Perhaps one of the biggest flaws in the U.S. immigration policies over the past two centuries has been the fact that it is expensive to enforce immigration laws. Those coming to America have become aware of this issue and used it to their advantage. After all, cheap labor was initially popular with the slave trade when America was first being colonized. As a new nation, the lack of white indentured servants willing to work on plantations caused an array of problems in regards to building up the promising new territory. Thus, forced labor
Outsourcing of jobs from the United States to other countries has been a growing matter over the past few decades. With the economy at a low, many industries and CEOs are wanting to expand their markets and factories overseas to developing countries that thirst for any job they can get their hands on. These workers are paid a substantial amount less to do the same work that normal Americans would do for a lot more. This is where the issue has many unemployed Americans buzzing. Most minimum wage workers that have lost their jobs to outsourcing absolutely cannot stand the idea whatsoever.
This was because for year they where use to being on their own and Britain taking no interest in what they do. Also they are so use to being left to their own devices. With this the American colonies are being made to pay much more tax, this as I said is not liked as the British are making huge changes all of a sudden. The American colonies thought that the British where making their lives much harder that it was already. Some of the measures that the British government brought in might have over stepped the boundaries and this will also upset the colonist.
The New York Times claimed that, “When immigrants do take jobs, they’re hard workers” (Preston and Connelly a1). Therefore, it greatly contributes to America’s retirement system. The presence of immigrants also contributes to America’s long term population growth, necessary to stabilize the overall retirement fund. The Springer Science and Business Media’s journal states that some other countries in the world suffer from the labor shortages and a demographic crunch, in which a very small number of workers will be expected to pay the retirement and health care for elderly people (Gold 409). The ratio of retired people to workers is expected to dramatically increase in the coming decades, which would result in significant changes in the Security System of America’s retirement money.
Should the minimum age be raised? One very important controversy most people all over the world are dealing with involves money. There never seems to be enough of it. Minimum wage in the United States is approaching an all-time low. Some believe that raising the minimum wage would hurt people by making it harder to find jobs, when it actually will create more job opportunities for Americans.
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
It has been long seen that the States individually cannot, with any success, pretend to regulate trade. The duties and restrictions which one State imposes, the neighbouring States enable the merchants to elude; and besides, if they could he enforced, it would be highly unjust, that the duties collected in the port of one State should be applied to the sole use of that State in which they are collected, whilst the neighbouring States, who have no ports for foreign commerce, consume a part of the goods imported, and thus in effect pay a part of the duties. Even if the recommendation of Congress had been attended to, which proposed the levying for the use of Congress five per centum on goods imported, to be collected by officers to be appointed by the individual States, it is more than probable that the laws would have been feebly executed. Men are not apt to be sufficiently attentive to the business of those who do not appoint, and cannot remove or controul them; officers would naturally look up to the State which appointed them, and it is past a doubt that some of the States would esteem it no unpardonable sin to promote their own particular interest, or even that of particular men, to the injury of the United
Why do immigrants want to move? Jobs are getting really tough to find, a reason is of all the immigrants moving to the United States, that means higher poverty percentages. Immigrants are found everywhere in the U.S., this is causing chaos in all parts of our country. Cheap labor from immigrants is another factor to our economy. The cheap labor of immigrants put us at a disadvantage.
Over 3 million Puerto Rican Americans live in the United States mostly in the New York area and the rest live in Puerto Rico itself. (Hispanic American Diversity, 2008). Puerto Rico is a common wealth of the United States so their consider American citizens by birth. This makes them eligible for government benefits not available to other members of the Hispanic Americans. Many think that the welfare system has kept Puerto Ricans in a cycle of poverty however; others think that it is discrimination in education and schooling is their biggest problem.
Unemployment and low paying jobs, especially in rural zones, drive people to see the necessity to immigrate to different countries. They immigrate with the hope of finding honest jobs and a higher quality of living for their families. Insecurity also drives people from their countries. Mexico has had a considerable increase in crime rate. Assaults, ransoms, kidnappings, drug trafficking, and organized crime in general are some of the most common in the country.