They also come in pursue of giving a better educational opportunities to their young children. Also immigrants are more likely to create jobs and pay taxes when they live in the United States which helps the economy grow stronger. Although there are many negative conceptions about immigrants these individuals should have the opportunity to migrate to the United States for a better life. Many of the immigrants that migrate were left with no other option but to enter illegally through the border because in there countries they suffered from poverty, crime, the lack of education and opportunities. In the article “Rethinking El Salvador’s transnational families” by Leisy J. Abrego writes about a young boy named Daniel and his struggles living in El Salvador while his father is in the United States looking for work.
Immigration, damaging or helpful? Immigration has been a problem in the United States since before the country was established. Many citizens and politicians claim that illegal immigration is a hindrance to the country’s economy because immigrants take American jobs and that they don’t pay taxes. They also agree that our government spends too much money in keeping them out. People on the other side of this argument claim that immigrants help by taking unwanted jobs with very little pay, and in doing that they are helping keep the prices of domestic goods down across the country.
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope” (Henry 228). Due to the high taxes, many Puerto Ricans moved to the United States looking for hope of a better and a more stable place to live. According to a census in 2012, “the departures of island-born Puerto Ricans have contributed to an uptick in the number of island-born Puerto Ricans living stateside, to 1.4 million in 2012”(Cohn, Patten, and Hugo). This emigration is due to various reasons like: job- related, family matter, other, etc. The primarily reason is the job-related because with all the unemployment and high taxes, people moved to look for a better job under stable circumstances.
Immigration: Costs and Benefits Every year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, legal and illegal, from around the world, come to the United States. People choose to immigrate to America because there are a vast number of opportunities and they are in search of a better quality of life. Supporting them self, as well as, family in their country of origin; legal and illegal Immigrants are looked down upon by society and are thought to be the cause of some of the burdens that our nation suffers from. Taxpayers are forced to pay for the welfare and schooling for many of these immigrants, some who are illegal aliens. Other citizens believe that immigration contributes to crime, poverty, and overcrowding.
For some reasons that Immigrants are sure that the things is better in this country than their original country. In the United States many Immigrants come to find jobs, or looking for their safety because Untied States allow people that they live in dangerous situations for example war to come to the United States and start new safe life as Immigrants. Also Immigrants come to find work. There are many jobs in this country. Even in recession time the opportunity to find job for immigrants ten times bigger than Immigrants original country.
According to Gallup, the lack of good jobs in America is a greater problem than the inefficient healthcare costs, runaway government spending, and even global terrorism. The lack of good jobs is a poignant crisis in America today, and is making our nation bankrupt. When GDP is up, there are more jobs in a nation, resulting in better welfare. This is why GDP is so important to the welfare of its citizens. GDP is the sum of all goods and services produced in a country during a year (Ferrell).
The article “Paga ser Bilingue” by Domenico Maceri discusses why workers should be reward for being bilingual. Growing immigrant population in the United States that is not fluent in English requires providing more services in different languages. Many government agencies and American companies are looking to hire bilingual employees. Instead of hiring expensive professional interpreters, the companies prefer save money by providing stipends for multilingual workers. However, some people disagree with providing services in different languages because emigrants will never learn English.
Is Free Trade a bad idea for economy? Free trade’s ideology has been a controversial debate whether it has a positive or negative impact on the economy. Recently the US congress has approved free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, ending a four year drought in the forming of new trade partnerships. Supporters say this agreement will stimulate the economy and put more than nearly half of a hundred of thousands people back to work. However, there are people who are feared it will not be good and has an opposite impact for all concerned.
Nowadays more and more people try their luck in going abroad, because of economic reasons especially. The lives they have in their homeland are not satisfying enough for them, so they try to change it by starting a totally new life somewhere else. Firstly, inequality in salaries is one of the main reasons why people decide to go abroad. For example, Poles claim that people from Western Europe doing the same job as they do, get much more money for their work. That is why, many of them are tempted by higher wages in the West.
However, they just continue to come back to the United States. Deporting the illegal immigrants is not an effective way to handle this problem. Another idea to decrease illegal immigration is to increase the amount of border control workers. While this can stop many illegal immigrants and Rigby 3 create more jobs for United States citizens it will just barely put a dent in the amount that still enters the United States every year. A solution to this ever growing problem would to be for the United States to begin charging the countries in which illegal immigrants are coming to the United States from.