Immigrant Students

Armando Oseguera

Professor Monique Williams

English 1A

2 September 2013

What is The Government Doing about Immigrant Students?

            It is very hard for students to be motivated to continue to go to college after they graduate from high school. It is even harder for immigrant students that came to this country involuntarily it wasn’t their choice to come it was their parents’ choice to bring them here to give them a better life experience. Their parents choose to come to the United States to leave all of the suffering that they were doing back in their countries from lack of food on the tables to the cities or towns being too dangerous to live in. What they didn’t realize was that even in the United States their child life would be somewhat better; they were going to face lots of challenges when it came to their education. From the start when they were enrolled in school they enrolled them in (ESL) English as Second Language class but they still had a lot other classes where they didn’t understand the teacher or students due to the lack of English speaking communication. Even though the first years here they might have struggled a little they got enrolled in the public schools, learned to speak English, and absorbed American values. Yet, they have limited access to many mechanisms that promote upward mobility and social integration, Such as good education and good employment. This article relates to the passion project because if you aren’t motivated to do something or if you don’t possess any inspiration to keep going you won’t, that’s why they government should inspire and help immigrant students to keep going to school and continue to grow. “Nationwide, there are approximately 11 million undocumented people living in the United States. Between one and two million of them are children, and each year, 50,000 to 65,000 undocumented students like these described above graduate from United States high schools. While many will end their educational trajectories there, those who wish to continue on to college will face a series of obstacles” (4).  Some of the obstacles that students face is tuition the government charge a lot more tuition if you are an immigrant student. What this article also talked about is how they are proposing laws to help those students who wish to go to college and that they would only have to pay state tuition. “One would have to know how much it costs a state to offer reduced tuition to these students, controversy, how much a state benefits from those students acquiring a higher education and entering a the labor-force as more highly qualified workers”(11).  States would highly benefit from this. They would be producing more money and it will give allow the immigrant students to be more motivated to continue their studies and purse a career and have better lifestyles, not only because that’s why their parents brought them here in the first place, but it will benefit them and the United States as a whole.   

Library Database:  JULIE STEWART & THOMAS CHRISTIAN QUINN

To Include or Exclude: A Comparative Study of State Laws on In State for Undocumented Students In the United States.

Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy. Fall2012, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p1-47. 47p.