Immigration And The United States

Immigration issues have been a problem throughout history. This Society holds different perceptions on the topic. Some people favor the flow of immigrants while others oppose it. Immigration is a social problem that must constantly be reviewed due to the complexity of the problems. In this situation, different factors such as the quality of life for immigrants, how they impact the economy, how the implementation of policies would benefit them, have to be taken into consideration. Immigration policies affect all aspects of today’s society. The key figures in the immigration issue are immigrants, documented/undocumented, political figures.

Immigration has been a topic of great discussion and controversy even before this year’s election. In recent years, illegal immigration has been the focus of these discussions, but other forms of immigration exist. Immigrants also immigrate through legal processes.

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

Page 225 of the Afterward asks “Is immigration good for the migrants themselves? Is it good for the countries from which they are migrating? Is it good for the United States and its citizens?” Answer these questions, supporting your answer with information found in the Afterword section of the book.

Unauthorized immigrants in the United States of American border control has being a big problem and concern with regards to national security. There are a lot of people from various countries that want to migrate into United States for so many individual reasons known to them. The United States is a country known for countless jobs which other nations don’t have. A great number of immigrants, however, want to move away from their government reason because the government doesn’t treat them right just the way they want to be treated. For that reason, they move to the United States because they want

In the midst of dealing with numerous immigrants a lot of confusion and lack of understanding the whole situation is created. A lack of understanding leads to numerous questions being asked. Questions such as where do illegal immigrants come from? Why do illegals come to the United States? And how do illegal immigrants make it into the United States? Immigrants can come from all sorts of different continents and countries. However it 's most often that immigrants come from third world countries with struggling economies. Struggling countries like Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, along with many others. Reaching the United States is not easy, and illegals begin their journey with much risk. With the risk illegals face, good reasons are required to consider the journey. In the countries they are leaving, illegals face many dangers from drug cartels and massive corruption in both the local and federal governments. As much as many immigrants try to better their lives in their home countries, they often face massive struggles

Since the early 1990’s, the immigrant population in America has doubled to over 40 million. The population could be higher factoring in illegal immigrants with the number estimated to be over 11 million. Majority of these immigrants both legal and illegal are mainly from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Uncontrolled immigration has been blamed on loss of jobs, higher crime rates and housing problems in the US. While these immigrants play a unique role in the economy, the executive and the legislature have found it necessary to control the inflow of these immigrants for various reasons. A number of laws and immigration policies have been enacted to create order in this issue. How these laws are perceived by immigrants and the general American population has varied and has been a major topic for debate.

The third issue is the extent to which law enforcement emphasis should be on persons who transport and employ the undocumented immigrants, rather than on the immigrants themselves. Now, the real problem to immigration is on a massive scale. There are more than 10 million undocumented immigrants currently residing in the United States and that population grows by 700,000/year. One of the reasons why immigrants come to America is because so many of them are attracted to the idea of freedom – plus the pleasant appearance of America. This shows the sign of how dangerously open our boarders are. A lot of times, illegal immigrants come to America mainly for jobs.

Immigration is a tremendous problem in America today. Thousands of immigrants every year travel illegally into the United States, and the United States immigration system is in turmoil. It takes years for immigrants to be admitted into the U.S.; for example, David Joseph, spent two years of his life in Khrome 's detention center. A good idea to quickly welcome immigrants that will benefit the American society would be to increase border patrol, and to allow more the immigrants who will be beneficial to our society to be granted citizenship or to at least allow work permits for them. With the increased patrol of the border dangerous and violent immigrants that would harm the U.S. would not be allowed in to our country to terrorize the U.S. citizens. Also if we could put these new citizens to work they would help bring large corporations back to the U.S. because the new citizens will be willing to work almost any job. Another way we could provide for these immigrants is to provide charity 's for them.

In order, for immigrants who come to the United State to work they must have documents in order to prove to their employers they are eligible to work. If they are not able to prove that they are eligible to work in the United States, they must take in a cash only paycheck where they have the possibility of being mistreated as workers and are being paid under federal minimum wage. The major key, in order to work in the United States is to have a Social Security number or have a work visa. If those immigrants have neither of those things they have to find a way to get the documents they need in order to work, even if it means that they have to get illegal and fake documents to provide for their family. As the tightening of the United States border has continued over the years. It has been getting harder and harder to prove that fake documents are the real deal, and many immigrants are trying to find documents that are allowing them to work as well not getting caught by the United States government. “A decade ago one could purchase simply ‘identify kits’- a driver’s license, a green card, and social security card-for only $100, but since the United States sealed it borders undocumented residents are willing to pay up to $5,000 for the mandatory national ID cards implemented by the DHS last year and hailed as a breakthrough in surveillance technology” (Romero, 2008). As the more and more things, the United States does to tighten up the border from illegal immigrants. The prices

Immigration has been an ongoing event in America since the start of this country. America used to allow immigrants from all over the world to freely come into the country because back when United States was just starting out there was so much land to settle on. After the civil war happened more laws were starting to pass to regulate the amount of immigrants that would come into the United States. Once World War 1 began immigration slowed down because it was harder to travel out of the country. However, right after it ended immigration became a lot heavier and new laws had to be passed. One of the laws that were passed was called National-Origins Quota System, which basically said that there was a specific quota that needed to be met for each nationality of immigrants to come into the United States. Over the next years immigration slowed down a bit, and then in 1986 congress passed an act called Immigration Reform and Control Act. One of the biggest parts of this act was enforcement to prevent illegal admission into the United States. The act banned hiring and harboring illegal immigrants. However, because of poor enforcement this act did not really succeed. About a decade later they tried to enforce more laws in order to prevent these illegal immigrants from entering the country, the passed a law called Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. The main purpose of this act was to aid border control by hiring better border patrol and more agents to enforce

The United States of America is a county of immigrants. Except for Native Americans, all citizens and other residents have arrived in the last 500 years; many Americans’ ancestors arrived in the great immigration waves coming from counties in Europe such as Ireland, Italy or the Far East such as China as famines and other natural and political disasters made life difficult in their home lands. The most recent immigration wave is people from Central and South America. The questions facing the US Government have been and still are the following: 1) who do we let live in the US? 2) For what reasons do we let them live here? 3) What jobs do we have for them? 4) How do we provide education and health care? 5) How do they become productive citizens?

There are millions of illegal immigrants located within the United States, and every year that number increases. Illegal immigration has been and still is an ongoing battle that keeps emerging worldwide. The controversial debate of whether illegal immigrants are straining the economy or benefiting it is still being argued. Many Americans are uncertain if they should be for it or against it and at the same time people don’t really know if immigration in general is acceptable or a threat to the economy. Whether people believe that the effects of illegal immigrants have a negative or a positive impact on our society, it is still a tendentious topic to be debated about.

Immigration is a controversial topic that has impacted our society for decades perplexed by policies media coverage, perceptions based on one’s own lack of knowledge, personal experiences and a host of other factors that influence how our society views immigrants and immigration policies. The United States is a diverse population of people and filled with experiences that come from various walks of life that contribute to enhancing our social culture, economic development, and cultural acceptance.

Question 4.What could be done to resolve the social conflict caused by the arrival of large numbers of undocumented immigrants in rich nations?