Immigrants Have Built America

The articles "We Are Not A Nation of Immigrants" by Gina Loudon and "Many Forget U.S. is a Nation Built by Immigrants" by Lisa Miller both focus on immigrants living in America. Loudon's essay is primarily focused on how the United States is a nation created by pioneers and settlers; she argues that the U.S. is not a nation built by immigrants. Miller focuses her essay on the idea of America being a melting pot; she calls America a "blend of many different world cultures" (1). Despite the contrasting

in time immigrants faced A lot of challenges and it wasn't easy for them at all. Immigrants are the ones who built America and without them America wouldn't be how it is right now and to this day. immigrants were the ones mining, risking their lives building the skyscrapers that we have a standing today and a lot of them died building what we take advantage of today and it really sucks. A lot of Chinese immigrants would migrate over here just to help build the railroad and they would have to do the

wondering are all these people immigrants? Soon you come to a realization that our whole county is built on immigrants. In the book, “A Quilt of a Country” written by Anna Quindlen and “The Immigration Contribution” written by former president Kennedy you can start to see all the differences and similarities that both of the books have. Both the essays have some very clear similarities. In the essay written by Anna Quindlen called “The Quilt of a Country”, it states that “America is an improbable idea.

Despite the effort of the immigrants, the wall will make it more difficult for them to cross into the United States. Priscilla Alvarez, an assistant editor for The Atlantic, explains, "For example, the San Diego sector, where the prototypes have been built, [apprehension numbers] dropped from 560,000 in 1992 to 68,000 in 2010. Notably, however, the number of border apprehensions is also on the decline" (4). This proves that the wall will, in fact, stop immigrants from crossing over into the United

identical, but they do help one another. America consists of a variety of people, with all kinds of different backgrounds, such as their immigrant ancestors. “In the same sense, we cannot speak of a particular “immigrant contribution” to America because all Americans have been immigrants or the descendants of immigrants; even the Indians, as mentioned before, migrated to the American continent,” (Kennedy 23). Everyone that is “American”, their

basically talks about immigrants coming to America and that they need to be force to give up on their own culture and assimilate to the American culture. Throughout the reading, I have learned that the theory of Assimilation has been present in this country for many years and how impactful it can still be. Since America was built around immigrants, the first people who came in to this country has already establish a certain life style and whoever would come after them, those immigrants are force to be

been an ineradicable issue for decades. Hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants have illegally entered the United States of America via Mexican border or the Pacific Ocean whilst others entered the country legally through visit visas yet overstayed and found low paying jobs to settle in the United States of America. Illegal immigration has both pros and cons: on one hand, it helps the local economy as illegal immigrants aren’t paid as much as the legal ones but on the other hand they do not fulfill

America is often referred to as “the Land of Immigration” (“A History of Immigration in the USA”). The foundation of America was built on immigration, when in 1492 Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, discovered the Americas. Not only is immigration the base of America’s history, but it is also beneficial to the economy and society. Immigration increases the labor force, including everyday, necessary jobs (Anderson). Therefore, immigrants are beneficial to the economical and societal growth

“Quilt of a Country” and John F. Kennedy wrote “The Immigrant Contribution”. Both Authors agree that America was built in nobodies image, but in different styles. Quindlen thinks more about the wars, John.F. Kennedy thinks more about immigrants and Cultures. Although they wrote in very different styles they also had similar ideas about America. Quindlen believes this is a mongrel nation and John F. Kennedy believes that the nation was built by immigrants coming to the nation and becoming entrepreneurs

Joan Robinson Eng 102 20 Feb. 2015 The Foundation America Was Built On In Amy Chua’s essay, “The Right Road to America” she argues the point that immigration is a great value of this country and that America was built from immigrants. One thing differs from Chua’s essay than from others because she not only gives highly credible facts on how immigrants have helped our country, but she also provides ways to improve the issues of immigration into America. Amy Chua is a highly credible professor at Yale