Immigration Is A Hot Topic In Today’S World And Was Even

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.

Illegal immigration it is a controversial issue for many years. Immigrants do not have the same benefits as Americans citizens. According to the article Illegal Immigration by Kathleen Brown states “In the past decade, the number of illegal immigrants has double, to 2.1 million, equivalent to the population of Arkansas” (Brown). In fact, illegal immigrants immigrate to America, but their main intention is to get better opportunities in life. The American dream is all over the world, which is the principal reason why people come to United States to make their American dream true. However, the epiphany is that Americans protect their country by implementing more laws and enforcing their borders secure.

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,

The passing of one of the United States’ most restrictive anti-immigration law’s in history was heavily disputed and extremely controversial nation-wide. The conversation surrounding current United States immigration regulations and issues that are aimed to be ‘addressed’ by Arizona’s infamous SB 1070 are currently at a standstill. By changing ways in which opposing parties view the ‘issues’ of illegal immigration in the United States and the effects caused by SB 1070, there is hope for the advancement of not only Arizona’s struggle with immigration, but an overall, positive nation-wide response towards all factors concerning current United States immigration.

In recent discussion s of illegal immigration, a controversial issue has been whether or not to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants in the U.S. On the one hand, some argue that amnesty shouldn’t be granted to illegal criminals. From this perspective, there are downfalls that many ignore and is unjust and stereotypical that all illegals are dangerous criminals. On the other hand, however, others argue that amnesty should be granted to illegal immigrants and how all of us are immigrants. In the words of one of this view’s main supporters,” Our country is strong because of generation after generation of immigrants… were all immigrants” (We Are All Immigrants.). According to this view, Obama’s saying immigrants have a huge impact economically within the U.S that makes it stronger and how we are all immigrants in this country. In sum, then the issue is whether amnesty should be dismissed and deportation take place or pardon illegals with amnesty and recognizes basic, simple fact that immigrants are a benefit to the U.S. My own view is that Amnesty should be passed. Though I concede that many are against this and there are some illegals that are criminals escaping into the U.S. I still maintain that amnesty should be given because it’s what keeps the United States strong and should apply to what the United States stands for and how we are all immigrants.

For the immigration proposal what I think about immigration and the Mexico pay for the wall I think they should let immigrants come to the United States but on some of the reasons I don’t because in the article it says an immigrant broke into a 64-year old ladys house and beat her to almost to her death but some immigrants cross to get a better education and to see a different prospective in life. In the information it was talking about how some americans were loosing there jobs due to immigration population, and that the minomon wage is going down and that today nearly 40% black teenagers are unemployed and nearly 50% of Hispanics are unemployed. In the earlier text it says that all illegal aliens in gangs should be apprehended and deported,

The Heritage Foundations, Tim Kane, Ph.D., writes “America’s exceptional status as a ‘nation of immigrants’ is being challenged by globalization. The biggest challenge for policy makers is to distinguish illusory immigration from real problem. The supported approach from recent years ‘a policy of benign neglect’ is no longer an option.” Members from the Senate and House of Representatives both recognize this and should be given credit for their efforts to craft this proposed comprehensive law which today, is known as the ‘Amnesty Plan.’ I strongly agree with this ‘Amnesty Plan’ and feel it needs to be pushed through due to its solid pillars. Such as, having

Security is a big problem to many people, they will be happy to know that immigrants aren’t criminals, in fact they are less likely to commit a crime than someone born in the United States. Research shows that immigrant men around the ages 18-49 are one fifth to one half as likely to be imprisoned than Americans (Pérez-Peña). This illustrates how twisted our view is on immigrants, media has pinned immigrants as dirty criminals. With President Trump in office, his single sided view on immigrants only makes things worse. Not only are immigrants law-abiding, they also take up arms and protect our nation; around 8,000 noncitizens join the military each year (Powers). These patriots will lay down their life for America and Americans still persecute them, this is unacceptable. Lastly, the logistics of coming to the United States after a long journey and a fruitless life only to be incarcerated doesn't make any sense. Furthermore, study shows that even illegal immigrants pay their taxes when they could easily get away with it. "Undocumented immigrants are trying to abide by the law and are fulfilling their civic and financial responsibilities." Say’s Magaña-Salgado, filing their taxes and abiding the law helps them in judicial cases (Blanco). The

Illegal immigration is one of the United States’ most controversial subjects. Many Americans strongly believe that people who come across the border illegally without proper documentation should be deported instead of be given the chance to become a citizen of one of the most highly privileged and profitable countries in the world. They think that illegal immigrants are exploiting the system and taking money that belongs only to U.S. citizens. However, opposing viewpoints would argue that illegal immigration is beneficial to the economy of the United States because of the fact that there is additional tax revenue, an increase in low-cost labor and also an increase in money circulation. This (Illegal) American Life brings up both sides of

Immigration is a topic that has been in the news often due to the most recent Presidential election. However, the idea of immigration is one that has existed since the Old Testament with stories of refugees fleeing from oppression. Immigration is an ideal that has remained a topic of discussion for years due to the positives and negatives of it. While immigration may have some negatives, it is my view that immigration is a necessity for the United States because of its roots in Catholic social teaching, effects on economy, and the need for basic rights of individuals to obtain a better life.

In a statement given by Judge Goodlatte titled “Immigration Reform” he opines that undocumented immigrants should not be granted a pathway to citizenship because they have violated the immigration laws of the United States and that those laws must be enforced. However, on a recent report requested by ICE it is shown that between the dates of January and August 2015 about 1,800 undocumented immigrants that were released were rearrested. The immigrants however, faced charges that were associated to non violent crimes. Also, a Wall Street Journal opinion piece done by “Jason L. Riley” claims that “about 1.6 percent of all immigrant males between 18 and 39 years old were incarcerated, compared to 3.3 percent of the native-born population”. These studies suggest the contrary to the point of Judge Goodlatte that undocumented immigrants should not be granted amnesty because they have broken the immigration laws of the United States. Undocumented immigrants are statistically shown to be more law abiding than native born citizens and although some were charged with felonies, they were non violent and charges were ultimately dropped. Due to this undocumented immigrants should be granted amnesty to remain in the united states legally and keep benefiting our economy as well as our

I am writing in response to the article ‘Endless waves of Illegal Immigrants floods Rio Grande Valley” by Jana Winter for FOX NEWS on July 14, 2015. In this article, it mainly focuses its attention on the negative aspects of illegal immigrants and makes the reader believe that immigrants are the problem. The article, makes illegal immigrates seem like they are all criminals and villains. On top of that, this articles doe’s little to no explaining on the reasons for why immigrants to come to the United States. Having grandparents and parents who were illegal, I know some of the reasons and motives behind the decision to migrate to the United States such as escaping poverty, providing a better future for their kids, and the opportunity to pursue the American dream. If these points were added into this article, Americans would be more sympathetic to the situation of millions of immigrants and make movements to get legislation passed that would offer citizenship, work visa, and green cards to illegal immigrants.

The article, “5 Reasons to Grant Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants” was written by the well educated journalist Ed Krayewski. Krayewski clearly establishes his opinion once the reader is familiar with the basics of immigration in America; the only feasible solution for solving immigration problems is to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. The article presents a well organized explanation as to why the solution to immigration problems in America is granting amnesty. Krayewski provides five seemingly simple reasons to support his belief, but fails to prove wrong any contradictory information. Despite the controversial topic and lack of opposing material, Krayewski does maintain an excellent alternative view on the topic of illegal immigrants.

Each paper while providing some very good evidence also has its fair share of less than great evidence. For instance, the Arizona Sentinel says that most illegal immigrants are law-abiding citizens other than the fact that they themselves are illegal. This claim not only contradicts itself as illegal immigration is a crime no matter how to look at it, but a further look shows that this may not be true. A person cannot simply just say that other than robbing or murdering someone they are a law-abiding citizen. In the essay, it even claims that illegal immigration is a crime. It does not help prove its point by saying that they commit crime to begin with. It also claims that because they are law-abiding they will help drive crime down. The claim itself makes little sense as just increasing the amount of people who do not commit crime will not result in less crime. The people who commit crime are still going to do it regardless of how many people do not. Also, the act of illegal immigration is considered a crime which would only make the crime rate higher. Even the statistics used to support the claim does not work very well. After doing some research on Politifact website, it revealed that illegal immigrants in 2014 accounted for up to 75% of federal crimes (politifact.com). The essay would leave one to believe that it was less than it is. Not only that, but the evidence only mentions the 14% in state prisons and 5% in federal prisons. This does not account for immigrants who have not been caught illegally entering the country. All the claims made underline one point, the fact that most illegal immigrants do not commit crime, but the argument falls flat. This is certainly one of the weaker points of the paper compared to the rest and with different wording and better evidence can make a valid

Immigrants built America into the country it is today. Some were fleeing persecution in their own countries. The immigrants came as free individuals, indentured servants, or slaves. Most came here to pursue a better life. America welcomed those individuals, and it has a process in place for those wishing to gain legal citizenship. The immigration issue is a hot topic in the United States today and concerns individuals who are entering the country illegally. Our representatives are proposing new laws to limit access to our country through other than legal means. There are strong feelings on each side.