The Pros And Cons Of Immigration In America

As I previously aforementioned, both authors’ had the same view. Both of the authors, Quindlen and Kennedy, view our country as having been built of immigrants;

America consists of a variety of people, with all kinds of different backgrounds, such as their immigrant ancestors. “In the same sense, we cannot speak of a particular “immigrant contribution” to America because all Americans have been immigrants or the descendants of immigrants; even the Indians, as mentioned before, migrated to the American continent,” (Kennedy 23). Everyone that is “American”, their

Simply put, America is the land of opportunity. In the past, immigrants have left most of their family, memories, and familiarities with their homeland in search of a better life in America, where jobs were easy to find and the economy was booming. These immigrants formed almost the entire American population, a demographic anomaly in which people from nationalities separated by land and sea; these people come from countries separated by expansive distances can live within the same neighborhood. Both Anna Quindlen with her essay “A Quilt of a Country” and John F. Kennedy with his essay “The Immigrant Contribution” have documented the story of these immigrants and what they have done to contribute to the great country of the United States of America. Both authors have written in their own unique style which has changed the reader’s perspective of their accomplishments, contributions, and sense of community in their new nation. In the essays “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen and “The Immigrant Contribution by John F. Kennedy, they show similar writing styles by both using the formal diction in their writing, and contradict in the way that Quindlen takes a more poetic approach in her writing, while Kennedy, being the President of the United States, uses more sophisticated dictions.

Steadily walking the streets of New York, yellow, blurring lights began to blind you, and all you can see is the people that pass you. You begin to take notice of the people that are a completely different race then you; wondering are all these people immigrants? Soon you come to a realization that our whole county is built on immigrants. In the book, “A Quilt of a Country” written by Anna Quindlen and “The Immigration Contribution” written by former president Kennedy you can start to see all the differences and similarities that both of the books have.

Simply put, America is the land of opportunity. In the past, immigrants have left most of their family, memories, and familiarities with their homeland in search of a better life in America, where jobs were easy to find and the economy was booming. These immigrants formed almost the entire American population, a demographic anomaly in which people from nationalities separated by land and sea; these people come from countries separated by expansive distances can live within the same neighborhood. Both Anna Quindlen with her essay “A Quilt of a Country” and John F. Kennedy with his essay “The Immigrant Contribution” have documented the story of these immigrants and

By using technical diction, Kennedy is able to attract academic readers. In paragraph six and seven, Kennedy listed out famous industrialists that were immigrants and help build America up, and also scientists that made landmark discoveries or inventions. These list of people can be verified, and the long list helps reinforce Kennedy’s thesis by listing the immigrants and their contributions to the American society. Without these people, America will not be in its current glory, nonetheless being the global economic power and trade. Continuing, Kennedy uses numerical statistics to prove that not only immigrants help build America to its glory, they are an important part of the workforce and help change our culture significantly. By using clear numbers like “23.5 million people who came to America in this period,” and “20 percent of the businessmen, 20 percent of the scholars,…., and 61 percent of actors were of foreign births,” shows us the immense numbers of immigrants and their contributions to the American society. These numbers can be checked, which helps draw in some factual reader. Kennedy also uses abstract diction in his essay. In paragraphs fifteen, Kennedy uses abstract words with positive connotations. These words include “dream”, “confidence”, “possibility”, and “faith”. Words that Kennedy used here allows the reader to think that America is a perfect utopia for people who want to work hard and have a better life because of it. This diction is effective when it comes to empathetic and emotional people, in which Kennedy’s point can across more easily. Kennedy, in short, incorporated an excellent combination of abstract and technical diction to prove his point and also collect the same audiences like

Outside the sirens are singing and someone’s parents are taken away from their family because they are not a citizen, they didn’t do anything wrong they just weren’t citizens in the country. Not every immigrant is the same, everyone is different and they all have different opinions. Immigrants are helping out their family like every other family would and they aren’t just the only people who do wrong choices so do others. Some American’s can’t accept them in their country and say immigrants are taking their jobs. Imagine having children born in the country with foreign parents and they have to be deported with their kids waiting to be adopted by “parents with better lives.” Immigrants are like everyone else, they risk themselves but they don’t

In the United States, the cliché of a nation of immigrants is often invoked. Indeed, very few Americans can trace their ancestry to what is now the United States, and the origins of its immigrants have changed many times in American history. Despite the identity of an immigrant nation, changes in the origins of immigrants have often been met with resistance. What began with white, western European settlers fleeing religious persecution morphed into a multicultural nation as immigrants from countries across the globe came to the U.S. in increasing numbers. Like the colonial immigrants before them, these new immigrants sailed to the Americas to gain freedom, flee poverty and

“We are nation of immigrants. Some came here willingly, some unwillingly. Nonetheless, we are immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants, one, and all. Even the natives came from somewhere else, originally. All of the people who come to this country come for freedom, or for some product of that extraordinary, illusory condition. That is what we offer here—freedom and opportunity in a land of relative plenty.” (Middletown Journal 2005)

“My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.” This quote, spoken by Barack Obama in 2014, is about the topic of the immigration system. Immigrants are what make up America, and all that come here are faced with great difficulty. They can face discrimination, struggles getting on their feet, and strive for the American Dream. The American Dream is a belief that everyone will have equal opportunities to succeed and get a better life. This is found in the hearts of almost all immigrants, no matter where they come from. This had led to waves of people flooding into the United States. The most notable wave that has occurred was in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. During this time, thousands of Lithuanians flooded through Ellis Island into America; their change from their lives in Lithuania, to their work experience and education, their lives in America had overall left a positive impact on society.

“Between 1880 and 1920, America the industrial and agricultural giant of the world, as well as the world's leading creditor nation(JFK 25).” This could not be achieved without the 23.5 million people who immigrated here. During this period, many immigrants played a role in developing the nation and the world such as Andrew Carnegie from Scotland in the steel business and Albert Einstein from Germany who advanced physics. Then the anonymous immigrant played their role as well. There are the Chinese who built the railroads, the Europeans and other eastern immigrants who developed the agricultural side of America. By advancing the country in multiple ways, we became strong and rich. Then, without

In the past few weeks, I have read two essays regarding the immigrant population in the United States. They both pass along the same meaning, yet they are still quite different in abounding ways. The two articles that I am exposing are “A Quilt of a Country”, by Anna Quindlen, and “The Immigrant Contribution”, by John F. Kennedy. They both converse with the theme in relation to immigration.

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

Quindlen suggests an answer for the second questions, that the American psyche revels in the doing the impossible and the demanding and so savor the impossibility of this conglomerate that is America. Another part of us identifies with them, as the current immigrants are similar to our own forefathers. In her poem, Emma Lazarus eloquently states this. “Give me your tired, your poor, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (Lazarus) She uses one of America's biggest symbol of hope and freedom, Lady Liberty, as a beacon to draw attention to the fact that America is made up of immigrants. Ethnicity and race are not the only things that divides us however. Dividing us further still is geography, religion, politics and lifestyle. We must focus on our idea of whatever we think America is or should be, even though they may differ from somebody else's idea. It is the only way that we can hope to survive attacks and

Build the Wall! Build the Wall! We want the wall! Currently, these are the things that we are hearing in the United States. Building a wall to not allow immigrants to cross into our border. Except, we are not the only country, that deals with immigration. What exactly is immigration? Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination of where they are not native’s country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle there. Immigration has its pros and its cons. Immigration policies can be related to four other aspects of policy: political, economic, social, and demographic. Economic issues are medium term decisions, while, social issues are long-term concerns. Let’s talk about