Immigration is a socioeconomic as well as a political issue that has trigger attention on media platforms in the United States. Through these media platforms, immigrants are attracted to what they believe in an American dream. Whether the existence of the American dream is real or just a myth, immigrants come, to America, to chase a new, improved life. A few of the motivation factors that bring immigrants to U.s include lack of resources and opportunities in their home nations, government abuse, poverty, and adventure (Ramirez).
However, American natives, anti-immigrants have refuted the notion of having immigrants in U.S arguing that national-state should limit immigration. Immigration is associated with “violence, the vulnerability of violence, a cultural obstacle to health care, risk of exposure to infectious diseases, discrimination, and other factors” (Chavez 887). The focal thought of the contention they present is that keeping borders open weakens the state welfare by destabilizing trust. The anti-immigrants believe that the United States’ welfare should be preserved by first restricting immigration. Do immigrants affect the social welfare of the American citizen? Should they be restricted?
Anti-immigrant natives believe that immigration is a free ride on public service. These believe an important driver of recent anti-immigration legislation passed by the southern states in the United States. Anti-immigrants in Arizona assume that the unregistered immigrants neither add to the state nor pay revenues (Ramirez). Additionally, the natives presume that unregistered outsiders can get to the same public benefits as the nationals. However, a study by Chavez (889) suggests that undocumented immigrants do not have social services nor retirement benefits since obtaining these benefits will expose them to their illegal circumstances. A report in 2007 in the public studies in Arizona Udall’s center affirmed that $2.6 in tax and nearly 45 billion in economic output came from immigrants (It is Tax time! 2).
Robert Pollin (1), a professor at Political Economy Research Institute, portrays the inclinations of locals to blame immigrants for U.S’s issues, particularly in the connection of financial rescission. Anti-immigrants assume that outsiders are detracting from the accessible occupations when truly they are not influencing wages nor occupational opportunities (Pollin 3). As Pollin contends, “ there are no noteworthy dissimilarities from city to city in terms of either the number of jobs available or wage levels for native workers, regardless of the proportion of immigrants living in the city” (3).
For instance, the case of Georgia. Its essential industry is horticulture despite the fact that it is by all accounts gradually ending. Initially, the industry used to bring nearly “12 percent of the State’s gross domestic product” (Baxter 5). On account of the strict immigration laws, undocumented workers are departing the fields. If it was valid as estimated by the immigrant opposition that the outsiders are endlessly taking their occupations, there ought to be an incredible opening for the American farm specialists. As Baxter reports (14), the United Farm Worker Union of 2010 tried to mobilize migrants’ workers to take the place of the departed immigrants by facilitating their entrance into the farm. Despite the fact that the project got “4000 candidates”(14), nearly twelve subjects made it to the field while the rest grumbled of the troubles convoluted in the farm (14).
Clearly, once the immigrants left, the citizens were unable to take their place because of the hard-working environment. This suggests that the immigrants take up a position that the natives find hard rather than taking jobs from the natives. By appraisals, every employer in the agricultural segment bolsters three “upstream positions,” comprising of careers like processing and transporting.
America is perceived as the destination for the potential for developmental mobility in social status for anyone and everyone; however, certain evidence reveals different conclusions. Chevez carried a survey to investigate whether undocumented immigrants had medical services and if their immigration status had a significance in the use of social services. According to results, 89% of the immigrants were less likely to receive medical services than the natives (890). Seven percent of the immigrants were homeless (891). Most of the undocumented immigrants were more likely to visit private doctors. Societal classes are beginning to reach the extremes of the fiscal spectrum. However, the overall economy of the U.S has greatly benefited from the immigrants in the past since the Great Depression and is expected to take advantage in the future with new waves of immigrants.
It is evidence that racial and ethnical group undermines trust in the light of the variables that individuals can relinquish. Specifically, ignorance is one of the significant elements that drive towards the loss of confidence within a heterogeneous cultural community. Since people have a faulty assumption about other individuals’ ethnical or cultural, they may mistrust others. In fact, ignorance of immigrants may result in natives excluding or wrongfully accusing immigrants of an American’s problem.
Works Cited
Baxter, Tom. “How Georgia’s Anti-Immigration Law could Hurt the States (and the Nation’s) Economy.” Center for American Progress. Web.
Chavez, Leo R. “Undocumented Immigrant and their Use of Medical Services in Orange County, California”. Social Science and Medicine 74(2012), 887-893. Print
Pollin, Robert. “Economic Prospects: Can We Please Stop Blaming Immigrants?” New Labor Forum, 20.1 (2010).86-89.
Ramirez, Ricardo. “Catalyst and Barriers to Attaining Citizenship: An Analysis of Ya es Hora Ciudadania.” National Immigration Forum, 2011. Web.
“It’s Tax Time! Immigrants and Taxes: Contributions to States and Federal Coffers”. Immigration Policy Center. Web.