Composition I
Dr. Gonzalez
The Immigration Reform For many years, the immigrant population of the United Stated had faced many hardships and obstacles during their lives; some during their short lives, due to the way America feels about immigration. This great nation was not established overnight, but it came to be through a process; a process called immigration. Immigration is America’s heart and soul, in fact, America dwells and depends on it. For some reason though, Americans more and more have begun to think of immigration as a bug that needs to be squashed. Beginning with making ridiculous immigration laws, spending millions of [needed] dollars on border security, and withholding peoples’ rights, America has fallen so low, it seems impossible to get back up. Because of the many hindrances this country has put in the immigrants, many of them, unable to afford the great …show more content…
Writers like Heather MacDonald state, “The costs that these immigrants impose on U.S. taxpayers for health care, schooling, welfare, and (all too often) incarceration far outweigh the benefits they offer.” This argument is flawed beyond reason. Though, as mentioned before, undocumented immigrants have low paying, dangerous jobs, many of them still make sure file taxes and pay their dues to a country that is out to get them. Unfortunately there is a part of the immigrant population that is exactly the way that Americans view all immigrants. Some gang members, drunks, and high school dropouts are also illegal immigrants. One thing anti-immigration Americans fail to point out is that their jails are also filled with naturally born citizens, and many of their teenagers are also high school dropouts that have joined gangs and are a threat society. Immigrants benefit society economically and with their upright family values and powerful work