Immigration To The United States: A Comparative Analysis

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What makes the United States unique? Ever since the 1880’s, immigrants from all over the world have been moving to the U.S in hopes of receiving a new start, more money and/or a better life. Due to today's unfortunate motto, one in a thousand men are honest, you can not differentiate the honest from the liars. As of 2014, 5.1% of the U.S labor force consists of the 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants, in the U.S. Sympathetic towards the lives of others, the United States Government allows in about 880,000 immigrants yearly; an estimate of about 352,000 of those immigrants stay illegally in the U.S after their visa expires. Despite the fact that the majority of the illegal immigrants work and pay Social Security taxes, as the years go by,