Immigration Reflective Essay

1. Your personal stance on areas of social concern involving waste disposal practices or other socially relevant questions (e.g., poverty, animal rights, immigration). Your stance should include your understanding of varying perspectives on each issue)

Personally, I support immigration, but I support it when it is completed legally. The United States it about wanting to better yourself and have that classic “American Dream”. Everyone on this earth is entitled to that success dream and if immigrants believe they can achieve that in the States, I completely support it. My stance on immigration is that people who wish to come to the states are more than welcome but do need to go through the process of being a resident then becoming a citizen. Having a foreign mother, I have experienced legal immigration personally. She has given me knowledge about the process and how she came to the states legally and

Mainly because of lack of knowledge of what is really going on in the world. As my college experience continued, I began to learn about issues such as pay difference in men and women, environmental issues, and racial issues. The more I found out about these injustices, the more I became passionate about wanting to do something about it. Personally, environmental issues have been my biggest passion throughout college. Coming from a small town in the county filled with trees, and wildlife all around me, I never really thought about how much is destroyed to expand city and suburb life. When I moved to the DFW area for college I instantly noticed the pollution in the air and the minimal amount of nature. Of course, I do understand that it is necessary to have cities and how that does affect our environment, but I feel like at this rate, the more we continue to deforest land and forcefully move animals out of their homes, the closer we are to a complete hazardous