According to the data provided by the DHS a total of 1,016,518 immigrants were admitted in to the United States under a work visa in 2014 and later converted to Lawful Permanent residents. 1,016,518 is a very large number of individuals working in this country and as they earn wages whether it be a small or large annual income they are still circulating that money back in to our economy. As they continue to earn and eventually become naturalized citizens they continue to contribute to the economy and raise our GDP.
Our research purpose was to investigate the relationship between immigration in patterns over time, the flow of immigration per year, and whether the changes have a positive or negative impact on our economic system. Our concluded hypotheses are listed below:
H1: A positive relationship between income and native and foreigners exists.
H1: Is there a positive relationship between immigrants and poverty.
H0: A positive relationship exists between foreign born-native and low income.
H1: there is not a strong cost relationship between Immigrants paying taxes and the Cost of Immigrants per …show more content…
We then looked at paid taxes vs. cost per immigrant and the impact per capita GDP. The results produced by these data sets did not support our hypotheses, the only relationship that was positive and supported was table 3, a positive relationship exists between immigrants and natives and low income. We believe that this hypothesis was supported because many native and non-native individuals are considered low income households and this is where the debate of immigration is often an issue. Native low income household often do not have higher level education and are forced to settle for lower paying jobs, ones where some legal and illegal immigrants are competitors. Hypotheses in data sets 1,2,4,5 and 6 were not supported. In my opinion, one reason this data was not supported was because even though immigrants earn decent wages, they still do not make enough to create a significant impact on the economy and are not dependent on it either. It is said that many immigrants send 60% of their annual income back to their home country in efforts of supporting loved ones back home. In analyzing the results provided with our own information and that of previous research we can say that immigration does not have an impact on the U.S.