Immigration Vs Illegal Immigration

When deciding on what topics to focus on for our project, we decided to brainstorm topics there are relevant to our society today and to showcase some aspects that were not as well known. Since illegal immigration is talked about widely, we decided to incorporate the topic into our project. But, legal immigration is less known and not covered as much in media, so contrasting the two topics was a good choice. In addition, demography is a key topic in peopling because the study of statistics in the United States can shape a reader’s perspective on movements and migrations. We also felt that the citizenship process was an important topic that would allow the reader to understand more on immigration and hopefully stop the xenophobia involved when
Incorporating immigration into our project was essential to our topic of peopling because without immigrants, the United States would be very different and not as diverse as it is today. Contrasting illegal and legal immigration was also a key point in our project because it expressed different ways of life and showcased how even if you are from a less developed country, you can succeed through earning an education. For example, Kelly Hyles and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, the child of immigrants were able to go against the odds and were accepted into all eight Ivy League institutions. By displaying their successes within our project, we hoped to dispel the stigma of immigrants being lazy and “leeches”, that take American tax dollars by using welfare. A second point that would be essential to understanding the benefits of immigration was to show the statistics on immigrants