Alea Cekalla
Growing up I was never really surrounded by any sort of diversity. I come from a small town in central Minnesota living in a population that is 8,000 people with 98% of those people being white. Before coming to college, I was not really educated on immigration policies, or what immigration fully entailed. If you were to ask me four years ago my thoughts on immigration, I would have said “I wouldn’t let anyone new into our country.” I would mainly provide this response because at that time I was uneducated. Now at this point in my life, I believe immigration is what keeps this country alive. I believe without “The American Dream”, we would not be where we are as a country today. America is all about freedom and that’s the sole reason why people decide to become citizens or travel illegally into this country. I do have small fears of safety with everything that has gone on in the last year, but I believe as a country we should support ways to create new opportunities for immigrants while keeping it legal. Although I believe it should be a legal process, if people do …show more content…
I really enjoyed and agreed with this article and video very much. The video posed the question “Should there be a path to legal status or citizenship for undocumented immigrants?” I stand with this question one-hundred percent, and I’m glad the video made the point to address such question. The video addresses awesome questions that bring up points about under what laws and what circumstances these illegal immigrants could become legal. After looking at our background knowledge that those who are foreign provide growth for workplaces, it makes me wonder why as a nation we do not take extra steps to helping those illegal workers become legal. If we took those 13% of the population and turned them into legals, it would bring so much work and that much more intelligence into our
Growing up I was never really surrounded by any sort of diversity. I come from a small town in central Minnesota living in a population that is 8,000 people with 98% of those people being white. Before coming to college, I was not really educated on immigration policies, or what immigration fully entailed. If you were to ask me four years ago my thoughts on immigration, I would have said “I wouldn’t let anyone new into our country.” I would mainly provide this response because at that time I was uneducated. Now at this point in my life, I believe immigration is what keeps this country alive. I believe without “The American Dream”, we would not be where we are as a country today. America is all about freedom and that’s the sole reason why people decide to become citizens or travel illegally into this country. I do have small fears of safety with everything that has gone on in the last year, but I believe as a country we should support ways to create new opportunities for immigrants while keeping it legal. Although I believe it should be a legal process, if people do …show more content…
I really enjoyed and agreed with this article and video very much. The video posed the question “Should there be a path to legal status or citizenship for undocumented immigrants?” I stand with this question one-hundred percent, and I’m glad the video made the point to address such question. The video addresses awesome questions that bring up points about under what laws and what circumstances these illegal immigrants could become legal. After looking at our background knowledge that those who are foreign provide growth for workplaces, it makes me wonder why as a nation we do not take extra steps to helping those illegal workers become legal. If we took those 13% of the population and turned them into legals, it would bring so much work and that much more intelligence into our