Resident Aliens

Of all the various ethnicities in America one of the most targeted of all time is the Mexican community. Some may wonder why that may be, since they are one of our closest neighboring countries and we often have a respectable relationship with the government. When we hear about immigrants, we unfortunately don’t think of them as American citizens, when in reality we should treat them equal to us because this group of citizens are the ones that make America great. Throughout the United States’…

An immigrant is a person who comes to America from another country. Sometimes immigrants would come in large sips from Europe. These conditions might not work in their favor, if a lot of people were on the boat you were probably packed in small area like a can of sardines. All of these new people would add to the melting pot we call America. A melting pot is a bunch of cultures blended into one. People from all around the world would want to come to America for lots of different reasons,…

The great Armenian migration to America happened in three waves beginning in the 1890s. During the troubled final years of the Ottoman Empire, its prosperous Christian minorities becoming the targets of violent Turkish nationalism. A second wave of migration came after World War 1 , and the third wave began after World War 2. The first wave of Armenians in America flooded into the greater Boston and New York, where nearly 90% of the immigrants joined the handful of relatives or friends who had…

Steven Camarota states, “If illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes and use services like households headed by legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual net fiscal deficit would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net…

Immigration in the United States The United States hosts the largest immigrant population in the world, yet our current immigration system is broken and crumbling below our feet. An H1-B visa holder is allowed temporary status as a foreign worker for a U.S. employer. The H1-B Visa workers program is abusive because it uses immigrants for their labor but they continue to be put through the bureaucratic limbo of our currently broken immigration system. The system that immigrants are put through…

The overview of this chapter of the novel Outliers is showing how Jewish people were not able to become lawyers and how they started their own firms and became wealthy. Joe Flom is a lawyer, and a partner of his own law firm. In the first section “The Importance of being Jewish”, Jewish immigrants came to America in the late 1800’s with no money and made a living for themselves. The children of these Jewish immigrants became either lawyers or doctors because of the analytical luck they were…

It seems that the passage of time is a factor to consider when you are discussing the issue of illegal immigration. I think it’s a logical part of the conversation only if it’s used appropriately. Joseph H Carens a professor of political science at the university of Toronto has commonly used the theme of time in his article, the case for amnesty. Caren’s states a moral claim that time erodes the states right to deport illegal immigrants. He uses a very convincing approach to lure the reader to…

Deportation and Stopping Immigrants Enforcing the law for immigration has being in the news lately. Especially in the debate between Clinton and Trump. There is a lot of reasons on why people think that illegal immigrants should be deported, a lot of immigrants have being deported, and there is ways to try and keep them off the country. Illegal immigrants should be deported and kept out for three main reasons. First, they pose a threat to the safety of legal citizens in areas where there are…

1. If I happened to be in the situation I would not be happy about it. First, I would no be happy with my parents because they should have told me the truth. I am not mad at my parents because our family are undocumented, the reason why I would not be happy is because these whole 18 years I did not know that I am not a United States American citizens. Second I would be mad at the government because our family has been in the United States for a long time. We should be able to get our citizenship…

Immigrant workers come to America in search of a better life. However, when they arrive they are faced with many hardships: inability to speak English, discrimination, and unfair wages in the worst jobs available. Due to earning low wages, immigrants live in unacceptable housing conditions. Because of their illegal status in the United States, immigrants are constantly taken advantage of. In spite of all the pain and suffering, field workers still work very hard to pick the fruits and vegetables…