Immigration trends in the last 20 years and its effects on population and diversity in communities’AbstractThis paper discusses the key importance of immigration, specifically Mexican immigration trends in the last 20 years. The paper discusses how employment and everyday life is effected for immigrants and American citizens. The author also discusses implications and recommendations for this issue, and also has key importance of immigration from experts who are knowledgeable in this topic.IntroductionImmigration trends in the last20 years has effected the growth of population and the diversity ofcommunities’ in many ways. Mexican immigration has effected government laws andthe school environments which has led to laws being imposed to help thoseimmigrants live an American life. There have also been recent laws that havepaused the process for DACA. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, immigrationis “the action of immigrating; entrance into a country for the purpose ofsettling there” (Oxford).  In the last 20years, Mexican immigrant population legal and illegal has continuously risenover time. In the year 2010, immigrant population reached the highest in thenation’s history and doubled in numbers since 1990 (Camarota). In 2002, there was an enhancedmandate on visa entry-exit data system. In 2012, the Deferred Action forChildhood Arrivals, allowed young adults from ages 15-30 who were brought tothe U.S. illegally as children to apply for temporary permits.  About three-fourths of the immigrants here inthis country are legal, which leaves the rest of the immigrants to beundocumented (Camarota). Lastly, in 2014 the DACA program was expanded allowingthe immigrant parents who have lived in the US for 5 years and have childrenwho are US citizens to be allowed to apply for deportation relief and 3-yearwork permits and any unauthorized immigrant who entered the US was grantedeligibility for this program as well (Cohn). In June 2012, President Obamaestablished the Deferred Action for ChildhoodArrivals (DACA)policy by executive action, which thus allowed immigrants who are undocumentedto be permitted to obtain work permits, Social Security numbers, and a driverslicense(ACE). Immigration is an importanttopic to study due to the effect it has on the American population. It effectsall aspects of everyday life, including the diversity in schools, employment,economy, and politics. In order to study immigration, it takes a certain levelof intelligence revolving around the laws that were passed and laws that havebeen abolished for and against immigration and the understanding of foreignpolicy.  Although immigrating to theUnited States has positive effects on the ones who migrate to America, it alsohas negative effects on the American society and their daily life.Literature ReviewBier is an expert on visa reform, border security, and from 2013 to 2015. Previously, he worked as the immigration policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and most recently as the director of immigration policy at the Niskanen Center (CATO). Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His popular publications have appeared in popular newspapers and magazines as well (CATO).In one of their articles, theystated the benefits that immigration had on the American Society. Theymentioned five reasons as to how immigration has helped the United States andthe first reason is that the immigrant’s attributes such as being risk takers,having motivation and good work ethics has benefited the nation. The secondreason is that coming into the United States has had a huge net contribution tothe Social Security programs. Immigration has also filled niches in the labormarket, where the demand is highest relative to supply, complementing theAmerican workers. Fourthly, their strong skill levels bring a high desire towork in the United States. Lastly, children who have immigrated or whoseparents are immigrants tend to reach high levels of achievement in Americanschools and in the society (CATO).  These experts who support immigration haveshown evidence on how it has a positive effect on the American Society. Bierand Nowrasteh have the knowledge and expertise to understand how immigrationhelps the United States. Their articles and evidence has shown reasoning behindsupporting immigration and their idea of how immigration should not be bannedor laws should not be imposed against immigrants. Their research and studiesare for immigration and therefore, they may be biased on anti-immigration lawsbut they do have the expertise to display their reasoning on supportingimmigration.On the other hand, immigration also has its negative effects on the American Society. For example, Mark Krikorian is nationally recognized expert on immigration issues, has served as Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) since 1995 (Center for Immigration Studies). In one of Krikorian’s article, he is discussing about Donald Trump’s statement on immigration and how he supports Trump’s immigration ban. He states, “This isn’t the policy about how we’re going to screen people coming from countries where there are active jihad terror groups” (PRI). Krikorian supports this ban because he believes that this will not be a permanent ban and it is buying time in the meantime to further analyze if the screening is appropriate (PRI). Donald Trump is the currentPresident of the United States and has knowledge of immigration because of theinteraction he has with the laws as well as the immigration authority. Some ofhis plans on immigration include building a wall, ending birthright citizenshipand DACA, hiring native workers first and refugee programs for Americanchildren (CATO). Trump is against immigration and he supports this claim withhow it is affecting Americans in their daily life. Immigrant who receive theirgreen cards are taking the jobs of native workers which puts them on foodstamps or on unemployment (CATO).Krikorian and Trump both agreeon continuing with banning Muslims to enter the United States. Their claims tosupport these statements makes sense because it is to help out the AmericanSociety. Trump could also be biased because of his views on immigration and hismindset that he carries with immigration. These experts both have knowledge onimmigration and how it has negatively affected the American society.Immigration has stopped native workers from being employed because they havetaken their jobs or they have had an increase in the population with affectsthe economy. To begin with, immigration hasimpacted the American Population and has been at its highest in the last fewdecades. Research shows statistics that in 2010, about 40 million was the nation’simmigrant population, including both legal and illegal, and it is the highestin the nation’s history. It has been increasing since 1970 and the numbers hasdoubled and quadrupled since. One of the main reasons for the high number ofimmigrants is due to “the high levels of legal immigration” (Center ofImmigration Studies). 58% of those who are immigrating come from Latin Americaand this could be due to the resources that can be found in the United Statesfor these people. Many of the Latin American countries are extremely poor andtherefore, people cannot live day to day in those conditions. Bigger statescarry more resources and therefore, immigrants have migrated to the larger orpopular states for the most part: California, Texas, Florida, New York, NewJersey, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Washington, Illinois,Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts (Center of Immigration Studies).Immigration in the last twentyyears has influenced the government and the laws they have imposed. For example,September 11, 2001, has had an effect on the entire nation and security lawswere strictly imposed to preventing another event like this to happen. The“Homeland Security Act transfers all functions of the U.S. Immigration andNaturalization Service to the new Department of Homeland Security which includesU.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementand US. Citizenship and Migration Services” (Pew Research Center). The HomelandSecurity Act has helped the United States protect their citizens from beingattacked again or from having outside countries destroy the U.S. territory. According to the HomelandSecurity Act of 2002, “the Office of Immigration Statistics has aresponsibility to carry out two statutory requirements: 1) to collect anddisseminate to Congress and 2) to establish standards of reliability andvalidity for immigration statistics collected by the Department’s operationalcomponents” (Homeland Security Act of 2002). This office has the right topresent the information about how the American Society has been effected byimmigration. Although immigration has its negative effects, the HomelandSecurity Act was imposed to protect its people and placing laws that are stricton those who come into and out of the United States.There was the Immigration Actof 1990 which was “Public Law 101-649 (Act of November 29, 1990), increased thelimits on lawful immigration to the United States, revised all grounds forexclusion and deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens ofdesignated countries, revised and established new nonimmigrant admissioncategories, revised and extended the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, and revisednaturalization authority and requirements” (Homeland Security Act of 2002).This Act was imposed in the 1990’s and immigration was still not as high modernday. Due to the high increase of the immigrant population, there has beenrecent debates on how to proceed with immigration today. Immigration hasaffected the United States socially, economically, environmentally, and throughthe policies in the government.Due to Mexican immigration,there have also been other laws imposed. For example, DACA and Dreamers hasbeen effective on the minority groups because it has given them a change to succeedin different ways. DACA is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals which isthe policy that former President Obama established. This Act was to allow“undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States at a young age tobecome eligible for a work permit, a Social Security card, a driver’s license,and deferred deportation” (ACE). This Act has proven to help many immigrantchildren and statistics support this statement. According to the AmericanCouncil on Education, 45% of the DACA recipients are enrolled in school orcollege. This is evidence to show how effective DACA has been and the positiveresults it has given to those Mexican immigrant children who have opportunitiesto fulfill their education needs. Dreamers stands for Development,relief, and education for alien minors. This legislation was first introducedto congress in 2001 to grant a pathway to citizenship to young people who werebrought to the United States as a child without documentation. They areAmerican since they were raised here but they do not have the legal papers toprove it (Americas Voice). Dick Durbin, who is the senator for Illinois hasbeen supporting the Dreamers because he has seen the positive effect it has hadon those children. Durbin states, “The DREAM Act, which I first introduced in 2001, would allowa select group of immigrant students with great potential to contribute morefully to America. These young people, known as Dreamers, were brought to theU.S. as children and have overcome great obstacles to succeed. The DREAM Actwould give these students a chance to earn citizenship by attending college orserving in the military” (Durbin).ImplicationsImmigration is important to the public becauseit affects the entire nation. According to the Census Bureau, the United Stateshad nearly 14 million new immigrants settle in the country from 2000 to 2010.Americans who reside in the States have to realize that this has an impact onvarious areas such as jobs. One of the reasons for why foreigners immigrateinto the United States is for the employment opportunities. From 1990 to 2000,there was a job growth and those who immigrate, look for jobs to sustainthemselves and their family (Center for Immigration Studies). This is importantfor American Citizens because this can potentially harm them in the future ifthey are ever looking for jobs. There are some Americans who believe thatMexican immigrants are taking over or crowding into the United States for theirselfish reasons but immigrants have had a positive impact on the economy. Although,many Mexican immigrants find jobs where they get paid minimum wage and jobslike these are not as wanted by American citizens (Friedberg). Mexican immigrants have impacted employment inthe United States by applying their skills in construction, agriculture, fastfood services, and cleaning positions. By having Mexican immigrants apply theirskills to the real-world situations, being undocumented allows room for laws tobe created to protect undocumented immigrants. This can lead to a change inAmerica’s economy. Due to fewer Mexican employees working, this will increase ahigher cost for companies to come up with to get the job done. For example, acompany needs a certain number of workers to build their companies buildings.Since, the majority of the time these workers are Mexican immigrants, if theyare thus deported back to their country, that leaves fewer employees working onthe site. By having fewer employees, this creates a shortage which then forcesthe company to spend more money to get the site done. This scenario creates anaspect of why Mexican immigrants are important to the American societyImmigrants provide company’s a pathway to spending less money to get a job donefor a lesser cost.RecommendationsImposing immigration laws that support and helpimmigrants is important because it has shown positive effect on the UnitedStates itself and their economy. In 2013, there was report research that showed“that creating a path for undocumented immigrant to earn legal status andcitizenship, it will lead to substantial wage gains for these workers. In turn,these wage gains will help spur the American economy and lead to significantincreases in gross domestic product, tax revenue, and jobs in coming years (Centerfor American Progress).  Many of theseimmigrants tend to have to stop attending school to seek employment to providefor their families. A recommendation to this issue, would be creating schools,or having schools to teach how this culture can survive in America as anundocumented alien.  Another option,would be to offer resources to these students and be willing to work with theirschedules, so in the long run these students or young people can receive betterjobs, which thus creates more job openings for American citizens. Thesestatements show that with the increase of immigrants in the workplace, it willhelp increase the wages as well as the gross domestic products. There have beensome negative outcomes from legalizing immigration, but the positive outcomeshave helped American citizens as well. ConclusionOverall, Mexican immigration in the last 20years has effectedthe growth of population and the diversity of communities’ in many ways.Immigration created safety laws due to a previous attack that took place onSeptember 11, 2001. This safety law has been imposed, the Homeland SecurityAct, which has provided protection for the nation. Immigration has had aneffect on governmental policies that have created pathways for immigrants aswell as children from immigrant parents. These pathways have positivelyimpacted their educational careers, where they have been given the opportunityto go to school or college. Immigration has also imposed laws such as DACA,that have helped DREAMers gain citizenship. Due to the increase of immigrants,it has increased the population which has had a positive effect on wages. Theincrease of jobs has spurred the American economy. 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