Political Effects Of Immigration

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As we see today in the United States there are many Issues on Immigration. We see that there are many Political effects of Immigration and controversy. The U.S. is once again becoming a country of immigrants. Immigrant arrivals are currently about 1.25 million people per year account for 40% of population growth nationally. Also, there are major court cases that have set the precedent for immigration laws. Solutions are also very important to the country such as the legalization of Immigrants. We see this in Legal and Illegal Immigration. “Major issues of the debate that led to the passage of an immigration reform bill are discussed and analyzed in this collection of six papers that were delivered as public lectures at Western Michigan University …show more content…

population. The size and composition of immigrant inflows is a special concern in the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, where most immigrants live. My research paper summarizes some of the main effects of immigration on major U.S. cities. I begin by examining the effect on overall population growth. Immigrants, like natives, are drawn to expanding cities. Making it harder to draw inferences about the causal effect of immigrant inflows on population growth. Unlike natives, however, immigrants are particularly attracted to cities with historical enclaves of earlier immigrants.. 3 more immigration have a larger share of lower-skilled workers. I then turn to the implications of this unbalanced population growth for local incomes and the structure of the local economy. Despite the impact of immigration on the skill composition of the local labor market, there is only a small effect on the structure of relative wages.4 The wage gap between the lowest-skilled natives (who are in most direct competition with immigrants) and natives at the middle of the skill distribution is 3-5 percentage points wider in high immigrant cities like New York and Los Angeles than …show more content…

Here we see the economic effects of illegal immigration, the gap between the wages of the highly-skilled natives and those in the middle is also somewhat wider in high-immigrant cities. An equally important issue is the effect of immigration on average wages of native workers. Even after controlling for city size effects, human capital spillovers, and the possibility that immigrants are drawn to cities with stronger local economies, the evidence suggests a positive effect. Taken together with the rather small magnitude of the relative wage effects, it appears that immigration exerts a modestly positive effect on the labor market outcomes of most natives. “The 1960s are known for the civil rights movement, which worked to achieve racial equality in all areas of society. Less well known is the accompanying movement to end discrimination in immigration policy.” Under U.S. immigration law, immigrants from some countries (northern Europeans) were considered more desirable than others (southern

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