Second+draft+on+immigration


 * __Immigration happens everywhere around the world but people like to come to the U.S. because they hear about the American dream, but some people like to exploit them and use them for cheap labor.__** **Since they don't know the language and will do any type of work and will believe anything anybody tells them** they get trapped and cant leave.


 * There are so many hazardous stuff in the workplace of where immigrants work at. Its is so bad that the fire exits are padlocked in one place** i mean that's a really big safety hazard and people have died before because they padlocked the fire exits.**"At three garment shops on different floors of a grimy industrial building in Long Island City, Queens, the fire exits are sealed shut by metal gates with large padlocks."[]** That stuff is going on right here in my own borough of queens that is to close to home imagine if that was me i would try and leave as soon as possible. In another place there are wires dangling from the roof over workers heads that bad because they could electrocute themselves if they walk into that. Also theres no sprinkler system so if there's a fire and there might be because it gets hot in those sweatshops.**"In these shops, holes in warping floors are covered by plywood boards. Sprinkler systems, unmaintained, no longer work. Electrical wiring dangles dangerously overhead.[]** There are people trying to stop this but they don't have enough people that's why we need some law to pass that all immigrants will not be deported if they speak up or anything to let authorities know.**"The state, in response to complaints from the industry and unions, created a specialized unit of 20 labor investigators in 1987 responsible solely for cracking down on garment factories that flout wage and safety laws. But experts say that at least 50, if not 60 investigators, would be needed to truly curb the abuses."**[|**http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/06/nyregion/hard-labor-a-special-report-despite-tough-laws-sweatshops-flourish.html?scp=1&**sq=immigrants%20in%20sweatshops&st=cse]


 * They make such little money way less than minimum wage and they cant really support their family with the little they make.**These immigrants work so hard and make so little for their time.**"Each shirt requires 10 to 15 minutes of labor, and earns him 60 cents."[|http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/06/nyregion/hard-labor-a-special-report-despite-tough-laws-sweatshops-flourish.html?scp=1&]** Some make 200$ a week and thats on a good week witch is really 2.50 cents an hour when it should be 7.25 an hour for minimum wage.**"A 44-year-old immigrant from China works 12 hours a day, seven days a week, in a windowless garment shop in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, earning $200 on a good week -- or less than $2.50 an hour."[]** It must be hard for these people to speak up especially since they dont want to leave the country. One guy works 12hours a day and sometimes a whole week and he only makes 200$.**"Sewing 12 hours a day, six or seven days a week, he makes about $200. And he seethes because he has calculated what he would earn if his boss were willing to abide by the law and pay him the minimum wage and overtime: $450 a week."[]** That is a lot of hours that's what lawyers will sometimes work a night on a big case and they get paid way more.

These immigrants shouldnt be taken advantage of i think they should get the same rights as us americans. They shouldnt have to fear laws that send them back to their country that they want to go to. We should stop treating them like "Alien" because what makes them illegal to start a life here in the land of dreams.