How Does Immigration Affect The Us
Immigration and the United States
How does immigration affect the way that we live our day to day lives? Two authors write about how immigration has affected the daily lives of everyone and what we as a nation are doing about it. In "The American Dream and the Politics of Inclusion" by Mario M Cuomo, he writes about how everyone from all over the world should be welcomed into this land of freedom and opportunity. "Immigration: The Sleeping Time Bomb" written by Robert J. Bresler speaks openly about how each wave of immigrants has effected the United States. Immigration has affected the United States in many ways, some good, some bad, but it is something that we as a nation must prepare and deal with. Written in the Declaration of Independence is-the promise of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. For the past 210 years we have tried so hard to give this to every American. Those who have reached the American dream, should know that the dream is not yet fulfilled until everyone has been given an equal opportunity. Some may view Immigration as a bad thing, but I consider Immigration as a more diverse way of seeing things. It's not fair if we do not open our doors to other shores to share the …show more content…
same dreams that we all have. I am the first generation American born in my family. My mother came to this country with absolutely nothing in her pockets, no education or skills, not even a pair of slippers to wear. Bare footedly she has reached her dreams of owning a home, a business, a family that she can call her owns. I am proud to be given the opportunity to live in this country where if you have the dream and the drive to work hard, you may succeed. My mother is proud to see her son finish high school, attending college, and a Supervisor at his workplace; this is what I call the American Dream. Bresler states that with each wave of immigration that comes into the United States each bring along with them social dislocation and even conquest. " mid-20th century blended into Americans with a strong common culture reinforced by the nation's music, films, radio programs, and later, television."(36) says Bresler. But now America is not the same. It does not have the same common threads that held it together fifty years ago. The next few waves of immigrants of poor children will face inferior schools, and are likely to adopt the dangerous self-destructive behavior of the youth that is currently around them. In a serious of articles in the New York Review of Books, Christopher Jencks has serious doubts about today's Immigrants.
"Mexico is our largest source of immigration-legal and illegal "(36) states Bresler. He finds that the next culture of immigration is going to be more resistant to assimilation and thus less likely to be mobile. Employers, especially those in California and Texas, are eager to hire Mexicans, because they willing to work hard and accept very low wages, because they too want to achieve the American Dream. But at the same time, if the Bush Administration continues to allow Mexican immigrants to come and work, it will affect the relative wages of the American workers. Wages will fall, wages that we have worked so hard over years to
earn. As individuals and as people, we are still always reaching forward to get to that next step, may it be a better job or a better education. It was the whole process of turning around and reaching to help that person behind us get to where they needed to go is what really defined the American character. We should not stop here, but when the promise of equality and opportunity has reached every religion, race, nationality and class that is out there. We as a society have always extended the promise of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and declared a purpose as a people "to form a more perfect union". Since I started working, I have always thought this country has always been fair. In ways that if we just work hard there is really nothing that can hold us back to where we want to go. There is always someone that is there to give you that helping hand to reach up that ladder to get the next step. "One person climbs that ladder of personal ambition, reaches his dream and turn turns- and pulls the ladder up. Another reaches the place he has sought, turns and reaches down for the person behind him."(47) I do not think it is fair that America now has to set limitations on who can be part of our American Dream. It is not right to close the doors on others now that we have accomplished the dreams that we have sought. Immigration has had the biggest impact in population. At the current rate of three percent a year, the population could reach five hundred million in 2050. With this many people in the United States it is hard to see this country getting better. Something has to be done about the rate of Immigration but also keep in mind the sayings of our founding fathers. The American Dream has to be extended to everyone, not only if you can beat the race and make it into this country. Everyone should be able to have equal rights to secure their dreams, there hopes, their pursuit of happiness. "I reject the idea that America has used herself up in the effort to help outsiders in, and that now she must sit back exhausted, watching people play the cards fate has dealt them."(48) America has expectations and promises to live up to, and if we close our doors now, what other promise are we going to break We have no right to close the doors, now that we are inside.
How does immigration affect the way that we live our day to day lives? Two authors write about how immigration has affected the daily lives of everyone and what we as a nation are doing about it. In "The American Dream and the Politics of Inclusion" by Mario M Cuomo, he writes about how everyone from all over the world should be welcomed into this land of freedom and opportunity. "Immigration: The Sleeping Time Bomb" written by Robert J. Bresler speaks openly about how each wave of immigrants has effected the United States. Immigration has affected the United States in many ways, some good, some bad, but it is something that we as a nation must prepare and deal with. Written in the Declaration of Independence is-the promise of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. For the past 210 years we have tried so hard to give this to every American. Those who have reached the American dream, should know that the dream is not yet fulfilled until everyone has been given an equal opportunity. Some may view Immigration as a bad thing, but I consider Immigration as a more diverse way of seeing things. It's not fair if we do not open our doors to other shores to share the …show more content…
same dreams that we all have. I am the first generation American born in my family. My mother came to this country with absolutely nothing in her pockets, no education or skills, not even a pair of slippers to wear. Bare footedly she has reached her dreams of owning a home, a business, a family that she can call her owns. I am proud to be given the opportunity to live in this country where if you have the dream and the drive to work hard, you may succeed. My mother is proud to see her son finish high school, attending college, and a Supervisor at his workplace; this is what I call the American Dream. Bresler states that with each wave of immigration that comes into the United States each bring along with them social dislocation and even conquest. " mid-20th century blended into Americans with a strong common culture reinforced by the nation's music, films, radio programs, and later, television."(36) says Bresler. But now America is not the same. It does not have the same common threads that held it together fifty years ago. The next few waves of immigrants of poor children will face inferior schools, and are likely to adopt the dangerous self-destructive behavior of the youth that is currently around them. In a serious of articles in the New York Review of Books, Christopher Jencks has serious doubts about today's Immigrants.
"Mexico is our largest source of immigration-legal and illegal "(36) states Bresler. He finds that the next culture of immigration is going to be more resistant to assimilation and thus less likely to be mobile. Employers, especially those in California and Texas, are eager to hire Mexicans, because they willing to work hard and accept very low wages, because they too want to achieve the American Dream. But at the same time, if the Bush Administration continues to allow Mexican immigrants to come and work, it will affect the relative wages of the American workers. Wages will fall, wages that we have worked so hard over years to
earn. As individuals and as people, we are still always reaching forward to get to that next step, may it be a better job or a better education. It was the whole process of turning around and reaching to help that person behind us get to where they needed to go is what really defined the American character. We should not stop here, but when the promise of equality and opportunity has reached every religion, race, nationality and class that is out there. We as a society have always extended the promise of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and declared a purpose as a people "to form a more perfect union". Since I started working, I have always thought this country has always been fair. In ways that if we just work hard there is really nothing that can hold us back to where we want to go. There is always someone that is there to give you that helping hand to reach up that ladder to get the next step. "One person climbs that ladder of personal ambition, reaches his dream and turn turns- and pulls the ladder up. Another reaches the place he has sought, turns and reaches down for the person behind him."(47) I do not think it is fair that America now has to set limitations on who can be part of our American Dream. It is not right to close the doors on others now that we have accomplished the dreams that we have sought. Immigration has had the biggest impact in population. At the current rate of three percent a year, the population could reach five hundred million in 2050. With this many people in the United States it is hard to see this country getting better. Something has to be done about the rate of Immigration but also keep in mind the sayings of our founding fathers. The American Dream has to be extended to everyone, not only if you can beat the race and make it into this country. Everyone should be able to have equal rights to secure their dreams, there hopes, their pursuit of happiness. "I reject the idea that America has used herself up in the effort to help outsiders in, and that now she must sit back exhausted, watching people play the cards fate has dealt them."(48) America has expectations and promises to live up to, and if we close our doors now, what other promise are we going to break We have no right to close the doors, now that we are inside.