In the society we live in today we face many problems and issues that affect people from all walks of life. These issues include immigration into the US, the ridiculously high rent prices in NYC, and the sudden increase of hate against Asian people due to the Covid-19 pandemic. These issues alone affect millions of people everyday throughout the US.

Immigration is a massive issue in the US today, more specifically people being taken from their families if they’re an illegal immigrant. Everyday people are being ripped from their homes and sent back to their original countries from which they left from originally. People move to America for a better life and they shouldn’t be sent back over technicalities, especially if the person getting sent back doesn’t have a criminal record and is a productive member of our society. I feel as if this is a very important topic to discuss at this point in time as there are hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the US and there has to be some sort of solution to help provide the life that these people deserve to live.

Another major issue in the US today is constant increase in rent prices which also affects quite a lot of people. With so many people living paycheck to paycheck at this day and age, the ridiculously high rent prices make the quality of life quite difficult for a lot of people as the cost of living itself is already difficult to deal with for a lot of people. It’s very important to address this issue now because with this Covid-19 pandemic, finding and keeping a job is quite difficult and then having to pay the cray high rent prices makes life quite difficult for a lot of people.

Additionally, the sudden increase in the hate against the Asian community is just outright disgusting. In these times, Asian people seem to blamed for Covid-19 when it isn’t their fault at all. This is genuinely upsetting in our society today as people are getting blamed for something that they had no involvement in at all. It’s quite upsetting that in 2021 an entire race of people are being attacked both physically and verbally just based on the color of their skin.

I’m not too sure which topic I’ll be picking to write my article about, but I’m mostly leaning towards would be either the immigration topic or the hate towards the Asian community as a lot of my friends are Asian and they are affected by this issue almost everyday.