Opportunity In America Essay

When you think of America, you think of opportunities for anyone. While it is the land of opportunity, not all of these opportunities actually improve the economic situation of immigrants. Many immigrants arrive in the U.S expecting to receive better jobs, but due to the language barrier or a lack of accepted credentials, are forced into lower positions. They change their location, but also inadvertently change careers as well.
According to recent interviews with workers around Chicago, many immigrants were forced to get inferior jobs to support their families. A former People’s Liberation Army Police Officer turned air-conditioning unit installer explains, “When I was seventeen, I joined the PLA Armed Police Force. In total, I have spent
Doctors arriving in the U.S, that are already licensed in their country, are forced to go through a lengthy process in order to be qualified to practice medicine in America. The doctor has to receive a visa, go through the two parts of the United States Medical-Licensing Exam (USMLE), get certified by the Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), be accepted into an officially recognized U.S. or Canadian residency program, and lastly, pass the third part of the USMLE (Sopher). Depending on how lucky you are, and what your specialty is, this whole process could take between four and eight years or more. These steps scare away more and more foreign doctors every year.
Some might argue that this allows for better-qualified doctors working in the U.S., but what they don’t know is that the process harms the country more than it benefits us. In less than 4 years, there will be a shortage of 91,500 doctors in the U.S (Hamblin). Foreign doctors could be they key to solving this shortage, but the process pushes them away. Dr. Faris Alomran, a vascular surgeon taught in Britain and working in France, explains: My first choice after medical school was to practice in the U.S. In fact, for