Why Americans Hate This Immigration Debate By Herbert Meyer

In America, most jobs that are offered are better paid than what an average Mexican immigrant would be making in Mexico. Although Americans have more opportunities, not all of them take a stand to make an effort because they do not like to do the jobs that are not of quality or do not fit in their culture. As mentioned in the essay Why Americans Hate This Immigration Debate by Herbert Meyer, Meyer talks about how immigrants come to a whole new world not knowing anything besides having the desire to be an American. Migrating isolates the immigrants from their homeland and from their family that are left behind with a tremendous pain of possibly never being able to see them again. At first, one will feel out of place when they cross the border

He targets the concern on why people get frustrated thinking all immigrants that cross the border are the same. He goes on to say that for ordinary Americans, the definition of immigration is very specific. The essay could inspire readers that have gone through that experience and can share their thoughts if they were different from Meyer’s point of view. Men and women would think that not having a quality job is not being a true American. Immigrants send their children to public schools here to learn the new language and end up getting the quality job Americans could not get in five years. The examples Meyer used when he says, “The problems with immigrants, in a way, is Americans fault” comes from the lack Americans have when they have a chance to achieve more goals than those immigrants, but they reject them. If documented people would put themselves in the position of an undocumented worker, they would have a better understanding of how it feels like to be on the other side of a joke. One will never know why people treat each other differently as if it is their fault on why they are not born in America. In an effort to understand the issue of immigration, a continuing discussion must persist in American