Do immigrants take jobs away from native Americans?
The idea of legal immigrants taking other worker’s jobs need to be looked at closely. To begin with, immigrants provide a ready workforce in all industries in America. In the past, Abraham Lincoln said, “ Foreign immigration which in the past has added so much to the wealth, resources, an increase of power of this nation”. For that reason, America is the most powerful country in the world because from the beginning of its establishment, it has given human resources the best approach.
Immigrants usually come with great expectations; they start to work with low salaries, while providing high quality. Nichols pointed out in his book that, “People who are strong minded, brave, enterprising, intelligent, and their efforts at making a new life in America have resulted in great contributions to the United States in terms of both wealth and labor”. On the other hand, according to Morrow’s Immigration “Immigrants hard-often take jobs Americans do not want “ (A Western Haven 1) because they are dangerous, dirty, and low-paid. “Immigrants seem generally to complement rather than compete with native workers. They often fill manual or specialized job s for which domestic workers are in short supply” (long 148). Moreover, immigrants have to work harder than native citizens so that they can have enough money to spend on their living expenses, and to send back to their home countries. To make it clear, Bill Clinton, the forty-second president of the United States said, “ Most immigrants work hard and immigrants are good for America” (3).
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I really like the variety of quotes you're using here...but could you also supply a references to this (or least hyperlink to the sources) so that we can read your data further?
You bring up interesting data here! A suggestion on presentation (minor): try to make sure each paragraph is formatted similarly (we can practice this). I think it'll make the data much easier to absorb.
Another point made, my mom was a licensed lab tech when we came here from Kenya, but when we arrived she could not use here papers from back home. The fact that she had already gone to college and recieved her degree did not matter because she was an "alien" and the creditials did not matter. Needless to say my mom had to go back to school to recieve a nursing degree which she recently completed. It was and still is frustating to see all of these people work so hard to make ends meet. And the truth of the matter is Immigrants do work harder.
It is a fact about immigrants who work jobs other people don’t want to. Immigrants are on a mission to succeed in the states because their families are depending on them to work hard and make a living for them. In today’s society people have choice of where to work and not to work and many immigrants don’t. They take the first job opportunity they see. Whatever that jobs is, they will work 110% and more to prove to themselves and their family that they want to make a living in the U.S.
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