Why Do Immigrants Take Away Job?

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I disagree that every immigrant is a killer, rapist, or drug dealer and that immigrants take away jobs from Americans. We are not criminals; we are humble people who came to the United States to work hard. In an August 2016 New York Times article, Adam Edelman reported that in June 2015 you “labeled immigrants from Mexico ‘rapists’ and criminals.” Immigrants do not come to the United States to cause trouble. They come to the United States out of necessity. Immigrants risk their lives crossing the border for a better future. They leave their families, home, and country for a better living. If the economy in their country were good they would not come to the United States, but since they cannot earn enough money they cross deserts and rivers to give a better life to their families. Is hard to travel to an unknown country …show more content…

We are not taking jobs away; instead, we are helping the economy grow because we do the jobs that nobody wants. I have lived five years here in California, and in those five years I have being working in the fields, and I have never seen a native born American work there. Do you know why? Because it is such hard work that nobody wants to do it. You want to send us back to our country, but you know what happens if you deport all immigrants? The agriculture will collapse because we are the main source of that work. Who are the owners of the fields of grape, oranges, lemon, tangerine, grapefruit, cherry? Native born Americans, right? Don’t you think if they wanted us out of the country they would call the police while we are working in the field? But here is the reason they do not call the police: they want us to work for them because they know that only hispanics work in the fields and do not complain. Another reason that they like hispanics is because they can pay them low

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