However, all Carlitos wants is his mother. Many families have moved the United States illegally so that they can provide a better life for their children. Since Mexico is a poor country, there isn’t much to prosper from there. In the United States many families are able to get jobs so that they can send money back to their home country. Although they are not well paying jobs and majority of the time they are labor jobs, it is well enough better than the life they have in Mexico.
However, illegal Mexican immigrants take the jobs that most Americans do not want. They usually get the low paying jobs that are hard labor because they are in need of work in order to survive. When illegal Mexican immigrants take these jobs, it helps the load of producers and consumers that gains in the economic welfare. In most cases, illegal Mexican immigrants work in construction, meatpacking, agriculture, and other physically demanding jobs. According to “Benefits of Immigration “It is a fact that immigrants are a source of low cost labor, but these cost reductions are eventually passed on to the consumer, so host country citizens benefit from this as
Immigrants strengthen the economy Undocumented immigrants not only help the economic growth of the United States but it also fulfills the needs of these individual financially as well as their families back in their countries. The tremendous amount of immigrant that arrive to the United States see the country as the land of opportunities for there families. Many of these families that migrate to the United States come from third world countries like Central America in which there is no type of progression or innovation because of the poverty, crime, lack of education and opportunities. Once arriving to the United States many immigrants are in search of jobs to support themselves and their families back home. They also come in pursue of giving a better educational opportunities to their young children.
Therefore they have limited rights when it comes to employment and their desperate nature to support themselves or their families leads them to hazardous working conditions and wages much lower then the minimum wage. In Mexico city some workers earn 20% less then the minimum wage. The poorest workers are the pepenadores or the rubbish collectors. They earn a living from selling salvaged bits of metal and plastic. There is also a huge discrepancy in the distribution of income as the poorest 40% of the population control less then 12% of the country's personal income.
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.
One disadvantage of NAFTA is the loss of manufacturing jobs which would occur from the shift of multinational corporations to Mexico. The relocation of plants by many corporations to head south of the border into Mexico comes about because of the lower cost of production. This is because Mexico has cheaper unskilled labor due to non-existent minimum wage rates. In almost every case money usually leads the way. With respect to NAFTA, the shift is to Mexico.
Despite having to pick up their life and leave, the immigrants came in by millions to the United States in the late 19th century and 21st century to build better lives for their families economically, religiously, and educationally. In the 19th century, the United States was an economic boom. Many Chinese came to America for the gold rush in California. They did not believe America was a new home, but a place to work and return to their families rich. Many were turned down at an immigration station: Angel Island, while others were pushed out of finding gold and forced to work degrading jobs.
Since it occurred during the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl migration became significant due to the riskiness in relocation because of such high unemployment rates. So, in the context of very low internal migrations in America at this time, the Dust Bowl Migration really stands out. However, apart from the fame, the migration was misnamed because most of the people migrating weren’t victims of the dust; instead they were victims of drought and depression. Despite of the critical distance, 200,000-400,000 farmers- out of the 3 million- from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri traveled as families to California. The push factors of their homeland- no arable land for crops, contaminated water, and no money- caused the farmers and their families to leave .Then California’s pull factors, such as harvest labor job opportunities, attracted these refugees of depression.
Migrants from China, Japan, Indian, Korea, and the Philippines faced discrimination during the late 19th and early 20th century. They came for better paying jobs and more job opportunities to save money for their family. As a result, they faced resentment from white worker. The resentment led to laws prohibited them from entering the country and owning land. “Most of the migrants in each group came as sojourners.
:D Illegal Immigration The population of the United States is roughly 300 million people; of those people, 11.2 million are illegal. Illegal immigrants (mostly Mexicans) bring with them crime, drugs, and cost the American government billions of dollars yearly. This can greatly decrease the value of a country’s economy. Legal immigrants are a key step to help any nation’s economy thrive and grow (mostly the white ones), but illegal immigrants hinder and dismantle it (mostly the black, brown, and yellow ones). Most illegal immigrants that cross into the U.S. come from Mexico (shocker).