Challenges Of Immigration To America

Immigrants leave their country everyday without any idea of when they will resume residing in their home country. A lot of people migrate each year to improve their standards of living without considering the challenges they might encounter in their host countries. The problems faced by immigrants are difficulty finding the suitable jobs, racial discriminations from citizens and difficulty learning the country’s language.

One of the biggest problems that the United States faces today is immigration. Some of the problems that immigration has caused our country is the illegal flow of drugs, cash, guns, people crossing or border, and ending cartel businesses. There have been many discussions and arguments over what the best solution for the problem of immigration should be. From the solution of having open borders with the Obama administration and the solution of building a wall to close our borders of our President-Elect Donald Trump. Our government has also been taking great strides to stop the problem with immigration by creating the Department of Homeland Security .

There are many problems that have occurred lately in the U.S. You see it all over the news or even social media. But I am going to talk about a problem that has been going on for quite a while now, but recently it has gotten more and more attention...and that is immigration. Immigration can cause criminal elements, such as trafficking in drugs and people. Illegal aliens are considered undocumented workers, so they don’t have to pay taxes. People think immigrants and refugees get more benefits that local poor people, which can cause lots of tension and drama in the news. There is about 11 million people living in the shadows. Barack Obama wants to grant full tentative legal status to over 4 million immigrants-that includes work permits, social

In his well-crafted novel, Guarding the Golden Door, Roger Daniels provides an exclusive approach to the reassessment and justification of the American immigration policy and the history of immigrants in different aspects. Since the beginning of 1882, the United States has acknowledged that their immigration goal was to constrain and bring an end to the process of immigration. Many American citizens assumed that immigrant groups were not suitable enough to fit into the American culture due to their ethnic backgrounds. Daniels, who was sensitive to the role of ethnicity and its guidance in shaping the American immigration policy, gave a different perspective to consider. Throughout the novel, he demonstrated how the immigration policy, which was built on unfounded assumptions, had actually produced results that were completely the opposite of those anticipated. For instance, the United States has been altered into a nation full of immigrants to fulfill its goal of extracting natural resources and helping to increase its prosperity through economic development since the 19th century. Thus, immigration played a significant role not only in helping make America’s development possible, but also to shape the nature of the society in political, social, and economic ways. Although different beliefs, opinions, and arguments are taken into perspective in this novel, immigration and its policies each reflected and

This analytical paper highlights the social collision of immigration, identity and race to society. Similarly, this paper focuses on the impact of struggling with life changes. This paper will link the book called Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to the theme identity. I will also use this book to describe these three conflicts encountered by Ifemelu, the main character. The way I will approach this paper is by conducting a thorough analysis between each conflict and its collision with society. I will use examples and quotes from the book to convey the information. Thus, this will create a sense of logic, order, and understanding in this paper.

What is the history of immigration, and what type of challenges are these immigrants currently facing regarding immigration laws, prejudice, and diversity; as well as what have these immigrants done to contribute to our society. Therefore, let’s begin with a bit of history about immigration, immigration began at a time in history called the colonial era, in the midst of the 1800’s through that of the mid 1920’s, these immigrants came to America in search for a better life for themselves and their loved ones; while others came in search of something more independence. In addition, many immigrants fled Mexico just after the Mexican Revolution that took effect in 1920, because of poor economic stabilities and infrastructures to which

From youth, people are told to “be themselves” or “love themselves for who they are.” Not everyone can do so, though, otherwise they will be seen as outsiders and improper, and have difficulty finding success. In Americanah, Adichie reveals immigrants, such as the main character’s aunt, Aunty Uju, must change their habits and conform to American values in order to prosper.

Source 1 mentions Canada as the world’s 11th largest economy but with a large percentage of its population being comprised of immigrants. However, due to a declining workforce and a lack of skilled workers, more immigrants are urgently needed. David Olive, author of this source in The Toronto Star, believes that Canada needs to be more welcoming to immigrants for the sake of the economy. Compared to Canadian natives, immigrants face a plethora of problems in regards to finding jobs. “In Canada there is a stubborn gap between skilled first-generation immigrants and the general population when it comes to being able to secure employment, decent housing and adequate pay”. Potential immigrants often opt out of immigration because to them it isn’t worth it if they have to take lower paying jobs that aren’t in their original field of work. Immigrants often convey these struggles and challenges to their home country consequently discouraging other potential immigrants. “Solving the issues immigrants currently confront is thus integral to the long-term prosperity of Canada’s economy”. The source recommends fast-tracking credentials while the immigrant is in their home country as well as allowing temporary foreign workers and international students (who have graduated from Canada) to have a quicker way to permanent residence. Through this source, David Olive is ultimately trying to say that “for Canada’s economy to stay competitive, we must help immigrants arrive here, and make their

Many people have different experiences with moving to different places, whether it’s to a new country or just another state. In the essay, “Two Ways to Belong to America”, Bharati Mukherjee shares a story of the differences between her and her sister’s experiences of immigration. Both sisters were born in Calcutta, India and moved to the United States in the 1960s in search of education and work. Bharati’s story of her and her sister can speak for many immigrants, especially mine. Immigration can be a distressing process to go through, and seeing immigration up close and personal with my grandparents and parents experience, also with my own experience. Both sister experiences are representative to my family’s experiences, almost parallel with Bharati’s love for the country as my mother and aunt are, and Mira’s dislike for the country as my grandparents were.

Immigration has been the leading discussing topic of today’s modern prospective on what our National Security should be shifted towards. Although not a violent or frightening security issue but it could turn into one, immigration does have the potential of allowing the wrong people into the country. In order to protect the citizens of the United States, certain measures must be implemented and should not be looked at as discriminatory but as protective and defensive.

Immigration is a serious case, that most people interpret in all the wrong ways. People who come into the US illegally do not intent to harm anyone; their only purpose is to find a better life for themselves and for their family. These people sacrifice themselves crossing the border, riding dangerous trains, and leaving everything behind to have fresh start. Regardless of all of this, they still have the motivation to come into an unknown country to work minimum wage and support their family. Migrant workers play a very important role in the US economy, they should not be treated as undeserving individuals just for the sole fact that they are immigrants. Most of them are qualified workers who pay taxes and contribute to America’s well-being.

America will improve little to none in the area of accepting everyone. There will always

Migration has always been a problem in the United States. Many people are against immigrants, others aren’t; It’s a very debatable topic even to this day people have their own opinions on the subject and have a similar problem. In 2001, President Bush and the administration planned to grant immigrants-illegal Mexicans and from other countries - living in the U.S. amnesty. Amnesty would prevent those individuals from living their lives in fear of being deported back to their country since they work so hard to get where they are now. Bush even discussed terms with Mexican President, Vicente Fox, who welcomed the idea.

The world is full of good and bad places. People who live in bad places usually want to move to a better place. This is how immigration started. Over the years immigration has been starting to become a problem to the U.S. Many Americans believe that immigrants are stealing job opportunities and do not pay their taxes. However they shouldn’t prohibit these immigrants from entering the U.S. just because of those reasons especially when they don’t know the statistics or their story. When families migrate to the U.S. it is still very hard for them to settle down. Immigrant families need to start being more understood for the hard life they had to face when they were back at their home country and for the struggles they face trying to settle in a brand new country.

According to Center for American Progress, roughly 43 million people live in the U.S who are born outside of the country (Nicholson). It may not be easy to see how difficult times these people experience. Immigration is risking yourself for something you don’t know how to do and are not sure if it is going to work out. It is never an easy decision for any family, but it certainly should be better than their current life. People come to the United States to seek jobs, freedom, education, etc. because it is known as the Land of Opportunity and Freedom. Most immigrants are adults who bring their children with them. The media mostly talks about the issues of adults associated with the immigration process. In reality, their children, who enter completely different life from the first step of the airport, may have harder time dealing with problems because they are inexperienced. Immigrants entering as adults are already experienced in life when it comes to dealing with job-seeking, stress associated with hardship, etc, but immigrants who are teenagers are still developing as persons and in most situations, they lack experience and knowledge of how to handle things associated with immigration.