Coming to America: Chapter 16 & 17

Chapter 16 mentions a lot about the reforms that were tried to replace the immigration laws and acts of the past prior to 1980. Many of the people in political power still felt that there was a need for a limit or cap on immigration. Especially since most immigration is clustered in certain areas and cities, the text statutes that "immigration is not spread out"(Daniels, 404). Meaning that because immigration is secluded to these certain enclaves or popular immigrant areas it should be restricted since the immigrants aren't scattering themselves among the rest of the states.

But it can bee seen from the text that immigrants will continue to find ways, legally and illegally to get to the United States regardless of the laws and restrictions. The text states and I agree with the notion that immigration has always been on the social agenda. I believe immigration will always be an issue for the government to deal with, but i don't think that immigration is a bad thing. the only thing I would be concerned about is overcrowd or overpopulated areas.

The last chapter talks about immigration continuing to grow as the years progress. Each year the percentages of immigrants in the U.S. is continuing to grow because of push and pull factors. The text states that one of the most problematic issues is the amount of illegal immigrants.

It is almost impossible to control borders that are thousands of miles long and are continually crosses by people who are determined to get in. Although there is deportation, because the number of illegal immigrants is so high and almost untraceable as to where the people are located, deportation is useless until an illegal immigrant gets caught by the law. The system we have in our country isn't very effective since there is too many illegal immigrants to be able to find and deport, which is impossible. And the reason there are so many illegal immigrants is because of our faulty system.

I think there are more important issues to deal with than immigration. Many of the immigrants are accepting low paying jobs that few to no American would take. Some people say that immigrants are taking Americans jobs but in reality they are only doing the jobs that Americans would never do for the little pay.