The issue of illegal immigration has become a subject of global debate in the past few years. Whether is entail migration of North Africans to Italy, Albanians to Greece, Bangladeshis to India, or even Mexicans to the United States, the involved governments in the host countries are running to formulate measures aimed at curbing the illegal immigration. In America, a number of immigration policies have been established. However, the arguments on the role of the illegal immigrants in the American context rages on. The public discussions concerning the issue of immigrants in the U.S. accentuate on Mexican migrants. Potentially, this emanates from the massive and clearly increasing proportion of the undocumented or rather illegal Mexican immigrants.
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It is crucial to understand the reasons for the Mexicans to Migrate in spite of the Americans government costly attempts to keep them out this country. First and foremost, most of the Mexicans who move to the U.S. do not do so with intentions of settling permanently. Often, they migrate to the country in a bid to get a solution to short-term complications of family finance, by working saving some dollars and sending them back home in the form of remittances. Primarily, these immigrants aim is to rejoin their communities and families after a couple of years or months as sojourners in the U.S. labor markets. Since the end of the Bracero program in the year 1964 till the implementation of the IRCA in the year 1986, a time during which the people from Mexico were free to move across the borders and offer their labor services, the labor flow is revealed to be circular in nature (Portes, Alejandro 426). In the course of that period, it is approximated that about twenty-eight millions Mexicans moved to the USA and about twenty-three million finally returned to their home country and the net immigration total of about forty-six million. This implies that when free to cross the border and work in the United States, over eighty-percent of the Mexican migrants still choose to finally go back to their home country. Even during the relatively porous border in the course of that period, it can be concluded …show more content…
Crucial sectors of the US economy have shifted to the to the immigrants who have low skills, and this encompasses the documented, as well as those that are not documented to carry out the job in those sectors. Mainly, the hotels, constructions, motels, restaurants, retailing, and many other services constitute a leading employer of the immigrants who are lowly skilled in terms of labor (Chiswick, Barry 95). Actually, it is estimated that of the approximately five million undocumented laborers in the entire of the US labor force, it is approximated that one million are helping in manufacturing sector, seven hundred thousand in the restaurants, close to one million in agriculture, and about six hundred thousands in the building sector, and of all those undocumented workforces, a substantial proportion comes from
It is crucial to understand the reasons for the Mexicans to Migrate in spite of the Americans government costly attempts to keep them out this country. First and foremost, most of the Mexicans who move to the U.S. do not do so with intentions of settling permanently. Often, they migrate to the country in a bid to get a solution to short-term complications of family finance, by working saving some dollars and sending them back home in the form of remittances. Primarily, these immigrants aim is to rejoin their communities and families after a couple of years or months as sojourners in the U.S. labor markets. Since the end of the Bracero program in the year 1964 till the implementation of the IRCA in the year 1986, a time during which the people from Mexico were free to move across the borders and offer their labor services, the labor flow is revealed to be circular in nature (Portes, Alejandro 426). In the course of that period, it is approximated that about twenty-eight millions Mexicans moved to the USA and about twenty-three million finally returned to their home country and the net immigration total of about forty-six million. This implies that when free to cross the border and work in the United States, over eighty-percent of the Mexican migrants still choose to finally go back to their home country. Even during the relatively porous border in the course of that period, it can be concluded …show more content…
Crucial sectors of the US economy have shifted to the to the immigrants who have low skills, and this encompasses the documented, as well as those that are not documented to carry out the job in those sectors. Mainly, the hotels, constructions, motels, restaurants, retailing, and many other services constitute a leading employer of the immigrants who are lowly skilled in terms of labor (Chiswick, Barry 95). Actually, it is estimated that of the approximately five million undocumented laborers in the entire of the US labor force, it is approximated that one million are helping in manufacturing sector, seven hundred thousand in the restaurants, close to one million in agriculture, and about six hundred thousands in the building sector, and of all those undocumented workforces, a substantial proportion comes from