“Today, the number of people living outside their country of birth is larger than at any other time in history. International migrants would now constitute the world's fifth most populous country if they all lived in the same place” (UNFPA).
Like so many of my friends and family, including my own, they migrate out of there country for a better life. whichever the reason of leaving in their specific situation, their migration has both good and bad benefits for the US. the immigrants are low cost labor which is good in a sense but in the other hand the thought of crime and a less smarter and productive workforce can cripple a generation. the push/pull factor in economy has to be looked at as well. if the issue of migration was worked on more to resolve possible the flow coming into the US, possibly allowing more educated migrants into the US with a work visa; the US could actually grow as a whole
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I read that same quote and was going to post it here. Immigrants are good and contribute greatly to our country, especially making it more diverse and giving us all their differents perspectives as a society. One of the things I love about living is this area is being able to go out to eat in all the different restaurants available because there are so many immigrants living here. But with all the immigrants comes the fact that a lot of them are undocummented living in a country that is just in a lot of cases taking advantage of them.
ReplyDelete