replay for AMBERDRU

Although illegal immigrants are portrayed as leeches by most, there is no possible way that deporting all illegal immigrants could even possibly remotely help the economic situation that our country is currently in. In the state of Texas, the illegal workforce has generated 18 billion dollars to the state’s economic output in a single year. How about instead of spending the “illegal’s” tax money on more reasons on why we should deport, why do we not start paying down the national debt that clearly needs to be addressed before illegal tax payers. How many times have you gone to the doctor to get an x-ray of a bone? That x-ray may never have happened if it were not for an immigrant bringing his knowledge and tenacity to the United States. If you had three children how far would you go to try to provide them with a life that so many others enjoy mere miles away? You already know it can be done, and the living conditions alone would be worth the risk. Better yet, you child broke their arm and you are speeding to the hospital. A law is still being broken either way you look at it. Just how beneficial is breaking that law to the individual’s right to live?

This all leads to why America has so much illegal immigration in the first place. Fernando Guarez a United States Citizen from Mexico explained that it would have been probably a lot easier to just jump the boarder like everyone else does. Only a few of the people ever get caught if it is done right. Most cases the people that do get caught; nothing ends up happening to them. Fernando further explained “My mother spent 4 years and $15,000 just to obtain temporary citizenship for the both of us

Immigration:Good or Bad?

Immigration is what the “New World” was. Immigration allowed people from all walks of life to enter into a new territory to try something new.

Many people throughout history have contributed to the technology that we use today. Included in this people are even Immigrants that have traveled to America from across the world. A major example of this is a gentleman by the name of Micheal Pupin. During the “Industrial Revolution” there were thousands of inventors that were on the cutting edge of technology, but unfortunately the countries from which they resided had conflicts of interest for allowing the inventions to be made for industrial use. From there these countries would revoke any possibility for these inventors to leave the country with their inventions. During this time very few immigrants made it to America “The Land of the Free.” America welcomed these immigrants with open arms.

Quickly America became a major front runner in the “The Industrial Revolution.” Micheal Pupin was one these immigrants during this defining time of America. “He was an active inventor and patented many of his ground-breaking inventions including a method of rapid x-ray photography, the discovery of secondary x-ray radiation, telecommunications technology, and sonar-related technology”(Michael P.). Pupin was the first person to conduct an X-Ray. He also discovered the implemented Sonar during WWI. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for his autobiography. “His autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor, won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography in 1924. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1904 and was awarded five medals and 18 honorary degrees” (Michael P.).

Just to be reminded he is only one of the countless immigrants that have projected America into a super power. Doctor’s, scientist, alternative researchers, and so on are trying to make their way to the United States just so they can build a better future for their selves and their generations to come. As a country, we are taking advantage of this by offering these freedoms to them.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”