If all of the world's immigrants lived in one single country, it would be the world's fifth largest, with around 244 million people, 65.6 million people out of them have been forced to flee their homes. Overall, international migrants makeup 3.3% of the world's population today (Phillip Connor). Therefore, we must respect and be open-minded towards them as they are human beings just like us.
The idea that immigrants and refugees cause unemployment, economic problems and negatively impact the society is the wrong mentality to have and needs to be changed because this is discriminatory and based on assumption and not facts.
The immigrant issue is an important issue in the world today. It is an issue that is affecting all people in the world. Immigration is the act of moving into a foreign country to live. Immigrants who flee their country because of persecution, war, or such
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Immigrants actually take the low wage, long hour jobs which allow the business owners to save money. Such as in Nickel and Dimed, the main character goes undercover and works in low wage jobs, she writes that many employees she encountered and worked with were immigrants. This is not idealistic for the immigrants, it is actually very unfair. As can be seen, they don’t negatively affect wage rates. Most immigrants also tend to pay taxes for their home country, as well as doing better in schools then natives. In a way, the economies of developing countries depend on immigrant labor. As said before, In communities, immigrants create demand for small businesses, which strengthen the economy. Immigrant businesses have also played a significant role in advancing technological innovation and which improves the economy. Many major so-called American companies were started by immigrants, such as Tesla, Apple, and Google which all made major improvements in technology, increasing economy rates (Cain,