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
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