Pros And Cons Of Immigration To The United States

As President Obama had once stated, “We were strangers once, too”. This quote itself tells us as American Citizens we should not criticize those who choose to leave their home and come to the United States for a chance of success, but in five simple words. Many of us were taught the history of the United States, up to the point of how our ancestors came here, and why we chose to become a country. So in other words the issues of immigration goes further than the Mexico-United States border, it goes as far back as the moment the United States of America became a country. Now you may be wondering “How does this affect us as individuals?” Although you may not see it now, immigration affects us because we are forgetting the roots of our country, it also affects us because all we hear from media is the negatives that immigration causes. It is easy to come to the conclusion that crime has been rising due to immigrants, however

According to the first google result, “an immigrant a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.” However I consider that definition is very dull and vague, mainly due to the reason that it says what a person is doing, however it does not represent their morals or reasoning behind the choice of migration. However before I can actually discuss the reasoning behind migration, I need to provide demographics that show how much immigrants make up the population in the United States. According to Center of Immigration Studies, in the year 2014 there was a total of 42.4 million immigrants including both legal and illegal(Camarota and Zeigler, par. 1). This makes up roughly 13.3% of the United States population. Other demographics that were provided by CIS(Center of Immigration Studies) the unemployment rate has dropped in 2010 to 2014, from 1,159 to 849. This information provides the demographic view that basically bust the myth that immigrants are all unemployed and living strictly under government