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Immigration

mmigrants as the floodgates opened and annual immigration levels more than tripled. “An estimated 150,000 undocumented Mexican immigrants enter the United States each year. Their labor--in Florida orange groves, Georgia onion fields, Las Vegas hotels and Oregon nurseries-has filled growth in many parts of the American economy.” (Thompson A8) Even with all of their contributions they still have to sneak into America through isolated desert areas where they die by the hundreds each year from exposure to heat or cold. Two proposals have been written regarding Mexican migrant workers. Both would increase the number of guest workers; However one would allow immigrants with a certain number of years of agricultural service to apply for legal residency, while the other one will not allow the migrant workers to apply for residency nor does it call for any amnesty. But if you are a Canadian citizen coming into America you could past the borders with no problems. Why is that you ask? Mostly because Canadians do not want to come to America and live they are contempt with their own Country. Immigrants today are viewed as a bad thing simply because people are in fear of losing their jobs because immigrants will work for basically nothing without benefits and a union. Everyone knows that if they are allowed to come into the States and get jobs that they would be in danger of losing theirs. Many immigrants are cited as being “below the mental, moral, and physical average of both our country and their own.” (Hall 303) One man states that “more care was taken in the selection of the few cattle which were imported for breeding purposes in this same period than anyone thought of taking in the case of these millions of men and women and children.” (Ward 543) Ward continues to discuss the many problems with immigrations in the 1900s he says that there are “no officials, expert in diagnosing mental and physical defe...

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