Immigration

Essential questions:

How has the United States population grown and what problems have arisen from illegal immigration?

Why do illegal immigrants move to the United States and what are some of the challenges that they face?

Part I Immigration to the United States
         The United States of America is a land founded upon immigrants from all over the world, so why is the United States a place that many people want to migrate to? Click on the link and read a short page.  Why immigrants love America
As of 2013 990,553 people were granted lawful permanent residency in the United States. About 40% of the people were born in Asia and about 32% were born in North America. Mexico at 14% and China at 7.2% have the majority of people coming to the United States. In 2013 we also saw a total of 779,929 people become United States citizens. We have allowed more than one million people live in this country legally within a year but there is still an estimated 11.4 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. The majority of illegal immigrants live in California and are mostly young men between the ages of 25-44. The goal of this lesson is to.

• Examine how immigrants impact our country
• Evaluate the economical cost to immigration
• Explore possible solutions to immigration

First examine the resources below to get a further understanding.
How illegal immigrants help the economy
Take a look at the next two visuals



Now that you have taken a look to both sides of the argument give me your opinion in a post.

Do you think illegal immigration benefits the United States? If so in which ways? Do you think the United States would be different if there were no immigrants?  If not are there any changes that should be made or what would you think would be the most reasonable solution to this? Use facts and statistics from the article to back up your answer.

Short documentary on how immigrants get to the United States.