What Is Immigration And Poverty?

First, my topic is immigration and poverty because I have experience immigration and poverty myself. Another reason I choose the topic of immigration and poverty is the interesting and complexity that effects the most vulnerable. Also, because it is important to inform, communicate, educate other individuals of the needs, and everything immigrants have to do to provide for their families. The book A World-Infancy through Adolescence, 12th edition, by Diane E. Papalia, and Ruth Duskin Feldman specifies that immigrants’ children have less income than those who are white (13). As the author continued explaining that majority of immigrant parents make about twenty thousand dollars a year. Therefore, such small wages decrease the opportunities

I have experience the discrimination of immigration since I was nine years old. My parents and I arrived to the United States back in 2004, since then the fear has taken over our lives. I also know that immigrants risk their lives trying arrive on a land in hope of escaping from becoming victims of crimes, for protection, and the hope that their children will reach the American dream. They even hide in trucks and a few immigrants are luck to pass the discriminatory process of being selected for a VISA that becomes more complex every day, causing more immigrants to become illegal Aliens. For once the poor that attempt to get a VISA must proof to be rich because they require to have lots of money and property. After, arriving to the United States as an Illegal Alien if they were lucky to survive the 8 or as much as 20 hours walking across the dry desert, they then have to face starting from less than a fetus because a fetus has loving parents that will provide a shelter, protection, and food. On the other hand, immigrants do not have shelter, protection, food, job, language, sometimes they do not have anyone to ask for support. These complex situations destroy their mental well-being because they are afraid 24/7 of the government that attempts to protect the “weak and vulnerable” and instead harms the truly weak and vulnerable immigrants. The deportation segregate families of immigrants. Furthermore, if they attempt to fix their legal status they get punish 10 years and children pay the consequences. Again, the government’s attempt to protect the weak and vulnerable hurt the children of immigrants that get