The major issue in the United States is the infamous immigration, as many have heard and talked about. We are allowing too many immigrants to come across the border, as many people have said. However, while many people side with the idea that immigrants, illegal and legal, are problematic and dangerous, they seem to have forgotten this country, and they themselves, are the result of who they call “problematic.” The fact that immigration is how this country has been created in the first place is what is bewildering that so many people tend to forget and overlook. Without immigrants, this country would probably not be as advanced in society, education, culture, technology, and more. Think about our surroundings, and how we are living today; these immigrants are the reason that we are so far in advance. As Lyndon B. Johnson said, “The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.” We say immigrants don’t belong and they shouldn’t be here, that they’re “aliens”, but they’re a main reason that we’ve come to be where and who …show more content…
The fear that immigrants will wreck our economy and community is probably the biggest reason substantial barriers to legal immigration remain on the books. But immigrants don’t take our jobs, lower our wages or downgrade the American economy. According to the independent.org news site, immigrants tend to be either high-skilled or low-skilled, and Americans tend to be more toward the middle of the skill distribution. This means that immigrants aren’t substitutes for American labor but instead free up American labor to do jobs where it is more productive. That being said, just as a number of economists have pointed out, immigrants don’t “do jobs Americans won’t do.” They do jobs that wouldn’t exist if the immigrants weren’t there to do