should illegal immigrants be made legal citizens?

Everybody have many things that shape their identities, such as family, friends, religion, culture and race. For example, in the book the girl who fell from the sky by Durrow, Rachel is bi-racial, so she was influenced by her mother who was Danish and her father who was African-American. Rachel started to become aware of her identity when she moved with her grandmother, then when she first started going to school. Understanding her identity impacted her personality as she said, “I learn that black people don’t have blue eyes. I learn that I am black. I have blue eyes” (Durrow

What defines you? Is it the many tiny, wriggling spiders that could potentially be inside your body, the experiences you might have had in Istanbul, your list of hobbies which may or may not include crochet, or is it something a bit more trivial, such as where you come from? Who are you? Take a moment to reflect on yourself. In an essay concerning the argument of identity, Richard Rodriguez forces his readers to analyze themselves, particularly during the high climb of immigration in America today, because with the rising amount of cultures and ethnicities finding a home in this country, there really is no “black and white” answer. The question of identity is the key idea in Rodriguez’s Blaxicans, further expanded upon by careful word choice,

Racial identification is harder than ethnic identification for most people to avoid. To explain this, in “Racial Identities” in the

Though it does not come up in everyday thought, cultural identity is an idea that all humans possess. Abridged, cultural identity can be simply explained as the sharing of a similar culture by people of various ethnicities. However, cultural identity is more complex than that, defined by an individual’s values, beliefs, and ideas of moral behavior influenced by their culture. Furthermore, cultural identity is ever changing from individual to individual. This means that although two individuals may be of the same ethnicity, differences in circumstances may cause variations between the individuals’ personal beliefs. As a result of interracial interactions, multiculturalism has grown during the twenty-first century.

cultures, has a profound effect to level of stress an immigrant experiences in their new surroundings. These pressures become more and more apparent as an immigrant rises through the educational system.

“’Identity has been increasingly used to refer to the social and historical make-up of a person, personality as a construct. Sometimes such identities are conceived narrowly psychological, individualist terms, as the cumulative result of personal experience and family history”

Illegal immigration has been over the years a huge problem for United States. The illegal immigrants have come into the country for different ways like the Mexico border, the Pacific Ocean, and some of the have entered through a visit visa. But after a period, they stayed illegally. The immigration phenomena is a doubled edged sword. On the one hand, it provides a boost to the local economy because they are not paid so much while they are more productive. The other factor is these people do not pay taxes, and their employers also do not pay their taxes.

Section 1:Since the beginning of our country, we have been built off of immigration. Our country has grown 170,000,000 people since 1950 and today, 13.3% or 42 million immigrants make up our country. I am not stating that this is a problem itself. The problem is that only around 48% of these immigrants are legal. This bill is to encourage more and more immigrants to become naturalized, not to encourage less immigration. The Department of Homeland Security lost track of well over one million immigrants who came here and never left. If we continue to have lots of people in our country unaccounted for, it could lead to problems in the future. According to CNN Money, in June 2016,

Although history states that immigration has been a big issue, especially with all the Hispanics coming to America illegally and the Irish working American jobs, immigrants should be legalized because they start up businesses, positively affects the economy and Americans can relate to them.

Some people find their identity by reading a book, using myself as an example I did not know much about my country of birth until my father told me stories about Ghana and through my own reading and research I found out my identity and l had a better understanding about the culture.

Identity in a sociological sense is more than individual genetics or individuality. Self identity is made up by many characteristics including; our personal experiences, beliefs, socio-economic status and other factors. Society plays a huge role in determining identity, although true identity generally isn’t a true reflection of an individual’s self identity. Over the generations there have been

The question of identity is always a difficult one for those living in a culture or group, yet belonging to another. This difficulty frequently remains in the mind of most immigrants, especially the second generations who were born in a country other than their parents. Younger generations feel as if they are forced to change to fit the social standards despite previous culture or group. Furthermore those who wish to adopt a new identity of a group or culture haven't yet been fully accepted by original members due to their former identity.

In most case, identity is shaped by culture. Since culture is a set of ideals life practices, routines and attitudes set up by a certain community hence culture plays a major role in shaping the identity of an individual. An individual’s character and attributes can be because of their background. This is due to the set up that one has grown up (Dumas 19). People tend to learn more about their culture, and as they grow up it becomes part of them. They embrace the culture’s beliefs and tend to do things following the set routines. The aspect of following the set routine and beliefs play a significant part in shaping the identity of an individual.

Aliens have always been a curiosity for us as a species. Tall slender body, glowing bright green, swollen head, deep black eyes; all characteristics of the generic alien. From a young age, we are taught that there might be someone else out there in the universe; we just haven’t met them yet. The question of whether or not we believe in aliens is a hard question to answer because we just do not know. There is no substantial amount of evidence to support either claim. However, the thought that another form of life might exist out in the universe is a diverse theory; room for extrapolation. Curiosity has driven us to create all sorts of alien situations and allows us to think deeply about all the different ways aliens could look like, all the different activities aliens could be able to do, and all the different reasons aliens might make contact with us. Curiosity has also driven us to think about exactly how much more advanced these “others” might be. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the technological level of aliens in film and popular culture has developed from primitive beings to full force technological masterminds— mirroring our own technological narrative.

Everyday I am on a constant race to discover who I am as an individual. I am fighting this battle whether I choose to acknowledge it or not. Donald Hernandez has written in his book Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance; he talks about major key points, but the most important one state “Third, because life chances differ greatly according to race and ethnicity in the United States, and because of the race and ethnic composition of immigrants to this country has shifted markedly during recent decades,” (3). That is true trying to be one thing is very hard in USA society has an effect of how you may become as the individual. If I were in another country they would just see as an American and nothing else, but the place that I was born and raised they see me as what my parents are Nigerians. I am not American because my parents are from Nigeria; this has been a very constant thing, because of several definitions of what it