¡§The Implications of Immigration in America Today¡¨
Ethics
¡§Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (Lazarus, 1883)
These famous lines from Lazarus¡¦s The New Colossus are carved at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. The idea they herald has been the bellwether of our nation since its inception when people were needed to populate our fledgling, sparsely populated nation. We became known as the melting pot of the world as cultures from around the world melded together to make a unique culture different from any other ever created in the history of time. However, as the world¡¦s population has been growing exponentially in the 20th and 21st century, and as travel to our shores has become less rigorous, and our own native Americans have become more numerous due to better survival rates from the advancements in medicine, we are faced with something our forefathers never foresaw 200 + years ago.
How many people can America support before the quality of life, the quality of the environment, and the infrastructure of our nation suffers? We must face the fact that there is a limit to what our great country¡¦s resources and industries can sustain? However, can a country that has always been the beacon of freedom turn their back on the oppressed? How can we make immigration fair to native Americans while considering the plight of the world¡¦s downtrodden?
These are the weighty issues, which we have attempted to address in the following paper as we look at the social and business pros and cons facing the issue of immigrat ...