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The Negative Impacts Of Immigrants In The US

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Through hardship and labor, immigrants have overcome barriers of which they were imposed and denied many rights. Though many have argued that immigrants cause more harm to the economy than good, others state that “immigrants assimilate into the U.S. Labor Force well, and distribute labor roughly evenly” (Carliner). A great example would be how immigrants participate in the labor force at an increasing rate more than that of Americans (Toosi, 39). That being said, “the highest labor force growth rate over the 2008-18 period will be that of Hispanics, projected at 2.9 percent annually” (Toossi, 49). Apart from assimilation into the U.S. Labor Force, immigrants also have strong inter connected social ties from which they benefit giving each …show more content…

This is proven with the expectancy of labor increasing throughout the Hispanic demographic group (Toossi, 49). The increase in labor comes from immigrants and their social ties which stated by Amado, “The level of reciprocity among sojourning immigrants is both sign and function of their embeddedness in a close-knit network” (Amado, 66). Through strong ties and positive output there are still people who argue that the “impacts of immigrants at the economic level harm the native population” (Dixon). Yet people fail to recognize that immigrants provide a large amount of services from which the American population greatly benefits (Linton, 69). Furthermore they fail to recognize that “at least some immigrants fill occupational niches that do not exist in their absence…” (Linton, 70-1). Assimilation into the U.S. Labor Force and distribution of labor (Carliner), Social ties which immigrants benefit the U.S. (Luisa, 22), and Impacts of Immigrants at the economic level harms the native population (Dixon) are all reasons why immigrants in the labor force benefit the …show more content…

Labor force well, and distribute labor roughly even” (Carliner). Overall he gives examples as how immigrants join the labor force in America and how they have a diversity in jobs that they take. This is something that I find that greatly benefits the U.S. economy in a positive way, since there are often jobs which others are unwilling to do, which means that immigrants filling the positions only adds labor to the system rather than stealing as some say. Mitra Toossi explains this even further by stating in her article Labor force Projections to 2018: Older Workers Staying More Active that, “The labor force participation rate of Hispanics and Asians has been increasing steadily in the past several decades. Compared with other groups, Hispanic and Asian men have very strong attachments to the labor market” (Toossi, 39). This asserts that immigrants are one of the increasing factors in the labor market, ad follows with the empirical evidence provided by Mitra Toossi, which suggests the conclusion that this is one of the growing sources of labor available to the U.S. Thus making it one that is valuable since it is in high demand as well, one could argue that the labor force is comprised of mainly hard working American labor, but within the same article as immigration rates increase and so do fertility among U.S. immigrants, we see that Americans have a smaller rate of increase in the labor force than that of

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