Hi mi name is florencia and i'm new to this forum im a highschool frehsman, and i'm doing my first research paper, and it's on immigration the topic is are immigrants and minorites are[going to] revitalize america?, i do support immigrants and think most of the/us (i'm and immigrnt from argentina) come here for a better life and to make america better if they can, I need help becuase i don't know where to get info from, i need sources. PPLLLLEASEEE HELP!! Thanks a lot! Florencia Quevedo
hey...well i see i have gotten no responses, i hope someone can give a hint a least to where i could find info, otherwise than the library, i mean like special web sites Thanks Florencia
Please remember, Florencia, that it's important to consider the contributions of legal immigrants as distinct from illegal aliens. There's a tendency to lump the two together and say that research findings about legal immigrants (especially studies done pre-1990s) also apply to our current influx of illegal aliens. However, illegal aliens are generally far less educated or skilled than legal immigrants and, of course, have shown that they're not too particular about following our laws.
If you're going to read about the "freedom ride", remember that illegal aliens choose to come to this country or remain here illegally. Legal immigrants have the same rights as citizens, with a few exceptions such as voting. Immigrants or illegal aliens are free to leave employers or this country any time they want to. To compare them to slaves who were brought and suffered oppression, as these "freedom riders" try to do, is to show how little they understand U.S. history. Note also, that illegal aliens may be of any race, even Latinos, who are not a race but an ethnicity. In fact, the designation of "Hispanic" for Census purposes wasn't done until the 1970s, and was done then at the instigation of Hispanics interested in gaining political and economic power for themselves. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. In fact, if you're writing about "revitalizing", you might consider the extent to which "cultural diversity" is being turned on its head into rights for particular ethnic groups, and the extent to which those characteristics which make America America are likely to be undone by failure to assimilate.
You might also note that many foreign governments, such as Mexico, India, and Pakistan are attempting to increase the number of their citizens in the U.S. with the idea that they can use these expatriate populations to influence U.S. foreign and domestic policies. These foreign governments aren't concerned about the good of the American people in general, but what is in their own best interests.
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Hello Florencia Quevedo and welcome to my board. You fortunately came to the right place for your question. America is in no need of "revitalization". America is the world's only super power militarily, economically and morally. America is taking over the world; not through war but through peace. In old days, countries like Britain and Spain would "colonize" savage lands and provide some civilization. This usually meant war and conquest. America is conquering the world with its ideas. Our weapons are not guns and bombs, but democracy and freedom. Americas ideas are greater than anything any immigrant has to offer. Immigrants come to America because they need to be revitalized with the seeds of freedom, not the other way around.
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Fiorencia--You may also want to look at The Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (U.S. government printing office), which shows the increasing number of legal immigrants during the past two decades, from an average of about 250 thousand a year to close to a million today. You might also note that Mexico is the one country sending the most legal immigrants, so it can hardly be said there's a lack of opportunity for its citizens to immigrate legally. Then, ask yourself, "how many immigrantsand illegal aliens does it take before they cease to assimilate and begin to recreate the poor, corrupt conditions they fled in the first place?"
If u happen to read the post again...visit following links ... u will get some good idea out of it .... u can just do google and get so much information for ur research / project...good luck...Pasha
Americans population is declining because US born citizens have one or zero children. At the same time the US economy grows at 3-4% per year increasing demand for new workers and looking to replace those who just retired. As a result America needs immigrants like many countries in the West.
Unfortunately there is no employment based opportunities in the USA - H1B is a non-immigrant work visa and any intent of immigration would cause of the H1B cancellation.
Lack of legal ways to immigrate to US for low skilled or unskilled workers and the increasing high demand for a low skilled or high skilled workers in the USA caused the situation that over 11 millions of foreign workers have been being hired without any kind of visa filling up the vacuum which were the jobs Americans would not do. Despite promises from the White House nothing is going to happen to create a program to be able to hire in legal way low skilled workers for the positions Americans will not do.
America benefits from illegal immigrants and employment based immigrants and looses from bringing here family based immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers who the only thing they do is becoming a public charge and use benefit cards. In Canada for instance legal immigrants have limited ways to **** taxpayer money unlike in US.
Again illegal workers do jobs the Americans will never do and they are really immigrants deserving by their hard work to become citizens of the USA by those pseudo legal immigrants who **** tax payers money should be expelled from here!
It makes me angry when I see hard working American cashier being paid at $7/hour serving to pseudo immigrant who pays for food and commodities using his benefit card or even selling his food stamps for money in the superstore because he simply gets too much benefits.
Maria, I think a good project for you would be to see: what states offer what benefits for immigrants (broken down by legal, illegal, perm residents, immigrants just landed, etc.), how long those benefits last, etc. The number of immigrants that are receiving these benefits, per state, would also be helpful. Also, it would be interesting if you would also find which states have "food stamps" that can be sold in a store instead of an EBT card, that is used as a debit card for grocery purchases.
Florencia, some other things to read in your research would be the weekly and/or daily journals that appear on most immigration websites, including this one. They should give you some ideas to think about, more places to go to for research and also some opinions on your subject. Good luck.
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There is a new proposal to allow immigrants to get a green card which I support. The way it works is that an American sponsors an immigrant and for 10 years the immigrant has to work for the USC and do anything the USC tells them including working and paying bills. After 10 years, the immigrant gets a green card and is free. This is a good idea.
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Maria, I agree with many things you wrote, for the first time you write things that make sense
Michael, That is slavery and not good, you don't want to be suspended again for racial comments, think twice before you post, OK? It's not my job to remind you of how to be a good citizen
Nowadays, especially in this country, slavery exists. The funny/novelty things is, if you compare it with the situation century/ies ago, it is a slave's choice. I respect most of the 8+ million estimated slaves in the States. However, I have no respect, and I don't see why anyone else should respect, the slaves who choose their way of life and then try to blame it on everyone else.
As for Maria's implication that we need to endlessly import workers in order to survive: bull.
Importing workers, particularly low-skilled poorly paid workers, becomes a giant Ponzi scheme. Bring in 3 or 4 low paid immigrant workers to support one highly paid American retiree, then you end up with the problem of having to bring in several more workers for each of the 3 or 4 you imported to support them in THEIR retirements. You also have the problem that immigrants from developing countries tend to have higher fertility rates (more children) than the U.S. in general, which means that we'd also have to pay for the care of their children, probably to the detriment of our own elderly.
By the way, America's low population growth was a choice, beginning in the 1960s with Zero Population Growth. And actually, because of the immigrants and illegal aliens we've already got, our birthrate is rising. Hence, the so-called Echo Baby Boom (which is really fueled by immigration, not the Baby Boomers born here after 1948), and the need in many areas to build schools.
Originally posted by Maria: Americans population is declining because US born citizens have one or zero children. At the same time the US economy grows at 3-4% per year increasing demand for new workers and looking to replace those who just retired. As a result America needs immigrants like many countries in the West. America benefits from illegal immigrants and employment based immigrants and looses from bringing here family based immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers who the only thing they do is becoming a public charge and use benefit cards. In Canada for instance legal immigrants have limited ways to **** taxpayer money unlike in US. Again illegal workers do jobs the Americans will never do and they are really immigrants deserving by their hard work to become citizens of the USA by those pseudo legal immigrants who **** tax payers money should be expelled from here!
It is estimated that the world may have enough oil to year 2030 at current consumption, and enough natural gas to year 2060 if all known reserves were recoverable. In the near future products made from oil (plastics and petrochemicals) will become very expensive. Also, everything is transported by oil (gas/diesel) and will go up in price because of the increase in shipping costs. Fertilizers and pesticides require oil and/or natural gas for manufacture. Giant agricultural corporations can not feed the world without tractors, fertilizers and pesticides. Industries will not be able to produce our consumer products without oil.
As people are unable to pay higher prices for manufactured products, employers will begin layoffs and unemployment will increase. The unemployed will not be able to buy, and businesses will close creating more layoffs and homelessness. Protests, riots, and crime will increase and the response will be martial law, a police state. Because of easy access to fossil fuel energy there is significantly more population than can survive without it. The Great Depression of the 1930s and the gasoline shortages of the 1970s were just the warm-up act for what is coming—the permanent, irrevocable decline of fossil fuel.
According to the Statistics Canada only 44% of landed immigrants aged 15 years and higher were working in 2001 (i.e., a majority of 56% were not working). Immigrant unemployment levels do not reduce to the Canadian average during at least the first 10 years of residing in Canada. Federal and provincial government social programs can experience greater expense without corresponding tax revenue due to the low employment rate of immigrants. The Fraser Institute claims that the immigrants who arrived between 1990 and 2002 cost governments $18.3 billion (per annum (as of 2002) net of taxes raised from those immigrants) relating to universal social services. Employment rate: Skilled worker principal applicants - 60%, Skilled worker dependent - 36%, Family - 39%, Other economic - 29%, Refugees - 21%, All immigrants - 44%. Data source: Statistics Canada, 2001, Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada.
Immigrant population growth is disproportionally concentrated in or near large cities (particularly Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal). These cities are experiencing the strains that accompany strong population growth causing some residents to express concern about the declining livability of those cities. Annually, almost half of all immigrants to Canada settle in Toronto. In March 2005, Statistics Canada projected that the visible minority proportion will comprise a majority in both Toronto and Vancouver by 2012.
According to the California Department of Water Resources, if more supplies aren’t found by 2020, residents will face a shortfall nearly as great as the amount consumed today. Los Angeles is a coastal desert able to support at most 1 million people on its own water; the Los Angeles basin now is the core of a megalopolis that spans 220 miles from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. The region’s population is expected to reach 22 million by 2020. California population continues to grow by more than a half million a year and is expected to reach 48 million in 2030. But water shortages are likely to surface well before then. Water is already a scarce resource in Texas and the increased demand generated by population growth is exacerbating the problem. By 2010, over ten percent of the water needs in urban areas will not be met during times of water shortages. El Paso, San Antonio, and Albuquerque could run out of water in ten to 20 years.
In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens. A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.
John Mullaly a former NYPD homicide detective, estimates that 70 percent of the drug dealers and other criminals in Manhattan’s Washington Heights were illegal. In New York City, “every high school has its Mexican gang,†and most 12- to 14-year-olds have already joined, claims Ernesto Vega, an illegal 18-year-old Mexican. Such pathologies only worsen when the first lesson that immigrants learn about U.S. law is that Americans don’t bother to enforce it.
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