The Importance Of Citizenship To Illegal Immigrants

Flor is an illegal immigrant from Honduras. She works as a maid cleaning rooms and restocking them at Hotels In and she also works for an old lady named Rita. She gets paid $2 an hour at Hotels In but sometimes her customers leave tips. Rita pays her about $40 a day once she gets done with all the chores around the house. Her day consists of waking up at 5:30 am, taking the bus to Hotels In. She then cleans all the vacant rooms and when she is finished she heads up to Rita’s house and then headed back to the house. She lives with two other people who also came from Honduras. It’s hard for her to make enough money to eat a complete meal. Flor’s family is back in Honduras living like a normal family trying to make money. Sometimes they call to check in on her and see how she’s doing. There are many immigrants in the united states because those people come here to have a better future. Immigration separates families and sometimes children from their parents. The United States should give citizenship to illegal immigrants. …show more content…
Schumer in the article “without reform these 11 million counting to live in a state of uncertainty and fear.” This shows that immigrants want a better life but they can’t. ( Schumer 22.). Another reason why immigrants should be legalized is because millions of immigrants work hard for their sons and daughters to give them a better life. “fearing deportation each day most of them working to earn their sons and daughters a chance at the American dream.” This means immigrants are scared to get deported because many already started a life and they have kids that are starting to live the life they should