Argumentative Essay: Immigration To The United States

In the 2016 presidential campaign immigration is one of the hottest topics. Many angry furors or debates of deporting millions of illegal immigrants, or grant them amnesty, or to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. The history of this current furor date back to fifty years. The most far reaching immigration act, also known as HART-CELLER act, was signed by president Linden B. Johnson on October 3, 1965 thus ending long-standing quota system based on national origin favoring western Europeans especially English, Irish, and Germans. The law had a new approach aimed at reuniting immigrant families and also bringing skilled workers into the United States. As immigrants came increasingly from Latin America, Africa, and Asia rather than from Europe this profoundly or dramatically changed the
I feel it is preposterous, costly, and ridiculous to build walls. Walls ruin the national topography and environment; its beauty should be admired not ruined. Besides, people are more worried about survival, jobs and daily living than worrying about ruining the country's boundaries.
People are concerned about different borders for various reasons. Mexican immigrants generally pose greater risk of illegal entry. They earn more in US Dollars than Mexican Pesos as US Dollar value is greater. Whereas, from Canada there is less or smaller risk of illegal immigration. Canada has jobs and a high Canadian dollar value. Finally, “As president Kennedy so aptly stated, we are a nation of immigrants.” Immigrants bring a lot of the diversified talented workforce. Massachusetts Republican senator Leverett Saltonstall told his colleagues during the debate on the bill, “there is scarcely an area of our national life that has not been favorably affected by the work of people from other