Essay+map+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.**__


 * A lot of sweatshops are owned by immigrants can you believe that.**"Most shops are owned by immigrants, too, now primarily from China and Korea, just as their predecessors came from Italy and Eastern Europe."[]


 * There are so many hazardous stuff in the workplace of where immigrants work at.**"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."[] "In these shops, holes in warping floors are covered by plywood boards. Sprinkler systems, unmaintained, no longer work. Electrical wiring dangles dangerously overhead.[] "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."[]

[|sq=immigrants%20in%20sweatshops&st=cse] "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."[] "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."[]
 * They make such little way less than minimum wage and they cant really support their family.** "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&]