Causes and Effects of Immigration

The issue of immigration has become a major debate for everyone. Although people argue over the negative impacts of immigrants living in America such as overcrowding, less jobs due to immigrants taking them, drug trafficking, and threatening of American culture, immigrants still have a huge impact in the American society. The United States is by far the largest destination for immigrants, annually receiving over a million legal immigrants and about seven hundred thousand illegal immigrants. Many people come to the United States to get a better life for themselves as well as for the education system for their children.

Immigration involves the movement of a group of people from one country to another where they do not possess citizenship. There are many reasons in which people may leave their country such as employment, lack of resources, family, fear due to violence, exile, the American dream. In 1965, Congress changed immigration law in ways that allowed much more intake from Asia and Latin America than earlier. Before 1965, the intake was mostly from Europe. Since then, over half has come from Latin America—28 % just from Mexico. The share of population composed of non-Hispanic whites plunged from 84 % in 1965 to only 62 % in 2015 while Hispanics soared from 4 to 18 %. (Mead, L.M., 2016)

Immigration has existed around the world for centuries, decades, and included hundreds of cultures. Tired of poverty, a lack of opportunities, unequal treatment, political corruption, and lacking any choice, many decided to emigrate from their country of birth to seek new opportunities and a new and better life in another country, to settle a future for their families, to work hard and earn a place in life. As the nation of the opportunities, land of the dreams, and because of its foundation of a better, more equal world for all, the United States of America has been a point of hope for many of those people. A lot of nationals around the world have ended their research for a place to call home in the United States of America. By analyzing

Immigration is both a domestic issue and global concern. It involves economics, politics, and culture. Unlike other current issues, it has been at the center of the American experience for hundreds of years (Tirman, John). Every year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants from around the world, come to the United States. These immigrants have many different motivations as to why they leave their home country; but as currents events indicate, it is injustice, poverty, and violence in their own country that generally make people move to save themselves and to ensure a better future for their families. Many of these people believe the United States is the best place to go, because there is more freedom, protection, and benefits,

Their pursuit for higher education lands them in this country. The argument is that the US has better space and environment to perform technological innovations, but in the process, they decide to settle down. These people are an asset to the economy of United States. Allowing these hardworking people to work in United States will help the country a big deal. In addition, the immigrants make a wide consumer base for United States thus, providing ready market for the internally produced goods thus boosting the economy (Borjas).

Although most immigrants are Hispanic, at least 11% of the newcomers are from India, Vietnam and China. Immigrants from all over the world come for the same three things: economic, religious, and political freedom. The countries the people have escaped from are riddled with thousands of obstacles ranging from political unrest, religious persecution to poverty and oppression. Hoping for a better life for themselves and their loved ones, immigrants experience multiple trials and unthinkable horrors on their journey towards

First, immigrants move to the united states to get a better opportunity of jobs. The job opportunities being more abundant in America. Immigrants come to America is for better job opportunities and to make more money. In particular, young people, are leaving poorer parts of the world in search of job opportunities in the richer part of the world. For example, in the TED TALK” My Immigration Story” by Tan Le, Le tells the story of the women of her family who escaped the communist rule in Vietnam. Her story is about two person lives in two different worlds the first one is immigrant’s life and the other is the world she found herself in. her mother moves to have a better

By the decades the number of immigrants doubles, triples and quadruples going one up the scale each decade.” Most people immigrate for “economic opportunity”. Most of the people that immigrated for “economic opportunities” are women with 41% and men with 37%. The second highest reason people immigrate is for a better life for their family. 36% of woman immigrate for a better life and 40% of men immigrate to look for a better life. The number of legal immigrants arrested in 2017 increased by 250 percent, up to 13,600 compared to 5,498 in 2016. “Immigrant population hit a record of 43.7 million in July 2016” Today we need skilled workers and some immigrants did not immigrate to become a skilled worker. They might have immigrated because they wanted to find a good home or a better

(Camarota October, 2011) As can be seen in Figure 2, Latin America and Asia are the two areas where the largest numbers of immigrants originated from with over 11.5 million of the 13.8 million total immigrants who entered the United States in 2000 to 2010. Mexico was the single largest country of origin with over 4 million immigrants while another 4 million immigrated to the United States from the entire continent of Asia. (Camarota October, 2011) As can be seen in Figures 3A and 3B, in 2010, Hispanics accounted for 49.9 percent of the immigrant labor force and Asians accounted for 21.8 percent. Also from Figures 3A and 3B, in 2010, of the 22.3 million immigrant labor force, 5.9 million (26.5%) had less than a high school diploma, 5.6 million (25.3%) were high school graduates, 3.8 million (17.1%) had some college and 6.9 million (31.1%) had a bachelor’s degree or higher. To summarize, nearly 14 million new immigrants arrived in the decade ending in 2010. Most of these immigrants originated from Mexico or Asia. Most of the immigrants in the labor force as of 2010 had a high school diploma or less.

From the time when the European crisis started, the migration to the Americas has increased. Among all the countries in the American continent, United States is the one that has received more immigrants since the sixteenth century until the mid-twentieth century. Since then, the most of immigrants are Latin especially from Mexico. In 2013, around 41.3 million immigrants lived in the United States. They represent 13 % of the total 316 million U.S. residents. If added the U.S.-born children of immigrants they increase to around 80 million people (Migration Information Source). Thus, it is how started and continued the immigration in the U.S.

This shows how the growth margin of immigrants in America keeps on increasing each and

Some people leave their home countries in search of better social services. Ali Fellah left Iraq because there was a breakdown of services such as electricity, clean drinking water, and fuel. “I’m not thinking about me. It’s about the future for my son” he says. Diseases spread quickly and sufficient services were not available. He also felt threatened by the government of his home country. Fellah could not see a future for his son if their family stayed in Iraq (Five Migrant Stories).

Thirteen million refugees and about 100 million immigrants have moved across borders within the last several decades (Potocky-Tripodi 2002). Global changes that have currently occured account for an unprecedented movement of individuals across the world in search of better opportunities and conditions.

Many cultures search for better opportunities for themselves and their families. These are opportunities such as a higher income, educations, and a safe environment. In most occasions us as human posses the instinct to relocate from a habitat if it demonstrates unfavorable results. During the 1970’s Americans’ began noticing the immigration population rising tremendously after World War II. In the late 1960’s most immigrants came from Europe, however after the 1970’s immigrants were arriving from the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia. The 1965 Immigration Act favored many people with educations and skills.

well as some social benefits. Changes in the society have to be noticed in the society to