How To Be An American Citizen

Decent Essays
I agree immigration is a major issue here in our country and if the government will never take a stand the problem will never be fixed and will only get worse. I recognize what you’re saying about giving everything to immigrants but they should be able to better themselves but not on taxpayer’s money. Me personally, I don’t know what it takes to become an American citizen but I agree if you our living here it should be done legally. You’re right that you should not receive any government assistance unless you our working towards becoming an American citizen. Since you work at a bank you would know more about a TIN number than I do. However if they are an undocumented worker that’s means they don’t have any documents so how could they pay taxes.

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The popular show “Orange Is the New Black” is a show off Netflix. One of my favorite character is Maritza Ramos. In real life, the actresses name is Diane Guerrero and she was born here in America. Her parents and older brother were born in Colombia and immigrated here before she was born. When she was 14, she was coming home from school, saw that the dinner was ready, lights were on but her family wasn’t anywhere to be found.…

    • 1121 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Many United States citizens argue that undocumented immigrants do not pay taxes. That these immigrants are utilizing the resource that citizens pay for, but are not paying taxes to use them. There have been props that have backed this argument up including prop 187 which was an an obstacle against illegal immigrants from using public services for example allowing them to attend public schools or having health care because of the fact that many citizens mentioned that if undocumented individuals did not pay for it then why should they use it? Well, the problem there could be that the country would have a less educated community and education is an extremely valuable tool if advancements in life are desired. Another problem is that healthcare should be a right and everyone should have access to it no matter what.…

    • 1719 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Julissa Arce came from an unassuming background to a highly ranked employee at Goldman Sachs. Her story started in San Antonio where she went to a Catholic school. She eventually got placed in the honors track. However, many people did not like that she was originally from Mexico. One classmate had even asked how a Mexican could possibly keep up.…

    • 1248 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In this essay I will be talking about what it means to be an American. Being American means having the opportunity to choose a career you want to .In mexico they have very few jobs available. People in Mexico don't have many opportunities as we do here.as an American Being American means. It means that you can pick what job that you want go into.…

    • 335 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What does it mean to be an American? That is the question that many people ask, but do not know the real answer. Everyone will have their own opinion on what it means to be a true American. Some may say pride, some may say fearlessness, some may say determination, but to me the most important word that I could use to describe what it means to be an American is a family. We work so hard together as a nation to keep America going strong and become unstoppable.…

    • 646 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What does it mean to be an American? This is a very basic question with a not very basic answer. As tensions with people of all different skin colors and very different belief systems erupt the definition of what an American is lost among the arguments or for some is never even found. The American can be described by some people as a person who has citizenship by their birth or by their life in the United States. As I walk among the streets of California there is no way of knowing if everyone walking around is an American because there is no face that every American shares, some Americans originate from Africa while others may hail from China or from Japan.…

    • 220 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The United States of America: a land of opportunity, freedom, and justice. As an immigrant, I can say with certainty that there is no other place in the world that I would rather live in other than the United States. Becoming an American citizen has been by far one of the best things that have ever happened to me, not only because of having a legal status, but because of the quality of life that I can achieve for my family and for myself. All of this is possible thanks to the freedoms and the rights that we enjoy as citizens of this great nation, and that are showcased on four major historical documents that reflect the values and ideas that continue to shape our society: the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, the Declaration…

    • 184 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What it means to be an American The majority of Americans would say their country, United States of America, is the greatest country on the face of the planet. However, it wasn’t always like this. Many of the bravest leaders who have ever lived, our ancestors, took part in fighting for the privileges and freedoms we Americans receive today. These courageous men and women stood up against what was wrong, and fought for what was right.…

    • 868 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What does it mean to be an American? What ideas and experiences define being an American? These are questions that people living in the United States occasionally ask themselves. Some individuals simply choose to define being an American as simply living on United States soil, while alternatively certain Americans wish to limit being an American to a more legal definition – such as legally being a citizen in the country or the rights we are given. Others choose to find more personal definitions to answer the question of what it means to be an American.…

    • 609 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Illegal immigration is currently one of the most widely discussed topics. It seems like everyone has an opinion on this controversial subject. They are getting deported, sent to prison, and leaving behind families. Deserving illegals should be granted the right to remain in America because they pay the same taxes as U.S. citizens, help boost the economy, and families will not be separated. This is why Congress should give deserving undocumented migrants residency cards.…

    • 773 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Unocumented Immigration

    • 461 Words
    • 2 Pages

    It is estimated that undocumented immigrants' lower wages by approximately 3 to 8 percent for low-skill jobs. Furthermore, Americans who compete with immigrants for these jobs stand to make an additional $25 a week if undocumented immigration were to be severely cut down. One of the other most common arguments that comes with undocumented immigration is the use of government services. Most undocumented workers are not subject to federal tax deductions because they are normally paid in cash, so many people argue that these immigrants are costing our government a large amount of money by receiving benefits such as education, health care, food…

    • 461 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Becoming An Immigrant

    • 727 Words
    • 3 Pages

    It is argued that immigrants should have to assimilate to the culture of the new country they are migrating to rather than not assimilating and going about their daily lives the way they normally do. However, not very many people discuss the ways in which immigrants can learn how to assimilate and what assimilating in entails. Learning the language of the new country is just one step in integrating into that country, along with becoming a citizen and the steps that come with it, and getting any documents you may need for that country. Along with German, Spanish, Italian, French, and Dutch, English is one of the easiest languages to learn.…

    • 727 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    How To Become An Immigrant

    • 1893 Words
    • 8 Pages

    I was born and raised in Bakersfield California on September 19, 1992 in Kern Medical Center shortly after midnight. I would not be in Bakersfield if it were not for my grandparent packing up and moving from Mississippi with 6 children inside of a van. My grandfather Cardell Martin was born in a little town outside of Greenville, Mississippi and my grandmother was born and raised inside in Greenville, Mississippi. My grandfather worked in the fields and well as my grandmother who picked cotton on some plantations growing up in the South. They met each other at a baseball game which was the sport of choice in the south around the time in which they grew up in.…

    • 1893 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    wages and new demands on school, hospitals, and other public services” (Grow et. al. 2). Many illegal immigrants work in the United States illegally to provide for their families coming from Mexico with little money to live with. Many illegal immigrants lack important documents citizens need such as a social security number. Illegal immigrants have to sign up for identification cards, matricula consular, which some banks, credit card companies, and car loaners allow use for undocumented immigrants.…

    • 797 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    William Gheen, president of ALIPAC — a group against illegal immigration and amnesty — asserts that illegal immigrants are “breaking our laws and yet as taxpayers we are forced to pay for their education, their healthcare needs ... and increased costs in our courts and prisons,” while the “anti-reform” groups claim without reserve undocumented people benefit more from taxpayers money than citizens do, immigrants could not pay taxes even if they wanted to, simply because they are not registered in the system. This is yet another reason for the government to consider putting in practice a reform that benefits both…

    • 1011 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays