Immigration in 20 Years

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in the U.S. The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans. In addition to that it restricted the immigration of Africans and outright banned the immigration of Arabs and Asians.

Some people may say that the Immigration laws will get better or worst in the future, but in my opinion I honestly don’t know. Countless families across the United States trace their heritage to immigrants, which many of them arrived under the shadow of the statue of liberty. People come to the United States to make a better life for themselves and their children. It was generations of immigrants that built our nation. But unfortunately the debate over immigrants role in our nation has grown increasingly. Immigration continues to bring countless benefits to our nation, even with an immigration system in need of reform. But if America is to win the future, we have to restore responsibility and accountability to our broken system. We must also strengthen our nation’s economic competitiveness by creating a legal framework that meets our diverse needs for the 21st century.

It stated in article 1 paragraph 4, “ In 20 years about one-in-four Americans would be an immigrant or have immigrant parents, compared with one-in-four today.” That shows that new immigrants and their descendants will drive most U.S. population growth in the coming 50 years, as they have for the past half-century. Non-Hispanic whites will remain the largest racial or ethnic group in the overall population but will become less than a majority, the projections show. It stated in the same article, “Currently 62% of the population, they will make up 46% of it in 2065. Hispanics will be 24% of the population (18% now), Asians will be 14% (6% now) and blacks will be 13% (12% now).”

Irrespective of the level of immigration, striking changes will take place in the ethnic composition of the United States in the 21st century -- that is inevitable. Americans should accept this challenge and welcome the opportunity to become the world’s first multi-racial developed country. I believe that the challenge for America is not one of increasing numbers, but of careful selection and adaptation of culturally diverse newcomers who will enhance American social and economic life and make the more diverse United States of the 21st century a model for other societies.