For many decades, the influx of newcomers has created a controversial debate on whether immigrants are an advantage or a disadvantage to the United States. Johnny Angel Wendell and Gordon H. Hanson argue that immigrants create new ideas, increase productivity in the economy and labor work. Michael Cutler, Eric A. Ruark, and Robert Rector oppose the opinions of Wendell, and Hanson. They argue that immigrants hurt native-born Americans in many ways, and immigrants collect above average welfare from the government which creates fiscal costs for United States taxpayers. I agree with Wendell and Hanson because immigrants create a cultural diversity, and both high skilled and low skilled immigrants are a benefit to the productivity and the efficiency of labor work.
In Border Culture written by Marjorie Miller and Ricardo Chavira shows the cultural diversity between two groups of people and how diversity helps the economy. The Mexican and Americans started adapting to each other's cultures. For example, they created a mixed language consisting of English and Spanish to communicate with each other, called Spanglish. Additionally, Mexicans and Americans even decided to marry each other and have children. Moreover …show more content…
Michael J. Mandel and Christopher Farrell explain that many low skilled immigrants are illiterate, they do not speak english or understand english, and they do not receive government help. Moreover, they overcome their struggles and work at low paying jobs. In The Immigrants: How They are helping to revitalize the U.S Economy written by Mandel and Farrel state that “ 28% of the hotels staff of 650 is foreign-born, and most work in housekeeping, dish washing, and other low-paying jobs.” These low skilled immigrants help the economy grow by doing the dirty jobs. Most native-born americans would not work at these kind of