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.
Cole uses evidence such as statistics and court cases to support his thoughts and describe how he feels about immigrants. These myths create the thesis that Cole is trying to express: how immigrants are not a downfall to our nation. Now, although I agree with some of his arguments, for example, Cole states under the myth America is being overrun with immigrants, “in one sense, of course, this is true, but in that sense it has been true since Christopher Columbus arrived. Except for the real Native Americans, we are a nation of immigrants.”(Cole, page 690). I agree with what Cole’s statement in that sentence is, but my problem does not lay with the immigrants, it lay’s with the illegal immigrants.
Ena Figueroa Social Psychology Mr. Smith 10 March 2012 The American Dream America is often referred to as a "nation of immigrants" because of our open-door policy toward accepting foreigners hunting their vision of the American Dream. Recently, there has been an appeal by some politicians and citizens toward creating a closed-door policy on immigration. They are arguing that immigrants "threaten" American life by creating unemployment by taking jobs from American workers, using much-needed social services, and intruding on the "American way of life." If we are to continue to excel as a nation, the traditionalists who fear an invasion of foreign-born Americans need to evaluate the good and the bad of immigration to the United States.
Taking that into consideration, if the United States deported all illegal immigrants, the unemployment rate would rise from 8% to about 13%. Imagine America with a 13% unemployment rate. The highest recorded unemployment rate in American history was 10.8% in November of 1982. People would lose hope in the economy (Unemployment Rates). Most people who are against illegal immigration in the United States begin the base of their argument that they do not pay taxes.
“Imagination… can lead to moral clarification.”(1) Savant believes that we must try to imagine why an illegal immigrant chooses to come illegally before we make a judgment call. He goes on to tell two stories of two different, yet similar illegal immigrants and their (though illegal choice) morally correct choice. He closes in stating that “The survival and growth of our own civilization may well depend upon our imagining better.”(2). In other words, to achieve a better society we must imagine a better society. What Savant fails to provide in his article though, is both sides of immigration.
I maintain that a college degree will lead you to have a better economic status. Many people with a college degree earn significantly more money over their lifetimes than those without a college degree. Furthermore, you have the opportunity to have paid vacations, holidays and enjoy your family a little more than those people who are working in factories. It is obvious that a college degree makes you a successful person. Likewise, gives you the option to have different choices in your life.
Non-refugee immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to go on welfare and risk deportation if they do so in their first five years in America (226). Furthermore, being on the dole lessens an immigrant's likelihood of being approved to sponsor a family member for residency in the US, which is many immigrants' primary objective (226). There are economic benefits from immigration. These benefits occur because certain abilities brought to America by immigrants complement the skills of the native population (Borjas 233). Also the jobs taken by immigrants will create more jobs by spewing the
This is the right choice because if, for example, Mexico is charged for the serves then they may be more willing to fix their own county to make it a more reasonable choice to stay. Also, money being provided to help immigrants will be being paid back and helping to fix the national debt and lower immigrant levels would offer more jobs for American citizens. Most illegal immigrants flee their counties
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.
With telecommuting on the rise, employers seek to advance with the use of technology and recruitment of the best talent around the globe in order to make their company more competitive. “According to Global Workforce Analytics, in 2011, there were 3.1 million workers in America that telecommute, a number which is growing and will continue to grow, up 73 percent from 2005 alone.” (New Data on Virtual Teams). The cost savings realized with the reduction of workforce in the office is “~ $10K per employee, per year” (Telecommuting Saves). These costs are comprised of different criteria and would be benchmarked to include actual hours in the office; savings would be incurred with office space rental, office equipment, electricity, and space