Understanding Immigration: History and Controversies in the U.S

Immigration had first started in the U.S around the 1800’s. It has been a crucial topic brought up upon almost every political meeting. The United States has always been a land of immigration. Ever since the founding of the United States, immigration laws have been put into place, and dismantled. The immigration history to the United states deals, with movements with people to the U.S since the very first European settlements, starting around the 1600’s. Later on in time, African Americans were brought as slaves.
Such controversy has again risen increasingly. Protests over immigrant rights, and congressional debates over guest worker programs, have ran up again as the social issue. Immigration affects labor Markets. Most of all the immigrants that come to the U.S come for more work

opportunities. This can improve of the lives of the people that are already poor, and that come from poorer countries and fewer opportunities. However, this also can have a great effect on the workers already living here. It has reduced the supply of worker wages, for those who are already in market.
Most recent immigrants have entered the United States legally, but around almost 11 million unauthorized immigrants currently live and work in America.

The majority of these unauthorized workers settled in the United States over a decade ago. Every immigration group effects the United States economy, in many ways that should be attended to. Immigrants settlement is more than 12 percent of the American population. Once major economic concern is how much the immigrants influence the wages and employment prospects of other U.S workers. The economic impact also varies on how skilled the immigrants are. It is encouraging to examine the impacts of low-skilled and high-skilled workers individually.
Immigration has both its ups and downs. On one hand immigration stimulates our economy and on the other hand it brings down the economy. Historically, immigrants have come to this country for a variety of reasons, but economic opportunity has always been a draw. The U.S economy has assisted an expanding labor of supply that today includes one point five million immigrant per year, who spend on housing and consumer goods that help stimulate the economy that increases the demand for more

labor.
The advantages that come along with immigration are numerous. Immigrants coming into our country bring new diversity and skills. Most Americans believe that the foreigners who come into our country, just come to steal the jobs of others workers. In some viewpoints this happens to be accurate. With an increase in immigration, the U.S is forced to create more jobs and opportunities for the foreigners. The supporters of immigration claim that the foreigners provide, social, moral, and economic benefits, and that the dispute of the other side are simply misconceptions. We also have to take into consideration the amount of immigrants we allow into our country as a success or failure. Nowadays, the number of immigrants we allow into our country is a lot smaller than people usually think.
Education has been another serious issue for immigrants who enter America. In some cases education for immigrants was either a success, which lead to the moest American future we all need in our lives or a bad experience where education fails. An estimated five hundred thousand undocumented students are enrolled in high schools in the United States. There were approximately 1.8 million undocumented minors in the United States in the year of 2005. Sixty five thousand of these students graduate out of highschool each year. Only about tn percent continue to higher education. Then only about eighteen thousand undocumented students enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the United States. The majority of the undocumented students in college were brought to the United States by their family, or have lived in the U.S for more than five years. They are mostly assimilated to the American culture we have here in the United States.
What is causing the latest immigration crisis is the largest influx of asylum. Since October, more than 52,000 children from Central America accompanied by adults were taken into custody. This number has doubled ten times, since the year of 2009. President Obama supplied nearly four billion dollars to simply solve such a problem.
Children from Central America are treated differently. Under a law that was passed in 2008, was meant to battle children trafficking. The TVPR Act, was for the children from Central America that are given a court hearing before deportation or allowed to stay in the United states. In some cases what this means that, if a child comes to the United states from Central America, and are released the following day would be able to stay for about three to five years waiting for their court date because that usually how long it takes to officially post a court hearing. However, this Act is only a known temporary benefit for undocumented children that come from Central America. This doesn’t sound right, only beneficial for the centralization documentaries. There are many sacrifices people face while they are immigrants. They work much more longer hours than a usual American does for more money, and barely have any time to spend with their families. America needs a leader who is willing to provide undocumented immigrants with a path of citizenship in this country, while making sure the legislation is in favor of comprehensive reform will be passed in both the house and the senate. America needs a leader to say that the undocumented immigrants and workers living in the United States does not hurt society, but enhances its nature of change.