Summary: The Standards For Immigration Reform

Tim Fernholz, in his article “The Numbers Show Why Donald Trump Is Totally Wrong About Immigrants,” cites two studies on the effects of immigration on native workers’s wages. Both studies, the first covering 1994-2007 and the second covering 1990-2006, found that natives from every education bracket (less than high school, high school, some college, and college) saw their wages rise by 0.40% according to the first study and 0.60% according to the second study during “the 1990s tech bubble and the 2000s housing bubble, when many immigrants came to the US in search of jobs” (Fernholz).While Trump claims that illegal immigrants “hold down salaries,” studies find that “almost everyone has seen wages rise thanks to immigrants in the economy, even though they are pretty marginal effects” (Fernholz). In an article entitled “Higher Immigration, Lower Crime,” Daniel Griswold, Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, states that “even though the number of legal and illegal immigrants in the United States has risen sharply since the early 1990s, the size and condition of the economic underclass has not. In fact, by several measures the number of people in America living on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder has been in a long-term decline” (43). So, though Trump believes immigrants make it harder for natives to earn a middle class wage, the

In 2009 he introduced the bill CIR-ASAP (Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America 's Security and Prosperity Act). This bill was created to help undocumented immigrants obtain citizenship that had a noncriminal history and to improve the border security. With the accomplishment of CIR-ASAP, Gutiérrez embarked to tackle

The House idea is to build a wall along the Mexican- American border, something that would “cost billions” and have to be not unlike the massive structure of the “Berlin Wall” (p.2). The wall is an impractical solution because of the money it will cost not only to construction, but also to patrol. The Senate has passed a plan that relies on the compliance of employers to “first attempt to recruit American workers to fill job openings”, and the usage of national identification cards to be given to American workers (p.3). With the I.D. cards, it falls to “employers to enforce immigration laws”, meaning to make sure that they only employ people who have the cards (p.4). The truth is that businesses profit off of immigrant workers.

In the 1800's and 1900's there was a major immigration era for America. Between 1880 and 1920 America was becoming more industrial and urban, and because of this more than 20 million immigrants came to America. Between 1815-1865 most immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe. A great deal of immigrants came from Ireland because of the Irish Potato Famine.

President Obama’s immigration reform bill would keep five million illegal immigrants from being deported, but Republicans are saying the Obama Administration tried to bypass Congress in trying to change the immigration policies. The executive order from Obama will go to the Supreme Court for a ruling. If it passed, this immigration order would allow undocumented parents of children born in the US, who are US citizens, to get work permits and stay in the country as long as they do not commit any crimes. Immigration advocates feel this is the humane thing to do. (Bredemeier)

Annotated Bibliography Beadle, Amanda Peterson. " Top 10 Reasons Why The U.S. Needs Comprehensive Immigration Reform." ThinkProgress. © 2016 - Center for American Progress, 10 Dec. 2012.

By 1900, almost 30% of major city residents were foreign born. They fled from things such as famine, religious prosecution, or lack of opportunity. The tide of immigration rose to nearly 9 million in the first decade of the 20th. After 1890, 70% of the immigrants to the United States were Slavs and Jews from southern and eastern Europe. Ellis Island was a reception center where refugees, that couldn’t afford first- and second-class cabins, had to check in.

Legal immigrants have a desire to create the America dream come alive. Though hardships and competition come when they accept their citizenship in America, this leads to a brighter future once they work. As a result, they can create their own businesses in America, families of generation to help America in the future, and support their citizens when their friends need help. As America allows citizenship for immigrants who want to create the dream, the immigrants give back to the economy, making our economy flourish for America. Overall, legal immigrants has helped the economy reach new heights that no America has ever seen in

This essay will discuss the issues involved with immigration reform, what is effective in moving forward, why Congress can’t get a pathway to legalization

Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens. Thank you. But if we 're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues. For instance, we have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and it 's impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions.

Labor productivity, which is the ratio of output to the input in a production process, is a matter of significant concern to American policymakers. It has reported stagnant progress, averaging at only approximately one percent since 2009, a historical low and points to possible labor economic flares within our system. A productive workforce generates "more output with few hours worked" necessary in bolstering the gross domestic product, and its subsequent boost would go towards strong economic performance (Soergel N.p). Moreover, enhanced labor productivity is crucial towards harmonizing and stabilizing wage disparities favorable to the employee population. As a result, policymakers have for a long time examined the root causes of this declining

Which leads to the rebuttal of the argumentative piece, “Curiously, most members of Congress who take a hard line on immigration also strongly oppose increasing the minimum wage, claiming it will hurt businesses and reduce jobs” (Dukakis & Mitchell, 2006). Nonetheless the authors have an exception to this rebuttal, that is if “We want to reduce illegal immigration, it makes sense to reduce the abundance of extremely low-paying jobs that fuels it. If we raise the minimum wage, it’s possible some low- end jobs may be lost; but more Americans would also be willing to work in such jobs, thereby denying them to people who aren’t supposed to be here in the first place” Assuming that most american citizens are going to work, they would take up all the jobs provided out there, assuming that the minimum wage went up and they would be payed better (Dukakis & Mitchell,

Same with the previous research, this analysis finds no significant effect of immigration on net job growth for native-born workers. This suggests that the economy absorbs immigrants by expanding job opportunities rather than by displacing native-born workers in the United States. Moreover, the work force, like the economy, is not fixed and static. The U.S economy itself is dynamic, fluctuating, and creates hundreds of new jobs every

Next, are jobs low-paid because workers are low skilled and have low productivity? The fact that today’s low-wage workers in the US are more educated, with 41% having at least some college qualifications, up from 29% in 2000 implied that low-paid jobs are not attributed to low-skilled or low productivity (The New York times, March 16, 2014; Bosch, 2009). Finally, the question about whether raising wages would lead to job loss has two schools of thought which we re-visit in the later section.

Undocumented immigrants are frequently forced into slavery in service jobs, such as maids, cooks, or construction work. These people are given meager salaries and are threatened with being reported to the authorities if they strike or complain. To combat this, our immigration system needs to be overhauled. A path to citizenship will ensure that the same laws can protect all people working in the US. This idea may seem like a stretch to some, but given the current political environment more Americans are paying attention to the issue of immigration than ever before.