Political Effects Of Immigration

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

during the 1984-85 academic year. The essays reflect a broad range of views on the effects of immigration on the United States economy and on reform of the current system. Several of the essays debate the likely effects and hidden costs that may result from the imposition of employer sanctions, which is considered the main provision of the bill. Concerns about the effects of amnesty on the supply of workers and on the demand for public services and transfer payments are discussed by some of the authors.” The effects of these inflows are controversial, in part because of their sheer size and in part because of their composition. Something like 35-40% of new arrivals are undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America with low education and verylimited English skills. Although another quarter of immigrants – from countries like India and China – are highly skilled, critics of current immigration policy often emphasize the presumed negative effects of lower-skilled people in the overall economy. Moreover, even the most highly skilled immigrants are predominately non-white, contributing to the growing presence of visible minorities in the U.S.

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

in low-immigrant cities.

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

Europeans), a precedent Congress established in the 1920s. Congress set different immigration quotas for different countries, heavily favoring northern Europe. In the spirit of the times, in the mid-1960s Congress began considering legislation to establish a fairer system in which all countries had the same quota. That was achieved with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.” This quote shows how the congress and courts have affected the illegal and legal immigration status in the United States