Essays on Immigration

Do you ever wonder how undocumented immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy? Are they really only coming to this country to live off of government assistance? My husband entered this country as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico in 2005. He, like everyone else that immigrated,...

“Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life”(Kennedy). In what ways and how did immigrants make American life better? Exactly whose life becomes significantly better due to the arrival of immigrants? Opponents say sanctuary cities prioritize illegal immigrants over public safety. It...

More than 44.7 million immigrants lived in the United States in 2018. This number is expected to grow within the next generation. According to Hoefer, Rytina, and Baker, each year, an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 migrants from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras enter the...

The factors that go into the creation of America as a worldwide industrial leader are numerous and deeply interwoven, but a prime sources are the development and implantation of new technology, and the exploitation of workers. If there was an ethos that defined American industrialism,...

The Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is primarily the authors perspective on the experiences of kids left by their parents ate a young age. Essentially, the author was describing how Enrique’s, Lourdes, as a struggling parent had to bring up his sister and son. For...

America has a long history with individuals moving to America since the 1600’s. Everybody trusts that America is this extraordinary nation of expectation and chance to have a superior life where individuals touch base to achieve their fantasy. In any case, others don’t get that...

My contemporary art that I going to talk is “The Son of a Migrant from Syria” a famous mural painted by Banksy in 2015. Banksy is an anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political activist, and film director. He has been active since the 1990s. Banksy...

The Syrian civil war has caused one of the biggest refugee crises seen in recent years. As in any war there casualties and collateral damage, and in this case it was the people of Syria. Due to this war more than 5.6 million people escaped...

Throughout history, millions of people across the world have gone through the universal refugee experience of fleeing their countries, and finding a new home in societies abroad. A refugee is someone who is forced to flee from their home country to escape conflict or danger....

America grew to become a land of factories, corporate enterprise, and industrial workers. The rise of immigration in the United States supplied many industrial companies with workers. There was an outburst in the growth of America’s big city population, places of 100,000 people went from...

The opposing views between liberals and conservatives is a never ending debate in itself. One side supports positive things to say on the topic while the opposing has mainly negative and constructive points. Depending on which part of the spectrum one falls they will use...

One of the biggest issues we see today in our community is about immigrants’ rights and the number of deportations that have occurred these past years. Why is it that immigrants are always looked down as and aren´t given the same rights as citizens? “They...

Immigration is a very controversial topic in the United States. Some people want a wall built between Mexico and the United States to stop illegal immigration. Others want open borders. Some are worried about national security, while others are worried about the people trying to...

This essay is about my life experiences when moving from Jordan to The United States. At the age of seven I moved to Amman Jordan with my family. I have lived in Jordan for a long time and have not become a citizen of Jordan...

More than 44.5 million immigrants resided in the United States in 2017, which is the historical high since census records have been kept and according to 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) data, one in seven U.S. residents is foreign born. In this essay I will...

Immigrant domestic life has its own particularities beyond cultural and language differences. It is not uncommon that immigrant families live together with extended family members, all contributing to surviving harsh living conditions. Many times, families are comprised of mixed legal statuses; some members are undocumented...

Joseph Fort Newton once said, “men build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Historically the use of political symbolism has served as an engine for strengthening and immortalizing regimes; consolidating and unifying citizens in a physical manifestation steeped in their respective rhetoric. The Border...

Experience is possibly the biggest teacher we as human beings have, it shapes our dominant worldviews and allows us to view life in a perspective that is unique to the individual. Through this we can determine that our knowledge is cultivated by a never ending...

Immigration. It’s a controversial topic that has two sides to it, with some seeing it as something positive and others as negative. With Immigration mainly being perceived as something negative and used as a scapegoat whenever the nation finds itself dealing with problems, many either...