Immigration

The definition of ‘immigration’ on the free dictionary website states that it is the “movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there.” I feel that this definition of immigration has greatly changed over the years, and definitely not for the good. Immigrants are not coming to the United States for freedom, to learn the American English language, or for an education anymore. The majority of immigrants are solely coming to America for jobs, and that is it. They don’t try and make ‘friends’ with Americans, or even try to learn our language. It is kind of like they are trying to keep their little ‘posse’ together, and do not want to have anything to do with the American nation except for get their money.  Not only is this decreasing job availability to actual American U.S citizens, it is increasing the unemployment rate across the nation. I feel that the U.S national government should greatly be blamed for this problem. The government doesn’t care where they are from, as long as they will work for cheap. This is nonsense, and definitely breaking the law of immigration that states Aliens should have gained citizenship before becoming an American, and BEFORE they’re able to work in our nation. On a topics law website, the immigration law states that “congress limits the quantity of immigrant visas, which numbered 675,000 in 1995.” An immigrant visa is given to tourists and those who are coming to America for a temporal visit, mainly for business purposes. NOT TO WORK FULL TIME FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE. I think that these so called ‘visas’ should not be offered to immigrants unless they are being kept up with and should be on a certain time limit available to be in America.

Also, The borders need to be more secured in order to fix this national problem. As mentioned in class, the border wall is basically crap and they can get by it. It may not be easy, but very possible. On a global security website it states that there are “344.8 miles of primary pedestrian fence and 298.5 miles of vehicle fence along the Southwest border.” The pedestrian fence that was originally built was basically a waste and easy to overcome. A new fence has been built over a few many of those miles and is MUCH better compared to the old one. However, I feel that the government, in fact, built the fence but wants the aliens to come in order to obtain cheap labor. As Professor Seago stated, the government says “We want them, but we don’t want them.” I think that this is a bunch of very selfish behavior by the government and all the higher power wants is more and more money. To sum it up, the immigration problem in the United States is a definite problem.