Analysis: The Immigrant Advantage

America has been a melting pot of cultures for many centuries, with the number of immigrants continually rising every year. Most of these immigrants come into the country with nothing at all except for the clothes on their backs and a few English words. But they also bring with them something special – their cultures and traditions from their homeland. In the Immigrant Advantage, readers can see that these specific traditions that they bring with them give them an advantage because they tend to have better mental and physical health than their native born American counterparts (5).

Although some argue otherwise, immigrants have a positive impact on our society. It is ironic how "within the country founded by Immigrants- Immigrant somehow become a bad word" (K'Naan). Although statistics prove that immigrants do bring overcrowding, drug trafficking, and diseases, they also impact positively on our economy and bring cultural knowledge. Being an immigrant in America is no easy task, they work long hours and most of the time have multiple jobs. Because the American dollar has greater value, immigrants will take any job that pays better than their home country. This often means they do the unwanted jobs of Americans. Immigrants fight hard to work their way to America with the American dream in mind, but once here that dream becomes very distant due to unexpected challenges they faced. In Valeria Luiselli book "Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions", she addresses her experience as an interpreter for immigration court of the state of New York, discussing the stories she has heard with the immigration process. Throughout the book, she explains her view of the lack of sympathy and protection the United States has for the young immigrants. Her purpose to show the difficulties the immigrants go through - their sacrifice, resilience, and strength as they fight to survive and obtain a better life in America can also be seen in K'naan video - "The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)", through his use of symbolism everywhere in the music.

“The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope” Book Review

In “Immigrants” by Pat Mora, they are struggling to achieve acceptance and help their family have a better future. The parents are trying so hard to associate their children with “American traditions” and still are left wondering if they will be accepted in America. In my opinion nothing is worth loosing your actual culture or values. They are literally willing to do whatever it takes to transform heir children into American traditions. “Feed them mashed hot dogs and apple pie” (Line 2 Mora). Both Hot dogs and Apple pie are both American food and American culture. Wait there is more they are even considering changing the names of their children. Buying them blonde dolls and football cleats both have typical American

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.

After the Civil War and the battle had ended on the war field, a new battle arose in the life of the industrialized civilians. It was the time of the Gilded age an era where big businessmen arose and immigrants fled into United States of America. Immigrants from southern and western Europe came in enormous quantities. This grew the population tremendously in the city of New York. Though they made it in America they still faced hardships such as job discrimination, poor housing, and stripped of their culture. Even though the population of immigrants grew consequently the jobs task they could perform did not. The workforce changed tremendously form people working for themselves to people working for a company. This made it difficult for immigrants to get work due to nativism and them having lack of entrepreneurship. 1880 until 1920 was known as “Coming to America”

Recently the United States has experienced a large number of immigrants coming over to the country within the 2000s. In recent studies, there are about 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. The undocumented immigrant population has grown 27% between 2000 to 2009. Immigrants from Mexico make up 59% of the undocumented immigrants in the United States. These undocumented immigrants can help the economy and country grow. These undocumented immigrants do have some downside to them, which makes people question do they really help this country. Many people question if this is a good or bad thing for the U.S. economy or the country. Immigrants have helped the U.S. economy out a lot and propose more positives then negatives on

Did you know that out of the 320 million people who live in the United States, 40 million of the are immigrants. Donald trump one of the most wealthiest man in America and also running for president in 2016. Trump is against immigration and wants the boarders to be closed down. If trump is elected president, Trump states “I will build a great wall”.

Your honor, respectable members of the jury and attendants of civil institutions, from the eyes of the outside, the United States seems to be the country where one might find an illustrious future. The label of “immigrant’s nation” has been buried in the past and the new generations use such characteristic as a symbol of patriotism instead of a inclusionist call as it was meant to be. Today the faces of progress are the ones of white males as result of decades of oppression towards minorities. An example of racial siege within the land of the free is the murder of Vincent Chin, whom in a day just like today would be married but instead he lays in his grave.

I would look and research more through the economic lens. Taking a more in-depth look at the quality of contribution the immigrants had in the workforce and did they help/not help the economic growth of America. Were the immigrants uneducated, just a mass quantity of people could not possibly contribute to society? Or did they benefit society and quickly assimilate into America and grow the economy?

The massive amount of immigrants that came to America worked in awful conditions and were paid very poorly. Immigrants came here to seek refuge and to have a better life and never went back to their homelands, which leads me to believe that the conditions here were better than their homeland. In the course book on page 606, it mentions how some immigrants came here to avoid conscription into the Russian army.

“...Employment gains of immigrants in the past few years have been large compared with the small gains by United States workers…” About half of all workers ages 18 to 64 without a high school diploma are immigrants. Most are unauthorized and do not speak English well. hey tend to work in different fields that U.S.-born workers often don’t. Immigrant are part of America DNA.

i think americas should help immigrants come to the united states for a better living because i think immigrants should have a second change in life and to do everyday duties we do. they should be able to live life as they please not based on others. they should be able to have freedom. they should not have to live in proverty, nor thier childresn. also to find a better jo for them and their family. . advantages of immigrants coming to the united states can have a big impact. it can help the economyu grow and progress. immigrant workers can help us in our everyday

When touching upon the topic of immigration and the United States economy, one must acknowledge that the impact that immigrants have on the economy can be perceived as both negative and positive. For years there has always been an ongoing debate whether the benefits outweighs the costs. One can be led to believe that immigration increases a nations overall productivity. Therefore, leading to an overall increase in profits. However, other factors such as the cost of migration, complementary versus substitute labor and illegal immigration do impact the nations average labor wages, American businesses and politics on all economic levels. It is often easier to assume that immigration, especially when it involves undocumented

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