A few years ago a friend of mine named Jose (not his actual name) was graduating from high school. He was a great soccer player and a decent student. He had an awesome chance of being admitted into college and playing soccer. However because he wasn’t legal he couldn’t afford college. His goals of entering college were stopped because he couldn’t obtain the help he needed to become legal. He needed better foreign policies to help him achieve what he wanted. These people, although maybe not all legal, they are Americans. They’ve grown up here and want to stay here, and our “land of opportunity” is denying this opportunity with ineffective foreign policies. We need to improve these foreign policies for …show more content…
However, as illegal immigrants, these people can’t obtain this financial support. This is where the policy needs to be reformed. If we can allow teachers to ask if the immigrants are legal, then they’ll be able to help these students get their citizenship, get scholarships, get into college, and then benefit themselves and our workforce and economy with a beneficial career that wouldn’t have been possible without the help from the teachers. However, like I said this isn’t possible because of the ineffective foreign policy. We need to improve it to give these young adults the chance that they deserve, like every other …show more content…
These immigrants who want the “American Dream” as every other US citizen are being discriminated against and shamed into hiding and giving up their dreams.
Worst of all, these immigrants who are attempting to live normal american lives are even further brought out in the public when the California government allowed them to have licenses, but with a catch. They had to have a scarlet letter on their licences. A permanent mark of their undocumented. It is embarrassing and brings these people out to the public even more than they already are. Unlike Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter, this mark on their licences won’t ever change into a positive symbol. It will always remain as a mark of shame.
A common thought by many is that these immigrants are taking jobs from native born workers. Many believe that immigrants are ruining our economy. This couldn’t be more wrong. These immigrants, in fact, expand job opportunities and boost job creation. A study by Ben Johnson proved that each foreign-born graduate from a U.S. university with an advanced degree who stays in the U.S. to work in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) occupation creates an average of 2.62 jobs for American workers (AIC Executive Director…) Therefore these Immigrant workers actually create twice the jobs they take up for native born workers. This idea that immigrants take jobs is manufactured from false information.