Barry R. Chiswick's The Worker Next Door

In “The Worker Next Door” by Barry R. Chiswick, he writes to inform his reader about immigrants and low-skilled jobs in America. Chiswick throughout his paper tries to inform his readers that if illegal immigrants were not to obtain low skilled jobs it would benefit the American people. Chiswicks paper was a pretty decent, but could have been improved in some areas and some stuff could have been left out of his paper.
Chiswick strengths in his paper was when he uses a rhetorical question “if low-skilled foreign workers were not here, would lettuce not be picked, groceries not bagged, hotel sheets not changed, and lawns not mowed.” Using this was an excellent tactic for him to hook the American audience attention to continue reading his paper.
After he grabs the reader’s attention he names the six cities in America that have a lot of immigrants living in the areas that have low waging jobs from Americans so it could focus more on the Americans who live in that area. In doing this he relies on more of ethos to support his argument with a couple of supports like the 2000 census and the ABC program “nightlight.” After that he tries to convince the reader that if immigrants were to not take low waging jobs the low waging Americans would benefit them in gaining more money. In doing this Chiswick is trying pursued the readers with assumptions alone. He basically is trying to tie some facts with his own personal assumptions about how the United States would be like without illegal low waging workers. One his tactics is the use of his tone to get the reader to buy his argument. The tone he uses in his paper is like informative, but kind of serious to grab the reader’s attention. After using all this Chiswick can probably get readers to see his argument. It is not the best, but it still gets the job