Why Immigration Is A Good Thing - 1864 Words

Jew’s In Latin America Because in Europe a group of people was being persecuted which is the case of the Jew’s during the 1940’s they decided to immigrate in large waves to many different countries. During this time period 6 million Jew’s died, other’s were lucky enough to hide and escape, and many other’s were fortunate enough to immigrate into a new country. Many Jew’s immigrated to Latin American countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay just to name a few. Immigration for the most part for every country is a good thing. The reasons why immigration is a good thing is because immigrants pay taxes, they create businesses, they provided cultural diversity and lastly and most importantly immigrants adapt and become full†¦show more content†¦During the 1940’s when Adolf Hitler rose to power and started to persecute the Jew’s many Jew’s fled their home countries. However in contrast to popular belief, the Jews first started to emigrate to Latin America during the 19th century as David William Foster explains, â€Å"The best historical facts have Jews first arriving with early settlers as conversos (also called New Christians; Jews who had agreed to convert to Christianity in order to escape expulsion from Spain and Portugal and persecution by the Inquisition)† (2012, 1). These were actually the very first Jew’s to have arrived to the new world (America) way back in the 18th century and not before, during or after World War II as it is originally thought. However as Foster further explains: The greatest immigration of Jews into Latin America, however, was during the fifty-year period between 1880 and 1930, as part of the combined effect of the flight of Jews from Europe as a consequence of poverty, discrimination (including brutal pogroms), and the rise of Nazism. During this time period was when Latin America received the largest Jewish immigration in its history. The Jew’s were tired of being seen as second-class citizens in their home countries, and they decided to immigrate in order to have a better life just like anybody else would have had. In Addition, Foster also tell us that â€Å"Today, there are approximately 500,000 Jews in