Immigration: Good or bad?
Immigration: Proud To Be An Illegal Immigrant? Immigration is an important part of the American history, and how the nation was founded. Immigration has allowed for people who have low income and low education to come to America to better their lives for themselves and their families. It has allowed many people to leave harsh, dangerous conditions in search for a better life, which can be found with hard work and determination. These conditions can also be found in the constitution in Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness, and to take away a persons dream because they are not able to come here is a disgrace of what America is founded on. Immigration has many negative connotations surrounding it, such as the idea that immigrants steal jobs from hard working American people. There is no evidence to support this conclusion, and actually, the opposite has been deemed true. David Cole states in 5 Myths About Immigration “numerous studies have found that immigrants actually create more jobs than they fill.” Evidence is also shown in 5 myths about immigration that immigrants are hard working people and run over 40,000 businesses in New York alone which represents $3.5 billion dollars to the economy every year. If United States citizens attempted to help integrate these immigrants into the country, then the results could become even more beneficial and could cause immigrants to try harder to learn the language and how to become a vital part of the American society. Another negative connotation associated with immigration is the idea that they are overrunning the streets of America. A statistic in Cole’s essay shows that 70-80 percent of immigrants that come here are directly related to American citizens or are refugees. The total amount of unregistered, illegal immigrants only results in 1 percent of the United States population. One argument made against immigration is how much money it is costing to pay for all the illegal immigrants health care and
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