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Knowing More about Immigration Essay

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Immigration has been around ever since people have chosen to move around to different lands other than their own to settle and live on. The United States is one big melting pot of immigrants; it is made up of immigrants from everywhere in the world: people from Ireland, Germany, China, and everywhere else. According to bbc.co.uk immigrants migrate because of “pull factors” which are reasons why people immigrate somewhere new. Some examples of pull factors are higher employment rates, more money, better help, better climate, the feeling of more security, and freedom (Migration). Lately immigration has become a big issue with the United States and many people have different opinions on the subject. Some of the issues have to do with jobs, …show more content…

The U.S. workforce has more than doubled since World War II, yet workers’ real total compensation (wages plus benefits) is higher now than ever” (25). This, in Akers’ opinion, is because the United States has developed from immigrants, coming to America. She feels that immigrants should always be allowed from other countries. In the end, Akers concludes that the economy is booming from the immigration and that immigrants should always be allowed to move to the United States, thus helping us achieve a more successful economy. On the other side of the spectrum we have Art Thompson, The CEO of The John Birch Society (which is a conservative public policy organization), who believes that illegal immigrants have a negative effect on the economy. He emphasizes that illegal immigrants are stealing jobs instead of creating them for Americans. And that they also burdened taxpayers who somehow ended up funding social events for the illegal immigrant populations. Thompson also believes that subsidizing illegal immigrants with Medicare, Medicaid, schooling, housing, and all the other benefits cost Americans billions of dollars per year. Thompson further states that “in California in 2004, the cost for unreimbursed health care was estimated at $1.4 billion” (31). Thompson speculates that much of the mortgage failures come from led on immigrants that do not know about the obligations given to them when they received their loan while the companies that gave

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