Essay On Present Day Immigrants

Normally we like to think that issues such as being a single parent or deplorable living conditions are only a present day issue. We like to think that things are bad today, but could get better tomorrow; however, most of the problems we have today are problems that people also faced one hundred years ago. If no drastic measures are taken then they will be issues that people will face one hundred years from today. After walking around the Lower East Side and visiting the Tenement Museum I was able further understand the difficulties that immigrants faced one hundred years ago. Present-day immigrants and immigrants from one hundred years ago face the same challenges: low wages, unsanitary and crowded homes, and fear of deportation (for those who entered undocumented). Hearing how Nathalie Gumpertz and her children were left by her husband without a warning and how that is still very common …show more content…
We criticize the government for not having been more involved in the regulation and improvement of the living conditions of the immigrant population both in their homes and in their lives outside of their homes. We wonder why the immigration system was not fixed as a means to eliminate all of the issues related to the system. We wonder why everyone made it so difficult to accept the new group of Americans into the nation; and why they made it so difficult for them to assimilate. If we really sit down to think about it, immigrants back then faced the same issues as immigrants today. What makes immigrants of the past different from the immigrants of today? Is it perhaps that they come from a generally different part of the world? Is any group better than the other? Will people one hundred years from now ask why our government did not regulate and improve the living conditions of immigrants