Summary: The Effects Of Immigration And Its Effects On America
Immigration and Its Effects on America
On January 5th, 2015, senior editor of the Atlantic, David Frum wrote an article titled, “Does Immigration Harm Working Americans?”. In the article, he speculates that immigrants, particularly from Mexico and other Latin American countries, harm the ability for American-born workers to find jobs, despite numerous economists and government bureaus stating that it doesn’t (Frum, 2015). With an emphasis on how many of the economists/bureaus focused on theoretical data and possible mistakes that come from using such data, Frum makes a valid argument as to why immigration is harming the work availability to natural born workers.This caused quite a conversation with various people and organizations sharing …show more content…
This is very true with 75% of immigrants having at the most a high school degree or a GED (Mosisa, 2013). The two groups that are the majority of the least educated are teenagers and African-American males, both of whom have experienced a 20% and 5.9% drop in employment rate since the 1980’s, respectively (Borjas, 2010; Smith, 2012). Now, while Borjas also talked about how immigration led to higher incarceration rates in African-American males, both he and Smith agreed that the problem stemmed from an overlap in the traditional job types that each group has. It is because of this that both their validity and invalidity show. On one hand, it is true that regardless of stereotypes, many African-American men and teenagers have jobs that require less education. Whether it be general lawn care or babysitting to service and maintenance jobs, almost all are done by these two groups (Mosisa, 2013). On other hand, just because it is traditional for these groups to have these jobs, it doesn't mean that is unfair for immigrants to have these jobs or even if they are the sole reason why the groups are experiencing these adverse
On January 5th, 2015, senior editor of the Atlantic, David Frum wrote an article titled, “Does Immigration Harm Working Americans?”. In the article, he speculates that immigrants, particularly from Mexico and other Latin American countries, harm the ability for American-born workers to find jobs, despite numerous economists and government bureaus stating that it doesn’t (Frum, 2015). With an emphasis on how many of the economists/bureaus focused on theoretical data and possible mistakes that come from using such data, Frum makes a valid argument as to why immigration is harming the work availability to natural born workers.This caused quite a conversation with various people and organizations sharing …show more content…
This is very true with 75% of immigrants having at the most a high school degree or a GED (Mosisa, 2013). The two groups that are the majority of the least educated are teenagers and African-American males, both of whom have experienced a 20% and 5.9% drop in employment rate since the 1980’s, respectively (Borjas, 2010; Smith, 2012). Now, while Borjas also talked about how immigration led to higher incarceration rates in African-American males, both he and Smith agreed that the problem stemmed from an overlap in the traditional job types that each group has. It is because of this that both their validity and invalidity show. On one hand, it is true that regardless of stereotypes, many African-American men and teenagers have jobs that require less education. Whether it be general lawn care or babysitting to service and maintenance jobs, almost all are done by these two groups (Mosisa, 2013). On other hand, just because it is traditional for these groups to have these jobs, it doesn't mean that is unfair for immigrants to have these jobs or even if they are the sole reason why the groups are experiencing these adverse