Better Opportunities Faced By Immigrants

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).

Ever since 2001, when the tragedy of September 11th happened, many citizens in the U.S. have a fear of allowing immigrants into the United States. Some citizens judge that immigration is an impending threat to national security, and that the U.S. should close the borders up for good. The U.S. should not consider that because everything negative that occurs in the U.S. is not due to immigrants. The government can stop illegal immigration right now, but would it not affect the U.S. more to do so? Restrictionists claim that large-scale immigration, legal and illegal has depressed wages, burdened government resources, and acted as a net drain on the economy. However, if immigration is stopped completely the reduction of workers would cause the inflation of money to decrease therefore, causing the economy to plunge downward. People come to the U.S. to escape persecution from their country, work and make a living. Third world immigration is not a threat to America’s way of life because immigrants work, immigrants participate, and immigration already responds reasonably well to America 's economy. Thus, if immigration is eliminated, the U.S. would have fewer workers and the economy would not flow smoothly because the immigrant workers make the jobs and economy better. America should allow immigrants because they are essential to the growth of the American economy.

Immigration remains the foreground of the United States; this happens to be one of the reasons it is known as the land of opportunity. Since the beginning, immigration has been a key concept in America, immigrants could settle down without fear of persecution. However, modern laws have seized this foundation and twisted it in such a way that it is a crime to migrate to the United States, under certain circumstances. Now, there only exists few options for immigrants to be naturalized and made permanent residents or citizens, which has left several with no other option except to break the law. This has caused an abundant number of undocumented immigrants to settle down in places, near the borders of the United States, such as Florida and Texas. The border states are closer to many of these immigrants’ home countries so they do not have to pay as much to get to a state such as California, which is another reason for the abundant number of immigrants in these states. Illegal immigrants should be allowed to reside in border states as they boost the economy, they offer inexpensive labor, and they make these states more culturally diverse.

Being an immigrant in the United States is hard. People come here to work and bring their children, because there’s more opportunities here and the country is known for being a free land. But they are being sent back to a place where they don’t get the same things as they do here.Immigrants are also a big part of the U.S because most are in the fields,construction,landscaping, and all these jobs that are hard. Immigrants shouldn’t be deported because they are here to work hard, to help out their families and also live the American dream like any other.

In the article “Poor Immigrants Use Public Benefits at a Lower Rate than Poor Native-Born Citizens” authors Leighton Ku and Brian Bruen provide graphs and data research that shows native-born citizens use welfare programs from the government more than immigrant families use the welfare assistance. Immigrant eligibility to receive benefits varies on the type of status they hold, which affects what types of benefits they can receive (Ku and Bruen 2013, pg.1). The first figure shows that native-born and naturalized citizens use Medicaid for a combined percentage of 54.6 percentage while non-citizens use Medicaid at 19.7% (Ku and Bruen 2013, pg.2). Ku and Bruen say “A major reason for these gaps is strict benefit eligibility barriers for many

This source was written by a male youth to inform his readers that America is a nation where immigrants can become successful, live freely, and feel welcomed. For example, in the writing, the young boy describes the transformation that a man from his hometown underwent in America. Leaving home with little money, the man returned about five years later with a vast amount of wealth, as evidenced by his fancy clothing, shoes, and jewelry. America certainly gives individuals the opportunity to become successful, but it also gives them the chance to live freely. In the narrative, the young boy discusses how people in the U.S., regardless of citizenship status, call the President of the United States by a nickname, “Tedi,” and the president is fine

Inspired by her culturally diverse life in Houston, award winning journalist and author Claudia Kolker investigates the attitudes and traditions towards education, hard work and health that have been imported into the United States by immigrants from different nations. She addresses the fact that natives to the United States have so much to learn from foreigners and that they should not be viewed form only an outsider point of view but should instead be embraced for the diversity they introduce to America. She argues that it is meaningless to fuss over their exploding population when they are in essence present legally

With my father being an undocumented worker, I experience innumerable hardships when it comes to paying for my educational expenses. With him working approximately everyday of the year, we don't acquire enough money for our monthly bills; and we will especially not acquire sufficient money to pay for my education. Lately my father has been having a hard time paying our bills, because he is not receiving any help from my mother since she is currently unemployed. Nevertheless, he has always tried to provide everything necessary for me to be successful in life, but even if he tried to gain more money by working extra hours. His employer would still pay him a low wage due to his lack of documentations.

Looking at a lot of problems in the US often times we think of the more commonly talked about issues such as, economy, healthcare,education. Now, who is this affecting, and in what ways? Immigrants are not being supported enough to be able to move up the economic ladder. In several ways this causes difficulties in saving money, gaining an education, and feeling equal. How do we begin to solve this issue? By setting in place programs to educate.

“...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.

This is the land of opportunities! This misleading statement cost many. Forcing them into poverty, searching for food, trying to make with what they had. Trying there best to give their kids the benefit of the doubt, the life they never had. Many immigrants came to america from, the middle east, the Mediterranean, Southern and Eastern Europe and Canada, all wanting to achieve the same goal, creating a better life.

It may be stereotypical to say that many successful doctors come from India. What if I told you that most foreign-born immigrants are very successful in America, would you believe me? Immigrants possess a unique work ethic which is much different from those born here in the United States of America. Their upbringing, lack of economy, food, shelter, etc. makes them who they are. They take initiative to achieve more because they came from less, whereas most of us in the U.S. has had privileges.

In the beginning of our journey my parents often reflected on how they left their high status jobs and were now doing “sale boulot”, or dirty jobs. In other words jobs, that they felt they should not be doing. Coming to America, we were filled with so many great expectations. They were hoping to find good jobs and live comfortably. Sadly that was not the reality. Like many immigrants with foreign diplomas, my parents` diplomas were disregarded when they arrived. Even when they went back to school and earned American degrees, they found that their age, accent, and skin color became obstacles.Although they qualified for the jobs, they were never called back after interviews. They were often seen as not american enough.  My mom later resorted to becoming a nurse and my dad became a translator for a non profit organization. My parents never

Legal status should be passed to almost 12 million foreign national living in the U.S illegally (Orchowski).

Immigrants who came to the U.S. were putting themselves at risk by giving their whole life up and bringing everything they owned here. For many of those immigrants who came here the pull factors were greater than the push factors. The pull factors were jobs in factories, railroads. For example, in the “ 1850’s, gold fever had lured 20,000 chinese men to San Fransisco.”(Why They Came to America) Another example is “coolies” were american businesspeople actively sought Chinese contract laborers.”( Why They Came to America) The chinese were given the opportunity to build railroads in the U.S. Another important pull factor was the homestead act, which gave away free land. In the U.S there was also religious and political freedoms. Another pull