Immigration 3

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Immigration
Immigration to the United States is an international organization comprising of individuals who neither possess nor are natives’ citizens to study, reside, settle or take up employment in the United States. According to a recent report conducted in 2016, more than 43.7 million immigrants are residing in America. This number is estimated to account for about 13.5% of the total number of United States population, which is thought to be about 323.1 million. In the year 2015-2016, the number of foreigners being born was known to increase by about 449,000 that is approximately 1% rise (Martin, 96). This was indicated to be a decline compared to the 2.1% growth experienced in the year 2014 and 2015. According to a 2017 survey, the total number of American born children and the immigrants total to approximately 86.4 million people this is about 27% of the overall country population.
Immigration has been considered the reason behind the cultural changes in the population growth in America. Furthermore, it has been credited with being supportive towards the dynamism of the U.S economy and growth. This from the fact that refugees and immigrants are also taxpayers, entrepreneurs, consumers and job creators. For instance, during the year 2016, immigrants added about $2 trillion to the domestic growth product of America. In the year 2010, the immigrants and their children invented more than 40% out of the 500 fortune companies.

The children of immigrants invented about 114 companies with 90 companies being founded by their parents (Alba et al., 234). This makes immigrants vital towards the country’s tax revenue and output.
However, some people have blamed the immigrants for taking jobs primarily meant for the America people. Nevertheless, the truth is that despite increasing the labor supply they spend most of the wages earned in the purchase of home commodities such as T.Vs, and food among other goods and services. As a result, this does not only expand but also increase the domestic economic demand. As a result of the increase in demand, more job opportunities are created in terms of selling of the food commodities, building of new homes and also transporting of both people and goods.
Whereas some characters view wages and employment from these immigrants from a positive perspective, others believe that only losses can be yielded from the short-term losses and the higher cases of unemployment. However, the fact is that the immigrants increase the labor supply. In addition, they do not replace the American born workers, but instead, they complement them. This is because most of them are less educated hence in most cases lack the appropriate linguistic skills necessary for most of the jobs. As a result, they end up occupying the labor-intensive manual occupations mostly in the construction and agricultural sector (Hernandez, 634).
It is important to note that even for these low skilled jobs, the native-born workers have a more competitive advantage than the immigrants because of their superior communication skills. Due to this reason, the Native Americans end up occupying the more valuable occupations in these sectors such as the personal sales and services. Surprisingly enough, these scenarios do not only apply to the less educated but also to the highly educated immigrants. This is because, despite being learned, they usually face major challenges towards those jobs that require intensive communication skills (Rumbaut, 106). As a result, they end up working in the technical and scientific occupations. This leaves natives without completion from immigrants in areas like media, management, language and cultural jobs. As a result, competition for labor occurs only in subset occupations where immigrants are the majority. Hence, immigrants face more pressure than the natives.
An argument concerning the government support for the immigrants has always been debated severally. Some believe that the government drains it national financial resources towards the support of the Medicaid and the welfare of the immigrants. However, this has been proved wrong by the fact that immigrants total tax payments are roughly $20 to $30 billion more the government services given to them. In fact, it has been concluded that immigrants add a lot of value to the country in terms of paying the taxes to mention a few. According to a 2013 commerce report, more than half of the unregistered migrants have their Medicare, state income and social security returns deducted automatically from their paychecks.
With such services availed to them, most of them have been heard saying that life in America is better from where they came from. This is because most in their mother country, cases of corruption, troubled economy, drugs, poverty and crime rates being on the rise. Therefore, the undocumented refugees come to America in search of employment, better education opportunities and enjoy a less populated country compared to where they came from.
Although the number of unauthorized immigrants is increasing on a daily basis, they should be considered of importance especially to the future workforce of America. This from the fact that by the end of the year 2030, it is estimated that about 90 million jobs will be available (Loucky, 212). Out of these, a third will be newly invented opportunities with two-thirds being replacement opportunities. Therefore, both children to immigrants and the immigrants themselves will play a crucial role towards this workforce. Of importance to note is that the upcoming employment trends and the fundamental demographics of the workforce are changing. Hence, the American government should consider giving equal opportunities in terms of education to both the natives and the immigrants so that that they can form a competitive workforce.
In general, immigrants and their children should begin to be considered as very crucial people in America. This due to their influence especially in their entrepreneurial role to the country of America. A good example is in the technology sector where migrants have contributed a lot. For instance, Sergey Brin the Google founder is an immigrant from the Soviet Union while still a little boy. Jerry Yang, the Yahoo founder, was a Taiwan immigrant since the age of ten. Satya Nadella, the Microsoft CEO, too emigrated from India. In addition, out of the fortune 2010 companies, forty percent were invented by the immigrant themselves or their children. During this year alone (2010), these companies alone offered employment to more than 3.6 million people in America. Furthermore, they generated more than $1.7 trillion in terms of revenue. Over the few decades, their contribution has also been noticed in Apple Company, AT&T to mention a few. Their significant contribution has also been realized in the small business entrepreneurs. They make up more than 28 percent of the small businesses. In the same year (2010), these small businesses yielded a total of $775 billion in sales. From this, a tax payroll of $126 billion was realized (Haines, 368). Immigrants are known to come up with businesses ideas two times more than the native American people do.
Works Cited
Alba, Richard, and Nancy Foner. Strangers no more: Immigration and the challenges of integration in North America and Western Europe. Princeton University Press, 2015.
Haines, David W. Illegal Immigration in America: A Reference Handbook. Westport, Conn. [u.a.: Greenwood Press, 2014. Print
Hernandez, Donald J. “. 1. Diverse Children: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in America’s New Non-Majority Generation.” (2013).
Loucky, James, Jeanne Armstrong, and Lawrence J. Estrada. Immigration in America Today: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2016. Print.
Martin, Philip L. Importing poverty?: Immigration and the changing face of rural America. Yale University Press, 2014.
Rumbaut, Rubén G, and Alejandro Portes. Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Print.