The immigration problem has decreased since 2000. In 2000, the immigration got to its peak, reaching 770,000 immigrants. Since then, it has decreased, in 2010, it got to 140,000. 29% of the 41.3 million foreign-born in the United States in 2013 entered between 2000 and 2009, 10 percent have entered since 2010, and the majority (61 percent) entered before 2000. By 2013 the number increased again to 322,000 immigrants.
Not everyone crosses the border legally, according to the Migration Policy Institute, around 8.1 million unauthorized immigrants in the 2008-12 period were born in Mexico and other Central American countries. Illegal immigrants cross through the Rio Grande Valley, they navigate tall sugarcane to make to the shore. This path is …show more content…
Making Mexico a barrier against immigrants.
There are many reasons why someone might have to move to the other side. As the Mexican General Law of Population says, it is mostly for economic purposes. This way, if one member of the family travels, he can support the rest of the family sending money. This money is Mexico’s highest percentage income. Living as an undocumented immigrant in the US might not be easy, getting work, mainly, should be hard. That’s why immigrant work force is cheap. Living with the fear of getting caught.
I don’t think it is easy to get a legal work permit, it has always been difficult. There are only two categories of people that can’t work legally in the US; tourists and undocumented immigrants. You can’t actually hire someone, that in papers, says he’s not there, in the case of undocumented immigrants.
I have lived in a city for a month with little knowledge of the language, I lived in France with a family for a month. I would go to school and everything, the first week I remember I had several problems communicating. But then, I started to understand the language, but still I wasn’t able to speak
Not everyone crosses the border legally, according to the Migration Policy Institute, around 8.1 million unauthorized immigrants in the 2008-12 period were born in Mexico and other Central American countries. Illegal immigrants cross through the Rio Grande Valley, they navigate tall sugarcane to make to the shore. This path is …show more content…
Making Mexico a barrier against immigrants.
There are many reasons why someone might have to move to the other side. As the Mexican General Law of Population says, it is mostly for economic purposes. This way, if one member of the family travels, he can support the rest of the family sending money. This money is Mexico’s highest percentage income. Living as an undocumented immigrant in the US might not be easy, getting work, mainly, should be hard. That’s why immigrant work force is cheap. Living with the fear of getting caught.
I don’t think it is easy to get a legal work permit, it has always been difficult. There are only two categories of people that can’t work legally in the US; tourists and undocumented immigrants. You can’t actually hire someone, that in papers, says he’s not there, in the case of undocumented immigrants.
I have lived in a city for a month with little knowledge of the language, I lived in France with a family for a month. I would go to school and everything, the first week I remember I had several problems communicating. But then, I started to understand the language, but still I wasn’t able to speak