Introduction

It's 2015, Immigrants are hardworking, taxpayers, job creators, entrepreneurs, and consumers. The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants, settlements, crime, and voting. 

The civil rights movement of the 1960's led to the replacement of ethnic quotas with per-country limits. Since then, the number of the first-generation immigrants living in the United States has quadrupled, from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 2010.

Over one million persons were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2008. Since the per-country limit applies the same maximum on the number of visas to all countries regardless of their population, it has had the effect of severely restricting the legal immigration of persons born in Mexico, China, India and the Philippines, which are currently the leading countries of origin of immigrants to the United States.

Migration is difficult, expensive, and dangerous for those who enter the US illegally across the Mexico - US Border. Almost all undocumented immigrants have no avenues for legal entry to the United States due the restrictive legal limits on green cards, and lack of immigrant visas for low skilled workers, most of them do not speak English so it’s also very difficult to communicate.

In 10 years, Congress will have to do something about immigration. They can not keep avoiding this situation. They eventually have to figure out a solution.

Work Cited:
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/report/2014/10/23/59040/the-facts-on-immigration-today-3/
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/issues/history

Culture: Immigrants

In today's world, people are moving to the US from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and many other places in the world.  They typically assimilate quickly. Has this always been the case? Are the immigrants of today assimilating as fast as previous generations?

From 1901 through 1920's there was an estimated 14,531,197 million new immigrants in the United States. Since 1990 through 2014, there has been a total of 520,604,640 million new immigrants in the United States making up 54% of the U.S's population. 

Immigrants come to America to better themselves because they couldn't in their own country, and as soon as they get here, they realize their culture is different from everyone else's so they try to adapt to a new one. 

My questions are: Why does almost everyone immigrate to the United States? Do immigrants come for work or just to live a better life? If immigrants don't find what they are looking for, do they move back home or stay here and risk their lives? 

http://www.census.gov/