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Emma Lea
Professor Carty
UWRT-1102-006
22 October 2014
Immigration Across the World
Thesis: As economies, cultures, and religions are being spread across the worlds
borders, so are people and their families. Through out the world there is estimated to be
191 million immigrants.
There are hundreds of reasons for immigration but it always starts by crossing a
border. Here in the United States the process is long and can be very complicated but
very necessary. In the United States it can take over five months before citizenship and
over 6 in the United Kingdom. The process is similar in most countries. It always starts
by crossing a border and going through customs. One must always have a valid passport
and valid form of identification. If one is traveling to the United States, bags will also be
checked and even double checked to make sure illegal objects havent been stowed on
any persons. The process is a pain but in the end it means citizenship.
The other option to legal citizenship would be illegal immigration. Illegal
immigration means passing over borders without knowledge or permission of the
country. H.L. Mencken says that, There is always an easy solution to every human
problem-neat plausible, and wrong. I think this reflects on why people would choose to
cross a border illegally. Crossing may be as simple as wading across the Rio Grande from
Mexico into the United States or being smuggled from Greece into France in a
compartment under a car seat for 4,000 Euros (Carr 4). Either way, it is illegal and

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punishable by law. In 2013 the Department for Homeland Security reported that a total of
662,483 aliens were apprehended. All but 29,681 of those apprehended were Hispanic,
the rest were from other countries or unknown. Ninety eight percent of those
apprehended were arrested along the Southwest border of the country. In Europe there are
seven known main points of illegal entry. In 2010 the Migration Policy Institute reported
only 90,000 apprehensions of external land crossing points. These statistics show how
many people are willing to risk their lives just to cross into another country illegally.
I mentioned a few reasons for legal immigration, but I also think it is important to
touch on reasons for illegal immigration. It seems that the most common reason for
immigration to the United States currently is safety concerns. Since October of last year
over 52,000 unaccompanied minors have been taken into custody coming from Central
America. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, "Salvadoran and Honduran
children ... come from extremely violent regions where they probably perceive the risk of
traveling alone to the U.S. preferable to remaining at home."
It is important, when thinking about immigration from a global standpoint to look
at statistics. According to the Migration Policy Institute the number one country that
sends immigrants is India while second is Mexico and third is Russia.
Hundreds of thousands of people coming into a country can major effects
economically. The knee-jerk reaction is for people to assume more people means lowered
wages, but this has been found to be false. It is true that more people are fighting over
jobs, just not over the same jobs. When considering illegal immigration, this allows
farmers to hire workers for cheap and keeps prices of produce down which allows them
to compete with other countries produce prices. High skilled immigrants can greatly

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impact our economy by helping American jobs run more efficiently and create
innovation. Low skilled immigrants also help make the high end of the market run more
efficient. More low skilled immigrants also means more job competition for native-born
low skilled workers. Typically, immigrants are more motivated to find jobs than nativeborn citizens so this hurts these people significantly. A good example would be if North
Carolina needed more low skilled workers, the first people to look for these jobs would
be immigrants, because native-born low skilled workers would be moving from other
regions. Without these immigrants moving in for these jobs North Carolinas economy
would slow up and slow the job market.
The passing of people from country to country has many shapes and forms, and
must be studied to help our future generations accommodate all these people coming and
going. (Conclusion goes here)

Citations
Carr, Matthew. Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent. New York: New
Press, 2012. Print.
Greenblatt, Alan. "What's Causing The Latest Immigration Crisis? A Brief Explainer."
NPR. NPR, 9 July 2014. Web. 21 Oct. 2014.
Morehouse, Christal. Irregular Migration in Europe. Washington, DC: Migration Policy
Institute, 2011. PDF.
"The Economics of Immigration: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why | TIME.com."
Business Money The Economics of Immigration Who Wins Who Loses and Why
Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.

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United States. Department of Homeland Security. Immigration Enforcement Actions


2013. By John F. Simanski. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.

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