Illegal Immigration Act Research Paper

When you think of the word “immigrant,” your first thought may be a Mexican swimming across the Rio Grande or climbing the wall between Mexico and the United States, or maybe even the Trump wall. In actuality, immigrants are no different than any legal person, just that they were born in a different country and didn’t move to the United States legally. You aren’t able to tell if someone is an immigrant just from looking at them. In fact, despite the common stereotype that most, if not all, illegal immigrants are from Mexico or other hispanic countries, South Koreans are the fifth largest group of illegal immigrants in the United States of America.
If you really think about it, everyone in America is an immigrant or related to an immigrant. Unless you are Native American, your ancestors weren’t born here. The first colonists aboard the Mayflower were immigrants; leaving their country to escape religious persecution. Benjamin Franklin’s father is an immigrant. Thomas Paine, author of …show more content…
He has made good steps by passing the DACA Act, but more need to be done and the DREAM Act should be passed at the federal level. My mom is an illegal immigrant from Peru, so I know all about the struggles of immigrants. My mom came here in 1986, and came on a visa, but overstayed her visa once she met my dad and they got married. When my parents got divorced in 2012, my mom’s legal status became a big issue. Technically, she is not a citizen and cannot renew her driver’s license again. She also can’t work legally. She had to pay thousands and thousand to an immigration lawyer to fight for her citizenship. In 2015 she finally got her green card and can do things that normal, American born people can. I know that my mom agrees with Obama on his immigration policies and thinks that he is doing good for the illegal