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Arguments Against Restriction Immigration

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Over the past 300 years, many people immigrate to developed countries for better welfare, their families or other reasons but some countries restrict immigration for avoiding excessive migrants, such as the United States and Britain. One of the main reasons why people support the policy is that they think immigration brings a lot of disadvantages to their country. It goes without saying that some people will be dissatisfied on restriction immigration policy because they firmly believe their interests are damaged. Moreover, people should attempt to understand the perspective of others is that the benefits which are brought by immigration, such as the positive financial impacts, have little or no effect on crime rates and cultural diversity, …show more content…

Borjas and Trejo (1991) calculated how much welfare would be used by average native and immigration family in the United States. Based on their estimate, native family only uses $7,900 in welfare over their lifetime but there are $13,600 in welfare for the immigrant family which arrived between 1975 to 1980. Moreover, Britain also disburses roughly £0.5 billion in the welfare for migrants between 2013 to 2014 but while they are enjoying government's welfare, more than £3 billion in income taxes have been contributed by immigrants (Eaton,2016). These data become evident to show that how immigration increases the welfare burden of government. However, it also shows the positive financial impacts of immigration. Betz and Simpson (2013) also pointed out that immigration has positive effects to on the welfare of natives. Moreover, many countries attract talents and investment through immigrations, such as Britain require that applicants for immigrants prove that they possess and have the right of use an investment fund of not less than £2 million or they require the immigrants should be a high education level or have a certain amount of investment (UK Government, 2017). So, most migrants are successful professional on certain aspects or have a huge investment in a receiving country. Furthermore, there is no denying the fact that talent and investment are an indispensable part of stimulating economic development. Immigration can bring these resources to a receiving country so it proves the point that migrants can bring the positive financial effects which are undeniable. Although the government consumes a huge disbursement of welfare for immigrants, the benefits of immigration go far beyond the expenditure and this why the benefits of immigration outweigh the

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