United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

I write in contribution to Mae M. Ngai’s topic on “Reforming Immigration for Good” and other clusters on immigration to deepen my argument. The idea of immigration brings up skeptical responses on what happens and needs to happen during migration in the United States. It has not only been an ongoing topic for many decades, but also heavily dismissed recently by the President elect Donald Trump. He highlighted many controversial topics about the Mexican-American border, Mexican natives, and other…

The United States should stop illegal immigration because, the housing of them raises taxes, immigrants bring more crime, and immigrants bring diseases. By stopping illegal immigration into The United States we can save money and lives just from stopping people from coming over here. Stopping illegal immigration into The United States will help lower American taxes by the citizens not having to pay to house the immigrants. According to AMAC “In 2010, the average unlawful immigrant household…

United States has been viewed as a place where opportunities are given regardless of education or background history. Immigrants are relocating to America in order to pursue the “American Dream” they believed they can achieve with the variety of opportunities available. However, not all immigrants are documented and legal to be living in United States. Somes are working to supply the poor families at home while the others are trying to become a citizens to seize a better future for their…

news lately has heard about the highly talked about and debatable topic of illegal immigration. Many Americans, as well as myself believe that we should not allow Illegal Immigration. The rate of crime, gangs, drug trafficking and sex trafficking have increased. The middle class are losing jobs to illegal immigrants because they are willing to work for less. State systems are going bankrupt over providing social services to these people and hospitals are never seeing a dime due to the “free…

One of the major hot button topics for the 2016 election is Immigration Reform. Discussions of building walls, sending illegal immigrants “home”, and abolishing birthright citizenship have all been tossed around as resolutions. While the other side reminds us how America was founded on the principle of opened doors - a land of freedom and opportunity. They argue that the majority of immigrants and undocumented workers do not hurt society as much as they enhance it, culturally and even…

Despite the stereotypes surrounding immigrants in the United States, most immigrants do not come to the United States with the purpose of “stealing” others’ jobs. In fact, many immigrants come to the United States to escape impoverished and violence-ridden countries, often seeking economic opportunity and asylum. For instance, some Latin American countries such as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are among the poorest countries in the world, with 30%, 26% and 17% of the respective populations…

As of 2012, the children of illegal immigrants account for 13.1% of all high school students in the state of Texas (Strauss, 2014). This number may not seem very big, but when you look at the funding coming from the state; there is an issue that arises. The education that these children are receiving is costing United States taxpayers $51.3 billion a year (Ruark, 2015). Projections that have been made for the next 15 years have shown that the increase in the number of students in all high…

Many people already know where they stand in the continuous debate about immigration in the United States. It is a debate that has sparked endless controversy, especially during the race to win the two-thousand sixteen presidential election. There are Americans on both sides of the debate and their opinions range from introducing a more accessible immigration policy, to building a wall to keep people out of the United States. However, behind all the sensation and political dispute lies a serious…

immigrants helped build nation’s railroads, including the first transcontinental line. After the completion of the railroads, they turned to farming, mining, and domestic service. During the 1870s, many Chinese agreed to work for a low wage, but many American workers feared they would lose their job. However, Chinese immigration was sharply limited by a congressional act passed in 1882 called the Chinese Exclusion Act. This act prohibited all Chinese except…

long run, immigrants do not decrease native employment rates. Some suggestion proposes that in the short run, immigration may slightly cut native employment, because the economy takes time to adjust to new immigration. Importantly, this effect fluctuates according to the broader economic environment. In specific, when the economy is growing and the labor market is adding jobs, new immigration makes enough jobs even in the short run and even to cause no harm to the net employment of native-born…