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Immigration Into The USA

The document discusses perspectives on immigration to the US from both the public and government. It outlines views that immigration reduces wages and job opportunities for native-born citizens while increasing taxes spent on public services. However, the government also believes immigration is important economically by providing cheap labor and regenerating neighborhoods.

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Immigration Into The USA

The document discusses perspectives on immigration to the US from both the public and government. It outlines views that immigration reduces wages and job opportunities for native-born citizens while increasing taxes spent on public services. However, the government also believes immigration is important economically by providing cheap labor and regenerating neighborhoods.

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Modern Studies, Queen Anne H.S.,


Dunfermline, Scotland
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^Supreme Court ^llegal mms legal ^ egalised 2m ill imms again
^ree Education, ^Solve problem ^Seen as encouraging
^llegal mms ^ring families immigration
mmigration Today
Go home we
Call this the
don¶t want you.
land of hope
Don¶t you have
and glory? You
your own
are racist!
country? Have
a good day!
Public·s Views on Immigration
Today into the USA
^
to  million enter every year

^ Drain on resources (education,


housing, benefits)

^ eople work hard and taxes not


spent on them but immigrants

^ Enter as $ higher than home


Are Wages getting ower for
American Citizens?
^ llegal imms drive down wages
as work for less but for more
than at home
^ Whites get paid less or no job
as imms will take it
^ Therefore, standard of living
drops. â  
^ Will illegal imms complain?
^ Deported , bye bye, poverty
again, not happy
^ eople want Government to
stop immigration as it is hurting
their lifestyle
White Middle Class

^ A s taking jobs as educated,


skilled (T), qualified, good work
ethic
^ White collar jobs (Dr, managers)
^ Standard of living < for whites
^ Earn less money, unemployed
^ Average white has less skills
^ ecession= increased competition
for jobs
^ As a result, A s kept on, whites
told bye bye as company can make
more use of A s
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^ Very unhappy and angry
÷
  ^ oreans in ghettos (poor
area), own shops

 ^ oreans leave at night to
suburbs
^ Take $ with them, black
people¶s $
^ lacks pay premium for
goods as cannot afford to
get to malls
^ lack $ leaves the black
community and benefits
others
Are Neighbourhoods oosing
Their dentity?
^ mms American by day and own culture at night
^ Take $ for work but spend in their own
communities
^ ost identity (Chinatown, Hispanic areas)
^ wn communities, classes taught in Spanish, own
Spanish TV, shops
^ Americans resent imms not integrating into US
way of life, spending $ on themselves.
^ Americans feel used and ask the ? So what is an
American? As whites will become a minority in
the future
Where are our taxes
going?
^ Taxes spent on imms as many are deprived
^ What about our children, roads, education?´
^  ets look after our own first´
^ ts expensive looking after immigrants
± US Govt spends $65m a year
ims in prison
± 2 US spent $.5b on imms
±  California spent $2.b on imms
± 6 US paid states $25m for imms health
costs
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The US Governments View on
mmigration Today
mmigration
^ Cannot be ignored as Hispanics spend
$
b a year and rising. Worth a lot
to companies
^ mmigration part of the A Dream,
opportunities to succeed
^ California relies on cheap labour,
makes products cheaper and more
competitive as they drive down
wages
^ oreans and Hispanics regenerate
Ghettos. Employ Americans, buy
American products. Would not have
happened if left to blacks. They are
putting money into the economy

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