The Negative Impacts Of Migration In The United States

Most of the immigrants leave their home country and migrate to the United States because they can live in freedom, practice their religion and make the most out of their life (Arizaga 2006).

In general, I believe that immigrants benefit countries in numerous ways. They bring a vast range of cultural diversity, economic improvement, and reduced labor costs are factors that benefit a country. Likewise newcomers pose other problems such as increased crime rate, language barrier, and overcrowding.

Imagine being shaken awake by your spouse, exhausted from your twelve hour shift the day before. Devastated, you realize that you accidentally slept in five minutes later than you should have, which will make you late for your job. The business that you work for will now fire you because there is always a willingly and desperate immigrant to replace you. Dependent on each member to provide an income, your family will suffer greatly because of your unemployment. Your family will not be able to make payments for the house or for food. Thus, you will be evicted from your home, thrown on to the streets, and starved. Immigrants faced these hardships in the early 1900s as they were exploited by their boss. Long hours, terrible pay,

Economically, immigrants contribute to our economy. Cubans operate most major construction companies. Culturally, immigrants bring a new culture to our society, which adds more variety in the world. Recently, people wanting to reunite with their family members, who may already have citizenship in the U.S has been the major cause of immigration. More than one million people a year, are coming to the United States for different reasons. Causes of immigration include religious freedom, better standard of living financially and a better chance for their kids to have a better education system.

The number of immigrants, legal or illegal, living in the United States has fluctuated over the years, but it does not hide the fact that the American Dream still acts as a beacon to foreigners. People believe coming to America is the key to a better life. With the overflow of our new neighbors, we transform from a single society into a mixture of several cultures. Immigration is causing America to become a tossed salad society (a society in which ethnic and racial groups maintain separate identities, with no dominant culture) which Americans should acknowledge, because it is our own unyielding nature that deprives us of a symbiotic melting pot .

Salvadoran immigration to the United States has been fairly recent, intensifying in the late 80’s until today. The movement is nothing in comparison with some of the great immigration waves of the past, but it has a profound significance for both countries. Salvadorans help make up the backbone of America today.

Although it causes great economic cost for the Untied States to continue to take in immigrants, I believe the biggest benefit of immigration is that it has had an overall positive affect on the United States workforce and technology. It creates a positive, competitive work atmosphere that can been seen all around the country. While many argue that immigration has negative affect on the United States future, Rosenbaum stated static in his article. “ In the long term, allowing these immigrants improved access to higher education is likely to improve their contributions to our society and reduce the burdens they place on it. It will only aid us to help those who are willing and eager to improve their own situations to do so.” (Rosenbaum 231). This is a perfect example to why the Untied States should continue to allow legal immigration in the Untied States.

Many People can speculate if the U.S.-Mexican border is truly a significant factor for our government’s safety or just there wasting money, time and land. By allowing the government to fund the border many improvements could be made. Border Safety, can create a safer border environment by facing the multiple Issues and Challenges, like illegal Immigration, Drug Enforcement, and cross-border Transportation, and Technological improvements by Homeland security influence the agents, trying to cease these issues.

Many People can speculate if the U.S.-Mexican border is truly a significant factor for our government’s safety or just there wasting money, time and land. By allowing the government to fund the border many improvements could be made. Border Safety, can create a safer border environment by facing the multiple Issues and Challenges, like illegal Immigration, Drug Enforcement, and cross-border Transportation, and Technological improvements by Homeland security influence the agents, trying to cease these issues.

In the late 19th century the United States experienced a wave of immigrants looking for work and/or escaping worsening conditions in their home countries. These immigrants, predominantly received through Ellis Island on the East Coast, would settle down in larger urbanized cities such as New York and Chicago. This was partially due to the amount of available jobs and housing, but also because of the appeal of staying close to other families from their homeland. By gathering in these communities they were able to keep their traditions alive through things such as native language and religion. However, since many of the immigrants were low income households, the communities were largely forced to live in poverty-level housing and provided with almost no social services by the federal government. It was this need for welfare that enabled political urban machines to rise in power. By providing support such as jobs and services to impoverished immigrant communities, these organizations thrived off of the loyalty, and therefore votes, that they received in return.

Most immigrants have stated that if they had to do it all over again they would still migrate to the America. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, immigrants claim that the government has become stricter on immigration. Some claim they have experience discrimination due to the attacks. The public developed a negative attitude about influence in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. A survery reveilved that half of Americans said tighter immigration policy would do a great deal to enhance U.S. national security. Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that if massive immigration were to continue from Latin America, especially Mexico, the consequence may be the bifurcation of the United States. In 2011 the population of illegal Mexian immigrants in the United States dropped by a million. The reversal of the immigration trend was due to the economic downturn which meant few jobs and also tougher immigration laws.

Immigration can be defined as: the movement from one country to another country. Immigration had two major impacts on the US: on the labor market and especially on the politics of race. The black rebellions of the 1960s created a political crisis for the government of US on the adequate response to black rebellions. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and President Johnson proposed two different policies to resolve black poverty.

In this essay, I will try to define the concepts of immigration, the reasons which motivate people to emigrate and explain hard topic from my points of view as an immigrant.

To start immigrants take the hard working jobs the nobody wants. They work hard for little money because they don’t mind working hard. (Ramanujan Nadadur July 2009). “immigrants also positively benefit the economy by increasing demand, spurring investment, and keeping receiving-country industries competitive through enhancing capital productivity (Borjas 1994)”. Another positive effect is immigration plays a big role in the consumer market.

In this respect, it is worthy of mention that such a situation with the migration is the result of the recent trend in the world economy which is characterized by processes which are generally called globalization. The process of globalization is overwhelming and involves practically all countries of the world with rare exceptions which