Modern Challenges in Immigration

Modern Challenges in Immigration

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As an immigrant of Mexico, I wanted to come to the United States for freedom and work. I

worked for many years in Mexico and did not earn very much money. I need to support my family. I

want to be able to obtain my family away from the Mexican Mafia because they deserve to go outside

the house and not be afraid. The citizenship process is very expensive and too lengthy of a process. I

need to start earning money now. Maybe once I save enough money, I will complete the forms to

become a legal citizen of the United States. I hope that I am not caught before I am a legal citizen.

The United States government policy should not favor certain kinds of immigrants. The United

States government should treat every immigrant equally. Immigrants should follow the legal process to

obtaining a legal citizenship to the United States. Americans have to earn their money and work for

a living. They have to pay taxes and immigrants should be treated the same. The United States is

a country of opportunities and should not be considered a country of free handouts.

Citizenship preference should not be given to the neediest, most talented, the most oppressed,

or the richest immigrant. Some immigrants are not the neediest, talented, oppressed, or the richest.

Immigrants wishing to come to the United States have a goal in their lives. They come to the United

States wanting a better life for themselves or their families. The border capture hundreds of Mexicans

crossing the border almost every day. It is usually men crossing, risking their lives, to enter the United

States illegally hoping to find a job to send money to their families, in hopes that one day their families

can join them in the United States. According to “How Many Illegal Immigrants?” (2011), “Government

and academic sources estimate the illegal immigrant population at about 11 million residents” (para. 1).

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