The American Dream: The Role Of Immigration In The United States

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The American Dream When it comes to immigration is is important to keep a national perspective: focusing just on the impact immigration leaves on our American society. The solution to immigration will have to benefit the American citizens; the benefit immigrants receive by coming here is less important to the decision of granting them citizenship. The issue is that immigration adds to the population living in poverty or using welfare programs, even if immigrants are clearly better off in this country than they would have been back home and are no worse than natives with the same education. To solve the poverty issue We have to make citizenship for the abundant amount of immigrants in the United States easier to achieve to improve the overall…show more content…
(Haraguchi, Kellii H.) Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico (1994-2000) and current Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, argues that the US economy has a crucial need for migrant workers, and that the current debate must acknowledge this rather than just focus on enforcement. (Speech, Ernesto Zedillo) Many present-day citizens are affraid that immigrants will hinder their job opportunities. Most American workers have no reason to worry about new workers entering the country with an eye on their jobs. More than half of the foreign-born founders of U.S. technology and engineering businesses initially came to the United States to study. (source 5) Very few came with the sole purpose of starting a company. instead, immigration is predicted to leave American workers better off. This has been concluded by the the Congressional Budget Office, which issued a report concluding that the immigration bill would add six million workers to the American job market by 2023 and nine million by 2033 – increasing the labor force by 5 percent. (Congressional budget office, source…show more content…
96 percent of all immigrant entrepreneurs involved in engineering and technology in our study have completed a bachelor's degree, and 74 percent hold master's or PhD degrees. Majority (75 percent) of their highest degrees are in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related fields.(immigration policy center, source 4) Research confirms that advanced education in these specific degrees is connected with entrepreneurship and innovation. (source 11) The United States economy depends on these entrepreneurs and innovators to maintain its global edge and expand the job market with new job opportunity. (manhatten
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