Unauthorized Immigration Essay

Through out the years 2000 and 2010 the number of immigrants has rapidly increased raising up many questions. Because of unauthorized immigrant parent’s, children are becoming the target of their decisions, and have been struggling to over come the barriers that came across them because of being immigrants. The number of children that are beginning to suffer from this, have been off the chart, over 16 million children in the age of 17 years and younger are members of an immigrant family (Mather, 2009). (Mather, 2009) mentions that there is a high possibility chance that the children of immigrants parents will be living low salary income. Founded by researchers, the highest percent of immigrant families are Asian or Latino. As said, many children wish to accomplish many …show more content…
To prove how unauthorized immigrants, have an impact on their children’s well-being they presented a study gathering 40 families from the north central Indianan and interviewing each family member including, children, parents, and any other relatives living in the household. The interview was based on open-ended questions and experiences of the parents, as of the children and relatives they would just give a brief life story experience. As the test were presented, at least from all the 40 families that were interview one of them was an unauthorized immigrant, or the two parents were and had a household of 5 or more. With these studies as well, we were able to confirm that most of the families where Mexicans. Over all, with these test we were also were able to conclude that being a child of an unauthorized does have an impact on the child’s well-being because of immigration legislation and how it affects emotionally and mentally children’s privacy, and shows the highlights of the lives of undocumented families. More importantly this has shown that many unauthorized parents will do what it takes to see their children education, medical, and personal life succeed for them they will come out and