Immigration has always played a large role in American history. As a land of freedom and opportunity, lots of people immigrate for a richer and fuller life than they are able to achieve in their native country. Over the years the number of immigrants migrating in and out of the United States has changed drastically based on wars and the limiting quota laws Congress has passed. United States encouraged relatively open immigration to settle into its empty lands early in the 1900s. When a surplus of people came to the U.S, they created the national-origins quota system that puts a limit on the amount of people able to immigrate by nationality. The recession in the early 1900s caused a lot of anti-immigrant feelings among the lower-income Americans
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Some are given to students or capable workers and sometimes older family members who cannot contribute much and as a result are less profitable for the improvement for the economy. There are student visas for example where people come from another country and study here, access the same education available to Americans. But this is a temporary visa, meaning if you are not enrolled in school you are disqualified and need to leave the country. This pressure can at times make or break a great student, encouraging them to push further and study harder. After a person finishes a degree or certification they came here to obtain, most are eligible for a short term work visa, which allows them to gain experience in their field. This is something that can be taken advantage of very easily for the visa issuing country. If a person comes here to study, they pay two to three times more tuition, out of pocket, and they study a lot harder because for the students this is a change not many people in their situation gets. When this person ends up with a short work visa and ends up staying here, the United States has gained a very smart person in which they did not even invest in the education. As great as this is for the United States, this discourages potential geniuses from entering the country and as a result lots of great minds are lost because they are unable to afford the tuition. A report by the Technology Policy …show more content…
There are, of course, ways to become legalized. For example, when a person has made a life in this country, they have a family which includes a child born here as an American citizen. This child can later sponsor his or her parents to become citizens but only after the age of 21 years. By that time the government has lost a lot of money from the taxes that the illegal parents could have been paying. Also they can’t help the economy directly as they are not able to own homes, buy cars, or invest in
Some are given to students or capable workers and sometimes older family members who cannot contribute much and as a result are less profitable for the improvement for the economy. There are student visas for example where people come from another country and study here, access the same education available to Americans. But this is a temporary visa, meaning if you are not enrolled in school you are disqualified and need to leave the country. This pressure can at times make or break a great student, encouraging them to push further and study harder. After a person finishes a degree or certification they came here to obtain, most are eligible for a short term work visa, which allows them to gain experience in their field. This is something that can be taken advantage of very easily for the visa issuing country. If a person comes here to study, they pay two to three times more tuition, out of pocket, and they study a lot harder because for the students this is a change not many people in their situation gets. When this person ends up with a short work visa and ends up staying here, the United States has gained a very smart person in which they did not even invest in the education. As great as this is for the United States, this discourages potential geniuses from entering the country and as a result lots of great minds are lost because they are unable to afford the tuition. A report by the Technology Policy …show more content…
There are, of course, ways to become legalized. For example, when a person has made a life in this country, they have a family which includes a child born here as an American citizen. This child can later sponsor his or her parents to become citizens but only after the age of 21 years. By that time the government has lost a lot of money from the taxes that the illegal parents could have been paying. Also they can’t help the economy directly as they are not able to own homes, buy cars, or invest in