Challenges Illegal Immigrants Face In The US

Sheila Pardo

Ms. Ramirez

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23 November 2016

The challenges Illegal Immigrants face in the U.S

For thousands of years, humans have been migrating from place to place; so why is it being viewed in a different way? For example in the past two centenaries to the U.S has shifted from an open door policy to having to go through strenuous trials to legally gain residency in the states. Illegal immigrants who migrate to the U.S go through so many challenges. Some people in the U.S feel that immigrants are taking their jobs but that is not the case. There’s many jobs that illegal immigrants are willing to do even if it's physically straining and low income. Do to this low pay, immigrants don't make enough money to

have a stable home so they are always a low income family and will live in poverty. Immigrants who actually have degrees in their country come to the U.S to do a job less than what they have their degrees in like work in a field, or factories not that working there is bad but if they have degrees then why can’t they work in their field? It could be because they don’t speak the language or because they have a strong accents giving away that they’re foreign. Some kids who migrate here will struggle to fit in to American society because they don’t know the language coming to the U.S. and they will be academically behind so they have to have extra classes to what there already supposed to have, and would have to work extra hard just to catch up. Some immigrants will go through the struggle just to have the “American Dream” to make sure their kids have a better life than they did.
Immigrants tend to take the job none else wants. To them it doesn’t really matter what it is because they just want to bring money to their families. Even though they take the job, they face the challenge of very low pay and still have to support their families. Some will take less money for their work because they’re illegal here they’re working in fields, factories, dishwashers, construction etc. Some Immigrants are less likely to be hired at a professional job because of their status in the states. According to the article What Kind of Work Do Immigrants Do? Occupation and Industry of Foreign-Born Workers in the United States. Elizabeth Griecio states “Mexican and Central American workers are less likely to be employed in professional and related industries, and more likely to be employed in the construction and non-durable goods manufacturing industries.” Which is true because you’ll never see or hear that an illegal immigrant has an office job or has a professional career you only see them have back strenuous jobs that are long hours and low income. Some Americans actually believe that undocumented immigrants take their jobs but that’s not the case. According to Prof. Amelie F. she states that there is no harm for immigrants to work in the U.S. because they’re not taking anyone jobs, she said “a) self-employed migrants directly create new jobs; b) migrant innovators indirectly create jobs; c) new migrants fill labor shortages and lubricate the labor markets; d) the high-skilled contribute to technological adaptation and the low-skilled to occupational mobility, specialization, and human capital creation thus creating new jobs; e) by raising demand, immigrants cause firms to expand and hire more workers.” Immigrants make 12.9 percent of the population today in the U.S. They work everywhere around the U.S. They work in big corporations that are huge in the U.S like McDonalds, Walmart, Coca-Cola Company.

Many immigrants that come to the U.S might have type of higher education or they might have might have some type of degree in their country, but when they come to this country it doesn’t count. When illegal immigrants migrate to this country they have to start from scratch. Back in their country they could be a lawyer, doctor, teacher, nurse etc… they could have a professional carrier but when they want to continue that carrier path here they can they struggle to find a job because of their accent or because ether don’t speak the language or because of their legal residency, there’s a lot of things that disqualifies them from professional employment. They might be super intelligent but they also have a lot of thing on them saying they’re foreign and people could tell as soon as they start speaking. In the reading

Immigrants come to this country to have a better life to make sure their kids would also have a better life and a good education and be something better than they were.

They want to see their kids have a professional career. But many kids coming to the U.S face the biggest challenge of learning a new language a language that’s foreign to them. Many kids migrating to the US struggle to fit in because they come to this country not knowing the language and they have to enroll into school and have to adjust a new school system. According to the article as immigration resurges U.S public schools help children find their footing written by Emma Brown states that “many new arrivals don't speak much English and are behind academically. They often come with scars, having fled desperate poverty or violence or both. Many endured difficult journeys, sometimes leaving their family behind or rejoining parents in the United States after years of separation.” When kids migrate they deal with a lot because it is hard for them to adapt to the education system in the United States. It's hard for them because they have to go through many obstacles to understand the basic knowledge. Whether it be academically or the English language they have to take extra classes outside the classes already needed just to keep up with the rest of the

classmates.
Finally, the challenges that illegal immigrants face in the US would always be hard on the immigrant because they have to fit in to their new world.

They have to get accustomed to the American life, some adults struggle with getting a job here because they might have an accent and don’t know the language. So even if they have some sort of higher education from their country it wouldn’t count here because of the language barrier and because the teachings are different. Some immigrants will settle for something less job wise it could be physically straining and low paying but they will settle because the need the money to keep their families alive but that’s why they encourage their kids to get a higher education but some immigrant students will also face challenges because they have to learn a new language and have to adjust to a different school system. That’s why I have so much respect for families that have the courage to illegally migrate to the U.S because they have to adjust to a new

world.

Work Cited
1. Constant, Ph.D. Prof. Amelie F. "5 Reasons Why Immigrants Do Not Take Natives' Jobs." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 27 Aug. 2015. Web. 12 Nov. 2016.
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2. Grieco, Elizabeth. "What Kind of Work Do Immigrants Do? Occupation and Industry of Foreign-Born Workers in the United States." Migrationpolicy.org. Migration Policy Institute, 12 Aug. 2015. Web. 9 Nov. 2016.
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/what-kind-work-do-immigrants-do-occupation-and-industry-foreign-born-workers-united-stats
3. Brown, Emma. "As Immigration Resurges, U.S. Public Schools Help Children Find Their Footing." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2016. Web. 12 Nov. 2016.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/as-immigration-resurges-us-public-schools-help-children-find-their-footing/2016/02/07/6855f652-cb55-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab993f_story.html