Immigration in the United States

Immigration in the United States has been one of the biggest contributions to the rise of America's population. Ever since the early years in the 20th century, the first ever immigrants started to come to the U.S. hoping for a better resolution to their lifestyle. People were coming to the United States due to refugees, economic oppression, and religious persecution. Every single person that came to the U.S had high hopes and thought their lives will be better than ever before. 

In the article "Immigration in the U.S. Labor Market" by Barry R. Chriswick, the author provides evidence to show that there were many problems with the new immigrant coming to the United States. Americans didn't like the fact that the immigrants were taking up most of the job availabilities, even though most of them were labor work. Barry provides us with a lot of information about what kind of jobs the immigrants were working and sadly, some worked like slaves. All had hopes for a better life and America was shown as the 'freedom' country. Illegal immigrants faced many controversies throughout their stay in the U.S. and it was very unlikely for them to stay longer. Illegal immigrants couldn’t do anything without any documentation so most of them settled for labor work.

The image above shows perfect examples of what the immigrants had to go through in order to enter the U.S. The U.S. government forced immigrants to give out their identity to put them in the system so they can work under the government’s eyes. It was a smart decision for the government to take control because they needed to keep everyone in check. Immigrants didn’t think that way. They were hoping for everything to be easier rather than dealing with paperwork.

As an immigrant myself, I had to go through a lot of controversies in order to get the right paperwork and fit into the American lifestyle. It was tough because I came as young kid under my parents’ supervision and the kids had no idea what was going on.  Lot of the kid immigrants had no choice of either staying in their own country or leaving because it was their parents’ decision. Many of the young kids had to pay the price at a young age because some were forced into child labor in the 20^th century and older kids dropped out of school in order to help their family with financial support. Lot of illegal child immigrants that are grown after were able to get naturalized and became a citizen of the United States.

Even though America wasn't the place the immigrants were expecting for but still they enjoyed their stay. Difficult times were just a short time process of keeping all the immigrants in check and it worked perfectly. At the end of the day, America was turned into a new country with many new diverse people.

By: Tsolmon Batsukh