The Immigrant Contribution

Simply living in America doesn't define you as an American. Being able to proudly own that you're an american, giving up things to better the country, working overtime, helping those who are homeless, picking up the litter, loving your country for what it is. If you don't contribute, if you can't own it, and if you can't stand up for it, you're not an american. Being American is being free, having the right to believe in what you want, being able to not only have a dream, but make that dream come true.

What does it mean to be an American? In my eyes to be an American means to have privileges, rights, and freedom. America isn't perfect, but it is one of the only countries that have rights given to people of different diversities and gender. America does not have tremendous poverty. Instead we have choices given to us by the people who fought and died for the American people. Without George Washington and the other patriots who planted the first seed in the ground and help plant the American nation we live in now who knows what America would be like now.

According to the Scholastic News Online, when individuals were given the question of what it means to be an American, most of them described it as “being free” and having certain rights while others gave explicit examples and mentioned the fact that we as Americans receive opportunities such as “voting”. I somewhat agree with most of these individuals. I believe that being an American consists of having certain rights and a given amount of freedom, to a certain extent. I also strongly believe that by being American, we are guaranteed opportunity if we work hard for something. Being an American also means we have the power to make a difference and express what we feel in order to make this country better than before. Coming from a family that had a much more distinct experience than

What does it mean to be an American? Being an American means a multitude of different things. It depends on who the person is and what is the most important to them. It may be that they are free, or that they are proud, or simply because they appreciate the country’s history. This country has so many privileges that other countries do not have, and this sets it aside from them.

In both articles, the authors try to illustrate their point that even though we are made from many different backgrounds and cultures, we are still able to stand together as one country.

This shows how the growth margin of immigrants in America keeps on increasing each and

In America, everyone is equal, we are one. We all have equal rights and we all get to do the same stuff other people do. We are one great nation. In the writing “The Immigrant Contribution” and “A Quilt of a Country” John F. Kennedy and Anna Quindlen go on to support this idea. In the story “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen shows how America has plenty of different cultures and how we work together as one country. A great quote from the story is “Perhaps they understand it at this moment, when enormous tragedy, as so often it does, demands a time on

Throughout our history, The United States of America has been a strong country. We’ve fought in two world wars, helped third nation countries, and struggled to get our freedom. Our forefathers based this country off the freedoms they wanted, the freedoms that England kept from them. These freedoms appealed to numerous immigrants from foreign countries, causing a gigantic migration of immigrants to the United States in the 1900s. This enormous migration of people has helped strengthen our country the most out of the several other factors. Immigrants lead to the United States’ success by boosting our economy, assisted us in creating new inventions, and helping industrialize our country by taking jobs that no one else wanted.

The 2 exerts, A Quilt of a Country and The Immigrant Contribution are total opposites but have to same meaning behind them. A Quilt of a Country focuses more on the places immigrants come from and how they all make American culture. Although “The Immigrant Contribution” focuses more on what immigrants brought to the U.S., and how it changed our country. But together they have a totally different meaning behind them, that no matter where we come from, what we look like, or how important our contributions are we are all American.

“What are you?” That is a question asked frequently. People could answer the simple, but deep, question in several different ways. You could say your religion, your gender, your sexual orientation, your ethnicity, your race, or even your career. Every single person in the United States could answer that question, and they would all reply in a little bit different way. Both articles showed that there is one thing, only one, that everyone can say, “I am an American.”

Something all Americans forget to consider is, all immigrants, whether they crossed legally or overstayed their visas after an anxious flight across the border, pay taxes. It does not matter that they are immigrants. They, once across the border, are going to do whatever they can to stay across the border. Immigrants contribute to the American society just as the many Americans around them do. They pick up jobs, they build our houses, and they vote for the leader of the United States of America. Any immigrant has every right to be in America as every American does. Not only will they work in America, but they will create jobs that many Americans are desperate to find, bring a necessary attention to the work force. Also, if one were to just

Immigrants have kept the united states energy to the American economy . Many immigrants believed they could make a better living in the united states than they could make in their homeland. Many immigrants work long hours for law in factories. As immigrants and other Americans began to move westward business followed and began to move west to they came to America to demand products and services also increased they also have made many contributions bringing their religious customs with them. Today immigrants provide skilled and unskilled labor and a lot of money into the economy they also provide importantly social contribution. Immigrants have essentially shown American society what it is to be American. many come to the United States now

Each and every day, immigrants leave their countries and come to the United States to have better lives. Sometimes they are escaping problems such as natural disasters, religious persecution, and civil war. In most cases, when they come here they are welcomed with open arms. Immigrants are given the opportunity to start a new life away from the suffering that they had been experiencing. However, some of those who come here have ulterior motives that they may follow by exploiting our generosity. These people may be extremists, terrorists, criminals, etc. Those with these malicious backgrounds and intentions must be prevented from entering our country and causing mayhem. For these reasons, I do believe that we should have restrictions on who can immigrate to the United States. Allowing certain people from other countries into the United States puts the whole country in danger. We cannot always be entirely sure that who we are allowing into the country does not present a threat to our national security. Although not all immigrants are dangerous and want to harm us, we still need to be cautious. Overall, there are too many risks involved with allowing certain people in the U.S. that may harbor hate for us.

According to Catherine E. Shoichet, “12 million unlawful migrants right now live in the United States, which is around proportionate to the populaces of Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Michigan”. Evacuating each of the 12 million unlawful foreigners, at that point, would resemble expelling one of the above states, an entirely cynical task. In functional terms, it isn't conceivable to send that much migrants back to their separate nations economically and productively. This raises the question of what to do with the foreigners that are now here, and how to expand security to keep the quantity of undocumented immigrant coming under control. It might be doable to concede citizenship to those unlawful migrants that have been in the U.S. for quite a while.

Immigration has had a significant impact on various aspects of American life - from culture to the economy to the American identity. Immigrants are people who migrate to America from foreign countries. On the other hand, nativists are Americans who believe they are protecting their country against immigrants. American identity is hard to define because Americans can be so different culturally and socially. Equality is one traditional value that Americans hold. Regardless of race, gender, nationality or religion, everyone in America is considered equal. In reality, though, this is not always the case. Although nativists critique immigrants and say that immigrants are threatening traditional values, the truth is that immigrants have a positive impact on strengthening the economy, have positively shaped the American identity, and have contributed to the social and cultural diversity of America.