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    There are more immigrants incarcerated than natural born citizens. Research There are approximately 43 million immigrants in the United States and about 11 million are illegal. Compared to the total American population, only seven percent of the nation’s population are non-citizens. Approximately 22 percent of inmates in federal prison are non-citizens. (Perez) Analysis There are 43 million immigrants in the United states but the immigrant population can only compare at seven percent to the total

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    Immigrant Immigrants

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    Should Immigrants Assimilate or Not? We all come from different places and ethnicities, and because of having a dream, people fled away from their home to seek for something to make their life better. Going to a country like United States, is not only a dream but also, an opportunity because many people think that America is the best place to settle in, where work, and education are an easy access. Though this statement is partly true, it is not that easy. Everyone envied because America is a great

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    of an immigrant. As a daughter of parents who migrated to the Unites States from El Salvador, I personally believe that immigrants are the correct side from what the Americans see or believe; however, just like anything else there will be two different sides; the good immigrants and the bad immigrants. For example, first, the US has immigrants with different types of crimes committed. Then, we have the issue of jobs with immigrants. Third, an additional issue is the cost of having immigrants that

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    Education for immigrants. People read the newspaper and articles when they see a topic that is related to their life and I think the immigrant’s families will also read the newspaper when they see a topic about immigration. For example, my family are immigrants too and we tend to read the article when the headline has something to do with immigrants which convinces me that the main audience of my article would be immigrants and their families. We tend to read articles and try to find out if we are

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    The Immigrant

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    Media History and Culture Writing Assignment 2 Film’s unique visual and narrative properties in “The Immigrant” aid in critiquing the popularly held “American Dream”. The dream stated that anyone, even foreigners, could achieve financial/personal success in America if they worked hard, but Chaplin believes this is not completely true. Narrative qualities of film in “The Immigrant” present concrete stories and characters that visually demonstrate the hardships, mistreatment, and luck involved in

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    Immigrants

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    other people see this as a problem. America should be a nation where it should not matter what your race or ethnicity is to others. America was built upon the ideas and dreams of others. We should be promoting those ideals to immigrants so they can become citizens. Immigrants should assimilate into American culture because it could affect a work place, the topic is getting less attention, and they do a lot to come into America. People who are have the intense or irrational dislike or fear of people

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    The opportunities of racial minorities such as the Chinese or African Americans different from those of European immigrants because diversity played a big role in the quality of urban setting. When the industrial revolution happen a lot of immigrant were in search for better economic opportunity, so as Chinese left their home countries due to poverty and famine, cities were the first place they settle down in, making their way to the US they had great opportunity, from owning their own business,

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    preferably beneath the protective cover of darkness, jumping fences, eluding guards and dodging two hundred -ton locomotives in a perilous dash for the most elusive of prizes, a free ride to the north. According to Jose Flores, an illegal Mexican immigrant seeking work in the United States says, “To be truthful, I have no idea of precisely where this train goes, other than it takes us to el norte” (Griffin 363+). The fact that each night literally hundreds of men and women clamber over the barricade

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    The following immigrants do get in the U.S. from Mexico, or anywhere in Central America do carrying viruses and, or diseases, so the immigrants can easy contact to other citizens in the United States and pass the virus around to other people with minimum effects. The almost immigrants is not so health, clean and don’t take care of themselves, because of, immigrants’ pervious living condition. Like for an example, couple years ago in the West

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    In the story of Forbidden Workers - Illegal Chinese Immigrants in New York, we are given a look at American Society from the perspective of an illegal immigrant who is taken advantage of because of their status and the vulnerable position that they are put in because of it. Peter Kwong provides a broad, but subjective, analysis of American life, labor laws, and other key points in immigration. However, while the message Kwong conveys with this interesting and informational work, it is hindered by

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