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Summary: The Negative Impact Of Immigrants

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Currently today, legal immigrants that inhabit non-native countries have been receiving a great amount of suggestion in the past centuries. For example, the Irish travelling to America during the potato famine (1845-1852), Armenians scattering during the Armenian genocide (1915-1917), Jewish immigrants fleeing for their lives during World War Two (1944-1948), and recently, Syrians migrating to escape death and terrible conditions (2015-present). Although typically these migrations get negative stigmas, many are highly unaware of the beneficial economic impact that legal immigrants have on national economies, and ultimately, global economies. Firstly, in contrast to common belief, these immigrants actually positive impact taxation as they assist in tax generation going to the government. Also, once established in the country, many immigrants begin to find work. Generally, this work requires …show more content…

Immigrants that perform low-skilled work allow for native citizens to specialize, or to focus in more productive endeavors. If one were to consider a worker who’s job is to file paperwork for a doctor; as a result the doctor has more freedom to see more patients or to perform tasks requiring higher skill. This worker has therefore, created value economically for both his personal efforts and those of the doctor. In fact, legal immigrants increase economic efficiency, and do so by raising the supply of high and low skills in the work force. Immigrants ' educational backgrounds, in many cases, rather than displace, actually complement, the skills of those in the native-born labor market. Also, because low-skilled workers are more likely to work for a lower wage, the costs of production decrease, and when products and services are presented, they have a lower sticker value for consumers. This in turn, will influence spending and help to boost the

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