The Impact Of Immigration On The American History

Aron Mengistu Professor R. Orkwis English 111 27 April 2016 American Immigration Since the beginning immigration has played an important role in the American history. America was built on immigrants, beginning with the first people that came in a ship called the Mayflower. They came to North America to see the unknown or the new world as they called it. Now they have adapted to their new place, also, more people have come since then. The big increase in immigration started in 1880, which the United States created the Immigration Service to watch the immigrants that were coming in. From 1900 to 1920 The Great Wave happened, where about 24 million people migrated to the united states (historical overview). But during the World War 1 and†¦show more content†¦That legislation, however, contained a series of compromises that should now be rejected. In a Sanders Administration, a legislative solution to modernize our immigration system will be a top priority. Establish a Reasonable and Fair Wait for Citizenship. Sanders wants a roadmap to citizenship that allows aspiring Americans to become lawful permanent residents and become citizens within five years. The registered provisional immigrant status in the 2013 Senate immigration bill was a compromise that delayed eligibility for citizenship and created additional, unnecessary bureaucracy (A fair and humane immigration policy). Then we got the Republican Trump and Cruz, who want to kick every illegal immigrant out because all illegal immigrants are criminals. The thing is, most of the illegal immigrants are criminal, but some work hard to make an honest living. America s prisons house 351,000 criminal aliens who committed a crime after having already broken the law by entering America illegally. Making taxpayers pay for 351,000 criminals who should never have been here in the first place is ridiculous. The annual price tag to incarcerate these thugs is $1.1 billion. And get this: criminal aliens have an average of seven arrests. That s at least seven