In “In the Strawberry Fields,” Eric Schlosser describes the hardships immigrants go through to make money for their families. Schlosser meets with the farm owner, Doug, as well several works on a strawberry farm. Doug mentioned that college kids thought picking strawberries would be a good way to make extra money, but they almost never lasted more than an hour. Schlosser then talks to Francisco a worker on the farm “He picked strawberries six days a week, sometimes seven, for ten or twelve hours a day.” These people have horrible living conditions as well as working conditions, but endure it all so they can send money back to their families.
As a gateway to the United States, New York City has been defined by the generations of immigrants who have made it their home. According to the 2012 American Community Survey, more than 3.1 millions of people are immigrants. Immigrant entrepreneurs have made great impacts on transforming and enhancing the neighbors in New York City. Immigrants met hostilities when they first arrived to United States, they bound geographically, culturally, linguistically and economically. The formulation of Chinatown is an example, Chinese gathered together and did business.
Douglas You may be able to see parallels from then to today in other countries but I fail to see how people sneaking into our country illegally and getting a job from a business in this country illegally has anything to do with slavery or labor laws. I would agree with you if we were rounding up immigrants and bringing them into our country and forcing them to work for cheap labor. That is not the case, immigrants are risking their lives and their families lives to come into The United States of America to escape the hell that they were living in and work for more money than they have ever made in their entire lives. I don't agree with companies hiring anyone that is in this country illegally and think the punishment for doing so should be
Vagrant Royale A proposition to the mayors of the many cities in the U.S.A., hopefully, it becomes a proposition to the President of the United States of America. This proposition tackles a major threat to our economy and our level of innovation, to leap forward into a prosperous, preferable future. The United States is running out of jobs for people to work in, specifically those in the higher professional field such as Doctors, Lawyers, taxi drivers, politicians, etc.
They pay was incredibly low and not enough to well support themselves and their work conditions as well as living conditions were atrocious. Every possible method their employers had on running their farm was created just to make them feel “inferior and insecure. The environments of these work places were always of “hatred and suspicion.” This of course led to agricultural stikes such as the Salinas lettuce strike in
Picture this: You came to the United States as a 2-year old undocumented immigrant. You can’t really say to your parents, “We shouldn’t go to the U.S. That’s illegal and I don’t want to get caught”. So you go to school in the United States, K-12, because the schools have to accept you.
The lack of “worker protections and basic labor rights…[for] unauthorized immigrant workers
The American industrial workers kept America progressing and expanding industrially in the late 1800’s. The life of one was difficult in the conditions in factories and cities. However, what of the influences that impacted the American industrial worker such as, immigration, labor unions, and technology changes. Immigration barely affected the American industrial worker of the 1850’s, but at the end of the Civil War, the greatest influx of immigrants yet was just beginning.
Immigration reform has been a big issue for our country in recent years. Many U.S. citizens claim that immigration is harmful to the US economy. In just 20 years, we have seen the average number of immigrants per year jump a staggering 20%. This has lead to the biased opinions we see towards immigration today. Currently, our country is not receiving any benefit from immigration.
Is the american dream still alive and if so is it harder for natural born citizens or immigrants? Do natural born citizens have an advantage over immigrants in achieving the american dream? Immigrants have it harder trying to reach the american dream than natural born citizens do because their backgrounds, lack of education, and because of discrimination. Immigrants have it harder because of their backgrounds. Immigrants have it harder than natural born citizens because unlike natural born citizens that are born with more privileges immigrants do not have as many or any privileges to work with in helping them reach the american dream.
Imagine running away from your home leaving everything behind because you cannot support your family, drugs, poverty, violence, gangs, and government corruption around every corner this glass ceiling above you seeing your dreams and what you could achieve, what do you do? You could take a one in a million shot in leaving your country and going to the land of opportunity finding this american dream you also want a piece of. This American Dream should not be limited to just americans, this belief in upward mobility where if you work hard enough you can achieve to your ability, it is a trust in the “land of opportunity” but this is just an illusion to immigrants who have to face a rigged corporate system, institutional racism, and this
Immigration in the United States is questioned to be wicked or precise; Although, there are several immigrants looking for a better surroundings, many figure it will agonize the country rather than assistance it. Culture and diversity is what builds America and unites us as a whole so why shall we limit those who have Franklin D Roosevelt Quotation has a very valid point; Even though, immigration is not legalized is e pros will outweigh the pros in this conflict that has prolonged for years. Immigration should be granted amnesty; There are lots on immigrants out there trying to make a better life. It is said “That everyman is equal” so why would the government make it seem like we aren’t.
Illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S.A. and become citizens because they are heavy workers, want a better life and most importantly they contribute to the U.S. economy. Immigrants simply want to obtain an opportunity to live and work in this great country. With all this in mind it is clear that they deserve a path to citizenship. Countless people say illegal immigrants are damaging the U.S. economy; however, they are contributing immensely by paying their taxes.
In Economic and Social Impact of Immigrants Stephen Moore is arguing that immigrants and refugees contribute positively to the American Economy. He conveys this through the use of surveys, data, and facts from multiple sources. In the second paragraph he took a 1986 survey that concluded that a lot of foreigners achieved success in this country in difficult positions such as engineering and entrepreneurship. Two separate studies’ discussed in the sixth and seventh paragraphs dispel common beliefs that immigrants take jobs away from natural born citizens. The studies concluded that the exact opposite of popular opinion, immigrants in fact benefitted the economy for employers, employees, and the US economic position.
Transnational migration study is not a new phenomenon and it has been found that “this process is happening more regularly on a basic routine because of fast growing technology and the spread of globalization.” It is generally agreed that with the rapid acceleration of economic globalization, transnational trend has gradually become a global phenomenon. The convenient transportation and advanced technology have really helped to make the transnational process easier. Thus transnational immigrants can easily and frequently travel cross-borders in sending and receiving country. In this way, transnational immigrants experience different cultures, norms and values and they can also bring goods and investments to help them to incorporate into mainstream society.
