how and why has immigration effected you?

Question

has immigration effected you in any way if it has then explain why it has.

Thank you!

be honest its your opinion

Answer 1

Legal Immigration? It's given me a wonderful son-in-law who has become an important part of my family.

ILLEGAL immigration? It's stolen my brother away from me. His life was taken by an illegal alien. I'm helping to raise his 2 sons.

I'm strongly pro-immigrant and STRONGLY anti-illegal aliens.

Answer 2

I'm an immigrant and proud of it.
First immigration was due to political and social problems in my native country. There was a coup d'etat and many people died. I didn't choose. I was 13 years old and I hated it.
Second time I emigrated to Canada looking for a better life. In my old (second) country there were unsafety, violence, political and social problems and no future.
Why I am proud? Because moving and knowing three different countries (and languages, and cultures) made me more open minded.
It made me aware about human history and why people emigrate.
It made me sensible to the thoughts, feelings, needs and dreams of others, residents and immigrants.
Once in Canada, I volunteered in an agency that helps immigrants and refugees.
Once you really know the stories of the people you have a big door in front of you to see the world and be compassionate.

Answer 3

Being I live in Miami, both illegal and legal immigration has transformed Miami from a American city to a Spanish community where Spanish is the language of choice and where most times your are automatically addressed in Spanish. What is even more madding is the practice of converting single family homes in residential neighborhoods into multifamily rental units. Some have a many as 6 units. Not only does it lower the value of the homes, it also raises the number of people and therefor raises the noise level, and traffic, both foot and automobile. It is not uncommon to see front and even sometimes backyards turned into parking lots.They also run business out of their homes. One of my neighbors turned his front yard into a used car lot, it took over a year to get code enforcement to site him and make him stop. They also look poor on paper because they do not report the income from their business or rental property, and that gives them all types of government aid. From food stamps, free school lunches for their children, financial aid for their college children, medical care and whatever else is available. Being many work under the table, I have to pay more taxes on the state and federal level, because they do not pay their fair share.

Answer 4

Legal immigration, not at all except this guy bought an old grocery, fixed it up and has fresh baked breads and rolls every morning that are so good.


Illegals, 3 months ago at 2am one kicked in my front door, took me 12 hours to replace the door, and 2 days for the wife to wash his brains off the walls. Cops got mad cause they had to actually work at that hour.

Answer 5

It hasn't affected me directly, but it has indirectly. Indirectly, there are way too many negative variables to list.

Personally, I wouldn't mind immigration if it weren't a tool being used to destroy America as we know it. Its basically modernized slavery. Who benefits then? No one, which Americans and immigrants lose.

Edit:

Look up the immigration proposals that were shot down. Read about H2-C Visas. That will give you a bird's eye view on how its being used as a tool to destroy America. Globalization happens through immigration. I could care less about amnesty. Amnesty is a joke compared to the impact H2-C Visas will have on America.

Answer 6

I hate doing other peoples homework for them. However, I will answer because I have something to say. I grew up in a middle class neighborhood where everyone was just like us. My daughters grew up with people of all kinds of different nationalities.

I don't understand why people move here and hang on to their culture and refuse to learn to speak English. I hate that there are signs in Spanish everywhere I turn. However in my neighborhood there are many Bosnians and they are even building a mosque across from the grocery store I have shopped in for over 20years. Its just down from the Methodist, Catholic and Church of God churchs.

I had a friend when we were younger who's grandparents had lived here for 30 years since WW2 and were German. They died here never learning to speak English. My own ansesters came from Germany and Ireland a hundred or more years ago and did not speak English. But their kids did, and now their culture is just a distant memory. For 4 generations we have been Americans. I have French ansesters on one side who have been here since before there was a United States. We are all American's.

I think its good. I think the kids will move away from their cultural base and this is all they will know. So that in a generation or two, just like the Italian, Russian, German, Irish, Polish and Swedish desended kids I grew up with, we are all Americans.

The children get it, and like my own future generations, they will create their own lives here, and mingle with those who already live here and we all just become one people. We are all Americans. Its all good.

Answer 7

I grew up down the road from a hidu temple which I always found very inspring and a bit mysterious when I walked past it, my best friend in primary school was half pakistani and now I work with lots AMAZING polish girls.

Answer 8

immigration affected my family a lot. some of my cousins live abroad, my parents does too.

so in a personal level it makes reunions really difficult to organize. for the most part it really helped family finances so i can't complain.

Answer 9

they have brought infectuous diseases into this country that were wiped out years ago. the tax payers are now having to pay for the treatment and spread of the disease. protecting our borders is costing the taxpayers millions. most of these people pay no taxes so the burden falls on working class citizens.

Answer 10

If u are a minority it effects you in many way's!!! You can't find a well paying job, have to work for less wages, Have to make sure you stay out of trouble before you get deported and so forth.