Besides providing a labor force, immigrants create jobs to America. The 1994 America Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Right Project reports “Immigrants actually create more job opportunities than the fill” (Western Haven A 2). While they are working they need basic supplies, such food, health care, houses, and clothes. As a result, there are a lot small businesses, which sell food to immigrants. For example, immigrants need to study English in order to communicate. Therefore, for all those students, it requires a large number of professors. In “Immigration Benefits the Economy”, Kotlin writes, “Immigrants provide a growing consumer market for the technical, energy, and financial services industries, and foreign-born entrepreneurs are starting up small manufacturing, retail, and service businesses”. (Kotlin Joel. “Immigration benefits the economy”. Immigration: opposing View points “(98).
According to Long, “Immigrants are slightly more likely than natives to be self-employed. Their businesses employ both natives an immigrants” (166). For example, many Chinese have laundries and restaurants in many areas. Another example, residents of New York City know that most of small grocery stores there are Korean-owned; like in Los Angeles, they operate large share of liquor stores.
Immigrants provide the U.S economy with a more flexible labor force that keeps industries growing while delivering lower prices to American consumers.
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Immigration is a growing economy onto itself. They are good for america. Most people complain because they can't find a way to profit from their presence here. That, plus politicians use it as a speaking point whenever they can, realizing that most blue collar americans are starting to resent the competition for jobs. It may have been true once that immigrants only filled unskilled labor jobs, but now with a few years in country they are proving adept and willing to train for higher level jobs. I think immigration has always been good for america.
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