Arguments For Immigration Density In The United States
Many can argue that immigration density in our population has reached its peak over the past decade. And many are right. A survey conducted in 2013 by the U.S. Census Bureau showed that about 13% of our massive 316 million U.S. resident population are foreign-born and have immigrated here from a different country. That’s roughly 1 in every 7 people, so it’s needless to say that America makes up the world’s most diverse ethnic stew. Everywhere from the hot and sunny lands of Mexico to the humid and rainy Japan, the free and opportunistic culture of the United States is a land that attracts families from all around the world, leaving its golden gates open to those who wish to thrive in the fantastic life ahead of them. Many believe that these incoming families, primarily those who produce the income, provide an extraordinary boost to our economy and pave the way for a blooming America. It is difficult to justify that immigrant families have had
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The U.S. government has often stayed silent when asked this. Employers operating within our economy will more often than not favor allowing an immigrant to work for them, as they will work for minimal pay. The U.S. receives nearly a million legal immigrants per year, and the large amount of them enter the labor market wishing to take the jobs of Americans. The unfortunate result is wage depression, though several other factors also play into the restriction of wage growth, and an ever-growing unemployment rate above the 5 percentile that many federal economists believe harms the market. Rather than have a million legal immigrants plus more than three hundred thousand more job seekers coming over on temporary work visas year in and year out without a pause, we should ask the simple question, do we need any immigrants? The only constituency that claims there is such a need is employers. And they have essentially written U.S. immigration law for a very long
The U.S. government has often stayed silent when asked this. Employers operating within our economy will more often than not favor allowing an immigrant to work for them, as they will work for minimal pay. The U.S. receives nearly a million legal immigrants per year, and the large amount of them enter the labor market wishing to take the jobs of Americans. The unfortunate result is wage depression, though several other factors also play into the restriction of wage growth, and an ever-growing unemployment rate above the 5 percentile that many federal economists believe harms the market. Rather than have a million legal immigrants plus more than three hundred thousand more job seekers coming over on temporary work visas year in and year out without a pause, we should ask the simple question, do we need any immigrants? The only constituency that claims there is such a need is employers. And they have essentially written U.S. immigration law for a very long