Many people dream about living in the United States, where immigrants can earn a living and have the same rights as you and me. But, for one man who had a wife and a son; the dream of being a U.S. citizen was unrealistic. He worked long days in hot summer weather to cold frozen winters. He walked far distances to get to his job, working in a nursery day to-night. He earned less than five dollars an hour and lived in a small rundown apartment. The conditions in his job were tiring and dangerous. Always scared of being caught and deported back to his country, and he worried,”What will become of my wife and son if that happened?” He wanted his son to experience the “American Dream” and the joys and happiness of earning a living and having the …show more content…
same rights as everyone else. That man’s son, is me. Agriculture labor is a vast part of United States agriculture, but with a majority of workers being illegal immigrants, we need to reform our immigration policies, so many parents like my dad can live the American Dream. So what is an immigrant?
The dictionary definition for “immigrant” is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. Many jobs that immigrants come here to work is construction, food preparation, cleaning, maintenance job and especially agriculture. There are an estimate of 3 million migrant and seasonal farm workers in the United States. About 72% of the workers were born in a different country; which 68% of them were born in Mexico, 3% born in Central America and 1% born elsewhere. An estimate of 35% of them could not speak English at all and about 40% of farm workers stopped attending school after grade school. But, many ask why do immigrants want these jobs? Well the main answer is that a majority of these immigrants are uneducated to work in a higher paying job and would rather work in a hard low paid job. The National Farm Worker Ministry states that an average farm worker works for 42 hours in a week and earns $7.25 per hour. That is about $300 an illegal immigrant earns in a week. That means for they earn an average salary, working full-time, will have an income a little over …show more content…
$15,000. With this low-income many immigrants live in unsanitary homes. About 89% of migrant labor camps in the state of North Carolina had one or more violations against the Migrant Housing Act of North Carolina. As well there was study reported that an estimate of 78% of residents felt that they lived in a overcrowded living space. But, with these problems happening to illegal immigrants, many people think deporting will be easier and economically friendly. But, no. It costs $113 billion dollars for taxpayers for the cost of illegal immigrants in this country. But it costs more to deport over 11 million immigrants. It cost $400 to $600 billion dollars to deport all the immigrants. But if all immigrants were deported who is going to work in the agriculture jobs? The majority of agriculture jobs have immigrants or seasonal workers.
And if there is no immigrants or no seasonal workers that may cause a vast economical problem to our nation. A great example is when the state of Georgia passed the HB 87 bill or the Georgia Illegal Immigration Act of 2011. And in one year after this law passed Georgia lost an estimate of $140 million dollars in agriculture loss, and as well crops rotting in the fields. And now the state of Georgia is allowing real criminals from prisons to take over the jobs that immigrants had. But it’s not only Georgia, states like Florida, Utah, Oklahoma, and Arizona have strict immigration
laws. But many ask,”Will President Trump’s immigration plan will help the issue of immigration? Well, yes and no. Many of Trump’s plans for immigration like, the removal of sanctuary cities in the United States and the deportation of criminals, may help the country. But deporting millions of illegal immigrants, removing immigration policies DAPA and DACA and “building a wall,” are outrageous plans. If i was in charge to create a bill for new immigration policies. I’ll first have the border secured with a stronger and advanced border patrol. The second thing that I'll do is have all illegal immigrants that lived in the United States for a certain time and hasn't committed any crimes will get a legal path to citizenship. The third thing I'll do is deport all criminals that commit serious crimes. And the last thing I'll do is to working visas to be more available for people from different countries, so they can earn a living, but have to go back to their country after the season of their work ends. And including that all workers have a sanitary place to live and earn a good income so they don't need to live in poverty anymore. With these few solutions, we could help end the issue of immigration and as well help many to achieve the American Dream. Just like my dad, right now he has a working visa, he has a good job and earns a good income. And he is one step closer to be a U.S. citizen. My dad is a great example of what the American Dream is.
Throughout the course of my life, I have always encountered individuals wanting to better their economic situation especially those within my community. Those who come from impoverished communities in other countries risk their lives and lifetime savings to come to the United States hoping that one day they will regain everything that they lost. Their only motivation to come to this country is to be able to provide their family with basic necessities and in order to do this, they must work two or more jobs that pay at minimum wage and are taken for granted. However, many individuals do not see this side of the story and categorize immigrants as unambitious people. In order to be completely aware of what immigrants truly go through and how they succeed in life, one must be willing to place themselves in their shoes and hear his/her story. We must acknowledge that the hands of these people work in back breaking jobs in order to sustain their families. While some Americans may be against immigrants arriving to the United States in search of a better life and the American Dream, in The Madonnas of Echo Park, Brando Skyhorse further reveals that immigrants are exploited as cheap labor, and although they contribute greatly to the everyday function of American industry, they are quite invisible.
For many Mexican immigrants, crossing the border into the land of freedom and the American dream is no easy task. Some immigrants come over illegally by means of hiding in cars to cross borders, using visitor visas to stay longer, marrying to become citizens, and having babies as ‘anchors’ to grant automatic citizenship. Other immigrants gain green cards and work visas and work their way into becoming US citizens legally and subsequently gaining citizenship through paperwork for their families back home. After escaping harsh living and working conditions in Mexico, immigrants come to America prepared to gain education, opportunity, and work. This American dream unfortunately does not come to pass for most.
There are currently 11.7 million immigrants living in the U.S. The United States is now again being named the land of immigrants. The new century has been introduced to the illegal immigrant. They are desperate to get into the American culture and are forced to disobey the laws of government to assimilate themselves in America. People come over because they have family, jobs or want a better life. This may cause some problems for Americans. Certain Americans believe immigration will cause the economy to drop, drop to wages, and job loss due to cheap labor, etc. But no one has thought of a solution for immigration that will work effectively.
Since a long time ago immigrant families have been coming to the U.S. to seek a better life. The idea of the American Dream becomes shattered once they start dealing with all the obstacles to get to the United States from South or Central America. People start facing discrimination and are taken advantage of. Since their journey starts, immigrants face discrimination from everywhere they go; the people who help them cross over to the U.S. charge high amounts of money to help them come over. Once they get to the United States immigrants continue in the same pattern of being abused, and taken advantage of. It is important to mention that if people are moving from their own country of origin it must be because the conditions they are living in are worse than the ones they are willing to live in, by moving. People that decide to make the move and explore new ways of living are often faced with discrimination, wage-theft and poor health conditions. “Wage theft is particularly prevalent among immigrant workers, and ―work-related exploitation appears to be growing along with the country’s immigrant population.” (James Pinkerton,
Most immigrants usually fill essential service jobs in the economy, which are vacant. Unfortunately, like new immigrants throughout U.S. history, “they experience conditions that are commonly deprived, oppressive, and exploitive” (Conover, 2000). They are paid low wages with little potential for advancement, are subjected to hazardous working conditions, and are threatened with losing their jobs and even deportation if they voice dissatisfaction with the way they are treated. Many work several jobs to make ends meet. Many also live in substandard housing with abusive landlords, have few health cares options, and are victims of fraud and other crimes.
Immigration has been the topic of heated discussions for many years. With sides arguing how immigration is bad for the U.S. economy and then other sides counteracting those arguments with the idea of immigrants being people to and how they carry the right to find happiness. With those arguments Missouri State has really opened the eyes of many to the idea of immigration, and have helped them form their own opinion on it, by assigning the common reader Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario. The common reader gives us an inside look at what it is to be an immigrant, the risks they take, and the ultimate reward that can be achieved from it.
They have been very effective to the economy and keeping the undocumented aliens will improve the country in the future. One of the reasons to show how effective Illegal immigrants are to the economic system is the employment sector. Undocumented aliens are always ready and willing to work, especially doing the trades that most citizens are not will to do. An example of jobs done by illegal immigrants can includes house keepers, construction workers, janitors, agriculture and other food related businesses. The United State unemployment level is near 10 percent, a lot of people believe that illegals are taking jobs from the native, but when the United Farm Workers union launched a campaign offering to connect unemployed people to farm jobs, only three percent accepted the offer out of thousands of Americans that inquired (Steve Baragona). The analysis from United Farm Workers union gives evidence that Americans do not find most jobs suitable for their welling being, which results in employers hiring illegal workers as a
Who is an immigrant? An immigrant is a person who has a citizenship in one country but enters another country to set up as a permanent resident. Sometimes countries are suffering greatly from lack of leadership, internal strife or war, and a collapsed economy. This is the case in Somalia, as well as in Syria, Libya, and Yemen. Syrian people are moving to Europe in order to find a peaceful home. Mexican immigrants come to the US looking for jobs. The people then move to new countries where they don’t speak the national language. In America, when the immigrants come, there are many difficulties: cultural differences regarding time and scheduling, transportation issues, and language difficulties.
First am going to tell you what a immigrant is which is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. Immigrants have been a problem to our country for many years and things have gotten worse over time. The situation with President Trump in the White House has created less rights for immigrants. The laws about how a person can come to this country and become an American have three main components. A person can legally immigrate to the U.S. if he or she has family here. Secondly, if a job is waiting for the person he or she can come to the United States and work. Lastly, a person who is a refugee can apply
Illegal Immigrants take the low-paying jobs that most Americans don't want because of low wages. In the article Open Borders Improve the US Economy Gordon H Hanson, the director of the Center on emerging and Pacific Economies says that “Open border policies that encourage immigration promote economic growth. ... Low-skilled immigrants also contribute to productivity by performing domestic jobs that free up American workers to occupy high-skilled positions. The mobility of low-skilled immigrant workers also smoothes economic fluctuations in struggling communities. In truth, efforts to reduce illegal immigration are costly. Since the impact on public services remains unclear, making it easier for immigrants to participate in the American economy will lead to more economic benefits than costs.” (Gale). Low skilled immigrants provide higher skilled workers to have more time for work than doing chore related jobs. They help the economy by allowing the High skilled workers have more time for their job and increasing the productivity in High skilled jobs. Some people say that Illegal immigrants harm low wage workers, “High levels of immigration hurt U.S. citizens in the job market. Because the number of jobs available in this country is finite, every immigrant who takes a job is technically either throwing a native-born American out of work or blocking the hiring of an unemployed citizen. The effect of this is seen at all levels of American society, but most clearly among the poor. “(Currie 34). Illegal immigrants are taking jobs that a poor Americans could have. Americans are not applying for Low w...
Migrant workers are child laborers in the USA that work on farms - they all leave their homes at certain times of the year to harvest crops in other parts of the country. Migrant work has a lot of problems because of poverty. Although it is very difficult migrant work does have solutions.
American citizens all have different arguments when it comes down to whether illegal immigrants should be deported back to their country or be given a chance to achieve the American dream just like other legal immigrant families. The term illegal immigration is defined as when people enter a country violating the government’s immigration approval. Over the years, the government has looked for ways to eliminate this controversial issue that was supposedly geared towards Hispanic immigrants or “Get Rid Of The Mexicans”, according to ( Rymer). In the excerpt Rymer claims that based off of his studies, Americans that are elder seem to be more closed minded towards this idea vs. younger generations who happen to be more welcoming of this topic
First of all, I want to explain what the immigrants are. By “Immigration Assist” website, Immigrants are people who have citizenship in one country; however, they go to another country to establish a permanent residence.
Illegal Immigration may be a massive problem in the United States of America: many claim they steal jobs Americans have the right to obtain, they increase the population by millions, and they are free of any government fees.
Many immigrants come to America to better there lives, but are being discriminated and denied from education. People think immigrants are a bad influence to this society but they only want to better their lives like any other race. I read an article named,” Nearly 1 in 4 students at this L.A. high school migrated from Central America – many without their parents” by Cindy Carcamo. Cindy Carcamo informs the readers how many young adults come to America with little help and go through rough obstacles just to get an education so they can have a better future. Although some people may think that immigrants should stay in Mexico, they don’t realize that those immigrants have a better outcome than those who have lived in America longer. Many immigrants come to America with no education and it’s amazing how fast they learn, but because they want a better future and don’t want to face those rough obstacles they did as young kids. In Cindy Carcamo she spoke to a young boy named Gaspar Marcos who came to America to get an education and he said,” If you don’t have an education, nobody will respect you. If you don’t educate yourself, you don’t have employment. I want to be a good person and have an education… have a good, stable job. I want to have a home, the sort of home I never had.” Gaspar is one of those few immigrants who had the opportunity to get an education and even though each day it’s hard for him to maintain a job and school,