Argumentative Essay About Immigrants

For the recent decades, the problem of increasing immigration has become striking for American society. Correspondingly, most American residents regard the new generation of incomers in exceptionally negative way. In general, this tendency is formed by mass-media propagandizing a range of controversial messages of immigration. I believe that a negative public opinion toward immigrants is not fully justified, as it is partly caused by stereotypes.
Primarily, stereotypes are forming so that public opinion towards immigrants vary according to the social status, profession, political views, age and even ethnicity of respondents. In general, I suppose that the ones more prosperous, younger, and more liberal in their believing favor immigrants. Tolerancy of former immigrants towards the new ones is rather controversial, as they may have their internal social division and inter-ethnic contradictions. At the same time, different groups of immigrants are treated by American society in a different way. State of origin, race, professional level and legality of status matter in this case. According to these factors, for instance, Americans treat
Firstly, this refers to economic conditions, in which less tolerant groups of the population live. Indeed, economic recessions that primarily touch the poorest residents can result in common anti-immigrant projection. Besides, according to Suárez-Orozco and Paez, high-toned economic conservatives tend to see immigrants as causing bigger taxes and budget deficiency (175). From the employer's’ point of view, those who depend more on Mexican immigrants’ labor, have less attractive alternatives of its further use (181). Indeed, their current business advantages may be completely cut off with the demand to pay social services expenses for constantly increasing Latino