Pro Immigration Essay -- Pros of Immigration, Immigrants

Pro ImmigrationWe live in the age where scandalous and controversial topicscover the unfermenteds headlines. Such overt matters as homosexuality, A.I.D.S, andabortion are fiercely debated upon. Sides are always taken, with theconservatives battling the liberals. One such argument that has always beendebated upon since the founding of this nation has been immigration. The factthat it has been argued over for so long makes it seem ironic. A countryfounded by immigrants perpetually arguing over immigration. The basis of thisdispute runs deep and that is what will be discussed in this next paper.Anti-immigrant sentiments have been circulating since the Alien Act ofJune 25, 1798 . The Act was the introductory federal legislation that dealt with theexpulsion of aliens in the United States. Another landmark case was theinfamous Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. That clause revoked all Chineseimmigrants to emigrate to the States for a period of ten years. It is soinfamous due to the fact th at it was the first bill that discriminated againstany one particular(prenominal) race. Restrictions on immigration may seem to have beeneradicated from current history but that is an oversight. Even in thepolitically correct society we live in today allows for these discrepancies,for in the Immigration Act of 1990 which brought up controls for immigration.Behind all these legal documents there are reasons that spurred thesecauses. plastered prejudices against certain races or religion. The prejudiceswere not always a color issue as the current immigration chores are. In thebeginning it was primarily Europeans. In particular the Irish and German werethought of negatively. The percentage of the Irish in the Mid-Atlantic went from45.9% in 1870 to 48.5 in 1930. Germans in 1870 went from 31.4% to 35.6% in 1930. The common belief was that the two races were against assimilation. Theylived in their own communities and refused to learn the English language. Butthat belief like all other s were false based. After the Germans and Irishstarted to finally assimilate we needed a new scapegoat. The next were theItalians and Jews, following them were the Catholics. Throughout history therewere always someone who got the blame put on them. Lately the blame has beenput upon Middle-Eastern, Asians and Hispanics.Now that the b... ...ead a better life. Immigrants also byarriving to America they pass on knowledge of their own culture to help unifyall the humans. Also by share their culture we are able to expand businessfurther into other foreign countries. With the motivation and talent that theypossess immigrants are the backbone for the continued ontogenesis of our country.My stand on immigration is probably lucid. I am pro-immigration. Beingan immigrant myself I have personally felt the hardships and prejudices heldagainst me, simply based on grate color. Immigrants that arrive here usuallycome with a goal in life - to succeed on it. With that kind of mentality Ishare th e equal view as Stephen Moore. Even the undocumented immigrants thatseem to be numerous is false, they only constitute roughly 1-1.5% a very smallmargin to asseverate the least. This country was founded by immigrants, built byimmigrants and flourishes because of immigrants. It seems only in dire timesthat America tries to find a scapegoat to use as a justification of why they arefailing, when the truth of the matter is that the fact that we have to blamesomeone else we have a much more serious problem than we think.