Immigration Struggles

The life of an immigrant can be a difficult task to ask from anyone: work, eat, sleep repeat without the support of their loved ones. Many of us will never know the hardships involved in leaving your family behind in hopes of a better future. Most immigrants in our great nation are not here to steal from us or cause us any harm, but rather to work and provide for their families what they cannot provide on their home country. Immigrants often times get abused, belittled, and taken advantage of due to the fact that they are illegal. A lot of people think they are here to take our jobs and often times complain about taxes and other things that they do not do. But the reality is that they take jobs most of us would not want, they pay sales

So I believe that it is very hypocritical the way many American’s treats and act towards immigrants. The worst part of it all is many of us do not know the struggle and sacrifices many of them have to make to get here and do the things that they do. How many of us would take a journey on to uncharted territories not knowing if they will live or die on what could simply be a ruse. Many immigrants from Mexico, El Salvador, and other central and South American countries make huge sacrifices just to try and get here. A lot of these people never get to see some of their family members ever again, I know plenty of stories of people who have had to choose between seeing their mother for the last time or leaving their families here without a beneficiary. The worst part of it all is that these same people that have to withstand some very difficult hardships often time get abused and taken advantage of by their bosses and take a lot of the jobs many of us

Some of the things I hear a lot are how immigrants do not pay any taxes, or that they are taking away our health benefits. But the reality is that, just like the rest of us when they go somewhere to shop they too pay sales tax. It is not like immigrants have a special benefit that omits them from taxes. Also when an immigrant does happen to have a factory job of some sort they never receive any tax return. A lot of people also choose to overlook the huge economical boost these people give to our country. Illegal immigrants represent a gigantic part of our nations labor force according to “The Aspen Institute of economic opportunity program”, 16% of our nation’s work force was foreign born. This means that there are over 25 million undocumented employees in the U.S. today imagine what would happen to our economy if we got rid of