Immigration in America: Past Versus Present Immigration is a big topic often talked about in America leading up to the upcoming Presidential election. Professor Daniel Malpica, from the department of Chicano and Latino Studies, spoke this past Wednesday at our noon lecture did a good job of presenting the history of immigration into the United States, but he also presented the information in a matter that scared off middle of the road voters rather than sway them towards voting to more easily legalize immigrants. Every single person living in the United States is in some way related to an immigrant that more likely came to America through Ellis Island more than 100 years ago. At that time it was mostly European immigrants and it took only three hours to be processed through Ellis Island. They came to America to find a better life, better jobs and like in Ireland; they came to escape the potato famine. Immigrants coming into America now are from Mexico, Central America, and a Asia. Many decedents of immigrants in America now resent these incoming immigrants because they feel that they are taking from our government and that they are using transnationalism, or bringing goods and money back to help their home country, and many look at it as a bad thing. At the roundtable one thing he brought up is that immigrants have to come here as …show more content…
I understand he was an immigrant and he would have first experiences on how hard it is to get into the country. I believe that he lost a lot of people’s attentions that were of the Republican Party in the roundtable when he said this. If he were to have just presented the facts alone he would have won over the votes and made his point at the same