Immigrants who come to a new country have a disadvantage because it is difficult to get used to another language. It is a challenge for immigrants to learn a new language and get accustomed to the new country. Immigrants also have a tough time finding a well paying job and usually get taken advantage of. Immigrants live in communities where others do not speak English. They face discrimination in public because of not knowing English and their traditions. Immigrants face disadvantages which lead to mistreatments and biased thoughts. When immigrants first arrive in the new country, in most cases they are really poor. It is difficult for them to start from fresh and succeed while they are disrespected due to their customs and ideals. Children with immigrant parents struggle the most because of the community they live in and separation. Reyna Grande, Richard Rodriguez, and Amy Tan were all at a disadvantage because they struggled with language and not being accepted by their community.
Many immigrants are not accepted in their community for example, in the memoir, “The Distance Between Us”, written by Reyna Grande. This memoir shows how difficult life is for children to do well in school due to social problems. It shows how poverty affects the future of the children. The memoir shows a stereotypical Mexican family household where the father is abusive and the mother is in the workforce. The parents decide to move to the United States from Mexico and leave the children behind
1 million immigrants move to America each year due to it being an exceptional nation. We are an exceptional nation because we have more rights than any other country, we are more equal than most, and we also have more of a choice in our government than the rest of the world. America is the one country everybody is fighting to get into due to its amount of freedom.
While earning her degree in creative writing, Reyna Grande learned that sometimes you have to write the story you want to read. As a Mexican immigrant she was searching for literature on immigrant experiences but could never find anything written about the children of immigrants, about people like her. The Distance Between Us is her memoir, a voice for the experiences of immigrant children whose parents made the journey before them. Distance is a constant theme throughout her story. It can be recognized in hers and her family’s physical, psychological, emotional and mental experiences.
Immigrants leave their country for America because it is supposed to be a better place. A
In the article by Hansen it looks at how it is not right for the U.S. to try to keep all of these people out and that they could help fill the jobs that no one wants but there are groups out there that will try to keep them out. The article looks at how there is a more humane option for the government to look at that would allow guest workers to remain in the country temporarily. This could eventually allow them a way to get citizenship if they want to stay in the country. This view provides at little recognition for those people who believe that it could mess up America’s culture. This is a more humane route and it is morally right. It also represents an effort for a good solution to the externalities of the open borders that people believe in, as opposed to the people who believes in a closed border type of plan.
“I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things. First, the streets weren’t paved with gold; second, they weren’t paved at all: and third, I was expected to pave them” an old Italian immigrant once said. Immigrants faced many obstacles coming to America such as finding work, finding a place to live, acclimating to their new surroundings and learning to communicate. When immigrants came to America, they expected their life to become better and have an easier life.
Immigrants are bad for the U.S because they are taking the scarce amount of jobs that citizens are fighting for.First off, according to Howard W. Foster a lawyer whose main cases are involving the employment of illegal immigrants, over 450,000 legal immigrants come to the U.S every year, and over 700,000 illegal immigrants come to the U.S every year and are fighting with citizens to get their jobs. Since there are not that much jobs out there, with over one million immigrants they should not be priority over citizens who deserve these jobs.Another piece of evidence from Howard Foster shows that immigrants are bad for the U.S because most of the immigrants coming over are uneducated and have no experience with any technical jobs, so they have
Immigrants contribute to the US economy more than they take form it. There is an estimated 45.3 million legal immigrant in the United States. Immigrants accounted for 47% of the workforce in the United States over the past ten years.
In the late 1800s, the era of immigration had begun. America’s borders were flooded with various ethnic groups pursuing the “American Dream”, an opportunity to better oneself through hard work and perseverance. Yet for most people, the “American Dream” never came true, because of difficult and dangerous work, few advancement opportunities, and racism. The Slovak families in Out of This Furnace, the Krachas and Dobrejcaks, provide good examples. The first members of these families, Djuro Kracha and Mike Dobrejcak, were first generation Slovak immigrants. These two men and other members of their families, like Kracha’s daughter Mary and Mike’s son Dobie, never achieved the lasting material prosperity that was the American Dream. Much of their
The first effort to control immigration was not to bar immigrants entirely, or turn back those who wanted to travel to the United States, but to set standards for immigration and separate the desirable newcomers who would add to the country from undesirables which would only tear it down. The very first immigration enforcement enacted by Congress was in 1798, and allowed the present to deport anyone that was deemed dangerous to the United States.
Immigration started with Spanish settlers in the 1500’s and eventually moved on to French and English settlers in the 1600’s and so on and so forth. Nearly 1 million immigrants arrive in the United States annually. Though you may see this is as a bad thing, there are actually so many pros to immigration. One of the main pros, though, is that immigrants are taxpayers, consumers, and job creators. The United States benefits from these things in multiple ways such as getting new homes and stores.
I do not believe that immigrants should be able to come to America. When more people come to the America we have to provide more things to make life sustainable for them. Money is being spent, and more problems can be caused. We need to make sure the people wanting to come over know the rules of America, and that they can follow the rules. They should be required to speak english and can have their own language on the side. Not only taking an updated test of the U.S, but given a week on their own here to see if they can handle it and if it is a suitable living style for them. If they can not handle the week living here then they are not fit to migrate over, therefore they truly can not live in America. This will be their own fault and the
If you had the chance to move to somewhere new where you could escape the previous troubles and horrors you had just experienced, would you? Many immigrants came to the United States because there were many political problems in their homeland that they wanted to get away from and wanted to start over again with a clean slate. They figured that since the U.S. was accepting new people into our country, more and more could come, but that didn't end very well for most immigrants.
In 2009, President Obama became the first African-American president of the United States of America, which makes him the 44th president. President Obama made a lot of promises in his 2008 presidential campaign that he has fulfilled, broken, or compromised. Many Americans know that a promise that a presidential candidate makes is a major deal because those are the reasons in which why the people vote for that candidate. Once those promises are not fulfilled, Americans will feel like the president has failed them. One of the major promises President Obama made was on immigration. He had 6 proposals only involving immigration. Four out of the six proposals President Obama initiated met half way, and two out of the six proposals were not fulfilled.
“When you cross [the border illegally] with the expectation that you’ll be released, there’s no need to hide, there’s no need to run. You just look for a uniformed agent and turn yourself in.”
Research finds that as immigrants enter the labor market, many low-skilled Americans will be displaced temporarily, however in the long run, especially African Americans and other minority groups will respond by moving up to higher-skilled opportunities and jobs. Even as far as entering into the primary sector rather than continuing in the secondary sector. Evidence shows African Americans are three times more likely to transition to higher-skilled jobs as a result of immigration. (Kugler 2013) In the same article by Adriana Kugler and Patrick Oakford, they once more agree with Professor Borjas in regards to wages decreasing, but this is temporarily and only for a short-term period. The fact that U.S. citizens have different skill sets than