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Argumentative Essay: Immigration In The United States

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Immigration in the United States
Among the presidential candidates for the year 2016, Republican representative Donald Trump seems to have the most ridiculous and controversial campaign ideas. One of his more known campaign ideas has to do with banning Muslims from the United States. He generalized that all Muslims currently, or plan to act as, terrorists who will launch attacks on US soil. Building a wall on the border between US and Mexico is another well known idea of his, especially because he wants Mexico has to pay the cost for the wall’s construction. Even though politicians may paint immigration in a negative light, the United States relies on immigrants to help its economy, so it should not opt to throw them out of the country.
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The United States expects to release 65,000 regular H-1B visas and 20,000 H-1B Master’s Exception visas in the year 2017 ("H-1B Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Cap Season"). Regular H-1B visas are given to foreigners who graduated from college and have started working as professionals, while H-1B Master’s Exception visas are handed out to foreign graduates with Master's degrees from accredited colleges. However, without the proper level of education, it will be difficult to receive a visa. The process alone takes about 2-4 months and costs much. Some desperate people risk their lives to experience the opportunities that the US has to offer and decide to enter the country without the proper documentation. These so called illegal immigrants enter the country on land by crossing the US-Canada border or the Mexico-US border. Those who feel more desperate enter the country through boats and planes that cross over these borders. The US citizens usually look down upon and discriminate against these foreigners for invading their …show more content…

According to several studies, there is no correlation present between the immigrants and the cities they live in. One graph shows the most dangerous cities in the United States based on violent crimes committed per 100,000 residents. It says that Detroit, Michigan is the most violent city with 2,123 violent crimes per 100,000 residents and St.Louis, Missouri in third place with 1,777 violent crimes per 100,000 residents ("The 10 Most Dangerous U.S. Cities"). Another table shows the list and percentages of the metropolitans with the highest amount of foreign borns in their population. Miami has the largest share of immigrants at 38.5% and San Jose is a close runner up with 36.8% foreign born residents. (Florida). Comparing the two data, the cities from the dangerous city graph were absent in the high foreign born table. In fact, another table, which showed the metropolitans with the least foreign born born populations, included the names of four cities from the violent crime graph e.g. St.Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee. With the clear absence of the dangerous city names, no relationship is shown between crime rates and immigrants. Not only that, but these foreigners do not have much incentive to commit crimes. A study shows that “first-generation immigrants [are] 45 percent less likely to commit violence than third-generation Americans"

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