Essays
IMMIGRATION
A lot of American citizens think immigration is a major problem here in the United States. Do you think so? Immigration is the act of going to a foreign country to live. Immigrants who flee their country because of hardships are known as refugees.
People leave their homelands and move to a different country for many different reasons. Some emigrate for adventure, or to avoid starvation, yet others wish to escape terrible family hardships. However, the main reason has almost always been economic opportunity.
Immigrants have made enormous contributions over the years to the culture and economy of nations such as Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and even the U.S. But these achievements have been made with great difficulty. Many of the receiving countries have restricted immigration to maintain some kind of a society in which all the people share the same ethnic, geographic, and cultural backgrounds.
Population movements have mixed effects on the sending and receiving nations. Emigration relieves overcrowding, yet may lose many people with valuable skills. The receiving nation gains new workers but may face problems finding a place for them.
Some political analysis’s and politicians say that immigrants take jobs away from people who were already here. But immigrants add jobs to the economy by two ways. 1, they start new small businesses and hire employees. 2, they use the same services as Americans do. So these new businesses need more people to fill the jobs. So if immigration doesn’t add hardly at all to the population and it actually creates jobs, then why do people think immigration is such a big problem (Population Stats. 2)?
The wars, famines, and economic difficulties have brought millions of immigrants, legal and illegal to the States. Since 1980, the immigrants have counted for about 27-29% of the U.S’s population growth. All Americans can trace their heritage back to a foreign country, (except for the Native
A lot of American citizens think immigration is a major problem here in the United States. Do you think so? Immigration is the act of going to a foreign country to live. Immigrants who flee their country because of hardships are known as refugees.
People leave their homelands and move to a different country for many different reasons. Some emigrate for adventure, or to avoid starvation, yet others wish to escape terrible family hardships. However, the main reason has almost always been economic opportunity.
Immigrants have made enormous contributions over the years to the culture and economy of nations such as Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and even the U.S. But these achievements have been made with great difficulty. Many of the receiving countries have restricted immigration to maintain some kind of a society in which all the people share the same ethnic, geographic, and cultural backgrounds.
Population movements have mixed effects on the sending and receiving nations. Emigration relieves overcrowding, yet may lose many people with valuable skills. The receiving nation gains new workers but may face problems finding a place for them.
Some political analysis’s and politicians say that immigrants take jobs away from people who were already here. But immigrants add jobs to the economy by two ways. 1, they start new small businesses and hire employees. 2, they use the same services as Americans do. So these new businesses need more people to fill the jobs. So if immigration doesn’t add hardly at all to the population and it actually creates jobs, then why do people think immigration is such a big problem (Population Stats. 2)?
The wars, famines, and economic difficulties have brought millions of immigrants, legal and illegal to the States. Since 1980, the immigrants have counted for about 27-29% of the U.S’s population growth. All Americans can trace their heritage back to a foreign country, (except for the Native