...job we were pretty much living off of the little bit of money that we had brought with us and the money that my mother was making at her new job. It wasn’t much but at least it was serving its purpose for the time being. With both of my parents now working and my sister and I going to school things started to seem as if they were falling into place. We started to get a hold of life but we would agree that living in America was nothing like life back home, in fact it was getting to the point where we started to believe that everything that was said about America wasn’t actually true. Yes, there were opportunities because we would hear of them all of the time but for whatever reason they were not coming to me and my family and so we wondered how come people would say so much stuff about ...
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...Why is there a fear of immigrants in the united states? Many people can formulate an answer to why it is fear. But if we are all human beings, why is there a fear? To subside the fear of immigrants, I propose to create Foreign Support Centers in Foreign countries and the united states that teach immigrants how to become a united states citizen and the united states history. This proposal is beneficial because it would increase citizenship, produce diversity, and create connections between the united states and other countries. To begin with, I propose to create Foreign Support Centers in foreign countries and the united states that teach immigrants how to become a united states citizen and the united states history because it would increase...
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...Currently, 26% or 81 million people living in the United States are immigrants or their American-born children. How did these people get here? There are many laws to allow immigrants to move to the United States. The USA is a country for immigrants wanting a better life, but not all are welcome. These laws restrict immigrants from the United States. Only 675,000 immigrants are allowed access to the United States every year according to the Immigration Act of 1990. (pg. 10) Current immigrant laws need to be reformed so that more immigrants can be allowed into the US, there will be a better way to decide which and how many refugees can come, and illegal immigrants have an easier way to become a US citizen. 675,000 is the cap for number of immigrants...
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...Americans live their lives day to day without acknowledging the problems in our immigration system. Many immigrants that come over into the U.S are not properly taught our culture or American lifestyle. This plays a major role to men specifically, who come to the U.S for new job opportunities. How can someone work on American soil and not know how to speak the language or know how to fit in? Project Xi, a funded Government project, plans to change this by providing men with courses that will teach them how to speak English, convert to American lifestyle, and job training. Americans are the ones who can aid immigrants in the process of them moving into the U.S. We live here and know the ropes better than someone who has never been to the country....
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...How immigrants become citizens In the article “Immigrant Identities, Preserved in Vinegar?” in The New York Times newspaper Jane Ziegelman wrote about beginning of the last century when America faced with lots of immigrants who ate very seasoned food that was unusual for locals. Also the author wrote about assimilating the immigrants by the government. I highlighted the main question of the text: What makes an immigrant a citizen? And I surely know the answer. It is Assimilation, that includes a lot of things. First of all, to assimilate an immigrant must speak local language in his everyday life. Language is the most important part of assimilation. Without speaking local language, like English in USA, an individual is not able to communicate with people around him. Without ability to communicate with others, an immigrant can not get a job, buy anything, ask others for help, etc. People use language to say others what they need, to do any work together, in general to live in society, be a part of it. For example, there are some people in USA who doesn’t really speak English, like people of Brighton Beach, Chinatown in New York City or another “national districts”. People there can not go and do anything outside of their neighborhood. They can’t get a well-paid job in rich neighborhoods like Downtown. So, the first thing an immigrant must do to become a part of the society and assimilate is to learn local language as well as he can. Also, assimilation includes eating...
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...started when New York began to register and tax immigrants in 1824 (Welch). Since then, policies regarding illegal immigration have changed, and an increased overall number of immigrants coming to the US caused policies to become more oppressive. There has also been struggles including policies that affect children and how to properly help undocumented children while considering what is morally best for the child. Due to issues with the policies regarding illegal immigration, there is controversy...
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...Milton Friedman has given quite an insight on how he feels about what America was, what America has become, and what America should be. He focuses his ideas around legal and illegal immigrants and how the laws affect America when dealing with them as a working class. In some sense, the comments that he made were a bit insulting, while on the other hand, the comments were a bit amusing at best. These views are view that I would expect a comedian to address in stand-up than what I would expect a public speaker to verbalize to bluntly. He starts be addressing how immigrants today differ from the immigrants from a few decades ago. He states that in the 40’s the immigrants were welcomed because they came to America looking to work and were willing to take the jobs that no other American wanted. These jobs included agriculture and other labor intensive jobs. He then continued by saying that illegal immigrants were the ones that would take on these jobs, but as states began to legalize immigration, it made possible the ability for immigrants to come to America and become civilian who are able to stay at home and receive a check legally. He is against this because he feels that now immigrants are coming to America legally to get a free check instead of coming to America illegally to earn a living. I don’t believe he is saying to drive immigrant out by making immigration illegal. However, he is saying that illegal immigrants made America better by working the jobs that no...
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...complex social phenomena that has far reaching effects for not only immigrants to this country but also for natives. The United States of America possesses a love-hate relationship with immigration. On one side immigrants are depicted as hardworking and contributing unique cultural perspectives towards American culture in a meaningful way. We applaud the immigrant's courage, their willingness to work hard, the love of family,their never ending quest for freedom and the undeniable hopefulness of their spirits. On the other hand immigrants are often depicted as lazy and as stealing job opportunities from hardworking Americans. America has always had this love-hate relationship with immigrants, in fact this...
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...Immigrants should not be allowed in this country. I am pretty sure every selfish American still has that thought in their head. I found out that they are roughly 11.9 million immigrants living the in the United States. All of those people left their homelands to come to American for a better life. They never though for once that coming here would be such a struggle, and how they will be humiliated by others who are citizen of America. Immigration is a common issue in the United States Every person should have the right to have the chance to have a better life. It is one of the main reasons why people come to the United States, to have freedom of religion, to have better paying jobs, and to have a proper education. Where you are born does not have a lot of impact with who you become. When coming to America from another country like Africa, or like me coming from Haiti, it is a hard transition. There is a lot to take in, with learning English and being around another race. Other race put a lot of pride into representing they come from. Where I was born has little to do with it. My heritage and my ancestry go with me wherever I go. When asked to describe myself, Haitian is a word I most likely choose first. I say Haitian before I begin to use words like strong willed, independent or trustworthy. Being that I use Haitian before any other characteristic goes to show that being Haitian shapes me to whom I am. Living in American for ten years, I learned about American culture. American...
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...Jenny Gutierrez First Draft Hazard March 14, 2016 Obstacles Immigrants aren’t evil like most Americans believe, they are human beings that are trying to make a better living for themselves. Living and growing up with immigrants, makes the world be portrayed though a different lenses. Immigrants live on constant fear of being deported, even when they have not done any criminal activity. Immigrants pay attention to the news, for any laws that may affect them or benefit them in any way. However, most laws or people are against immigrants, for the prejudice that are set for these immigrants. There is “41.3 million immigrants lived in the United States in 2013, accounting for 13 percent of the overall U.S. population” (Zong).Theirs Mexican, Muslim, Chinese and many other races that are in the United States and each of them have had an obstacle here in the United States. This country is known for welcoming others, having people achieve the American dream. But the government and the people seem to say otherwise, because most of these immigrants do not come close to that dream others talk about. Hearing immigrants story about how in their native country people think that America is glory, the best of the best, because the American dream is a dream everyone can accomplish. This dream is less likely to be reached by immigrants with the obstacles they have. One obstacle is obtaining citizenship, this process takes years to develop and get granted. The laws that make it hard for...
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...believe that in order to fix the immigration policy, the borders will have to be more secured, but also still allow immigrants to enter the U.S. through background checks of their criminal records, family history and past jobs to see if they are eligible to be a U.S citizen. If this was taken into effect, it would support both the U.S. economically and socially. The immigrants would be able to fill many of the open jobs that others won't’ and and they will also bring their culture to the U.S. and it would spread. One major aspect of the immigration policy is that people who lived in the U.S for a few years should be able to stay if they follow all the laws so that they could become citizens. Immigrants boost our economy due to how they can create their own jobs, open businesses, and they can boost the earnings of the people in the U.S. so if people who already live in the U.S gets deported, it would just hurt both the immigrants and the people of the U.S. As Obama said in his speech about the immigration policy in 2014, he described how “ If you’ve been in America for more than five years; if you have children who are American citizens or legal residents; if...
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...Boarder security in the United States of America has been a big topic of discussion for many years. Many bills and laws have been passed, denied, or ignored completely. One in particular is currently still fighting to become law, though. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act was introduced in the United States Senate on April 16th, 2013, and was proposed by Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York. The bill has been approved and passed by the Senate, but still lies in wait to be approved by the House, and by the President, before becoming an official law. This bill, if passed, will make it possible for immigrants to live in the United States legally. They will gain legal statues, and then become official citizens. This bill will also tighten boarder control, adding 40,000 more patrol agents. Visas as well will be affected, creating new ones for entrepreneurs, as well as lower skilled workers. The bill will require roughly $46.3 billion for border enforcement alone, making its chance of becoming a law rather slim. Despite the cost, this bill should be put into law because its overall effect is much greater than the monetary worth. If this was to become law, the lives of many people could be improved. Most immigrants will be coming in from Mexico in search for a better life for their families. Mexico’s position is not as well as America’s, and the people there can barely afford to live. Crime is high, and opportunities or low. In...
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...An astonishing number of 30,000 to 40,000 immigrants are deported each year. Immigrants have become a large amount of the population that it is no longer an issue that can’t be addressed. Many speculate that we need to do something about the growing amount. Some have suggested deportation of these individuals while others are trying to see what they can do to better the country. It is often debated if illegal immigrants should get citizenship or not. Many have argued that it’s not right and that illegal aliens need to stay on their side of the line while others say they should be granted citizenship for what they do. Illegal immigrants should be able to become citizens, because it creates better opportunities and is a great reward for their...
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...out facts in his article, while Menand is less fact based and seems to merely indicate Huntington is wrong because Menand thinks so. Pointing to key aspects of Huntington’s argument and how Menand ‘refutes’ them will show that his opinion is less factual. Where as Menand uses his interpretation of what Huntington basis his writings on to form his conclusions. In Huntington’s article, One Nation Out of Many, Huntington chronologically goes thru the immigration of the United States detailing how early immigrants had a desire to become American in both nationality and core culture. He illustrates how American business and government used their resources to assist in the teaching of immigrants both the language and culture. It was a time when an industrial powerhouse like Ford Motor Company was thinking in line with US Government, both creating schools that taught “American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.” Huntington goes further to explain how immigrants had a desire no only to assimilate, but how they internally believe in the United States as their Country. The decline of this belief in Core Culture is explained by way of Government trying to move to a multicultural position even as the American public remains strong to the Core Culture. Huntington details how in several cases the Government was out of touch with the voters. Where both presidential candidates in 1988 opposed official English language measures on ballots in Florida, Arizona,...
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...Americans. Is that normal or just outright wrong? In today’s society Immigration has become more relevant that it ever has before. Due to certain circumstances such as Donald Trump being sworn in as the United States President; the United States has faced more open racists than ever before. People are starting to be more openly racists is because their leader is accepting of them and is too racist. Although, racists today seem to be targeting certain people such as immigrants. The United States seems to be slowly taking all immigrants out of the United States whether they have lived here...
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