How Does Immigration Change America
IMMIGRATION AND AMERICA
Final Paper
Kelly Newton
HIS 203 American History to 1865
Instructor Eric Fox
May 28 , 2012
This paper will examine how immigration has transformed America from her earliest days as a nation, how immigration policies, and views on immigration, have changed so drastically, and how immigration continues to affect and change our society today. Also explored will be the arrival of America’s earliest immigrants, how these immigrants were viewed and treated by Americans, and the immigration battle that continues today with the flood of illegal immigrants pouring into America every day seeking safe haven from drugs, tyranny, and poverty. According to the federal government’s 2010 American Community Survey, “The …show more content…
As immigrants came into New York harbor in the earliest days, they would see the Statue of Liberty as a sign that they were finally free to live a life of their choice, and have a chance to make a better life for themselves and their children. The famous inscription has been memorized by many of those coming on ships from their own motherland, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I life my lamp beside the golden door!” (Lazarus, 1883). What hope they must have had to read those words! However, once on shore in America they realized that no, the streets were not paved with gold, work was much harder to come by than they had previously thought, and had no idea of the discrimination they would face from every …show more content…
If they have a wreck and someone is seriously hurt, that person is out of luck because the illegal immigrant has no insurance. Some very bright children cannot go on to college because they do not have the paperwork to attend. Their parents meant well in bringing them here, but their lives are still lived on the outside because they are illegal. They live in constant fear of being deported and sent back to a country that they do not even remember. The United States now faces the task and cost of deporting these people that are caught here illegally, and of trying to figure out how to be fair to those children who are now eighteen and nineteen years old and graduating from high school and do not know of any kind of life except in
Final Paper
Kelly Newton
HIS 203 American History to 1865
Instructor Eric Fox
May 28 , 2012
This paper will examine how immigration has transformed America from her earliest days as a nation, how immigration policies, and views on immigration, have changed so drastically, and how immigration continues to affect and change our society today. Also explored will be the arrival of America’s earliest immigrants, how these immigrants were viewed and treated by Americans, and the immigration battle that continues today with the flood of illegal immigrants pouring into America every day seeking safe haven from drugs, tyranny, and poverty. According to the federal government’s 2010 American Community Survey, “The …show more content…
As immigrants came into New York harbor in the earliest days, they would see the Statue of Liberty as a sign that they were finally free to live a life of their choice, and have a chance to make a better life for themselves and their children. The famous inscription has been memorized by many of those coming on ships from their own motherland, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I life my lamp beside the golden door!” (Lazarus, 1883). What hope they must have had to read those words! However, once on shore in America they realized that no, the streets were not paved with gold, work was much harder to come by than they had previously thought, and had no idea of the discrimination they would face from every …show more content…
If they have a wreck and someone is seriously hurt, that person is out of luck because the illegal immigrant has no insurance. Some very bright children cannot go on to college because they do not have the paperwork to attend. Their parents meant well in bringing them here, but their lives are still lived on the outside because they are illegal. They live in constant fear of being deported and sent back to a country that they do not even remember. The United States now faces the task and cost of deporting these people that are caught here illegally, and of trying to figure out how to be fair to those children who are now eighteen and nineteen years old and graduating from high school and do not know of any kind of life except in