Immigration to the US Essay -- Immigration Naturalization

There are many Asian immigrants that come to the United States in hopes of living out their American dream of becoming United States citizens. My parents came here exactly for that same reason, so they can give my sisters and I the opportunity to live a better life. We were fortunate enough to have our relatives help us get here, making it a little less difficult for us compared to other families that took a different path to becoming citizens. However, it was not always this easy for an Asian immigrant family like ours to become naturalized citizens. It used to be near impossible for immigrants of Asian descent to become a United States citizen, but in recent years, there have been a spur of people with Asian ethnicity who are able to naturalize. From the time the Puritans touched the soil of this land to the creation of this country’s new government, America was always envisioned as a â€Å"homogeneous† nation of people of European decent. John Winthrop and his Puritan followers came to this new land with the â€Å"errand† of creating the â€Å"new† England, a colony of one racial identity (Takaki 15). It is surprising to learn that even the founding fathers of this country were against having people other than â€Å"whites† to settle in this land where according to them â€Å"..all men are created equally†. Ben Franklin, for example, shared the same belief in his 1751 essay Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind. â€Å"The English were the ‘principle Body of White people’, and Franklin wished there were more of them in America† (Tanaki 16). Thomas Jefferson also shared the same view in his Notes on the State of Virginia, expressing his fear o f possibly tainting the country with people of colored skin (Tanaki 16). With that i... ...yclopedia, Web. Takaki, Ronald. Strangers From a Different Shore: a History of Asian American. first. New York: Back Bay Books/ Little, Brown and Company, 1989. 14-420. Print. "United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, Web. . United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, Certificate From The Circuit Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit., No. 202. Argued January 11, 12, 1923.—Decided February 19, 1923, United States Reports, v. 261, The Supreme Court, October Term, 1922, 204–215. Waldo R. Browne (ed.), "Japanese-American Passport Agreement," in What's What in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor Terminology. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1921; pg. 261.