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Il�aa�oa°ab�� Mention � Abbey Roemer 8" Gxade � RAMS � Mr. Andrea � HUVI�N R�GI-��"� ESSAY: IMMIGRATION In 1933 Albert Einstein immigratedwith his family to the United States. He became a citizen in 1940. In 1893, Irving Berlin (who composed the music for many Broadway musicals) immigrated from Russia to the United States. Hans Beti�e, a Physicist, immigrated to the United States in 1935. �-�e later won a 1967 Nobel Prize for his research on the energy production of stars. These people, and hundreds of others such as Sammy Sosa (Dominican Republic), Yfl-Yo Ma (France), and Elia Kazan (Turkey), were all American immigrants. But what is even more important is that they have all helped shape the history of America. Today, I think that a lot of immigrants are treated unfairly. They are discriminated for both their language and their cul3:ure more often than not. Illegal immigrants are easily tal{en advantage of through their jobs. Often, illegal immigrants are forced to do the jobs that no one else would ever agree to do. They are paid as low as half the zr�ir�imuac�. wage. Two things might cause this to happen: It is often more than they were paid in their old country, and at least some money is better than none, or they are forced to accept by means of threats to be turned in to the govemment. Mistreatment of immigrants doesn't only happen today. It has been happening for centuries. During the times of Ellis Island immigrants were shunned. Angel Island, mainly used for Asians coming to the west coast, was even worse tY� Ellis Island, with almost unlivable space. Immigrants were often thought of as practically unhuman. Immigrants from certain countries were discriminated more than others. Really, whatever th� people who were already living in America wanted was law as far as immigrants were concerned How many immigrants, legal or not, really come to the United States for pleasure, or to