This short but information intensive article focuses on Immigrantions hold on the economy. The author makes verbose claims that Immigrants are the only cheap labor available to do unskilled jobs (Jacoby,1). This is supported with the fact that in 1960, half of native born men were dropouts who wanted to work in cheap labor, but today less than 10% do the same. By pointing out the decline in able bodied native born men who filled the unskilled jobs that are the backbone of the American economy, the author points out that the jobs these immigrants are doing support the lower income jobs that native born americans are doing, Jobs such as a waiter or foreman (Jacoby,1). The article also denies the claim that Americans would pursue jobs that immigrants are occupying by proving that in order to properly provide a good pay, they would put themselves out of business (Jacoby,1). Simply, other countries would be able to out do American business and farm owners because they have much cheaper labor. So in a sense, we are lucky to have these immigrants, they do the jobs that Americans won’t, they are the support beams of the economy, working the lowest jobs, but does it positively or negatively influence their own political attitudes? Positively, is what the influence should be, while at the moment, immigration itself has been thrown on the national…