say that illegal immigration is a great stimulation that can improve the economy in many ways. For example, immigrants quickly fill the low-wage jobs which employers need, and spending the money back to the economy by purchasing products to live off. Others say that illegal immigration reduces wages for native-born Americans since the immigrants are taking over the low-wage jobs and willing to work even for lower wage. I say that even though illegal immigration has some undeniably positive economic effects, the impact on the working poor is negative. Even the illegal immigration generally helps economic growth, it hurts native working poor who live in poverty in the U.S. indeed. These days, more and more people try to come to the U.S. illegally to try to get better opportunities for jobs or make a better living. They quickly fill in low-income jobs, and work hard with lower wages than native-born Americans. It makes employers hard to reject them because the intense competition in the U.S. economy; they need...
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...Immigrants in USA The effects immigration had on the American political institution. American politics changed greatly as lots of immigrants began on their quest for a better life in America. With many immigrants coming to American, politicians started seeking out ways to win the support of the immigrants as they were potential voters in upcoming elections. In the midst of immigrants coming from every part of the world, politicians began addressing major events from countries substantial immigrants came from. Many immigrants began running for public office because they would be supported by members of their own ethnicity. With larger quantity of voters, many immigrants were successfully elected into public offices. Immigrants were a key feature of commercial and industrial growth of America. Without Immigrants, America would be majorly impacted as many immigrants are working the jobs that many Americans don’t want to do for low wages. If immigrants were gone, much of the food we need to survive would be gone as many farmers would go bankrupt having to pay high wages to workers. The United States immigration law/policy doesn’t reflect American political values. The immigration policy takes away the rights of immigrant’s equal rights and opportunity to become citizens of our great nation. With this law/policy many citizens of different ethnicity are discriminated as being illegal immigrants when they are actually citizens of this country. Takes away rights of immigrants to...
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...Ethics and Undocumented Immigrants Undocumented immigration is a controversial topic these days. There are many factors that make it so. There are many ethical issues involved with undocumented immigration, and they stem from the fact that undocumented immigrants are not officially recorded as being in the country. Undocumented immigration is also commonly termed as “illegal” immigration, and what makes it illegal is when a person flees their native country into another country while violating the immigration laws of the destination country. Before getting into the ethical issues surrounding undocumented immigrants, it is important to understand both what causes people to become undocumented immigrants, and what effects undocumented immigrants have on their destination country. There are many factors which may lead a person to illegally cross a border into the United States. The most common reason is economic, but other reasons include persecution in the home country, genocide, or a desire to escape a war-torn country. The majority of illegal immigrants in the United States come from Central America, and in particular Mexico. In many of these cases, one family member (usually a man) will cross the border into the United States in order to make more money and send it home to his family. The minimum wage for a day of work in Mexico is roughly $4. (Daily Minimum Wages 2008) In contrast, a Mexican who comes to work in the United States will make about double that amount...
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...its history, achieve that the migration process is carried in order, development and applying the laws that are effective for the benefit of our society. In the next few months, immigration reform will be high on the list of priorities in the House of Representatives. Despite significant public support for immigration reform among members of the public in both parties, many of the most basic facts about immigrants and immigration remain misunderstood. Immigration reform is part of the solution for creating a stronger, more successful, and unified nation. America is a nation of immigrants, and welcoming immigrants reflects the key values on which this country is based: hard work, perseverance, taking on challenges, demonstrating individuality, and showing compassion. In addition, immigration reform is a bipartisan issue where everyone can agree that a working immigration system contributes to a stronger country—economically, socially, and culturally. Anti-immigrant pundits often downplay the importance of immigration to America’s future, treating immigrants and immigration as a threat. While there are plenty of legitimate issues to question and debate in immigration policy, choosing to use the topic as a wedge issue, stirring up fear and uncertainty, hoping to pit people against each other, is not only unproductive, but damaging to our civic life. The facts make it clear that reform of our immigration system can benefit everyone. We must ensure that we have a legal...
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...Hardik Raval (0165421) MG 670 – 102 October 29, 2015 'The Labor Debate:’ The American Dream Revisited Immigration is one hot topic in modern day conversation. Many believe that immigrants coming to the United States are taking many well-needed jobs away from able-bodied Americans. On the other hand, there are still those that believe that the jobs being taken away are not ones that Americans would perform due to the terrible working conditions, low pay, and lack of medical coverage. The immigration problem has come to a point where the United States must make a decision to spend a lot of money to curtail the amount of immigrants using force and funds of an overbearing amount, or to just let the immigrants continue to go about their business in trying to find a way into a country where they are mildly welcome. The article 'The Labor Debate'; discusses both the pros and cons of immigrants, both legal and illegal alike, taking jobs of their own in a country where they might not be welcome. I believe that the immigrants are not necessarily taking jobs away from the American worker. Those occupations that the immigrants possess are truly illegal for any employer to employ any American. The job sites include unsanitary conditions, dangerous equipment use without proper safety precautions, extremely long working days, and less than minimum wage for average pay. There is not one citizen in this country that would stand for such an outrageous environment to work in. Many...
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...Summary Do immigrants take American jobs? It’s a common refrain among those who want to tighten limits on legal immigration and deny a "path to citizenship" — which they call "amnesty" — to the millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. But most economists and other experts say there’s little to support the claim. Study after study has shown that immigrants grow the economy, expanding demand for goods and services that the foreign-born workers and their families consume, and thereby creating jobs. There is even broad agreement among economists that while immigrants may push down wages for some, the overall effect is to increase average wages for American-born workers. Immigrant workers "create almost as many" jobs as they occupy, "and maybe more," "They often create the jobs they work in." In addition, "they buy things, and they make the economy bigger," The impact of immigration on a nation's economy remains small, for several reasons. Immigrants are not competitive in many types of jobs, and hence are not direct substitutes for natives. Local employers increase demand for low-skilled labor in areas that receive low-skilled immigrant inflows. Immigrants contribute to demand for goods and services that they consume, in turn increasing the demand for labor. And immigrants contribute to labor market efficiency and long-term economic growth. Next: Blue Collar vs. White Collar: Where Are Wages Recovering Fastest? Job opportunities for U.S. born citizens with/without degrees...
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...My group examined the differences between digital natives and digital immigrants. My role in the group presentation was to look at digital immigrants. Specifically, I examined how digital immigrants have had to make the transition to modern technology. To start off, a digital immigrant is defined as anyone born before the year 1985. This year is significant because it is a clear marker between my generation and my parents’ generation. I was born into the era of modern technology, while they were forced to adjust from the older methods of communication to the ones used now in all first word nations. I researched the lack of personal isolation, the ways that members of society used to communicate with one each other, along with examining the...
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...our country’s fabric which, began centuries ago. Only to become a hot topic in the US in recent years with its primary focus being illegal immigrants. Illegal immigration is when people enter a country without government permission. As of 2008 the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in the US which is down from 2007‘s 12.5 million people. Although the Center for Immigration Studies estimates are very different from other estimates that range from 7 to 20 million. While the Pew Hispanic Center estimated in March of 2009 there are 11.1 million illegal immigrants and that number is from March 2007’s peak of 12 million. The exact number of illegal immigrants is unknown because they are illegal immigrants. A 2005 report from the Pew Hispanic Center stated that 22% of illegal immigrants were from Latin American Countries, mostly from Central America, 13% from Asia, 56% from Mexico, with 6% between Europe and Canada, and 3% were from the rest of the world and Africa. In the United States alone every day there are almost 70,000 foreigners to migrate here. Within those 70,000 over 60,000 of them are businessmen, travelers and students; there are about 5,000 that are illegal immigrants; with 2,000 legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants have been and has continued to outnumber the number of legal immigrants, which has been going on since the 1990’s. It’s partially because of this that US lawmakers have recently made an even bigger attempt at...
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...want to partake in. The great names that have shaped the American history had big dreams for themselves and the nation at large. Marcia (1993) avers that “…without dreams and vision, companies and countries fail, and without our personal dreams, hopes and aspirations, life can become meaningless.” Indeed, a dream gives us the ability to steer our ships in the vast sea of life characterized by stormy rides. The dream inspires us to soldier on, regardless of the impediments that may strike us on the way to our destination. Moreover, as we all know confidence, courage and hard work are requisite ingredients that will give rise to our dreams. For that reason, when we set to evaluate people’s success, we need to learn about what keeps them motivated in their pursuit for their dreams. United States of America has over years seen influx of immigrants from different walks of life; all coming with just a suitcase and a sweet dream in tow. The promises of fortune, freedom, equality of opportunity continues to tempt many people to relocate to America despite the bulk of literature on stories of isolation and hardship faced by the immigrants on the American soil. Once they reach their much anticipated destination, the immigrants find themselves in horrible, hapless and unimaginable situations. Americans, who unlike the immigrants have a chance to adapt and succeed according to the definition of the dream, also experience feelings of otherness and cultural isolation. Success to them is...
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...In this paper, I want to focus on Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools. As a previous high school immigrant when I first arrived in United States, I have experience numerous difficulties in school that I would never forget. In addition, I believe immigrant students of secondary school can face major difficulties in learning English and succeeding in school. Since these students do not have a lot of time than elementary students to learn English, and they have to pass several test that require English skill such as the ACT and SAT. Above all, most secondary school texts and materials require a sufficient English reading ability to understand, which will even make learning experience becoming even tougher for high school immigrant. Before going into detail, lets take a look at the statistics of the United States’ immigration in the past few decades. According to U.S Bureau of the Census 1997a statistic, over a million immigrants, legal and illegal, entering the United States each year. And since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which eliminated national origin quotas. Europe is no longer the main sources of newcomers to the United States but instead of Asia and Latin America. The largest groups come from Mexico, China, Cuba, and Vietnam. In the fall of 1997, 9 million (about one in five) elementary and secondary school students had a foreign born parents. With over 90% of recent immigrants coming from non English speaking countries, schools are increasingly...
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...views and arguments. Realistically immigration has resulted in the laws having more illegal immigrants live and work here in the United States. I have read three different articles on the pros and cons of illegal immigration. Immigration is becoming a normal thing in the United States and it shouldn’t be. Summary In the article “Let Us Give Thanks to Our Immigrants” by Rupert Murdoch, he shows some evidence to support his agreeing with illegal immigration. He shows support on how they have contributed to the education in America. Whereas in the articles “The Winners in Immigration: Public Prisons,” by Aubrey Pringle, and “Republican Views on Immigration,” by RepublicanViews.org shows support on why immigration is not good for the United States. Murdoch shows that many of the high paying jobs in the United States are held by immigrants or children of immigrants. Whereas Pringle and RepublicanViews.org shows that our government is suffering because of all the illegal immigrants in our country. Argument Murdoch is pro-immigration. He has provided evidence to show why he supports immigration. He also was an immigrant himself and all his family was from Scotland. He does state though that these days it’s hard to talk about the benefits of immigration after 9/11, because many Americans worry about our borders and security. He shows some statistics to back up his claim on how immigrants have made our society in education. He says in his speech the following: “In a study on...
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...CONCEPT WORK It seems like this “thing” wraps around you without letting go, and there is nothing you can do about it. "In October 2008, the illegal immigrant population stood at 11.9 million according to the Pew Hispanic Center." As an illegal immigrant myself I feel that people that are against this issue don’t see what life is really like for an illegal immigrant. Illegal immigrants don’t come to the U.S and do nothing like most people assume, we come to work hard for what we want to achieve in life just like everybody else. Since legal status makes a big impact on life, I haven’t always had what I have today. I remember as a kid my mom waking up at 3 a.m to make burritos to sell out in the streets and try to live off the little money she would make that morning. We lived day by day from what she sold. Some days she would come home with $90 dollars and felt like she was the richest and luckiest woman alive and others she came with nothing. I remember her working 14 hour days and being mistreated just to provide for her 3 kids. This is just a tiny bit of my stories and there are millions out there like mine. So my question to you is, before judging illegal immigrants do you truly know what they go through? ; and is it fair to judge someone for trying to live a better life? The immigration issue has been sweeping the country for years now. Many people when thinking of immigration think "keep America for Americans". But isn’t this quote racial and discriminating? How...
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...all are considered immigrants because a long time ago back when Columbus discovered this land in 1942 Europeans came in and took over the land where Native Americans had been living for many years. In other words every white in America is descendant from immigrants of some other country but yet there are people in USA that say Mexicans don’t have the right to immigrate. It’s very ironic that such people say that, it’s like saying, there are two immigrants and one says to another “You don’t have the right to immigrate, only I do.” There is a range of positive and negative aspects of immigration. Weather one should take a side for either against it or not, it’s up to oneself to decide. The definition of an immigrant or illegal alien is best summarized as a person coming in to a different country and settling without the countries permission to stay. ------------------------------------------------- The question, should amnesty be given to illegal immigrants?, Brings up a lot of controversy in all of USA. Mexican immigrants are willing to work out in fields picking crops, cleaning houses, bus tables, etc. all these jobs are jobs that immigrants are very eager to do so, even at minimum wage pay. A lot of Americans don’t want to work as hard for the little pay that they get so having immigrants fill these jobs is good thing for them. Then there is people that claim that immigrants don’t pay taxes, all immigrants pay taxes of some kind. There are illegal immigrants that use false documentation...
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