Should The United States Gull Immigrants Pull Migration?

The United States is a country that was built on immigration. The first settlers, Native Americans, represent less than 2% of the total population; the remaining 98% of the population are immigrants or decedents of immigrants. Today, the US still has the highest immigration rate in the world with 757,434 naturalizations in the 2012 fiscal year only (US Naturalizations 2012, Department of Homeland security). People try to immigrate to the United States for many reasons. Some people immigrate because they have been granted a refugee status or asylum and other people immigrate to fulfill their dreams. Immigration has an effect on the American society and economy. The US cannot survive without immigrants.

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.

Ever since the creation of the human race, human beings have been prone to moving place to place for new opportunities and beginnings. People who move from one country to another are called immigrants. As nations started to form, their were rules and laws set on who could and could not live in a specific country. Most of these laws included immigrants to go through a lengthy process to get approved to go into the country they desired. However, even after the lengthy process is completed, the country still has the right to deny their entrance. In fear of being rejected, many immigrants decided to illegally cross the borders of other countries causing many problems with the country's society, specially the United States of America. Historians saw a great example of this in the 1920s. The 1920s in America unfolded the greatest wave of immigration in American history; more than 25 million foreigners, also known as immigrants, arrived on American shores (Shmoop). Before the 1920s, immigration in the United States had never been systematically restricted by federal law, however that changed with the 1921 Emergency Quota Act and the 1924 Immigration Act. For the first time in American history, these acts imposed a limit on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States which eventually caused many to enter illegally. Today America is faced with some similar issues with immigration as they did in the 1920s, for example, the number of illegal immigrants in

United States the land of the free, that is until illegal immigrants come to the United States

and most were pleased to come. The United States used many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. by letting they come in bursts, when they wanted more or less. The tensions around immigration into the U.S. did not much change over time, people still were angry with their jobs being taken by Europeans. The United States government tried to conquer these issues by asking for a more strict enforcement of emigration by Japan and by limiting the number of immigrants allowed into the country. But these did no good, for those who supported emigration to the U.S. were not happy with so few being allowed, and those who did not want immigrants were not happy with others being let onto ‘their American soil’. But what they failed to notice is what happened because of the immigrants, without the immigrants the railroads and tram and cities would not have been built and been able to prosper. The United States’ population in cities alone grew about 15 million. Though the tensions around immigration were high, it was because of this that the United States is where it is

The numbers of immigrants to United States has risen from thousands to a record high of one million immigrants by the year

“We must ban immigrants!”, “Immigrants take Americans job opportunities” are some of the statements that stray away from the reality of the real debated issue of immigration . Today many Americans presume that immigrants slow the growth of the economy and often clash with American workers. Also, immigrants are often accused of stealing jobs and occupying land and space that they are not entitled to.

Immigration boosts the economy of America by improving employment, productivity and income. The accessibility of low skilled immigrants, earning low wages, has allowed American firms to expand and to create new jobs, increasing the production of goods and services, while keeping the prices down. In other words, the drudgery of immigrants manifest in the growth of production and extension of services. America is known as a land of opportunity because people from different countries come here to make their ideas a reality. Growing population of United States is directly proportional to the economic growth. Large population means greater domestic market, more workers, more new ideas which improve productivity, more consumption, increased national savings and enormously larger number of outstanding, highly effective people working to improve the nation’s economy. People often argue that immigrant workers

The U.S. is slammed by growing numbers in population. It seems that many do not think of the long term effects of this increase. This is one of the most significant problems Americans face today, yet no one talks about the problem, when it comes to the debate over immigration. “The current world population is over 6 billion and increases at a rate of 76,570,430 people every year. Since 1950, U.S. population has nearly doubled - growing from 151 million to over 294 million today. If present trends continue, our population will exceed 400 million by the year 2050. Immigration contributes over one million people to the U.S. population annually. The total foreign-born population in the U.S. is now 31.1 million, a record 57 percent

In this article, McRobbie explains how the raids on the Peninsula by federal immigration officials affected the local immigrant population (McRobbie, 2007). These raids led to the development of an organization called, Redwood City Immigrant Rights Coalition, which coordinates community outreach, facilitates services for families affected by such raids, and prompts officials to oppose the raids by immigration agencies (McRobbie, 2007). This supports the statement that immigration raids and deportations greatly affect families. The fear created by immigration raids has led to organizations such which oppose these actions.

U.S. as an immigration country, has a long history of immigration. It is a complex demographic phenomenon that has been a major source of population growth and cultural change of the United States. People came here because of varies reason, the major reason among them are fleeing crop failure, land and job shortage, rising taxes, and famine. Nearly 12 million people immigrate to the United States between 1870 and 1900, making it the world largest immigrate country.

The Liberal party proposed several institutional reforms regarding immigration. Firstly, allowing foreign students and resident workers to be able to apply to immigrate to Canada while they are in the country. Secondly, ensuring that children who are adopted internationally become Canadian citizens once completed their adoption process. Lastly, they wanted to cut down the “right of permanent residence” fee which at the time was $975 to $600, then to $300 after 12 months, and finally to zero within two budgets. However, the major proposition by the Liberals on immigration was funding. They wanted to allocate 1.3 billion dollars to immigration settlement and integration programs, 700 million over 5 years to clear up immigration applications.

From the time when the European crisis started, the migration to the Americas has increased. Among all the countries in the American continent, United States is the one that has received more immigrants since the sixteenth century until the mid-twentieth century. Since then, the most of immigrants are Latin especially from Mexico. In 2013, around 41.3 million immigrants lived in the United States. They represent 13 % of the total 316 million U.S. residents. If added the U.S.-born children of immigrants they increase to around 80 million people (Migration Information Source). Thus, it is how started and continued the immigration in the U.S.

The global mobility of human resources between countries is a key driving force of the currently ongoing economic and regional development all over the world. It is indisputable that the immigration of international labour force would exert many positive and important impacts on the economic, cultural and social structure of both migrant-receiving and migrant-sending countries. Actually, the trend of temporary and permanent immigrants increasing in some western countries began to gain momentum in recent years. Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD 2004) reports indicated that there were more than 1 million new immigrants in the United States in 2001 and 2002, increased by 25% from 2000; in some European countries

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