Immigration Essay
Michael Kinder
First Person America
Professor Clark
The United States has defined itself in part as a “Nation Welcoming to Immigrants,” and many would agree to this. I myself do not agree with this said title/statement, for reasons that I will define. My statement to start is that, the United States is seemingly a country that welcomes immigrants, but in fact that this may be true in the beginning, but it is not the said case in the end, as it always ends the same. The ending itself is usually negative to the targeted race/group. First I will visit “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. Her poem is the epitome of what the United States was to represent in the face of the world in regards to immigration. She speaks of the Statue of Liberty which became the symbol in which immigrants have come to know as the “Beacon of Hope and Opportunity,” with such titles as “Mother of Exiles.” The lines from the poem: “Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the “Golden Door!” sounds too good to be true, it sounds like a bargain, especially if I was a foreigner. I would believe these words, and set sail for the United States. This poem shows the good side of immigration in the US, but I wonder if the immigrants that set sailed for America with these hopes, dreams, and ambitions knew what truly awaited them at this said “Golden Door?” The first set of immigrants that were moving into America was the Irish and the German-born Jews, from around 1800 to about 1850. These people came to the shores of America with hopes and ambitions of becoming citizens of this great land, but unbenounced to them that 10 years prior to their arrivals, there was a law passed called “The Naturalization Law of 1790” which stated that in order to become a naturalized citizen, you had to be a free “white man.” So this law here already
First Person America
Professor Clark
The United States has defined itself in part as a “Nation Welcoming to Immigrants,” and many would agree to this. I myself do not agree with this said title/statement, for reasons that I will define. My statement to start is that, the United States is seemingly a country that welcomes immigrants, but in fact that this may be true in the beginning, but it is not the said case in the end, as it always ends the same. The ending itself is usually negative to the targeted race/group. First I will visit “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. Her poem is the epitome of what the United States was to represent in the face of the world in regards to immigration. She speaks of the Statue of Liberty which became the symbol in which immigrants have come to know as the “Beacon of Hope and Opportunity,” with such titles as “Mother of Exiles.” The lines from the poem: “Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the “Golden Door!” sounds too good to be true, it sounds like a bargain, especially if I was a foreigner. I would believe these words, and set sail for the United States. This poem shows the good side of immigration in the US, but I wonder if the immigrants that set sailed for America with these hopes, dreams, and ambitions knew what truly awaited them at this said “Golden Door?” The first set of immigrants that were moving into America was the Irish and the German-born Jews, from around 1800 to about 1850. These people came to the shores of America with hopes and ambitions of becoming citizens of this great land, but unbenounced to them that 10 years prior to their arrivals, there was a law passed called “The Naturalization Law of 1790” which stated that in order to become a naturalized citizen, you had to be a free “white man.” So this law here already