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The Pros And Cons Of Immigrants In America

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The issue of immigration has become a major debate for everyone. Many people argue over the negative impacts of immigrants living in America, such as overcrowding, fewer jobs due to immigrants taking them, drug trafficking, and threatening of American culture. However, immigrants still have a positive impact on 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. Others come to America to practice the freedom and right given to the American people. What many Americans do not …show more content…

Through the nineteenth century, the United States was in the middle of agricultural, and industrial expansion. The need for inexpensive, unskilled labor and the profits made from importing immigrants fueled the movement. Immigrants were largely responsible for the rapid development of the country and the economy. Many of them are willing to work for less than the minimum wage, and the money they do earn goes back into the U.S. economy. Not only will their tax dollars go to the United States government and be returned to the economy through public assistance programs or government contracts, but their earnings will go to local businesses. The Census Bureau reports, “despite making up only sixteen percent of the resident population holding a bachelor’s degree or higher, immigrants represent thirty-three percent of engineers, twenty-seven percent of mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists, and twenty-four percent of physical scientists.” Additionally, according to the Partnership for a New American Economy, “in 2011, foreign-born inventors were credited with contributing to more than seventy-five percent of patents issued to the top 10 patent-producing universities.” Not every immigrant that enters the United States gets a low level job; many of them get offers from some of the biggest companies, hospitals, agencies, …show more content…

In the article “Trump’s Immigration Policy Doesn’t Make Much Sense But That’s OK Because He Knows ‘How To Manage’", Lee says “Trump believes Immigrants are killing Americans, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), fifty seven percent of the seventy six fugitive murderers wanted by the FBI in 2009 were foreign-born. The CIS also reported that in Maricopa County in Arizona, “twenty two of felons are illegal immigrants.” His proposition for immigration reform includes: putting an end to birthright citizenships, deporting all illegal immigrants, building a wall across the southern border paid by Mexico, amongst other proposals that exclude immigrants from American society. Trump believes putting these reforms on immigration will make America a safer and a better nation. These propositions show that Trump wants to get rid of people who are different from him and the “American” people. Which, then, goes into racism that still resides in America. In the article Letter to My Son, Coates talks about the racial differences that make us all think differently.
It is hard to face this. But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle,

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