The Impact of Immigrants

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The paper discusses how most American states are profiting from immigrants with taxes and money coming in at a federal level as well. The paper explains that the problem with immigration is largely confined to a few states, where the immigrant population is so high that they are using more than they are putting back. Many of the unskilled immigrants have jobs but do not have enough money for things like insurance, so they end up on welfare, food stamps and Medicaid. The paper considers how stopping immigration is one way to help the states plagued by troubles, but would actually hurt the national economy and the United States' relations with other countries. The paper also notes that immigrants can increase the risk of terrorism in the United States.

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"Whether they should be allowed into the country is the question, but there are subtleties involved. For example, some of the highest-skilled computer programmers, doctors, and engineers come from other countries. If the country stops letting people in, that means that these people will not be allowed in either (Card, 2001). One solution to that is to let in only the higher-skilled people and keep out the lower-skilled ones. This seems horribly discriminatory, and is almost the equivalent of saying "you're not good enough to live here" to the foreign people that do not have highly marketable skills. Still, it is clear that something needs to be done to help ease the burden on states with the highest immigrant population."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Borjas, G. J. 1990. Friends or Strangers: The impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy. New York: Basic Books.
• Card, D. 2001. Immigrant inflows, native outflows, and the local labor market impacts of higher immigration. Journal of Labor Economics 19(1): 22-64.
• Center for Labor Market Studies. 2002. immigrant Workers and the Great American Job Machine: The Contribution of New Foreign Immigration to National and Regional Labor Force Growth in the 1990s. Boston: Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, for National Business Roundtable, Washington, DC.
• Healy, Gene. 29 July, 2002. Volunteer voyeurs?. Cato Institute. <http://www. cato.org/dailys/07-29-02.html>.
• Henthoff, Nat. 1 July 2002. A declaration of independence for speech. The Washington Times. <http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020701-368769.htm>.

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