Importance Of Immigrating To The United States

Immigrating to the United States from Belarus at a young age has helped me becoming the person I am today. When my family and I moved , none of us could speak a word of English other then yes , no , hello. We started living with my aunt who had recently moved a year ago, and from there my mother did everything she could to create the better life we moved here for.

Immigrating to America during the mid-1800s to the early-1900s was a very difficult and important change to an immigrant's life. Immigrants came to America because of political and religious issues, economic opportunities from the Great Plains, and employment. These reasons are called pull factors, these encouraged many immigrants from different countries to leave their homeland and travel to America. Immigrants also believed in the American Dream. The American Dream has many meanings, for the immigrants they believed that this was a pursuit of big opportunities and living a stable life. Immigrants also had terrible issues back at their homeland which gave them the motive to leave, these are called push factors. Some push factors were poverty,

Growing up from a Caribbean background, moving to America and getting a better life has always been a strong influence for me, it has taught me that there are a lot of opportunities here, in America, that I should appreciate and that I should try and tackle headfirst. From seeing my parents stress the importance of knowledge and education, to seeing some of my family members waste their time and not become anything of their selves, I have a special look at both sides of how coming to America, the land of opportunity, can make or break you. This influences me to strive and take any opportunity that can help me become a more knowledgeable and woke individual and use it to my advantage.

Immigrating to America, no matter where you are coming from, has its fair share of trials and tribulations. Immigrants have to go through weeks of traveling to finally get to America and then completely rebuild their lives in this new country. While most immigrants went through similar experiences when migrating to America, , such as, traveling by sea, fighting illness, and enduring medical checkups upon arrival in Ellis Island, their ultimate reasons for leaving their home country varied, by economics, politics, or warfare.

I’m an immigrant, I moved to this country three years ago, as many legal and illegal immigrants I believe that we help the economy of this country. There are many immigrants in America and they come from all over the world. By no means I want to assume that they have all had my experiences. In my case I’m here on the pursuit of new opportunities, in my mind, or in the way I was raised by my parents, and how am I supposed to achieve my goals is exactly the way they work every day to support our household, is a discontented mind, it is a hard working mind, a mind that always thinks it has to work harder, acquire more knowledge. This is a generalization; they are plenty of exemptions after all it is good to be hard working, it is good to want a better education for your children and to want a better way of living, everyone has the right to pursuit their dreams. I will focus on how immigration helps United States as compared to the mostly held view that it hurts America.

• 1986 - Immigration Reform and Control Act granted lawful permanent residency to over 2.7 million undocumented

The amount of anger I have right now from reading this comment is terrifying. Migrating to America for many people is a way to start fresh, it's a way for them to give a life to their kids that they couldn't have, it's a way for people to uncover talents that they feared to discover back home. For many people America provided peaceful sleep, something many couldn't have back at home because of the amount of stress they had carried on their shoulders. America is truly a paradise for many people including me and my family, America provided us with a clear mind set, a peaceful environment and a better future for my brother and me. It's very sad to see how American see the world. They totally ignore reality because reality for them is getting drunk

When I was seventeen years old and in my last year of high school, I came to the United States with my mother and left my father and siblings. When my mom immigrated in 2008, she left her business and decided to start a new adventure that might provide her more financial stability. Ever since I was a child, my family owned a furniture factory and a store. After my parent 's divorce, my mother kept the house and my father the company. Similarly, my mother opened her store for a few years and then a preschool, which was more related to her bachelor in psychology. However, my mother financial stability decreases after acquiring debts. My mother struggled with covering the preschool costs and providing for the

Citizens of certain developed countries deemed politically and economically stable by the U.S. government are allowed to visit for up to 90 days without obtaining a visa. Known as the visa waiver program, this expedited system is primarily used by people coming here on vacation. It does not allow foreign citizens to work, go to school, or apply for permanent status. The visa waiver program is currently available to citizens of 37 countries.

Although America was built upon immigrants, American citizens had varying degrees of toleration of new immigrants. America was seen as a place of opportunity and freedom which led many travel to America to better their own lives.

Every year, a huge number of immigrants, legal and illegal, from around the globe, decided to come into the United States. These migrants have many different goals that they have in mind. Some enter the U.S hoping for a better life and some are refugees escaping from persecution or civil wars that happened in their motherland. Large number of these individuals trust the United States as the best place to go. There is more opportunity, freedom, protection, and benefits which are they belief is important for their future. Around sixty-eight million immigrants have been added to the United States since 1970, and it is predicted that 130 million individuals will be added throughout the following fifty years. They all had similar goal and dream.

If your next-door neighbors were sitting in the rain and hungry would you put a roof over their head and feed them before your own family and children? Then why is the U.S. doing it for legal and illegal immigrants? Until every U.S citizen has a roof over their head and food in their stomach immigration should be limited. There are too many of our resources going to immigrants that should be used for U.S. citizens first, like housing, medical, food and many others. Over the past decade immigration into the U.S. has been on the constant rise making it harder for American’s to get the help and resources that they need and deserve. Immigrants are willing to work for less and under the table making it harder for American’s to find jobs, the use

One of the most talked about debates among both political leaders and the people of

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

Throughout the history of United States of America, immigration has grown to important parts of our life. Many politicians tried to improve and control immigration, by giving foreigners all over the world chance to explore “The American Dream”. Therefore, during the presidential race, immigration always became a hot topic as politicians debated about how to handle the large number of illegal immigrants in the United States. But these debates are nothing new. Historically, Americans have frequently scorned new arrivals, despite the fact that their ancestors were also immigrants. Past presidents, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack Obama has also made negative and positive comments on the immigration. During Bill Clinton’s term in office, President