hey guys!! tomorrow I have to present a speech in language arts. I'm in honors so all the pressure sortof comes to our class but then it doesn't. If I present this well I will go on to perform this in front of the school. well here it is!! hope you like it. by the way my friend clair and her family inspired this!! love you guys! ps. the indenting and the paragraphs didn't exactly work so it looks better in the origanal. love you!!
Immigration
By Baylie Benson
The word immigrate means to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence. When you think about immigration you never think it would happen to you or anyone close to you because you don’t think it’s your problem. Little did I know that I would gain and lose a friend to immigration.
In third world countries there is poverty. Some of the people in poverty are willing and able to work hard. They come to the United States looking for honest hard work. True, some people that come aren’t honest. They come through the border showing fake identifications, visas, passports, green cards, etc. Then they make trouble and expect the government to not put them in jail because they’re an immigrant. Some people come into the United States, looking for work, but having no way to support themselves or their families. Because of the troublemakers and the people who rely on the government, the citizens of the United States are reluctant to open the borders.
Some people come with the understanding that to gain the trust of the United States they must work hard. They come and apply to get citizenship or a green card. Sometimes they are able to get them faster and others cannot get them for up to 10 years! For example, my friend’s family, had been living here for about six years, never causing trouble, or relying on the United States, and they still had to be deported because their citizenship had not been accepted yet.
Our country was built upon immigrants, built upon their sweat, and tears, and their dreams. If there were no immigrants then there would be no America. Not all of the people that came, or still come, are all poor. Some came to have freedom of religion. Some came looking for a better life. Some came looking for money. Still some came because they had no choice.
Our economy is failing. Stock markets are going way down, and we have had one of the biggest bank crashes in history. The economy is so bad that the government called it a recession. Recession means going back or a withdrawal. The United States is telling the immigrants, to go back to their home country. They are doing this so that they can give all the jobs to Americans. Many of the immigrants were attempting to get citizenship before the recession was declared.
I believe that if an immigrant, or a family of immigrants, is legalized, and paying taxes, has a job, is not relying on the United States to feed them or clothe them, they should be able to stay. If they are providing for themselves and their family then their application for citizenship should be put at the top of a stack. What our economy needs is for the people of the United States, be them immigrant or not, to work together, to make peace between countries, and bring our economy up. That is what I believe.
I am so stressed! My life is so complicated! I dont even know why!!! I cry about everything! its so horrible. I dont like crying, and yet I do it so much!! ok enough drama lets talk basketball......
