Issues Toward Immigrants

The issue concerning immigrants/immigration needs to be handled. In order to resolve such an immense issue, the rejection and isolationism towards immigrants need to be diminished. Once that hostility is cleared, the process of immigration can be approached and handled efficiently and effectively. The beneficial contributions that immigrants have brought to the United States economy have been overlooked. If people were aware of their ignorance regarding the great that immigrants bring to the United States, there would be a less hostility towards immigrants. Observing the economic output of immigrants is crucial in order to be knowledgeable of their economic contributions. In 2011 the total wage, salary and business proprietor income from immigrants was $743,436,509,990, whereas, for those born in the United States, it was $4,298,840,505,997 (Costa, Cooper, & Shierholz). The share for those born in the United States was 85.35% and the share for immigrants was 14.7%. This data concludes that immigrants have an outsized role in the economy based on how their total output of 14.7% was larger than their 13% share of the total population (Costa, Cooper, & Shierholz). Apart from these contributions, the President's executive actions on immigration, according to an analysis, will bring upon a great economic output boost from about .4 to .9 …show more content…
America is a nation inclusive of people who are all either immigrants or descendants of an immigrant (excluding Native Americans). America has been known as “the great melting pot” since early on, people of many ethnicities migrated to America (“Immigrants/Immigration”). Migration continues in the United States and is hated upon despite the fact most of the population include descendants of immigrants. It is inequitable to continue the dislike and discrimination of immigrants because of the hypocrisy it