Problems Faced By Immigrants In The United States

IMMIGRNATS PROBLEMS

INTRODUCTION Immigration refers to the movement of foreigners into another country with an aim of permanent residence .Immigrants choose to leave their home countries because of a number of reasons, including politics, family re-unification, poverty, natural disaster, or just a wish to live in new surroundings on a voluntary basis .However, immigrants face a number of problems in the destination countries. Common problems that immigrants experience throughout the globe include language barriers; legal immigration problems; homesickness and alienation; assimilation and cultural barriers; racism; barriers to basic services such as health care; and under-employment, which depend on the level of education. Here
Immigrants also encounter problems with requesting the permission to perform activities, which the new country does not currently allow them to do such as employment. This is among the most common problems because the status of the immigrant, according to entry documents, just entitles him or her to accomplish certain tasks. The immigration authorities can hold an immigrant at the airport or in a detention centre. For instance, the immigration officer can detain an immigrant with legal immigration documents at an airport for some hours because of wanting to understand how the immigrant acquired the funds to fly in and out of foreign country .Therefore, the immigration officer may decide that the immigrant must be engaged in mistrustful
When the initial exhilaration of being in a foreign country diminishes, immigrants start missing the family and close friends that they left behind in the home country .This is a nature of human beings to desire going back to familiar places after some years of staying in foreign countries. International students and immigrants should adjust to staying comfortably in a new and strange environment. One of criteria of coping with the problem of homesickness is to communicate with close friends and family back home. Mobile phones and the Internet have now enabled immigrants and their families to communicate freely and cheaply, now and then. For the first few years, the immigrant should send messages and call the family and close friends back home on a regular basis. Staying in touch will keep the immigrants rooted and remind them that they always have people who love and care about them. The immigrants should look for people from their home countries and socialize with them. Some immigrants form Associations with other immigrants from their home