How To Immigrate To The United States

The United States of America is branded as the land of opportunities and a place where anyone can come and make a better life for themselves. Which is why many people choose to immigrate to the U.S. the Center for American Progress reports that “The foreign-born population consisted of 40.7 million people in 2012. Broken down by immigration status, the foreign-born population was composed of 18.6 million naturalized U.S. citizens and 22.1 million noncitizens in 2012. Of the noncitizens, approximately 13.3 million were legal permanent residents, 11.3 million were unauthorized migrants, and 1.9 million were on temporary visas”(2014). There are some people who think that immigrants are bad for this country because they supposedly come and take American peoples jobs and they get help from the government costing tax payers a lot of money. There are people now like the presidential candidate Donald Trump who believe that Immigrants from Mexico are “Bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists” (Trump, 2015). Trump is proposing building a real border to keep illegal immigrants out.
What is important is that there is a better system in place to handle all the immigrants coming to America. Many people are calling for an immigration reform which is why this issue is very important to address. I know many immigrants and they've all seemed to have had a rough time adjusting to living in a new country. I think that by interviewing an immigrant there is probably going to be similarities between her story and ones I’ve already heard. Knowing what is actually going on from first hand accounts from immigrants can help to find a solution for how to deal with immigration