Essays on Immigrants

My family and pay a lot of money to et each and every member in this country to insure ourselves of a better future. For someone or anybody to get a free ride would be unfair for all our hard work. I’m not saying that they do not deserve to be in this country, IM…

Many people would say immigration is a crime but is it really a crime seeking for a better future for themselves and for their families? No, it is not a crime. However, what really is a crime is dehumanizing immigrants. People such as politicians and media views them as criminals and think that immigrants only…

Throughout the years, there have been significant amounts of immigrants arriving in different countries around the world for the same goal of a better life. Mexican immigrants are one of the oldest immigrants and one of the newest that still keep coming today. The Mexican immigrants possibly started to immigrate to America in the 1840’s…

While immigration is one of the most essential barriers facing the nation, there are still misconceptions about basic factors of the important issue, such as the size and disposition of this immigrant population, how immigration affects the economy and the labor force, the budget of unauthorized immigration, why A growing number of unaccompanied migrant children…

Do you believe many immigrants have found the safety and life they dreamed about surrounding countries? Somalia used to be a peaceful country with many resources before the country was ravaged by the civil war in 1990. Somali people had strong religious beliefs and spoke one language. Then the civil war started and Somalians spread…

Immigration has been a topic that has been argued about since the mid 1960’s, and has recently rose to the attention of many through social media, live television debates, and even countless news stories from people who have managed to cross the border. Although, at this point most of the public should be accustomed to…

Vera Ellen Wang was born June 27, 1949 to Chinese immigrants, and grew up on the Upper Eastside of Manhattan. During her childhood, Vera attended the American School of Ballet and went on later to attend Sarah Lawrence College. Vera was also an avid figure skater that competed in National Chapionships for figure skating, until…

New Orleans is a melting pot of many different cultures. The city was founded by the French in 1718, and ceded to the Spanish who ruled it for almost 40 years before being purchased by the United States in 1803 (Stewart et al.). Along with the French and Spanish, enslaved Africans were brought to the…

There are a lot of things that we remember from our childhood, things we cannot explain, things we can barely remember and things we don’t want to remember. Imagine waking up in place you have never seen before with people you have never met. That was one thing my parents had to go through to…

The book “The Invisible Girls” by Sarah Thebarge, shows a really important issue with struggling refugee immigrants in the US, and what they got to go through. This piece of literature talks about the life of Sarah Thebarge, an American who goes through a really tough time dealing with cancer. She moves to Portland, Oregon…