Immigration Conflict

What would America be without immigrants? It would be a country lacking the rich diversity of religions, ethnicities, gender affiliations, social classes, ideas and intelligence. Immigration has been an important subject all through history that has progressed over time. America is a country made up of immigrants striving for prosperity and seeking for better life. Most immigrants come to America for religious freedom and economic opportunity. Grambs states that there has been previous misunderstanding with the history of immigration, “Recent archeological discoveries have shown that all of the human inhabitants of America came from elsewhere around the world”. It has never been easy, but it has certainly been worth it, giving everything that

facing many troubles one of the earliest acts that avoided immigration was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which lasted until 1943. Later on the Gentleman 's Agreement stopping Japanese immigration. In the 1920s, immigration was regulated. The biggest civil rights movement was made by the African Americans who were part of the labor system and who fought creating equality based on color and ethnicity. Over the years, America had to give in and provide the immigrants with rights because it is a country that has depended on immigrants for industrial labor (Burgon). The greatest conflict in America is that it has had to learn how to accept the ethnic, racial, and religious diversity that the newcomers bring in while also trying to having its strong traditions (Burgon). The power of immigrants is gradually improving. The term aliens, given to immigrants when talking about laws and courts. These aliens can ideally become residents and then citizens of the U.S., which will then be able to challenge the constitution in the immigration policy (Cox). Becoming a citizens also provide the worry free lifestyle in immigration as no longer being affected by immigration laws as first having to work for the residency and then the citizenship. Having rights that others lack specially aliens, who are not able to have judicial review of the immigration policies in the constitution, because as the term defines as being “aliens”, people from

What most Americans don’t see is that just as them these people come seeking for the American dream looking for a better life, better education, and better safety that is lacked in one 's’ native country. It is true that the first or old immigrants to this country were the founders the ones that started everything but this doesn 't mean that the rest that come are not willing to continue to make this country grow and continue to be prosperous as it has been and as it has progressed over time. Differently many of the new immigrants and some that even come as refugees come from extremely different parts of the world which are very different to the places to the originality of the old immigrants (Grambs). There are problems in the people that have to do with adjustment, where the “old” immigrants have trouble accepting. As Grambs explains that the insensitivity that the old immigrant experience and is often remembered through family gatherings and showed in literature in which the wounds are revealed and are seen still keep hurting. It is hard for old immigrants to treat the new immigrants with more sensitivity and respect and often complain that it is easier for the immigrants now and that there is too much being done for them. An example for great consideration is in the matter of language, it irritates