Monday, November 3, 2008
According to OnTheIssues.org, the people in the United States who support immigration are giving citizens from other countries a chance to live a different life. Pro-immigration advocates say that the anti-immigration advocates are promoting racism because of the large amount of Hispanic immigrants, and the anti-immigrant supporters are shortening the growth of their population. Some students believe Immigrants should have the right to be a U.S citizen. Since the U.S. admits over 660,000 legal immigrants a year since 1998, students are not worried about the growth of population. “I have heard many reasons to be against it, but personally I don‘t really see a big problem; it doesn‘t affect me,” Jon Quick, Mission junior.
Family history also influences some students toward immigration. Lori Jacob, Olathe sophomore said,
“Pretty much all of my relatives, grandparents and beyond are from Europe so they were immigrants at a time.”
The people in the United States who do not support immigration are concerned about the over growth of the United States population. They also would like to keep the main language of the United States English. The main concern for anti-immigration supporters is the illegal immigrants living in the U.S. According to OnTheIssues, about 5 million illegal immigrants reside in the U.S. and continues to grow by 275,000 a year. Most of the illegal immigrants were from Mexico with a climbing rate of 50%.
Student who are against immigration are not against the immigrants, but the system. Freshmen Sean Leach and Katy MacCormack from O Fallon Missouri both agreed that the system could use some work. “I’m against Illegal immigration, but If they go through the system that’s okay; there is room for improvement for sure,” said Leach.
“I’m neutral about it, but I think the system could definitely be improved or sped up because there are people who have lived here for a long time and are still not U.S. citizens,” said MacCormack.
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