Negative Effects Of Immigration

In the eyes of some Americans, immigrants are seen as unwanted people with negative effects in our country. With the number of immigrants increasing in the United States the population is starting to increase; therefore, the country can become over populated. Immigrants are also blamed for taking jobs from middle-class Americans and leaving U.S. Citizens without jobs and income to provide for their families. Another factor that is considered is the importing of different diseases from different countries to affect the United States. Although these issues are very important and valid, immigrants should be supported by

Over the years, immigrants have influenced many aspects of American society and has had a vital role in shaping the United States to what it is today. According to the US Census Bureau, an agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System responsible for producing data about the American people and economy, “non-Hispanic white population in the U.S. declined from 85 percent in 1965 to 62.2 percent in 2014, and the forecast is for the percentage of non-Hispanic whites to fall to 43.6 percent in 2060” (qtd. in Walsh). Despite the rise of immigrants and the profound impact they have had on society, many immigrants face perpetual discrimination; this idea has appeared many times throughout Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees. Taking place during the 1970s, the main character, Taylor, moves from Kentucky to Arizona; along the way, she meets Esperanza and Estevan, illegal immigrants from Guatemala.

Over the years the laws involving immigration have changed as the world changed. People who are against immigration often believe that immigrants are putting a strain on the economy. They believe that people who are illegally staying in the United States are using the resources and benefits Americans have worked towards for nothing. People who believe that immigrants

Immigrants that perform low-skilled work allow for native citizens to specialize, or to focus in more productive endeavors. If one were to consider a worker who’s job is to file paperwork for a doctor; as a result the doctor has more freedom to see more patients or to perform tasks requiring higher skill. This worker has therefore, created value economically for both his personal efforts and those of the doctor. In fact, legal immigrants increase economic efficiency, and do so by raising the supply of high and low skills in the work force. Immigrants ' educational backgrounds, in many cases, rather than displace, actually complement, the skills of those in the native-born labor market.

Nativism is described as “the political idea that people who were born in a country are more important than immigrants”( "Nativism Definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary"). Nativism was most seen during the 1870’s through the 1920’s. Nativism was a major cause in middle-class disputes since middle-class workers feared that the immigrant workers would drop wage prices and that they “...threatened social stability”(The Many Faces of Immigration). Many Catholic immigrants were blamed for the overflow of immigrants in the poverty sections of cities. This was not the only case of discrimination against religious affiliations in immigrants.

1. The Red Scare, the fear of the spread of communism and possible communist control of the U.S. government, had lasting effects on immigration views and foreign policy at the time. It’s presence became prominent in 1917 during World War I and lasted for several decades. This fear of communism resulted in more negative opinions concerning immigration, and nativists of the time stated several causes as their justifications. Some arguments stated that immigrants lowered minimum wage due to the excess of foreign workers seeking jobs, and even that “America 's racial stock was being overrun by undesirable ethnicities” (“Intolerance”).

The number of immigrant to America reached 1.25 million and had a big tendency to increase. Americans began to doubt the government’s open door policy. Under pressure of the public, Immigration Act was passed on February 1917. Why American started feeling “angry” toward those new immigrants? The answers are: they were often poor; many of them were illiterate and had a big different cultural and religious background.

Labor sectors estimate the number of job seekers entering the labor market annually at around 700,000 and 800,000, which is considered a huge number compared to the production capacity of the Egyptian economy (Ghoneim, Ahmed). In addition, there is a great conflict between availability of skills and labor market requirements. The lack of qualified human capital implies that there is a mismatch between the outputs of the education system and the demands of the labor market, which results in high rates of unemployment reaching about 12% (Ghoneim, Ahmed). Hence, migration to other countries is regarded as an outlet for those unemployed. Egyptian migrants usually send back home remittances that represent one of the largest financial inflows to the country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “Remember, Remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” Even in the earlier days of colonization, many travelers would race to discover places for settlement. But the distaste and hostile attitudes in recent years that some have expressed places immigration in a bad light. The hostile attitude may be a product of fear. Imagine a stranger entering your home, you would feel uncomfortable and uneasy. Fear is an emotion that holds us back, most people have developed a perspective based on hearing only one side of the argument- the negative, which ultimately has undesirable effects.

In history, the colonial era of racism and ethnic discrimination has been a major concern and a controversial issue in the United States. During the time on industrial growth in the U.S. corporations and manufacturers relied heavily on cheap labor, so many people from Asia began to immigrate to the country in hopes of finding jobs. But as the number of Asian American immigrants started to increase, so did the discrimination and racism towards them. Actually, they were divided into three identities, first generation Asians who traveled to United States, the second are those who were born in America, and the third late generation whose identity is neither fully Asian nor fully American. The discrimination that many Asian Americans had faced often

the irish famine is an example of what drove many people out of ireland. an example of a later pull factor was the us industry expansion that gave new opportunities to unemployed immigrants. also other country 's land was limited and a bad harvest could result in the loss of land. in greece jobs did not pay enough and in america you could earn 30 dollars

Immigrants change the population affecting things like taxes, and job availability, and crime rates. First, taxes often increase as a result of immigrants needing government assistance to begin their new lives. Tax payers are put under financial strain when left with the bill and are compensating for the population that cannot provide for themselves. Many unemployed Americans get frustrated with the idea of foreigners taking their job because as Americans, they feel they should have priority. Lastly, people are often skeptical and cautious of immigrants because terrorism is becoming more common and trends show that when immigration goes up, so do the crime rates.

Different points will also be talked about between the two incoming immigrant states as they experience many obstacles coming and being in America. Scotch-Irish and Latin Americans, both faced needs for a better life by moving to the United States only because of the circumstances that had occurred in their homeland. Scots-Irish left Ulster, which was their homeland, for different purposes. Religious persecution and economic factors were reasons that pushed them away, which according to The Scots-Irish Journey to the New World, “…Between 1714 and 1719 Ulster suffered a succession of bad harvests and by 1718 the linen industry was also in recession” (“The Scots-Irish Journey…”). As the Scotch Irish suffered

These people along with other citizens say that undocumented immigrants are good for the country as they help the economy by working for a minimum wage in jobs that many refuse to do. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, undocumented take into account 5% of all workers in the United States. In fact, illegal immigrants help lower prices for people to buy more goods which make them suppose that they are an advantage for the country. Undoubtedly, companies that have undocumented workers can increase

Since this causes a high unemployment rate many of the people will get on a government welfare program to pay for their family and that is even more money being lost in the economy, making the nation fall into a deeper recession. In addition, the economy will not do so great in the near future if the government does not clean up its act and fix the problems that are going on; such as the national debt and how it can be causing a recession in the United States. With the contributing factors of how the taxes should be taken care of, certain healthcare programs draining the little money the government has to offer, government welfare programs not being more supervised by not allowing people to take advantage of it, and lastly not allowing the government to borrow so much money from foreign countries to make our debt rise to the