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Humans Of New York

Opportunities - Education

  • Because of their lower income, immigrants often have less options for colleges.
  • While 8% of natural-born Americans are likely to drop out of high school, 30% of immigrants are likely to drop out.
  • Some students do not have the opportunity to have AP Classes or programming, setting them behind once they do get into college.

Opportunities - Job Availability

  • Diplomas acquired in other countries are often not recognized.
  • Language barriers

Immigration Today

-People immigrate for same reasons

-44% naturalized citizens

-281 million in 2000 to 397 million in 2050 with immigration, 328 million with no immigration

-Mexicans represent highest number of immigrants

Freakonomics

Do ethnic names affect one's chance of getting a job?

2011 Census

Income by Race

Living Conditions

  • As many people get to enjoy the living conditions as they are defined by the American Dream, many immigrants are subject to much worse conditions.
  • Many people coming into the United States are forced to share small apartments with two families.
  • In a materialist society, not having some of these luxuries can lead to feelings of injustice and some times even maltreatment.

Prejudice and Racism

  • Illegal immigrants are often referred to as "aliens" by the U.S. government.
  • Today, Hispanics immigrants are often unwelcome in the United States

“[Immigration] was the great contribution of the United States to global redistribution: the country grew from a population of barely 3 million at the time of the Revolutionary War to more than 300 million, largely thanks to successive waves of immigration. That is why the United States is still a long way from becoming the new Old Europe ... immigration is the motor that holds the United States together, the stabilizing force that makes increasingly large inequalities of labor income politically and socially bearable ... for a fair proportion of Americans in the in the bottom 50 percent of income, these inequalities are of secondary importance for the very simple reason that they were born in a less wealthy country and see themselves as being on an upward trajectory.”

-Thomas Piketty (A French Economist)

Immigration skyrockets

References

Andrew Wallace. "Economic Impact". UMEC. Education.2008.

OECD. "Clandestine Immigration: Economic and Political Issues", in Trends in International Migration: Annual Report, 1999, p. 229-251 (pdf). Retrieved 2015-05-16.

European Journalism Centre. "How journalism can rid migration of its sour reputation". Retrieved on May 16th, 2015.

http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/how-united-states-immigration-system-works-fact-sheet.

http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/21/immigration-debate-the-problem-with-the-word-illegal/

-Average of nearly one million immigrants came to America each year from 1900-1910.

-Predominantly from Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Russia, and Ireland.

-Seeking jobs, religious freedom, avoiding persecution.

-Restrictions set for Chinese immigrants via Chinese Exclusion Act (1882).

First Immigrants

-Pilgrims and Puritans came to America for religious freedom

-1607 to 1775 brought European immigrants (primarily British, Dutch and German), with British being the largest.

-The British still identified with the British Empire

-Immigration quadrupled from 1831-1840, tripled after the Potato Famine (1845–1849) and the California Gold Rush (1849)

Immigration Reform

By César Jiménez Ramírez

• A stronger GDP means a better standard of living for Americans.

• Immigrants start small businesses.

• Immigrant-owned businesses create jobs for American worker

• Immigrants boost demand for local consumer goods.

• Immigrants innovate as scientists and engineers.

#Americaisbeautiful

  • Coca- Cola’s recent commercial features people singing the American national anthem in different languages.

• Illegal immigrants are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security.

• Nearly every dollar earned by illegal immigrants is spent immediately.

* 50 percent of unauthorized immigrants pay federal, state, and local taxes.

Benefits of illegal immigrants

• Illegal immigrants pay social security payroll taxes but are not eligible for benefits.

When Social Security numbers are already in use: names do not match the numbers or the numbers are fake, or the person of record is too old, young, dead etc., the earnings reported to the Social Security Agency are put in an Earnings Suspense file [ESF].

This commercial received some controversy

Islamophobia

After 9/11, Middle Eastern immigrants also suffered a lot of discrimination.

Many of them are "randomly selected" for Airport Security Checks

-Several Muslims in Minneapolis, Minnesota had their banks accounts canceled for unknown reasons.

-None of these Muslims had any criminal records

-All of them were American citizens.

Immigration-and its Impact on US Identity and Culture.

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