Crucial Role Of Immigrants In America

In the Declaration of Independence, it states “ We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It was advocated for the naturalization and the future movement of foreigners to the great nation. Immigration has been a major issue of the U.S. political debate for decades, as policymakers must weigh competing economic, security, and humanitarian concerns. It has both it`s ups and downs, but immigration does play a positive role in the country. Immigrants benefit to the country by reinforcing the economy, creating jobs, and allowing the country to open up to different cultures and ideas.

Immigrants have come from all over the world from poverty and war to live better lives in the United States for many centuries. Seeking to better their lives and those of their children, they take whatever jobs they can find. Many americans say that immigrants push them out of jobs, instead they tend to fill jobs that americans can not or will not fill such as domestic jobs, personal appearance workers, and agricultural workers. Today about 13% of U.S residents are foreign born. The National Academy of Sciences concluded that immigration delivered a significant positive gain to the U.S economy therefore ultimately having a positive impact on America and shaping it to the way it is today.

The United States of America has the largest foreign-born population in the world. With nearly thirteen percent of the total population being foreign-born, one may find it hard to imagine an immigrant-free country (U.S. Bureau of the Census). Immigration has been an integral part of the United States’ overall success and the country’s economy since it was established and without it, would have never been founded at all. Although there are some negative issues associated with immigration and many native-born Americans believe to be more of a problem than a solution, overall it actually has a positive effect. Immigrants in America, among other things, fill jobs where native-born Americans may not want to work or cannot work, they contribute

There are many immigrants living in the US today, more specifically in Minnesota, which happens to be one of the states with the highest population of immigrants. Whether their status in the country is legal or illegal, the number is growing every year.  This results in numerous debates about the implications of having immigrants in our country. Immigrants are beneficial to our country because they contribute to building a stronger economy by providing labor to the everyday work force and contributing to advancements in healthcare and technology.

According to US Census Bureau data, in 2009 12.5 percent or 38.5 million of the population were foreign-born people where foreign-born is defined as anyone who was not a United States citizen at birth. Over half of these immigrants entered the United States during the last 20 years. (Walters et al. October 2010) More recently, 7 million immigrants or 17 percent arrived in 2005 or later. (Walters et al. November 2011) Foreign-born people constituted 14.7 percent of the labor force in 2005, up from 5.3 percent in 1970. (Ottaviano et al. August 2006) This increase in immigration has rekindled the discussion about the effect of immigration on native-born workers. United States policy makers, economists and news outlets have been trying to

“We define ourselves as a nation of immigrants. That’s who we are in our bones.” - President Barack Obama. As President Obama so bluntly stated, America as a whole is made of up immigrants. It makes our nation diverse and full of many different cultures. Immigrants, such as Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Madeline Albright, and my personal favorite, Lin Manuel-Miranda, are all immigrants who came to the United States. Although they were not born here, they sought-after new opportunities and had specific reasons for wanting to live in America. They have helped shape the American culture in their own individual ways. Immigration has been important part of our culture and heritage since the early 1900s. As of 2011, 12.5% of our population was made up of immigrants. However; they are still facing numerous issues with adapting and learning our language. They also have a difficult time finding work and learning in schools. The biggest challenge

The immigrants populace contribute a greater share of the total American population. As the year

On the pros of the debate, The American journey in terms of jobs and economic progress has been positively affected by the contribution of legal immigrants. Immigrants have strengthened the United states by boosting the revenue of American businesses and raising the job opportunities for American workers. The contribution of immigrants strengthening the U.S economy has led the nation to favor immigration, that is if the process of citizenship is done correctly and legally. In the book “A Nation of Immigrants” by John F. Kennedy states “ Every ethnic minority, in seeking its own freedom, helped strengthen the fabric of liberty in American Life.” The nation is comprise of immigrants who traveled from foreign lands and have contributed

As of 2010, almost 14 million immigrants made their way into the United States now more than 40 million are resided here in the U.S. It is a known fact that this took the highest amount of illegal immigrants in American history. Only three-fourths of the immigrants in our country are here legally. The population for immigrants increased 28 percent between 2000-2010. The amount of illegal immigrants continuously increases in size every year, becoming a major problem for the United States.

“According to the Small Business Administration, Foreign born are thirty percent more likely to start a business in the United States than native born, and eighteen percent of small business is immigrants.” If one day America would decide to kick these immigrants out than where would the native born working for them go. Sometimes all these people have are their jobs, especially when it’s to provide for their family. The small businesses owned by foreign born employed almost five million people in 2007. According to that these businesses make $776 billion annually. Twenty-five percent of companies backed up by Venture Capital Investors were started by immigrants (e.g. Google, eBay, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, and Intel). Between the years of 1990-2005, one quarter of companies that went public were either founded or help founded by U.S immigrants. Later on between the years of 2006 and 2012 this amount increase to one third, and every company had at least one foreign born founder. Around eleven percent of foreign born owned a business, unlike Americans who were nine percent according to Small Business

America is a nation of immigrants; all immigrants came to America for the same as the British settler did for opportunities to improve their lives. According to Detroit Free Press, “On January 15, 2018, Jorge Gracia was deported , and said goodbye to his family; He was brought into the country by an undocumented family member and tried various paths to become a legal resident”. Immigrants affect today's American society in a myriad of ways; however, migrating to the united states is difficult for some who wish to become a citizen of the united states due to a complicated process. The government has made a immigration strict due to certain requirements that must be fulfilled,but limiting restrictions and requirements will reassure the america’s society

The United States has always been termed as land of opportunity which attracted immigrants to come to country so as to manage better living and to cash in employment opportunities. Immigrants coming to US are either low skilled or high skilled people however they have made their significant respective contribution to enable economic growth for the country (Diana, 2014). The Immigration and Naturalization Act provide permanent immigrants limit of 675,000 and these immigrants could be family based like spouse, unmarried minor children and parents of US citizens or employment based immigrants working on temporary visas (AIC, 2014). Presently there are around twelve million immigrants in the US who even have partial papers or no paper works and considered as illegal immigrant. The largest immigrants are Hispanic-Americans who represent the 16.7% of US population (Aguilar, 2013).

Throughout the 19th and 20th century America has made their decision indecisive on whether to allow immigrants to come to America or not, because of overpopulation and the destruction of the American citizenship. However, America was marketed as a free country and was a place for immigrants to start over, and have a better life. The immigration restriction act however, was passed in 1901, and restricted all immigrants from America. Immigration should not have been restricted in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s because America was advertised as a country full of opportunity for everyone and these restrictions would go against this principle. In 1880 an unknown illustrator draw a cartoon called, “Arc of Refugee”. In the cartoon the illustrator draws a reference to Noah's Ark, but instead of Noah and his animals which were supposed to be used to start a new life, it's Uncle Sam as Noah taking in a male and female immigrant from different countries for them to start over a new life a better life in America. We can also see in this message on the side of the arc, as the people continue to move ahead, signs saying things like ” no oppressive taxes” “ no expenses Kings” “ no compulsory military service” and “ no knout or dungeons” Also next to Uncle Sam it says, “ free education, free land, free speech, free valid, free LUNCH” (Arc of Refugee illustration). This is a resemblance of America advertising better things trying to persuade immigrants to come to America for better treatment and a better life. The illustrator of this drawing shows his opinion as being against immigration restriction because as we see in the image he has Uncle Sam welcoming immigrants for better lives and wants them to have all the perks of Living in America, like free education free land, free speech, free vote, etc. If immigration was restricted at this time the people coming to America for better right would have to continuously live as they were being deprived of their proper right and wouldn't be able to migrate. America can not advertise these perks of immigrating to America if they're going to restrict immigration. Later, in 1915, the US passed the literacy test act, this is when immigrants must take a test, and can only

(www.obamawhitehouse.gov). Compared to American people, immigrants tend to have their own jobs and most are self-employed. Immigrants have always been vital assets to the U.S. economy. Many of the immigrants

Research from the Wharton School of Business, Pennsylvania, shows that the foreign-born population has grown rapidly in recent decades, rising from less than 5 percent of the U.S. population in 1970 to 13 percent in 2013. Although immigrants comprise a larger share of population today since World War II, the foreign born share is roughly the same as in 19th century and early 20th century, where 15 percent of U.S residents were immigrants. The evidence increasingly suggests that when supply of labor is boosted by immigration, investments by firms increase to offset any reduction in capital per worker,