Pro Immigration

Pro Immigration

We live in the age where scandalous and controversial topics

cover the news headlines. Such subject matters as homosexuality, A.I.D.S, and

abortion are fiercely debated upon. Sides are always taken, with the

conservatives battling the liberals. One such argument that has always been

debated upon since the founding of this nation has been immigration. The fact

that it has been argued over for so long makes it seem ironic. A country

founded by immigrants perpetually arguing over immigration. The basis of this

dispute runs deep and that is what will be discussed in this following paper.

Anti-immigrant sentiments have been circulating since the Alien Act of

June 25, 1798 . The Act was the first federal legislation that dealt with the

expulsion of aliens in the United States. Another landmark case was the

notorious Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. That clause revoked all Chinese

immigrants to emigrate to the States for a period of ten years. It is so

infamous due to the fact that it was the first bill that discriminated against

any one particular race. Restrictions on immigration may seem to have been

eradicated from current history but that is an oversight. Even in the

"politically correct" society we live in today allows for these discrepancies,

for in the Immigration Act of 1990 which brought up controls for immigration.

Behind all these legal documents there are reasons that spurred these

causes. Certain prejudices against certain races or religion. The prejudices

were not always a color issue as the current immigration problems are. In the

beginning it was primarily Europeans. In particular the Irish and German were

thought of negatively. The percentage of the Irish in the Mid-Atlantic went from

45.9% in 1870 to 48.5 in 1930. Germans in 1870 went from 31.4% to 35.6% in 1930

. The common belief was that the two races were against assimilation. They

lived in their own communities and refused to learn the English language. But

that belief like all others were false based. After the Germans and Irish

started to finally assimilate we needed a new scapegoat. The next were the

Italians and Jews, following them were the Catholics. Throughout history there

were always someone who got the blame put on them. Lately the blame has been

put upon Middle-Eastern, Asians and Hispanics.

Now that the b...

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...ead a better life. Immigrants also by

arriving to America they pass on knowledge of their own culture to help unify

all the humans. Also by sharing their culture we are able to expand business

further into other foreign countries. With the motivation and talent that they

possess immigrants are the backbone for the continued growth of our country.

My stand on immigration is probably lucid. I am pro-immigration. Being

an immigrant myself I have personally felt the hardships and prejudices held

against me, simply based on skin color. Immigrants that arrive here usually

come with a goal in life - to succeed on it. With that kind of mentality I

share the same view as Stephen Moore. Even the undocumented immigrants that

seem to be numerous is false, they only constitute roughly 1-1.5% a very small

margin to say the least. This country was founded by immigrants, built by

immigrants and flourishes because of immigrants. It seems only in dire times

that America tries to find a scapegoat to use as a justification of why they are

failing, when the truth of the matter is that the fact that we have to blame

someone else we have a much more serious problem than we think.