The Importance Of Immigrants In America

Although some argue otherwise, immigrants have a positive impact on our society. It is ironic how "within the country founded by Immigrants- Immigrant somehow become a bad word" (K'Naan). Although statistics prove that immigrants do bring overcrowding, drug trafficking, and diseases, they also impact positively on our economy and bring cultural knowledge. Being an immigrant in America is no easy task, they work long hours and most of the time have multiple jobs. Because the American dollar has greater value, immigrants will take any job that pays better than their home country. This often means they do the unwanted jobs of Americans. Immigrants fight hard to work their way to America with the American dream in mind, but once here that dream becomes very distant due to unexpected challenges they faced. In Valeria Luiselli book "Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions", she addresses her experience as an interpreter for immigration court of the state of New York, discussing the stories she has heard with the immigration process. Throughout the book, she explains her view of the lack of sympathy and protection the United States has for the young immigrants. Her purpose to show the difficulties the immigrants go through - their sacrifice, resilience, and strength as they fight to survive and obtain a better life in America can also be seen in K'naan video - "The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)", through his use of symbolism everywhere in the music.

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

The United States of America today resembles a melting pot, because it is filled with many different ethnicities, cultures, and religions, due to the incoming immigrants from different countries. However, there was a time when immigrants were a threat to America, were despised due to economic conflicts, and were socially unaccepted because of their differences. The presence of Immigrants during the 1920s significantly affected America socially and economically, increasing negative attitudes towards the “new immigrants” as evidenced by the First Red Scare, labor and workforce, and societies and neighborhoods.

After the Civil War and the battle had ended on the war field, a new battle arose in the life of the industrialized civilians. It was the time of the Gilded age an era where big businessmen arose and immigrants fled into United States of America. Immigrants from southern and western Europe came in enormous quantities. This grew the population tremendously in the city of New York. Though they made it in America they still faced hardships such as job discrimination, poor housing, and stripped of their culture. Even though the population of immigrants grew consequently the jobs task they could perform did not. The workforce changed tremendously form people working for themselves to people working for a company. This made it difficult for immigrants to get work due to nativism and them having lack of entrepreneurship. 1880 until 1920 was known as “Coming to America”

The United States of America was founded on the principles of immigrants becoming citizens to chase after the dream. Immigration plays a pivotal role in the development of the country through assimilation of those immigrants into society providing diverse skillsets needed in the job market. Many economist claim that a benefit to allowing more legal immigration would allow for more economic growth which would help tremendously chop off some of the $16 trillion dollar debt the nation is currently in (Furchtgott-Roth, 2015). While many illegal immigrants do not pay federal income taxes due to them not being in the system, they still have to pay state and local tax (Mooney et al., 2015, p.284). Companies would not have to worry about paying higher

another country or region to which one is not native. Coming from a whole different lifestyle and culture, those who immigrate into the U.S. are hit with overwhelming changes. Although citizenship has its advantages, many immigrants have too much pride or love for their country that they choose to stay immigrants rather than become fully documented citizens. It is important to understand how they are viewed differently so people can work towards citizenship. Citizens and immigrants differ mainly in the resources they are provided with, such as opportunities, work ethic, and education.

The United States was originally founded by immigrants. As the country started to form, those immigrants started to call themselves “Americans”. As the country grew and prospered, the country was no longer made up of immigrants. Although that didn’t stop the immigrants from coming. Many brought their families which eventually led the government to ask what they should do with them. The DREAM act was proposed which would lead college age immigrants to citizenship. This act proposed that these immigrants would have to have been in the U.S. before the age of 16 and have obtained a GED or a high school diploma. From this they would have Conditional Resident status from which they would be able to get permanent residency through attending an institution of higher learning or serving in the military. There are many who support it, but there are also many who are against the act.

In the United States, we live in a country filled with immigrants. That’s what makes the country itself. Millions of people from all around the world come to the United States hoping to get a better chance at life, or escaping persecution and civil wars in their home country. There are many turns to living here in the U.S., such as when families cannot earn enough money to support themselves and their children. ⅓ of all the children in the United States in poverty are children of immigrants. Immigration is an important political issue in our society. Many politicians are voicing their opinions in speeches and campaigns, with their own view on this topic and what to do about immigrants. Here are a few examples of what is important

Today, immigration is one of most divisive issues facing our nation. Historically, America has had a long and generous tradition of welcoming as equal citizens a large number of immigrants. However, this tradition has been challenged recently by both far left and far right groups who do not agree on the current restrictions, or lack there of, regarding immigration. What seems to be the common ground both sides find is the premise that America’s founding principles continue to be vital in the modern era, "any human being is capable of becoming an American, because of the equality principle that defines America," (pg. 147, Vindicating the Founders'). If we believe in human equality as American's is it fair to deny entry to anyone? In his book, Vindicating the Founders', Thomas G. West provides the best understanding of immigration through the eyes of America's Founders'. And, in doing so West helps find answers to some of the questions current immigration policy has raised. Specifically, we will explore what West calls "the right to exclude".

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.

Many people believe immigrants should have more rights because we're all human and we all deserve human rights. They believe immigrants founded this country for immigrants. They believe they should have the same rights because they work and pay taxes like everyone else. Most of the field workers are immigrants. If it weren’t for immigrants we wouldn't have as many crops as we have now because many americans wouldn't want to work in the fields.

From since the 19th century, waves of immigrants have migrated to the U.S. in search of the freedom and prosperity guaranteed by the Constitution. In pursuit of the “American” dream immigrants take shelter on American soil each year seeking employment, education, refuge, and better lives for their families. In 2015, the Migration Policy Institute reported that: “there were 43.3 million immigrants in the U.S. accounting for 13.5% of the U.S. population.” It’s unfortunate that immigrants role in society is misunderstood because of differing views on whether they help or harm society. My dream is to live in a world where immigrants are more integrated into society. In order to achieve this dream, American citizens must rid themselves of

“The number of undocumented immigrants living in the United States stayed steady for an eighth straight year in 2016 with 11.3 million people...”(Gomez 1). Out of the approximately 11.3 million immigrants that live in the U.S, about 70% come from Mexico. One of the main reasons why immigrants they come to the U.S. is because are seeking for “The American Dream” for their families or themselves. They are aware that they are taking the risk of leaving everything behind them in order to achieve something better. A majority of the immigrants get crossed by a “Coyote”, which is a human smuggler who helps people cross the border and get in the U.S, they charge really expensive sometimes up to $20k per person. That money is hard to save up especially if a whole family is trying to cross. Immigrants should be allowed to remain in the U.S. because deporting them would be time consuming and it would hurt the economy.

“For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other nations.” (Obama). Immigration has been the leading topic in the U.S. political debate for decades. Immigration was the start of America. Americans all descended from immigrants so where do the people draw the line? Answer is they do not. Immigration enhances America everyday, immigration makes America the true place of freedom. The U.S. government should allow immigrants who are here illegally to become U.S. citizens because they have created families here, they bring culture to the U.S., and they perform and create jobs that Americans will not.

Is it true that immigrant’s native roots never leave them? Do communities keep the best interest in mind for immigrants? An immigrant is a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence. I live in the great state of Texas, where there are many immigrants for example, according to the US Census for 2016, Hispanics account for 37% of the population in Texas. My church in Buda, Texas has 3500 families and is about 70% Hispanic in membership; moreover, half of our family friends are Hispanic and most of these friends are living the US culture. Some of our employees though maintain Spanish as their primary language. One of our closest family friends was born in Lebanon and migrated to the US for college and stayed. Immigrants are better off socially and psychologically, when they learn the language of their new country as soon they migrate while keeping elements of their native heritage.