America's People Come First

America's People Come First

Do you think if Americans went to another county we would get the same treatment? No we would not, another country would not give us a job and help us just like we belonged in their country. In America illegal and legal immigrants get government funding that U.S. citizens do not even get, but in other countries if we are in the process of citizenship they would not give us funding to help us with our kids or to get on our feet. We as Americans would have to earn our citizenship on our own. In the exert Immigration: Dissolving the People, by Peter Brimelow, he explains why he thinks there should be no immigration and his ideas support mine.

Even though we are all technically immigrants besides the Native Americans, illegal and legal immigrants are just getting out of control. As Brimelow states, " However, the fact is that we--foreigners--are, in some sense, all Americans now, just as Jefferson said everyone had two countries, his own and France, in the 18th century. That is why we are here, just as the entire world flocked to Imperial Rome. The trick the Americans face now is to be an empire in fact, while remaining a democratic republic in spirit. Avoiding the Romans' mistake of diluting their citizenship into insignificance may be the key." I understand they are looking for a better life and there is nothing wrong with that but there has to be a harder way to become a citizen, just don't let it be that easy. African Americans or Blacks were forced here. I believe the world would be so different if everybody just stayed in their own area. I believe Africa would be one of the leading nations today but do to immigration they are one of the poorest countries.

There is not enough jobs in America to share with illegal immigrants. There is not enough federal funding. The government needs to use some of that funding for immigrants to college students who are trying to better America and not use up all the tax payers money. As a college student watching how a person who was just born in America but their parents can't even speak English, the official language in America, get full paid scholarships to college and I can't even be considered for a scholarship. How is that a way to treat your own citizen. I also feel like if your going to live in a country learn their language. Only in America will they put Spanish and English on things but Spanish is not our language. Peter Brimelow states, "For example, in 1990 almost one child in every 20 enrolled in American public schools either could not speak English or spoke it so poorly as to need language-assistance programs." Do you think if we went to Mexico they would do the same? No they would not compensate English into their language like the United States. Peter Brimelow states that, "Current law is interpreted as requiring schools to educate such children in their native language. To do so, according to one California estimate, requires spending some 65 percent more per child than on an English-speaking child. And not merely money but, more importantly, teacher time and energy are inevitably being diverted from America's children." One has to understand that if America wants to be great, and some wonder why we have foreign doctors and not American doctors well here is your answer. Just because America's education is free, immigrants take advantage of that.

Helping Immigrants is not going to stop poverty. Many of the other countries in the world poverty level is rising faster than the immigrants are coming here. What the humanitarians need to do instead of taking immigrants and moving them to America from other countries, they need to help them in their own country. Trying to immigrate all these people isn't good for the American people looking