The Role Of Immigration In The United States

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Immigration in the United States has grabbed a lot of attention in recent months. Few game changing immigration reforms were brought into action by the president Obama to raise the United States economy. President Obama initiated “ Dream Act” on June 15 2012 also known as Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which was applicable to undocumented immigrants who were under age of 31 and the youth brought to the country as children, and entered United States before the age of 16 and lived in country for at least straight five years. Which helped lot of illegal immigrants to breathe in open air without any fear, and youths to have bright future, with contributed in income taxes to the state and local government. In facts recently, …show more content…
The United States is the third largest country in the world with the population 320 million; because of this it is one of the most culturally diverse country than any other countries in world. Just as culture around the world has influenced American culture, as a result today American culture influences the world. The term often heard “Western culture” refers broadly to the cultures of United States and Europe. Different groups of immigrants integrated in United States have their different traditions and customs. There is no official language of the United States; there are close to 300 languages are spoken in the United States. Spanish, Chinese, French, German, are among one of the most spoken languages. Furthermore U.S. Census Bureau divides those languages into few categories such as indo European languages such as French, German, Russian, Polish, Italian, Swedish, Yiddish, Hindi, Punjabi, Greek and several others. Asian and pacific island languages include Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, and Tamil etc. Lastly all other languages will include the general languages, which would not fit in above-mentioned categories will be Hungarian, Arabic, and Hebrew. It does help the economy of the United States having diversified languages to clear issues of language barriers dealing overseas with …show more content…
Looks like there are many benefits to be enjoyed from the immigrants and many benefits given to the immigrants and their families, who migrated to the United States. In term of economically the United States is getting large number of smartest, brilliant, and high skilled immigrants for the economic welfare, and many young entrepreneurs, who are migrating to united states seeking better future and safety of their future, which would help the United states in uplifting the economy. Where as in other hand the United States needs to just provide support and motivation towards them. Secondly in terms of Politically, the United States is still getting good amount of taxes from the legal Residence and as well as from illegal residence. In order to maintain the economic welfare there should be more possible open door policies and immigration reforms should be brought under spotlight to provide them legal status, which would benefits the United states in term of local and state taxes, property taxes, and Income taxes from the illegal immigrants. Lastly in term of culturally, since the United States is know as an diversified and multicultural country, where different group of immigrants migrated from different corners of world with flavors of their culture and with different custom and tradition such as different immigrant group of people have their own languages, different ethnic group of

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