This is due to hostility over those who have come to the mainland having been able to obtain jobs, get an education and master the language. The hostility is due them having to compete for the same jobs in their island. Cuban American are third in numbers only with Mexican American and Puerto Ricans. ‘’Their presence in American dates back to 1830 with only small settlements that are surround by cigar manufacturing firms (Schaefer, 2006).’’ There have been three major waves of immigration to the states, the first one dating back to the 1960’s. The first wave was about 200,000 people after Castro took over the country.
Over 3 million Puerto Rican Americans live in the United States mostly in the New York area and the rest live in Puerto Rico itself. (Hispanic American Diversity, 2008). Puerto Rico is a common wealth of the United States so their consider American citizens by birth. This makes them eligible for government benefits not available to other members of the Hispanic Americans. Many think that the welfare system has kept Puerto Ricans in a cycle of poverty however; others think that it is discrimination in education and schooling is their biggest problem.
Counseling Psychology Date: 5/7/2012 Approaches on Counseling Immigrant Population I. Background Immigrant population has become an increasingly significant part of the composition of the United States population. According to the statistics from Department of Homeland Security, 694,193 foreign-born citizens were naturalized in 2011 alone, and let alone the huge number of non-citizen population living in the country. Among the naturalized citizens in 2011, the largest subgroup comes from Asia, which has taken up 36% of the whole immigrant population, and India (6.6%), Philippines (6.1%), and China (4.7%) are the top three Asian countries exporting immigrants. While country-wise speaking, Mexico is the one contributed the largest number of immigrants – 94,783 (13.7%).
This makes Vietnamese Americans the fifth largest immigrant group in the United States , right after the Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, and Indian foreign-born (Lehman, 2000). This paper will focus on the push and pull factors that forced the Vietnamese to leave their homeland, and where did they settled and why. There were many factors that led the Vietnamese to immigrate to the US. Some were push factors and some were pull factors. According to the text, a push factor can include reasons such as housing costs, rising crime rates, high tax rates, poor climates, or lack of satisfying or well paying jobs.
It helps Mexico keep its birth rate down, and lets the Mexico economy grow. The disadvantages to Mexico of this migration The disadvantages to Mexico of the international migration to the USA is that Mexico loses many of its more gifted members of the population, as mentioned before, those who migrate are often those who have some kind of skill that they think may make them employable in America. Most of the migrants are literate. Mexico is left with the least adaptable, and the poorest, to work in the countryside. Attempts to control the flow of migrants by building maquiladora Many factories are built just inside Mexico, by American firms.
90) If we look at the statistical profiles of the Latino market, we can obtain a basic understanding of why this market is gaining serious attention from marketers worldwide. "There are three major Latino groups Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans which are geographically separated and greatly facilitate the ability of local and regional media to reach each group." (Guernica. pg. 8) However, Latinos come from various countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, with the largest percentage coming from Mexico.
In 2007, a reporter sates that 267,000 illegal immigrants currently in jail in the United States are responsible for close to 1.3 million crimes from drug trafficking to rape and murder. In Los Angeles, the home to the largest Hispanic immigrant community in the United States. In 2006, the city of Los Angeles experienced 15.7 percent increased to federal agencies for aid to capture gangs. In Los Angeles County Jail there are 20 percent inmates and 10 percent inmates in Orange County jail who are illegal immigrants. Federal government is paying more money to meet the social welfare needs of the growing population but there is uncertainty as to how much is due to poor and illegal immigrants.
The Undocumented in the U.S. Illegal Immigration has become a nationwide epidemic in the U.S. with an estimated 11.8 million undocumented immigrants in 2007 and accounting for 3 percent of the population. (Hoefer 1) Over the years the debate over whether or not to allow illegal immigrants to live and work in the United States has become a lengthy struggle for some that are trying to obtain citizenship legally. As an industrialized nation, the U.S. depends on these immigrants to provide a work for hire service for cheap during economic turmoil. There are several advantages that stem from illegal immigration that should be pointed out.
In the United States, we are privileged enough to boast our freedom in being the land of the free. People travel to the US from several countries, but a particular country, which receives the most controversy, is Mexico. A vast majority of these immigrants come to the United States illegally, but come for work to provide for their family. The focus of this vulnerable population is on the men that are apart of the illegal immigration that come to the United States. This isn’t a topic that many would think as a potential vulnerable population, yet they are faced with many barriers on a daily basis.
Illegal immigration is a big problem In the United States. According to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center, the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States rose from 8.4 million in 2000 to 10.3 million in 2004. Illegal immigrants take advantage of the system put in place to assist natural born or naturalized Americans. Illegal immigrants use the educational and economic programs for their own ends at the cost to taxpayers and Americans who actually need them. Americans work hard too and it doesn’t seem right that illegal immigrants can come and use up all of the benefits that were supposed to go to hard working Americans.