What are the views on immigration?
Social Justice is the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within a society. Immigration is the topic I chose to do for this week’s blog. There are various views about immigration in the United States. I myself am for legal immigration because they came here the right way and just want to live in a country with freedom because there are so many countries where anyone would love to just leave and have a much better life for themselves and their families. But of course many people are against immigration because it is taking away jobs from non-immigrant people, the room for the immigrants will eventually run out and many of the immigrants are not coming here legally. Many people look down on immigrants coming into this country for those reasons. I feel as though immigration has a bad reputation mostly due to the people coming here illegally, making the people who came here legally look bad.
Otis Graham had stated that “we today have 300 million and ought to be asking how many Americans is best for America, and, if immigration is driving it, we better get an immigration policy that gives us the numbers we want. He goes on to say that we've always been of mixed minds about immigrants, and that's because immigrants bring both bads and goods. It's a strong theme in American life to be ambivalent about immigration because there are benefits that we see and there have always been costs paid by the locals.” According to PBS “a majority of the public, 54 percent, believes that most recent immigrants are in the country illegally and nearly three-fifths of non-immigrants say illegal immigrants have hurt the national economy.”
With all the pros and cons of immigration we need to realize that we, the future teachers, are supposed to show children not to judge people, but with society that’s just what is happening. People are judging others even if they came here legally. Becoming a teacher you need to open the students’ minds and teach the children about immigration, because in the end we all came from immigrants, unless you are Native American of course!
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