Land of Immigrants

   Throughout the evolution of history and ever since there was a knowledge of the existence of this land, the United States of America has been the new land for many civilizations and ethnic groups. The earliest immigrants were of course, the Indians, people who came into this land looking for food, warmth, shelter, first people to take this territory as their homeland, later on the British came in, since the first ship, the Mayflower, to the last they were all looking for the same, a new place to settle in, later on the U.S. welcomed a new ethnic group the Africans, people with a darker color, who were forced to come into this land and settle in for good, as the country emerged and grew Europeans started to come in as well, which was increased during and after the World Wars, now at days our largest immigrant groups are the Hispanics or Latinos which are not only the largest but also the youngest .  One- in-five schoolchildren is Hispanic. One-in-four newborns is Hispanic. Never before in this country’s history has a minority ethnic group made up so large a share of the youngest Americans.

Immigration is the movement of people into a country or region, to which they are not native, in order to settle there

So if immigration has always existed, why do we make such a big deal out of it, if after all there is not a single  pure American or Canadian, or Mexican or Puerto Rican or any other country that’s part of the Americas.

Previously we´ve talked about the value of a college education, in order to succeed and how there is a large percentage of Americans that wish to obtain one and how this helps our country in so many different ways like people gaining more money and having better chances,  we have also talked about how could pregnancy affect this as very few people are able to raise a child and get a degree either high school or college, being education so important teens that become parents as they have less access to education they have less access to good jobs and this person that has 3 kids and a minimum wage and has to maintain all of his family is obviously poor, that is what happens to teen parents and sadly of the main

We could observe in our chart that taking in account the main ethnic groups young Latinos are the ones suffering the most, they have higher rates of poverty high school dropouts and pregnancy all of which is very terrifying not only for this young ethnic group but for the entire country.

But this could even get worse being a Hispanic someone that does not know the language, the culture the territory and the country itself, they are not able to get descent jobs that will help them strive through life, and also as many of them come here thanks to dangerous gangs and other things , so people that are young and that have no notion of how things are managed in the U.S.  eventually fall into poverty and this  generation starts having less chances to a better life as the cycle repeats itself.

, they are also more likely to get involved in gangs and have a short life damaging others and having a role on illegal economical activities.

But immigrants do not only have negative impacts on the economy they also have bring up many aspects and improves our economy in many ways. Immigrants specially when they are legal, have a great role in economy, facing up the facts, legal immigrants are generally entrepreneurs people who move out of their country to start a new business in a different place where they think they would have better opportunities . They usually come in with fresh and different ideas and methods, things that would help the country and will open up the minds of many Americans.

There are also large groups of Latinos that think of America as an opportunity to expand their knowledge and increase their education levels, that had a hard time in order to get there and will try hard in order to bring out the best of them and give it out because they have the tools and a clear purpose in life, having a better quality of life. Checking up this could be supported by the facts that

Nearly all Latino youths (89%) and older adults (88%) agree with the statement that a college degree is important for getting ahead in life.

§  Even more so than other youths, young Latinos have high aspirations for career success. Some 89% say it is very important in their lives, compared with 80% of the full population of 18- to 25-year-olds who say the same.

• Latinos believe in the rewards of hard work. More than eight-in-ten—including 80% of Latino youths and 86% of Latinos ages 26 and older—say that most people can get ahead in life if they work hard.

After all that information, we could say that the success that an immigrant might have in this specific case a Hispanic in the U.S. depends on what  their goals are their educations and their thouhts , thats why they could strongly damage  the economy as well as they could be an excellent boost to it.