Immigrants are people that move to another country where they are not citizens of that country. They go through a legal process to acquire citizenship of the country. Immigrants go through a series of sufferings. They may include denial of voting rights in the country, discrimination, denial of rights to own property, among others. As a way of helping children immigrants, the United States government came up with a government agency called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This agency caters for children who are immigrants in the United States (O'Leary 150). REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE History and the Suffrage of Immigrants Immigrants face some problems in a given country. They are not given equal political rights with the natives …show more content…
Since the immigrants are safeguarded from deportation, they are free to consult medical experts during illness. They can also obtain other services with less difficulty like legal action and banking services. Recipients can take part in investment activities without fear of losing their finances through deportation. Another benefit that DACA offer to its members is that it can offer loans. Qualified applicants are offered some certain amount of loans which they can use it to pay renewal fee or even start some business. Revenue from the business may be used to service the loan and even expand the business. Different surveys have been conducted on the benefits of DACA. According to one of the surveys, it was discovered that 59% of the recipients obtained new jobs, 57% were able to acquire driver’s license, and 65% showed improved household economic conditions (Wadhia …show more content…
Some states offer state licenses only to citizens hence a barrier to career development on the side of undocumented immigrants (Kosnac 59-69). Another challenge facing DACA students is the lack of specialized research equipment. Many schools offering DACA students’ education does not have such equipment. The staff available is also less qualified, this makes it hard for students to obtain perfect results from their research. The renewal fee is also a problem. Most of the students do not have such an amount. As a result, most of them are forced to drop out of school. This is experienced when they are deported back to their countries. Most of the students live in constant fear of deportation hence no peace of mind necessary for studying. The majority of the undocumented immigrants do not get access to government aid. In most cases, the government offers support only to the citizen students. The undocumented immigrant students are left alone to struggle and get the necessary finances needed for their
The United States has been known as the “Melting Pot ”and “The Land of Opportunity” for decades, but the title is slowly diminishing as scrutiny has been bombarding immigrants for wanting a better life. As questions arise of what is needed to protect the borders from possible terrorist other factors come into play such as what immigrants have to contribute to the country. Immigration is actually vital to our country since it provides the government more income, it brings the country a positive image, and DACA helps the community come together.
Currently, there are 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the United States; 6 million of those immigrants are Mexican-born (Preston). Within that undocumented population are individuals who were brought to the States as children. These individuals have grown up in the American culture and consider themselves American, but struggle with being treated as second class citizens due to their undocumented status. On June fifteenth of 2012, the Obama Administration announced the executive order Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This order will allow immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children to apply for work permits and avoid deportation (Hennessey and Bennett). President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is not only beneficial to it applicants but also to the United States as a whole.
“Immigration is the term utilized to describe the action and process by which a citizen of one country relocates to another country after petitioning for residency into that country.” (Martinez). An immigrant, also known as an alien, is person or people who come from a foreign country. Aliens are broken down into two main categories: the legal aliens and the illegal aliens. But what are the differences between the two? Legal aliens owe allegiance to the country. In America, aliens have the opportunity of becoming legal by either having a green card or becoming an American citizen and having dual citizenship. Green cards holders are permanent residents who have been authorized to live and work in the U.S. legally but they are not American citizens. To become a citizen, you must be legal, know fluent English, have a clean record, and go th...
In Gonzales article, “Community Support Can Help Integrate Immigrants”, he explains the challenges that undocumented immigrants in America endure. However, because of the relative complexity of creating new laws or reforms that would help these immigrants integrate into society, Gonzales specifies that he doubts Congress will be able to make any effective changes with the next few years. Instead, Gonzales proposes a few ways that different communities would be able to assist. For example, he mentions that at a local level, neighborhood institutions could provide job-training services, at schools, they could provide sensitivity-training for staff, and at a state-level, they could provide literacy programs. To conclude his article, Gonzales reiterates the overall benefit of providing aid to immigrants would lead to greater rewards. He does so by saying that undocumented immigrants contribute an estimated 11.64 billion a year to state and local taxes. However, he believes that with additional local benefits, their contribution would be even greater.
Having the opportunity of staying in school is very important to illegal immigrants because that means they can realize the American Dream. It is something that every immigrant that comes to the U.S wants to achieve. By applying to the dream act illegal immigrants from the age of sixteen through thirty five can go to school. They are eligible to stay in school and or go to college if they have not done so. For example some of the immigrant students have immense talents that can be used for America’s assistance, but not being able to stay in school they can not succeed. “Thousands of young people have worked hard. But they are being denied that chance to build a better future for themselves and to contribute their skills, talents, and creativity to the country” (Duncan). By having the choice of staying in school, as well as the help it is more exciting to those students that want to become someone in life. Some of the illegal aliens possess some amazing talent...
The United States of America, being a country founded by immigrants, is known all over the world as the land of great opportunities. People from all walks of life travelled across the globe, taking a chance to find a better life for them and their family. Over the years, the population of immigrants has grown immensely, resulting in the currently controversial issue of illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are the people who have overstayed the time granted on their US, visa or those who have broken the federal law by crossing the border illegally. Matt O’Brien stated in his article “The government thinks that 10.8 million illegal immigrants lived in the country in January 2009, down from a peak of nearly 12 million in 2007.”(Para, 2) While some argue that illegal immigrants burden the United States of America and its economy, others believe that they have become essential and are an important part of the US, economy.
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.
...ork many jobs in order to survive, in order to just get a small taste of the dream. They also face discrimination struggles. Many American do not want these immigrants to have the opportunities. The area that is it mostly seen is in education. Children with immigration background often work harder to achieve the American Dream. Despite all the obstacles, these immigrants believe in the American Dream and will find a way to achieve it.
The way immigrants are viewed and treated like they are beneath citizens, an immigrant’s past traumatic experiences, and the services and laws that hinder immigrants are all elements that characterizes the immigrant experience.
But in reality immigrants are seeking for success for themselves and the Nation as well. They may not have much power but together thay can gain power to make it a better future for the nation and themselves. You may say they are not useful but they are. In the article, “Ten Ways Immigrants Help Build and Strengthen Our Economy” by Jason Forman and Danielle Gray, listed ten ways immigrants help grow the American economy. In some ways they listed that immigrants are more likely to start a business, create jobs for Americans and immigrant workers, create their own jobs, and develop cutting-edge technologies and companies. It stated that 30 percent of immigrants are more likely to start a business, than a non-immigrants. 18 percent of immigrants own a small business in the United States. These small businesses create job opportunities for Americans and immigrant workers. Approximately 4.2 million workers are employed in these small businesses that generated more than $766 billion annually. Also, according to the national venture capital association, 25 percent of public U.S. companies were created by immigrants. For example, Google, eBay, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, and Intel. As Jason Furman and Danielle Gray mention in their article “Ten Ways Immigrants Help Build and Strengthen Our Economy”, immigrants are engineers, scientists and innovators and are more likely to receive a high school diploma, demand for local consumer goods, and increase America’s GDP (Gross domestic product). As they indicated in their Article as well, “33 percent of engineers, 27 percent of mathematicians, statisticians, and
Immigrants have been threw out history and still follow today. In the past decades immigrants have had many hardships especially undocumented immigrants. The majority of the immigrants in the United States are undocumented immigrants. Before the the late 1800s there was no federal laws that regulated immigration. In that century immigrants were growing in population and were in need of a job. If an immigrant was suspected of being a dangerous criminal the government would step in and deport that person. The first federal law to restrict immigration was formed in 1882 called The Chinese Exclusion Act. This act made a passageway for more immigration restrictions on particular groups of people. The act would later be repealed in 1943 because it was discriminatory. In the beginning of the 20th century a Quota act was passed to regulate immigration more precisely by country. By the 1920s the population was made up of 13% foreign born. In 1940s the Bracero program was established for millions of Mexican farmworkers to come to the U.S to work in agriculture. The program was meant to give mexican immigrants a chance to work and be able to go back to their homeland, but instead they were being abused and not getting good wages for their work. Today in the 21st century not much has been done to help immigrants. For instance, Arizona CA was trying to pass a law that was called SB 1070 which stated if a police officer suspect of a driver being an undocumented immigrant based on skin color the officer would be able to stop and possibly deport that person. Fortunately SB 1070 was not passed as a law. Our former president Barack Obama has been able to do little for immigrants. Millions of immigrants have been deported under Obama's presidency more than any other president. He has passed some things that help like the DACA which helps young
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 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.
Immigration is a controversial topic that features conflicting opinions on a global scale. This is because skeptics believe that immigrants are taking away the original culture and traditions of individual societies, whereas, those supporting immigration believe that immigrants in fact enrich the culture of the host countries and provide great benefits to the country overall. This ongoing debate regarding immigration has led to the increased difficulty in gaining national citizenship in some countries, such as Saudi Arabia. Other countries, however, welcome immigrants as they believe foreigners are valuable to society. Immigration around the world should be encouraged as immigrants increase diversity, add to the amount of skills and labor opportunities available to the countries they move to, and improve the economy.
For example, many immigrants migrate to a country what they see as the “land of opportunity”. They struggle to adapt the language of the country, which gave them quite a disadvantage towards communication and heading through their insights in life in America. In addition, as they adapt to their new environment, they are treated unjustly. Immigrants as well strived to survive with various of stereotypes, which includes, some people in America are protesting that immigrants steal their land, that they don’t give a benefit to the country and if so, they should have a proof of what they are demanding of them. Because immigrants are residing the country to grab their chance of opportunity to live with their dream in America, even though most citizens of America think that the benefits and opportunity they have are not