User:My immigrant essay

MY IMMIGRANT ESSAYYY!!!

Jake Ditmars

Mr.Cummings

November 6, 2007

Government

(tab over)The amount of immigrants entering our country throughout the past few years has been at an increasingly high rate. Our country's resources could potentially become a problem, or be at stake. The illegal immigrants also entering are become a problem with our country's economics, and terrorism could be potentially be more of a problem than it already is. What if some of the immigrants entering our country are terrorist? Immigration is one of the leading issues in politics today, and immigrants, legally and illegally are one of the biggest problems our country is facing. Some people ask; "What kind of actions should be taken to control immigration?" (new paragraph-tab)Think of all the diversity in our nation. Some people approach immigration wondering if there could possibly be to much diversity. Americans are also trying to get us to remember out heritage, so that we don't forget our past, and become some nation of just immigration. Another view is that we could be allowing to many refugee's into our country also, even though we somewhat represent the world of the oppressed, and allow them into our country. The immigrants are however though bringing new forms of art, music, work ethic, and traditions into our country. Is each immigrant bringing different elements into our country? That could possibly effect us by the way we take on American traditions, and most people fear change. Many other people take a strong approach towards how immigration is effecting our economy. How are they effecting our country's education system? How are they effecting our population? The wonder how immigration could effect our nation's increase in Homeland Security, and how they are effecting border control. (tab over arrywhurr)The approach that i agree with the most is the 3rd approach; A Matter of Priorities:Putting Economics first. Which is concerned with our nations economics. I agree with it mainly because, What are we going to do about our country's resources if all these immigrants are entering? Will we be able to constantly be getting more and more materials to help these individuals along with ourselves? The world doesn't have unlimited resources, and with more immigrants entering, and our population growing, will eventually have a country that is to diverse, and to little materials. Could we eventually run out of resources because how rapidly our population is growing? The world has limited resources of water, oil, materials, and will eventually run out. So, with a constant grow, could our nation and the world suffer greatly? (tab over SUN)Another problem that the economy could be facing is how the school systems function. Many immigrants entering our country are poorly educated, and many are children, or in their teenage years. In recent years, however, the amount of highschool dropouts has decreased 5%, due mainly to immigrants because they desire the need for education. (TAB OVER)Our country is also in quite a large amount of debt right now. Mainly because we are currently in a war. Massive amounts of our money is contributing to military aid, along with other materials, so the war in Iraq is steadily raising our country's debt higher and higher. Some people question if we can even handle the price of immigration right now. Immigrants are only making the price of debt higher, and the cost of immigration is ridicilous. To pay people for making visas, the works that create them, it all is steadily raising debt more and more. In 2006, the cost of immigration was around $108 billion. Which the price has risen roughly 66% higher than it was 10 years ago. Can our country afford to be spending $108 billion on immigrants? I personally fell that our nation is already in to much debt, and diverse enough, and more debt will do nothing but make it harder to get out of it. (tab over DEEDERRR)The population is also increasing quite rapidly. In the 1970's, in California alone, the state consisted of an immigrant population of around 1.8 million, were at the time the total population was around 15 million or more. The majority of immigrants in our country actually are workers, whether its labor, or not. Roughly around 33 million immigrants are in California; the majority of the immigrants being workers. The Californian employers somewhat rely on immigrant labor. Immigrants will work for longer hours, for less pay, just to be able to stay in this country. Some of them being possibly poorly educated, how would they be able to get a good, steady, well paying job? In this country, many of the workers are immigrants. Also, without immigration, the country's population would plumate. It would be about 14% lower. By 2050, there is estimated to be about 387 million immigrants. In our nation, the immigrant people are roughly a 1/4 of the nations population, around 82 million people. (TAB THE FUCK OVER)The issue that i feel is the most important though, is the conflict with border control, and Homeland Security. During the past few months, our country has been facing alot of problems with immigrants passing over the border illegally, mainly from Mexico, and are still, currently entering the country. After the attacks of 9/11, didn't we increase our country's security and border control? If we did, wouldn't it be a bit harder to enter our country? I feel that if we are in debt for something, we should at least be putting money towards it so its more effective. Homeland Security was also said to be increased, which they actually have increased somewhat. The security for airports is quite a bit stronger, and there is also wiretapping; to be able to find out if there are any terrorists in our country, and if there are, what they are planning. But, are we still putting to much money into it? I feel that we are wasting to much money on immigration. Could our national debt be lower if immigration wasn't such a problem? (TABBLEY)Many of our citizens however feel different about immigration, and are against my approach. Some people feel that instead of it causing problems, immigrants don't much effect on our country and its economics. Some citizens feel that instead of people being negative towards it, we should sympathize and embrace immigration, and the communities that have immigrants. They feel that shipping illegal immigrants from our country is almost pointless. All it does is cost money, and many of them just try entering back into our country. (tab over TRY TO FIND MORE TO WRITE)Many of them work on our farms also. Getting payed little for doing a large amount of work, and helping our farmers and our country out. All it does is cause more problems for the farmers. So, the effect of it is nearly pointless and useless. (TAB)Also, some people against my approach feel that immigrants should also have to pay for taxes. If they want to live in our country and be Americans, then they should have to pay for what Americans have to pay for also. Especially since the taxes help fund our government and the organizations that associate with it. Many also believe that immigrants should mandatory have to have an education, with a small background with our countries history, and its language.

(TAB CONCLUSION)In conclusion, immigration is one of our nations largest political, and non-political topics. Our country will have to deal with illegal immigrant situations, because it is not going to be ending anytime soon, unless some sort of policies are made. Immigrants no matter what, are going to be entering our country in the years to come. Many people have different opinions and different approaches towards immigration. Some people worry more about to much diversity, others about remembering who we are and our heritage. Other people think about how they effect our economy. Even though many people agree with people on these approaches, many people also disagree. They feel that immigration could potentially help our country. With all of the diversity in this country, many people are bound to have different opinions. Immigration is without a doubt a long lasting effect, and has been occuring since the english entered. So, what makes people think immigration won't be effecting the world for many years to come? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THINK MORE.