Argumentative Essay: Making America Home

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Thomas Izaguirre
Dr. Young
ENG 1110
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Making America Home The year is 1995 when my parents decided that it was the best idea for them to leave their home countries of Honduras and El Salvador. So they headed for the US to give my brother a better life than what they could offer him at the time. My parents had the mindset that they were going to do anything to make it to the US. They paid a guide a little over 1,000 Lempiras (Honduran currency) to help them on their journey. My mother tells me about her experience she says to me, “ We walked for a long period of time, we walked for 4 days with very little breaks and we had little food. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do to insure that your brother got a better future, but that …show more content…
These immigrants have many different reasons of why they enter the U.S. hoping to get a chance at a better life; others are refugees, escaping persecution and civil wars in their home country. Many of these people believe the United States is the best place to go. There is more freedom, protection, and benefits, which are important issues that help immigrants. Throughout history, America has welcomed immigrants from all over. Who come to America in hopes of living their version of the American Dream. America wished for a world where all nationalities would mix in one “melting pot”. My family and I can relate to this because there's nothing more that we've ever wanted to do than to live the American Dream. My father has worked so hard to put us in the place where we need to be and get us as close as possible to living the American dream. The want for success is like no other. I've seen my father go from working one job with very little pay. Up to having three jobs at the same time and that's what it takes to provide for the family. So my father's motivation for being here in the US ? To prosper to fulfill his potential that he couldn't fill while he was in Honduras. All my dad’s ever wanted is for me and my brother to get a better education than he got and a better …show more content…
Immigration’s positive effects far outweigh any negative impact. Migrants choose locations with available jobs and fill labor shortages. Migrants often complement native workers or they take the jobs that they don’t want to do. The necessity drives these immigrants to want to take any job no matter how low the pay may be. The presence of immigrants increases the demand and can spur new businesses to open, creating more jobs for immigrant and native populations. Immigrants who are self-employed or entrepreneurs directly create new jobs. Immigrant innovators create jobs indirectly within a firm, leading to long-term job growth. New immigrants fill labor shortages and keep markets working efficiently. High-skilled immigrants contribute to technological adaptation and low-skilled immigrants to occupational mobility, specialization, and human capital creation; both create new jobs for native workers. By raising demand, immigrants cause firms and production to expand, resulting in new hiring. Growing up I knew a lot of guys from Mexico who would literally take jobs that are nothing but hard labor. Those jobs consisted of commercial roofing, Landscaping, construction and even farming. These jobs can take a lot of hours a day and what more for a person who wants to
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