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Jojuan Lindsey
Mrs. Kenly
British Literature 2B
22 March 2019
Hunman Migration
Illegal immigration was not an issue in the early years of the United State because there were
few laws controlling the borders. Immigrants that came from another country were free to come
to America and start a new life. People describe four waves of immigration controlling the
Migrant workers have always played an important role in the US economy. They should not be
treated as undeserving individuals. Most of them are qualified workers who pay taxes and
contribute to America.
With 3.5 million people from all over the world. The first people were on this great piece of
land we call the United State was the Native American thus that means that the people of today
can be considered an immigrant because people besides the native American wasn't the first
Historians describe four waves of immigration that happen in America. The first being the
colonists who settled in New England in the 1600s and 1700s and the second one which
happened between the 1820 and 1870 consisted of most of northern and western European and
mostly included many Chinese arriving between 1880 and 1920. The third wave of immigrant
hailed mostly from northern and western Europe. During the fourth wave of immigration
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happening in 1965 and continuing to the present the number of newcomers from Asia and the
The U.S Mexico border was an open border where individuals could cross at will. Even though it
was illegal to cross between official ports of entry. The United State government had neither the
money nor the desire to guard the border. The border was limited to a few at official ports of
The issue of illegal immigration is often about numbers of an illegal immigrant who entered the
country each. However, behind each number is a human being with a particular story. Each
immigrant has some type of back story of why they want to leave their country to enter a new
one. Some; have to found a family member other leave to escape a crime that they haven't done.
The British colonial came to the east coast and meet the native American tribe called the Zuni.
In 30 plus years, the British soldier killed off the native American village leader and killed off
most of their men. then they enslave their women and kids. By doing that they are able to take
over their land and immigrant it as well. So in today time, everyone is a mixture of something
because people ancestors took over other races theory and enslave them and mix races with
them.
What is human migration? It is the movement of a person or a group of people to settle in a new
location. Migration can be considered many things temporal, voluntary, or forced. There are two
types of migration. Immigration is people coming from another country to settle inside that new
country and Emigration is people leaving their home country and never going back.
Human is like a social animal. Animals are territorial about their land. Without no border control,
it would be a mess of migration and which would lead to less job for the American people the is
already here. When the American people can't find any job because of the immigrants that
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migrate here from other countries the American people are going to start complaining about
immigrants is taking all of the jobs that were already here for the American people.
Most illegal immigrants come to America to find work that pays more than they can make in
their home countries. Whether they come from Mexico, Africa, or China, immigrants typically
risk the hazards of crossing the border illegally mainly because they seek to escape poverty in
their homeland. Illegal immigrants come here for the same reason legal immigrant do and the is
Migrants that come to America are coming because they want to escape the low wages that they
are making in their country. United State wages are higher than most wages around the world.
People are moving to more developed countries will often find that the same work they were
They are cleaners, minders for old people, night watchmen, or working in factories and shop.
Only they are prepared to do these job witch, for the standard of living of the country are poorly
paid but not from their point of view. For the immigrant worker, the low wages are a fortune.
While most illegal immigrants come to America to work in low skill jobs, some achieve a greater
level of success. Some even start their own business. Take Jorge Fierro for an example. Crossing
the U.S Mexico border illegally in 1985 Fiero went to Wyoming and then to Utah where he
Some years past then he decides to move to America. He bought a can of beans and was so
disappointed by the quality that he decided to start his own business selling Mexican style beans.
In 1997 having gained legal status Fierro began preparing and selling beans at the Salt Lake City
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Farmers Market. One year later with the help of a thousand loan, he opens a small market of his
own.
Despite all the debates over the economic and benefits of illegal immigrants one fact remain the
same. Illegal immigrants live and work in America and more continue to arrive every day. This
situation keeps on occurring because illegal immigration posed a major threat to the economic
survival of the nation. The fact that millions of illegal immigrant are permitted to live and work
in the United State seems proof that they provide benefits for the country
Without Illegal immigrant workers, productivity and economic growth would be slower. There
would be fewer jobs for skilled labor. American earning would be reduced and some service that
is thriving now will fall. While others would be at risk of collapsing. By filling the unskilled
labor gap illegal immigrant contributes to keeping the U.S economy productive.
Expert estimate that seven million of the approximately eleven million illegal immigrants in the
United State hold jobs of some sort often as unskilled laborers. Though pay for these jobs is low
by American standards it represents a significant amount of money for workers from poor
countries. People suggest that a continued supply of illegal immigrants is essential to maintain
the success of America economy especially in agriculture and other industries that rely on
unskilled labor.
Benefiting immigrant and employs illegal immigration is also believed to be essential to the
American economy. The job illegal immigrants do are crucial and some expert contend that it is
equally critical that these jobs be done for low wages. According to Llewellyn Howell, professor
of international management low wages are especially important in order America agricultural
If the government decide to remove illegal immigrants from the workforce would have a
devastating effect on the nation's financial health. Some experts predict without illegal immigrant
labor employers would be forced to comply with laws regulating the workplace. They would
have to pay higher wages. To pay these higher wages they would have to eliminate jobs and raise
Migration is not a new thing that just now happening. It has been writing down in history that
people have a move from one country to inhabit new areas. Take the British as an example, They
were located northern, eastern and western hemispheres and then they migrated to America to
inhabit it.
Every time a group of people migrates to a new place it is not all their choice to move. { For well
over 300 years, European countries forced Africans onto slave ships and transported them across
the Atlantic Ocean}. This would be considered of Push Factor because the African slave was
Today’s immigration reasons are the same as immigrants from 100 years ago. Migrant years ago
can to America looking for a job and escaping from diseases. Recent issues in the world have to
lead to people moving from land to land for different reason immigration is the Migration is the
movement of persons into another country or land where they intend to settle.
Human Migration happens due to several reasons including environmental reasons, natural
disaster, poverty, political or personal choice to change the surrounding. Immigrants in a country
are group into two group temporary and permanent immigrants. Temporary immigrants intend to
stay for a given period and then go back, while permanent immigrants want to establish their
permanent residence in the new country and later acquire that country’s citizenship.
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The push and pull factors are those that drive people away from a place also draw people to a
new place for good or bad reasons. Push factors are most harmful it makes a person want to
move. A certain person or group of people leave one country for another to escape from the
Migrant are motivated to leave their former countries of citizenship, or habitual residence, for a
variety of reasons, including a lack of local access to resources, a desire for economic prosperity.
Those reasons are call push factor. Push Factor can cause harm to the migrant who is staying in
their country. The only undevelopment country has push factor because the country has limited
resources and their economic system is weak. What that means is that the government doesn't
have the means to provide for their people and that can lead to a push factor.
A push factor is a harmful act that makes a person want to leave which can force a person from
one country to seek refuge in another. These reasons which drive people to leave their homes can
include a substandard level of living, food, land or job scarcity, famine, drought or even natural
disasters.
When this happens it can force a person to leave. If they do not choose to leave they will suffer
emotionally or physically painful. The Great Potato Famine pushed thousands of Irish families to
immigrate to the United States in Brooklyn to avoid starvation and this can relate to some issues
Take the Isis crisis happening in the middle east for an example. The United State army has been
fighting with Isis for years now and harmless people are getting caught in the crossfire. CNN
said {As the battle for the last remaining ISIS enclave in eastern Syria stretches on and ISIS
fighters dig in, remaining civilians stream out of the village in groups. CNN's Ben Wedeman
reports} and this can tell us first hand that innocent people is getting hurt for no reason. This is a
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major push factor because they getting hurt in a war that they didn't even start of want to be part
of it.
The battle between ISIS and the United State Army has taken innocent lives for something the
people the reside inside the country didn't even started. People are migrating from Iraq because
the migrate family and children are getting hit from the crossfire between the two armies.
Innocent kids or getting killed due to a war that the kid's parents did not start. A girl who left
Britain to join the Islamic State started to speak out of what isis has been doing. In the article, the
women told the reporter The Manchester Arena attack in May 2017 killed 22 people after a
suicide bomber detonated a device packed with shrapnel at the end of a pop concert. With her
saying that it is determined that innocent people have been attacked for no reason and at some
point, they will get tired of it and migrate to the countries outside of the Iraq borders.
Religious discrimination is treating a person or group differently because of the beliefs they hold
about a religion. This problem is related to religious persecution and it is the most extreme forms
of which would include instances in which people have been executed for their beliefs. A few
amounts of people around the world still believe that one religious group is above other religion.
Religious persecution has occurred in the historical era. During the 18th century, some groups
were nearly universally persecuted for their views about religion such as atheist and jews, gay
men, communist, and political dissenter. During the world war, two Nazi army and local
collaborators murdered over six million Jews. People in Germany wanted a genocide toward
Jews during the 18th century and after the war, the Jewish community decides to migrate to
When people lose their jobs during recessions or a depression the people who work for the
economy go through a long term unemployed and they often lose their skills. This can hurt their
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ability to find a job. When a person loses their skill for a particular job they were working their
boss wouldn't hire them back because they lost that skill so they hire the next person that comes
along to take their spot. This can lead to the person who didn't get their job back to migrate to a
new area because they can't provide for his or her family.
Human migration can also come from famine. Famine is an extreme scarcity of food. The top
four countries that are going through a shortage of food in Yemen, Nigeria, South Sudan, and
Somalia. These countries are going through a shortage of food and this can lead a major push
factor. When a country cannot provide food for their people it can make the people move out of
the country.
Take this for an example, let say a low class working father can provide food for his family
because the country has a limited amount of food in his country because the country is going
through famine and one of his kid starved to death. The father sees that the government is not
taking a look at the major problem so he takes his family to a new country that offers a better life
A person doesn't always have to leave just because of a push factor. A particular country
might have something that interest the migrate to move from their country and you can call this a
pull factor. When a migrate leave their homeland because of a pull factor it is not because of a
war of famine is happening inside of their country it is happening because the migrate see
something in that other country that his or her country no providing for them.
Some commentators argue the philosophy of multiculturalism has made it easier for an
illegal immigrant to resist assimilation and retrain their native culture. Most specifically they cite
public policies and educational practice that enable immigrant to retain their language rather than
adopt English.
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offer bilingual education, racial and ethnic quotas, and education that focuses not on American
heroes and culture. We print multilingual ballot and driver license test. School and hospital have
An immigrant is part of the American story. It would be misleading to say that immigrant has
always been welcome to the United State as long the welling to take up the American way of
life. Stated by Walter Ewing a senior researcher at the immigration policy “ Public and political
attitudes toward immigrant have always been contradictory and sometimes hostile”.Despite their
differences their poor English skills and foreign beliefs and customs they try their hardest to
adapt to a new way of life only because they want to better themselves or even for his or her
family.
The main purpose of my survey is to communicate with the student respondents about
immigration and their personal opinion on it. This allows me to dig deeper into my research
paper and give me some incite on my topics and what I should decouise about in my paper.
My survey set place in an African American community and most of the people who took the
survey were mostly agree for immigration. One question is that Do you think that the United
State border should be on that any immigrant can connect in. So 38 percent say the border should
be open sometime, 25 percent said usually, and 19 percent says that the border should be open
always. The candidate who took this part of the survey had a different opinion of what the
During the survey, I also ask a question about the candidate opinion on human migration and the
feedback was mostly positive and some were negative. A candidate reply with this My “opinion
on migration is that more people should be allowed in this country for better opportunities and a
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better life them and their families” and so this person saw how a migrant come from poverty,
war, or famine and trying to escape from it. The other candidate had mostly negative feedback on
my questions. This respondent said “ I believe we shouldn’t let people migrate over to us
because it causes problems and makes us overpopulated” So this person have a negative
viewpoint on immigration and with these two opposing sides can lead to a major debate in the
government.
This survey result was helpful to me because it showed me how a simple small disagreement can
lead to stopping a person from entering a country just because of what a person thinks of them.
Government official who debates over immigrant doesn't see a person who is moving from one
county to another because of economic reason, or for a personal reason. All they say is an
opportunity to make money off that immigrant or send them back where they came from.
Many years have passed since the upbringing of the United State and so many people have
forgotten at some point that their ancestry once migrates to the American and took the land from
the Native American that was already here. So the border should be open for anyone who
escaping from some type of harmful deeds that their country is doing to them because once upon
of time our ancestor did the same thing for their descents.
Work cited
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https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/02/28/syria-civilians-isis-burma-free-rangers-
wedeman-pkg-vpx.cnn
http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_45.html
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-are-push-and-pull-factors.html
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brooklyn-2015
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/human_migration.htm