Summary: The Benefits Of Immigration

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Benefits 2 The benefits of immigration is statistically present. Immigration increases the efficiency of the U.S. economy by being part of the labor force. “Immigrants are about 16% of the labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, yet represent 50% of the labor force without a high school diploma.” According to Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a columnist. If this is correct, deporting every immigrant in the USA would dramatically drop our labor force rate by a 16%. The more immigrants we get coming in, the more the labor force percentage will go up, and then once we deport them, the more we will be in need of American employees. …show more content…

“From its earliest days, America has been a nation of immigrants, starting with its original inhabitants, who crossed the land bridge connecting Asia and North America tens of thousands of years ago.” According to History.com, meaning that the US has always been a nation of immigrants pretty much. A larger area of immigrants came to America seeking economic opportunities, and they benefit the economy too. Most immigrants during this time era came here looking for opportunities, which is one reason why they are coming here even today. During the mid-19th century, a lot of the immigrants experienced famine. About 5 million German immigrants came here and bought farm lands or congregated into cities such as Milwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati during the 19th century too. “The peak year for admission of new immigrants was 1907, when approximately 1.3 million people entered the country legally. Within a decade, the outbreak of World War I (1914-1918) caused a decline in immigration.” According to History.com. This means that once the war started, it frightened the immigrants wanting to come here, which dropped the labor force percentage dramatically during this era. Immigration also came to a halt during the Global Depression and World War II. Today, most immigrants come from Asia and Latin America rather than Europe because of when the congress passed the Immigration and Nationality act, which allowed Americans to sponsor relatives from their countries of origin. Because of this, the nation experienced a transition that did not necessarily help the US, and this caused the immigrants to mostly come from Asia and Latin America, instead of Europe. This mishap still benefited the U.S. because Asians are more succeeding than African-Americans and more than White-Americans because their families are intact and education is paramount which would benefit us greatly with their working

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