Immigrants Should Receive Their Education

It does our country no good to prevent children from receiving their education because they are the future. We are only hurting ourselves by preventing the new era from growing and helping to expand our wonderful country. If an illegal immigrant, particularly a young one, wants to get an American education it should be considered a path to citizenship. Children should not be punished simply because they weren’t born here or because their parents weren’t born in America. However, regardless of their academic role they should always have the intent on becoming a citizen and a productive member of US society. According to African Immigrants Have the Highest Academic Achievements in the US,” In 1997, 19.4 percent of all adult African immigrants in the United States held a graduate degree, compared to 8.1 percent of adult whites and 3.8 percent of adult blacks in the United States, respectively.” This is a significant difference in the difference of American citizens scores and immigrants scores. …show more content…
America has made it a law to require citizens to attend elementary and middle school, so why stop the education when there are children out their who wish to further it. According to Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education, “Community colleges enroll almost half of all U.S. undergraduates, or 6.5 million students, and one-quarter (24%) of these students come from an immigrant background.” This number is surprisingly huge, most community colleges are not even that big and if so that’s almost if not a quarter of the colleges population. Allowing these people to attend our schools will create more diversity throughout the school systems as well. In general, immigrant youth and parents have higher educational aspirations than do natives of the same ethnic