Uneducated Immigration Problem

The influx of uneducated immigrants into the United States economically hinders the uneducated native population of the country. As a majority the of population of the US is without a post-secondary degree, this makes it easy for immigrants to compete with them on the job market. The Lumina Foundation, a foundation dedicated to post-secondary learning, has stated that “just 40 percent of Americans [between the age of 25 and 64] have finished an associate’s degree… while an additional 22 percent attended some college but failed to graduate” (Kelly 1). That leaves 60 percent of the working population, without a college education. Which means 99,789,667 people are in direct competition with any immigrant who does not have a college education. As immigrants directly compete with the uneducated population of the country, they can take jobs and leave natives unemployed and economically damaged. Furthermore, uneducated immigrants are known to lower the wages of unskilled and uneducated native workers. The United States National Research Council, has discovered that “[an] increase in the supply of unskilled workers is assumed to lower wages for those natives in competition with immigrants” through the comparison of wage effects from the supply of labour (Camarota 23-32). There is a direct impact on the money earned by unskilled and uneducated native workers by the immigrant population, this is a result of competition and excess supply. Which leads to the lowering of money earned for natives, which has a harsher effect as they already earn little money. Equally affecting …show more content…
This can be achieved by only allowing immigrants with a college degree or higher to enter the country, and building cracking down on illegal immigration and changing anchor baby