think about the country, and how they “survive” in an alien country? This essay will be addressing if it is the way people are welcomed, or if it is something else causing immigrants to feel the way they do about the country. Some people would argue, would this information give humanity any security knowing what caused these immigrants to process and think about the country in the way they do? Others would say that it would help others prevent an immigrgrant from lashing out, or make a person’s shift…
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Do immigrants have the same opportunities and advantages as most Americans? The answer is within society and how most these immigrants are viewed. Many immigrants have to give up a portion of their identity just for them to have a better future for their kids and family. Most immigrants view America as the “land of opportunity” or the “promise land” because they view America as a new start in life and having more social freedom than where these immigrants started from. The main problem most immigrants…
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example, someone who is an immigrant would be treated differently than someone who is a citizen. For example, in chunk 1, paragraph 1 of the story America and I. When the author explains, “As one of the dumb voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding” (Anzia Yezierska). Immigrants have a lot to offer, though no one is seeing them. Americans only see immigrants as people coming to their country and begging…
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One day there was a poor family that came from Mexico. The family wanted to come to America to get a better life, than they had in Mexico. When they was coming here to America, they thought they were going to just come to America but no it's wasn't like that. The family wasn't legal, like they wasn't able to come to America without government permission but they did anyways which means they’re illegal immigrants. The family could also be sent back to where they came from. For these three reasons……
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because it’s unfair for people doing the right thing and people that have a criminal record can’t come to America. One reason why I believe Obama’s plan is a bad idea is because it’s unfair for people doing the right thing. I think this because there are 480,000 family based visas each year (American Immigration, 2014).This is showing people that according to obama’s plan, 480,000 legal immigrants would get punished. Many people would say obama’s plan is unfair. As Marco Rubio stated “The president's…
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speaking, at one point in time America used to welcome immigrants and it wasn’t as complicated as it is today. There are many pros and cons to this topic. Immigrants got their health checked out when they reached the United States and now immigrants don’t have that privilege. As years went on the way immigrants were treated had changed. Although there doesn't seem to be many pros for letting in more immigrants, we have to remember we all come from immigrants. What makes America so great is the diversity…
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Immigrants have played a major role in the development of America. During the late 19th and early 20th century, people were leaving their countries to move to America for a better life and America took them in with open arms; however, it didn’t last long. When coming into the country and attempting to settle, they faced very harsh conditions and nativists were constantly ridiculing them. People migrated from many different areas, such as Asia and Southern/Eastern Europe. Many of them had saved…
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million immigrants living in the United States in 2010, that is nearly 13% of the U.S. population (“Facts”). The United States is a country where people from other countries can come over and live their life how they want, without any restrictions they might have had before. In a poem by Emma Lazarus, she writes about how America is accepting to people from other countries. People are welcomed into the country to start a new life. In Bharati Mukherjee’s short story “Two Ways to Belong in America” she…
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In the early 1960’s, Dominican immigrants began to migrate to the United States. In 1960, 12,000 people migrated to the U.S and it increased to 350,000 in 1990 and 876,000 in 2012. According to the census data, 56 percent of immigrants coming from the Dominican Republic were women. During this time, Dominican immigrants were the largest group to migrate to the United States. In 2004, there were 35, 305, 818 American citizens of the Hispanic/Latino descent in the U.S and 1,051,032 were of Dominican…
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America is a top rank country most population of immigrants. Around a million immigrants move to America every year to pursue their dreams. The American dream thus becomes an ideal beautiful dream that motivates immigrants to come to the country where dream comes true. In this dream, America turns into the fairy tale full of freedom and opportunities, a land where all gold diggers can find gold, and a place where success won’t be hard any more. Gish Jen, as a newish American, wrote “coming into…
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