The Role Of Immigrants In America

what is considered to be an immigrant to the united states? It 's a person that crosses the border illegally and that isn 't allowed to be part of the unites states unless they have permission to be here with a Visa. Society has given these people so many racial labels that 's beyond hurtful names they 're referred as wetbacks, Alien, and illegally immigrant, but what 's the right way to call these people without referring to them with all these racial characteristic and names that society has given them over the years. Society shouldn 't be labeling someone with racial names no human is an illegally. Yes, many of these people have come to the united states illegally. On a daily basis, these people have crossed the united states border illegally. During that process, they put their lives in danger by crossing rivers, walking dessert, underground tunnels etc.The reason why these people and families come to the united states. Is because they are trying to improve their economic situation, to have a better future for their children, and to escape corruption and violence from their country.

Years after years, flows of people immigrating to the United States have been raising up steadily, with the aim of pursuing the American dream, the dream of seeking prosperity and success in an equal society. Before 1882, the U.S had no immigration policy, in which the new comers could settle permanent inhabitants within America. After that period of time, the formidable numbers of arrivals had turned the attitudes of native government toward the effect of foreign dwellers on American life in which restriction policy on immigration has been unleashed. From 1882 to 1924, the immigration doors were slowly closed, beginning with the Chinese Exclusion Act on May 6, 1882 that prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. Then, the fuel from the Nativism of Immigration Restriction League as well as the consequences of the WWI and effects from the First Red Scare have helped ratifying the 1921 Immigration Act that limited annual number of immigrants from certain countries. Not only European and Asian immigrants were affected but Latin Americans were also influenced by the immigration policy as well as the Great Depression within the United States, and Mexican immigrants during 1930s were a great example. However, the doors were quite opened again with the end of quota system in 1965 that based on families reunification and skilled labors attraction. Following the terrorist event of 9/11, the immigration doors have

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”

As of 2010, almost 14 million immigrants made their way into the United States now more than 40 million are resided here in the U.S. It is a known fact that this took the highest amount of illegal immigrants in American history. Only three-fourths of the immigrants in our country are here legally. The population for immigrants increased 28 percent between 2000-2010. The amount of illegal immigrants continuously increases in size every year, becoming a major problem for the United States.

In The United States of America, there is a sad truth about how citizens of this country are affected or disturbed by the mere presence or thought of illegal immigrants. I do not just speak about just illegal immigrants that originate from Mexico, I also mention those from Canada or any other place in the world that travel to America for a better future. When I was young and ignorant, the belief was that only citizens with legal documents should be allowed into the U.S. since they “belong” in their proper territory. The perspective of this ignorance has changed dramatically over the course of school, and life. With the correct knowledge and firsthand experience one may open their eyes to a whole new world.

Immigration is what has made America what it is today. In fact, there would be no America without immigration; because everyone in the country is an immigrant or their four fathers settled down in United States over the period of time. The United States experienced wave of immigration in the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920, where many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity, and few in 1600 as pilgrims arrived in search of religion. In 17th to 19th century many of the African slaves came to America against their will and rest from the countries such as England, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, China, Germany, and many others have all contributed to populate the United States. And today majority of illegal immigrants comes from Asia and Latin America. Every wave of immigrant brings new ideas, languages, new religions and different cultures, which distributed in the United States as the people interacted with other Americans. Even among those who claims that immigration isn’t beneficial still have to accept that immigrants plays an important role in increasing the overall gross domestic product (G.D.P) of the United States. Immigrants have vital impact in society economically, politically, and culturally.

There are many illegal immigrants in the US. Illegal immigrants should be able to stay in the US and not get deported because they aren’t doing anything wrong and lose important things. Innocent immigrants living the same life as regular Americans lose important things needed to live for no reasons.

In the US, we pride ourselves on the values that are integrated within our familial systems. However, how can we be proud of being united if the very system that is supposed to protect us, betrays us? Immigration in the US is one of the most biased and, in my opinion, racist policy that is present in our lives. US immigration policy doesn’t allow for love or unity to succeed, it lets power and money control the lives of millions.

Thirdly, illegal immigrants do want to become citizens, but unfortunately the law forbids them. Under the US immigration law the individual must fall into a preference category, if the individual does not fall into the category he or she may not obtain to immigrate legally. For those individuals who are already in the United States without any documentation, they are not able to apply for citizenship.

I would look and research more through the economic lens. Taking a more in-depth look at the quality of contribution the immigrants had in the workforce and did they help/not help the economic growth of America. Were the immigrants uneducated, just a mass quantity of people could not possibly contribute to society? Or did they benefit society and quickly assimilate into America and grow the economy?

Immigrants have been coming to America for better lives for several centuries now. It is hypocritical of us to keep immigrants out of our country, consider that our ancestors were immigrants at one point as well. Allowing immigrants into America helps make us a diverse nation, and being diverse is always a good thing. Being multicultural helps us to learn different things and grow in society. Some may say that building a wall will help us by keeping immigrants out, when it will only keep us from gaining true equality among the masses. The only way to change the past is to move forward and keeping immigrants out keeps from doing exactly that. Immigration policymaking should be by the authority of the federal government.

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.

America was built by people who came here to find justice and to find freedom. History means quite a lot to the people of America and also very much affects how the United States government works today. The history principle is one of the five principles of politics. How America started matters. What was done in the past that is being done now? What has changed? Every conflict that the government comes across has a history. For every topic, however, history will not always prevail and repeat. However, without history, government will not know why events happen. History has proven to be a factor in many subjects but one very important and highly touched upon subject is the subject of immigration.

Immigrants, are they good influence to America? Should they be allowed to stay? Many people think all foreigners, undocumented people should leave to go back to their country. They think immigrants are a bad influence and that they affect the nation. People born in the U.S think it would have a good impact if immigrants left, they think it would reduce violence, crimes and it would make the U.S. safer. Yet, immigrants are the ones who make the nation better. Immigrants make an impact to America because they create a greater economy, are hard workers, and they influence the nation.

Is there anyone who knows a working Immigrant in the United States or a business owned by one? According to the Center of Immigration Studies (2010), 16% of the total U.S Labor force are Immigrants. With these number, it is safe to say that the United States of America is a country driven by immigrants. They travel from all different parts of the world to the US for various reasons. What draws and brings a lot of these immigrants to this country are things that normal Americans take for granted. Education, jobs, healthcare, water, freedom of speech and religion and not to mention that many of these immigrants come to the US to chase what is so called the “American Dream”. It is these rights that seem to be granted for by many American born citizens that have caught many immigrant’s attention. The abuse of these rights has led to a controversial debate in congress on whether the Government should limit how many Immigrants come to the US or eliminate the Diversity Visa Lottery Program which allows immigrants from different countries to apply for a Green Card and become permanent residents. Currently, the Government allows up to 250,000 thousand Immigrants from different countries depending on their geographic location. Congress should not put a limit to how many immigrants come to the US every year or eliminate the Diversity Visa Lottery Program because immigrants are the ones that make this country what it is today both economically and