Jose Velazquez Ms. Monroe Period 6 09/24/15 Prompt #3 “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” Immigration laws have inevitably resulted in a situation where many illegal immigrants live and work in the United States, but it is also an issue that has been blown out of proportion by the media and politicians, such as Donald trump. Illegal aliens are accused of bringing drugs and statutory offense to the United States, as well as take away millions of jobs and take away trillions of dollars from the country for getting free healthcare and food stamps. The united states has had an increase of 20% in the immigrant population in the past 10 years and it went from 35.1 …show more content…
The truth is that 86% of americans were not willing to perform these jobs and that is why hispanics took over. Some jobs include farming, construction, but the most popular hispanic jobs is in landscaping as an american would say but actually the most common job that latinos do is work in restaurant. America is at an all time low for unemployment at 4.7%-5.1% being unemployed; however americans still complain that all the jobs are being taken by immigrants. Aliens on average have only 8.1% of the jobs in america, and the rest is held by mostly americans and some other racial and ethnic groups. Obama care gives affordable to free healthcare to 15 % of americans and out of those 45 million americans and out of those 45 million only 31.9 % have the health care for free and the rest are whites as well as other racial and ethnic groups. In Conclusion, the only things Americans are doing is to have a scapegoat for their economic problems and are looking for a certain group and pointing the finger at them, therefore this group is effaced and people make fun of them and tell them they are ruining the country, when in actuality they are the problem because they don’t like