America VS World Immigration
On the positive side, the United States needs young immigrants to stay competitive, create economic growth, and prepare for an aging workforce. To save the fate of the so-called “Baby Boomer” generations, we need to keep these young people in our country to help better balance this issue. Middle-class families, as Rust Belt states, would be hit particularly hard, as they rely on immigration to stabilize their populations and revive their economies.
However, immigration also hurts the U.S. For example, illegal immigration has created a nationwide conflict among our country. Our current president, Donald Trump, has resulted in devising a plan to build a wall. This has struck a large amount of conflict between us and different countries such as Mexico.
All in all, illegal immigration has negatively affected the country. More explicitly, immigrants harm jobs for U.S citizens. Immigration hurts workers without a college degree. That's especially true in agriculture and construction. In 2014, immigrants held 43% of agricultural jobs, according to the Pew Research Center.
Immigrants take 35% of the jobs in building and grounds maintenance . In those industries, immigration lowers wages and drive out native-born workers in those areas. That pushes native-born workers into jobs like sales and personal services that require superior communication skills.
Immigration dropped during the Great Recession and has not returned to pre-recession levels. Instead, immigration from Latin America may continue to weaken. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, found there are two reasons. First, the economies of Latin American countries continued to improve. As a result, there isn't as much of an income gap between those countries and the United States.
Immigration from Latin American will increase as global warming worsens conditions in Latin America. The World Bank estimates that climate change could send up to 1.7 million people north by 2050. Drought, shifting rain patterns, and extreme weather destroys crops and leads to food insecurity. The World Food Program found that nearly half of Central American immigrants left because there wasn't enough food.
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