Immigration has been a struggle to deal with in the United States. Thousands of immigrants have come to the United States looking to escape the problems they were facing back home, just like our great-grandparents. There are parts of the world that are not the friendliest and safest. They may have entered the United States through the Mexico-United States Border, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, or through other ways. Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. The facts that EXtension and Crimes In The United States illustrates show how unauthorized immigrants affect the United States in a positive ways.
A lot of people say that Immigrants are taking our jobs. Are they really or our the white Americans just too lazy to do the jobs. Most of the Immigrants that came to the United States decided to work. Some of today’s immigrants are doing the jobs that most white Americans don’t want to do for less than minimum wage. The immigrants are willing to work hard and be payed less just to stay in the United States. EXtension states, “Between 1 and 3 million migrant farm …show more content…
First, they come here and take our jobs, and now they are causing all of these crimes. Will anyone open their eyes and see that they are strangling this country, A Pew Hispanic Center study found that, “of those sentenced for federal crimes in 2007, non-citizen Hispanics were 74 percent of immigration offenders, 25 percent of drug offenders, 8 percent of white collar offenders, and 6 percent of firearms offenders. Non-citizen Hispanics are 5.1 percent of the nation’s adult population” (Camarota, Vaughan 1). This quote shows that immigrants are adding to the number of crime each year. I disagree with this because the FBI--Violent Crimes shows in expanded homicide data table 6 that there were 3005 caused by the whites, and only 2491 by Black or African