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f rd Pl aee. Ellie Wilson 8" Grarl e AM Mr L a, w Human Rights Essay /f 2 %NF Last night, while voring on this essa i a 0 r started t o rnagrne an immi gration experience. f imagined m fanny and I on a small raft w e had built to cross to America like some families m Cuba still do today. to leave family behind because we didn't have enough room or enough h foods What if my lounger brother Peter, the most loveable and ha child but the most vulnera d ied. on the may to America? mat if I survived and no one else did? fir, what if, after o threatening, overcoming all the dangerous,, life- depressing, and stressful obstacles we finally immigrants made it but fund we per considered undocumented, illegal immigrants and were sent back to were we came From? Or. what if we were actually accepted for who we were and het into the country that w understood. w as founded on human rights Then, I Nought about. great-grandfather g Martin Sorenson con�rrr throe Allis lrrd from ferurnar in 1920 she he was 1 g dear's odd and n great-grandmother lartha coming through Ellis I from Germany in 12 when she was 19 dears odd as well. Immigration world for them. The met each other they i n Ne wh they settled. and stared 1rl a faily, an gears later I was horn into that an��'� .l� and hav end many stores and a on. have met many rich cultural tradition. relatives es mho have either immigrated to America or who have vi us. I feed connected to other areas of the world and care greatly about safet and peace in the world so everyone can stay safe People fee their countries for man reasons. �o Some immigrants come under heir own volition to provide safer and more promising g r for themsel and their children, ether Immigrants were forced to cone to America as slaves or in servants. Slaves had little or no human rights Even when they were freed r they were still d�sc rrrnrnated against. The Europeans that came to America as indentured g servants were om�nitted to work for the person that had paid for their j ourney for seven dears or more. Then. their employer would give them money or laird to start a new life for themselve This year at �y Mi nnesota State F I pi cked up a button that stood out to me haven in my mind my h um a n rights essay. It said "Immigration atron ul Our N and listed this site:. �.ener ofantion, I gent to the weite and rnl that our rmmi gration policies and lames have developed over the past Naturali i dears. In th.e Act began to limit immigration a rn that g And alien being a free whrte ersorr rrra be dn�itted to become a citi of the United States." Immi doubled the T.s,'s population between the scars of 1800 and 1 900. B 1850 immi from places die Norway, Sweden, Ireland, and Germany had i ettled rrr America. ca. 'here immigrants worked n the factories, farmed, and help our overall econ groom. In the rrrrd to late 1800 our go ern- ent started. limiting i mmig ra tion b setting quotas for g overnment 1 g each country and the U.S. g became responsible for inspecting, admitti ng re'ec t come into the U.S. I tin all who w to Immigration stations like Dills Island were set up "process" immigrants. the Today, depending upon their status irrrmi �r li ants may not get full rights to things ir health care and education. some people want r t to l imit immigration. even more lockin illegal rm�grts with �a�s and policies such g as the secure Fence Act, T'lxer want to send illegal immi currently li here b to their then homelarris. Other people grant to create more options and opportunities for immigrants to enter g r the 1_J.�, legally and become citi with the same human rights that we have. f thin. we should. open up the poss for immigration every more because I want everyone who may he n tough situ to feel ire