Immigration: From Illegal Immigrants To America

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Brenda Lee Márquez
Professor Chema Guijarro
English 9 R
October 16
Immigration is America
Immigrants to the United States come from all around the world such as Mexico,South America, and Latin America.An estimate of 56% of illegal immigrants came from Mexico,22% from Latin America, and the remainders came from the rest of the world.This fact is stated to appreciate that a large number of these immigrants are workers.I think that Without immigration, America would not even be the land it is today. Immigration can be defined as the act of immigrating. Which means to move to another country where you were not born in or which you are not a native of and the new country is your new residence. This act of leaving the grounds and moving
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As a result, immigration was a problem for many people around the world. The society establish a protocol for immigrants, the people who passed the protocol where called legal immigrants. There were people who couldn’t pass the protocol, but they came in the country one way or another. These people are known as illegal immigrants. The motives can be anything such as better living conditions, educations and jobs.
Immigrants move to United States for have better living conditions.A lot of immigrants live their countries for a variety of national problems, violence , religion, housing and corruption.In my opinion I think that it is good that people immigrate to the United States because people who immigrate are people looking for a better life.Other countries like Mexico have a lot of
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The majority of these immigrants have not completed high school as compared to 9% of their counterpart among the American natives. This makes almost half of them below the basic standard of education that makes someone eligible for the majority of low jobs. Not only their own education level is low but they are believed to be causing damage to the US economy by utilizing the spending for public education funds institutes.This can be more supported by the fact that the percentage of natives who did not graduate high school have better jobs. The legal immigrants are remarkably better in education status. Low education means they can only qualify for jobs that require a low education level.I believe that illegals immigrants should be allow to have better opportunity in education. Illegals immigrants only are allow to graduated from high school. I think that if they have the opportunity to have a college education they could contribute more to society.Some immigrants also came to the united states for better schools , because in their countries don’t have prestigious schools.Other immigrants also come for finish a career or just to learn another

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