Restriction on Immigration

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This paper argues that restrictions on the immigration of highly skilled workers threaten American prosperity and global competitiveness. It explains that immigrants who receive visas based on their skill levels and educational background and who can make a contribution to America's economy only comprise about 12 percent of legal immigrants. Without the necessary input of high skilled workers to meet industry demand, businesses will be forced to outsource jobs overseas and stop expanding the company all together. It claims that the bottom line is that American business cannot survive.

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"Immigration is having an ever-increasing impact on America's workforce. Since two-thirds of America's future population growth will be caused by immigration, it will continue to transform our workforce. Today, understanding the impact and implications of international immigration of the workers of the United States is an extremely controversial issue and it is at the forefront of many political debates. One of the most controversial aspects of the U. S. immigration policy is the degree to which immigrants affect the U.S. economy, in particular the labor market. In the 1980s 6 percent of the American work force was made up of foreign workers. In the 1990s, that number jumped to 10 percent. (San Francisco Chronicle 1999). Today, it is estimated that the number of foreign born workers in the United States is 15 percent. In addition, a disproportionate number of recent immigrants arriving in the United States are less-skilled and this trend is fueling the American public's concern that immigration is a major contributing factor in the decline of the relative earning of less-skilled American Workers."

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