Immigrants And The United

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IMMIGRANTS AND THE UNITED STATES

The Americans now are concerning about migration as well as the nation’s economy. The concern is whether the immigrants will contribute to the prosperity of the America society or they just create more problems and difficulties for our society. People also worry about the budget that the nation has to provide for new immigrants. Do we, as a nation of immigrants, still have the capacity to absorb newcomers? Historian David Kennedy in his article “Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?” discusses about immigration in the United States, and he states that we still have the capacity to absorb new immigrants. The author supports his idea successfully by using historical evidences from history of immigration and evidences from recent studies.
In the introductory of his article Kennedy writes about a new source of immigrants that comes to the America in the nineteenth century. Those immigrants come from the nine none European countries called “the third world or less developed countries.” He then compares the America’s population growth with the Latin America’s population growth, and he says that our population growth still 4 times less than the Latin America’s population growth. He also says that the America now still has a very small number of immigrant, he says: “I mentioned their relatively small numbers in the American population,” and “we still have a lot of absorptive ca...

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