Immigration

The Effect of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the United States
The problem of immigration has been a controversial issue in the United States, particularly the issue of illegal immigration. Therefore, immigration can be defined as the act of immigrating/moving to another country, meaning that one moves to another nation, where he or she was not born, or where he or she is not a native of; thereby, using the new nation as a permanent residence either legally or illegally. Therefore, this essay presents that immigration (both legal and illegal) is good and leads various benefits to a nation, including fostering economic growth, contribute to labor markets, and contributes to taxes as well as social contributions; though, it can sometimes harm

One of such reasons would be for religious freedom. People can also move to other countries in search for opportunities. In particularly, in the United States, there are many employment opportunities, which people can find and work. Many people from other nations strongly believe that migrating to America will offer them employment opportunities. Next in the list of reasons, includes survival reasons. Whereas some argue that immigration is not good and has the potential of harming the United States, others people believe that immigration is good and has to be encouraged. Whereas Jacoby answers “yes” to the question of “Does Immigration Increase the Virtues of Hard Work and Fortitude in the United States,” Krikorian objects Jacoby’s idea and instead, argues that immigration is depletes the resources of a country. In the article “Five Myths about Immigration,” Cole argues that the United States has received and benefited from many immigrants since 1800s. In Booth’s article entitled, “Immigration Threatens America’s Unity,” he says that before the late 1900s the greatest immigration wave contributed to a bitter backlash (epitomized by the return of Ku Klux Klan and Chinese exclusion, which targeted blacks, Catholics, immigrants, as well as

There is proof that over the few years, immigrants have represented approximately 47 percent of the increase in the workforce in America. Furthermore, the education status of many of the immigrants varies significantly in that younger immigrants tend to be more learned. For example, since 2000, immigrants have represented over 21 percent of the increase in the highly educated labor force in the United States. This comprises of the health care occupations and areas including technology, science, and engineering. In addition, immigrants often do jobs that are mostly concentrated in production, maintenance as well as repair and installation. Specifically, in all these areas, immigrants fundamentally fill labor needs through taking up jobs, which are regarded by domestic workers as being unattractive. Besides, through taking such jobs, immigrants help in contributing into the labor markets of the United States. Similarly, immigration also contributes to taxes and social contributions into the United States economy. Recent studies on the fiscal impacts of immigration for all the European OECD nations as well as the United States indicate that the impact of cumulative waves of immigration that arrived over the last 50 years is close to zero and rarely exceeds 0.5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product in either negative or positive terms. Thus, immigrants are not a burden to