Immigration

(Jobs & Opportunities)

Alejandro Ballinas, Raymond Ho, Emily Kim

The American Dream and Immigration
● “American Dream”:
○ Escaping crop failure.
○ Rising taxes.
○ Famine.
○ Ability to grow in the economy.
○ Provide social mobility for their family.

● Immigrants come to take away jobs from native born Americans. (False)
○ Jobs too challenging for Native Whites.
○ Plenty of jobs for everyone.
Jobs that Immigrants really take over

2011-2015; higher - portrays the jobs immigrants are

percentage for taking.
college graduates - most of the jobs are physical.
- 48% to 28% pre - native whites wouldn’t prefer
2011 these jobs.
Far more jobs to be project then able working
immigrants

- Around 44 M Immigrants in 2017

- Boost in Job Openings by 2020 to 55 Mil

- Most of these jobs will require some

form higher than high school
diploma
Racially Biased Claims
➢ “It doesn’t matter if I become an American Citizen. If
your skin color is not white and your English is not
perfect, you don’t blend. Bottom line,” Reyes
claimed.
Immigrants are not necessarily the source of job
“stealing”
● look for jobs in order to make a living,
● immigrants do not necessarily take the majority of jobs than American citizens do, along with the aid of
technology.
● technology evolving over the years proving itself to be able to complete tasks efficiently more then
humans can being a new source of why jobs are being taken.
● “According to our estimates, one more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to population
ratio by about 0.18-0.34 percentage points and wages by 0.25-0.5 percent”Daron Acemoglu.
Call To Action
● fixing immigration is not about mass deportations of people but about creating a legal visa system for jobs.
● these legal visa systems means immigrants would be following the same processes as American citizens.
● following the proper process to getting jobs, everyone will have the same opportunity.

focusing more on how to compromise the issue is more important than deporting immigrants because in
reality they are not here to steal jobs; instead they’re here to be able to provide for their family, where in
their home country they could not.
 Works cited

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https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2017/08/24/do-immigrants-steal-jobs-from-american-workers/

Nowraseth, Alex. “Fewer than Half of the Employer-Based Green Cards are for Workers.” CATO Institute. 7 Feb 2019. Web.

https://www.cato.org/blog/fewer-half-employment-based-green-cards-are-workers-0

Carrevae, Anthony. “ The Growth and Education Requirements.” Center on Education and Workforce. 26 June 2013. Web.

https://www.slideshare.net/CEWGeorgetown/recovery-job-growth-and-education-requirements-through-2020-58342198

Campbelle, Brendan. “Latinos Confronting Rising Tide of Hate.” The Arizona Republic. 13 Oct 2018. Web.

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-arizona-republic/20181013/textview