Immigration has always played a large part in the American story, whether it was the pilgrims coming over to America striving to build a new society or all of the men and women who landed at Ellis Island looking to make a new life for themselves and their families. Immigration has played a large part in America's past and it still plays an important role in America's present (one of the United States nicknames is the melting pot for a reason). Immigration also plays a part in our culture we have Chinese and Mexican restaurants all around the U.S and there are television and radio station in different languages for people who still speak another language (there is also an increase of foreign stores starting up in the U.S). But for decades the issue of illegal immigration has caused a debate in U.S politics, issues such as crime and drugs related to illegal immigration further complicate the issue. In 2016 the then Presidential candidate Donald Trump swore to rectify the issue of illegal immigration by increasing border patrol and building a wall that would stretch across the U.S and …show more content…
Their children also tend to reach for higher levels of education and are statistically more likely to have higher incomes than both their parents and their natural born counterparts. On a more colloquial note we have all heard hundreds if not thousands of immigrant success stories and maybe have even witnessed some, whether it was a baker who moved to the U.S in order to find new opportunities or your neighbor who moved here for a better life or herself and her