The Pros And Cons Of Immigration Reform

Immigration reform has created several arguments. And most of them center on a simple question: “Is immigration good or bad for the U.S.?” “Immigrants Bolster Academic and Civic Engagement in the U.S.” by Anne-Marie Nunez and “A Problem for Some School Districts” by James Meza Jr. are two articles in which the authors express their opinion about immigrants’ impact on U.S. society. Although both of the articles mention about the education for immigrant and want to suggest changes to education, their motivations to change, their solutions and their tones distinguish from each other.
First of all, their motivation to recommend making changes to education differs from each other. As written in the article, Nunez said that if immigrant students have the suitable help in education, they probably can succeed, which is an advantage for the economy. So Nunez wants the education to change because of the American economy. Unlike Nunez, Meza wants to change the education for immigrant students and American students. Based on Meza’s article, because undocumented children have finite English ability, they are …show more content…
In Nunez’s article, Nunez mentions a lot of advantages that immigrants bring to U.S. society such as immigrants add to the economy greatly, do well on several educational outcomes, significantly sustain U.S. work force’s population. She mainly focuses on positive effects of immigrants on American society and only gives a general solution that is to let immigrant students have suitable support in education. On the other hand, Meza’s solutions are more specific. He also suggests solutions for each issue. For example, to help behind level immigrant children keep pace with other same age children, he suggests giving them the same level of care with special-needs students. Likewise, so as to assess immigrant children’s needs, he suggests having more classrooms, teachers, advisers, money for transportation and extended year