In the article “Skills on the Move: Rethinking the Relationship Between Human Capital and Immigrant Economic Mobility” written by Hagan,
Lowe, and Quingla; they tell the story of a Mexican man who worked as a mason’s apprentice in Mexico making 3 dollars a day. This man then moved to America and worked for a subcontractor making 8 dollars an hour until he got a chance to show the mason skills he had learned on the job in Mexico. He was then promoted and started earning 10 dollars an hour. He continued making his way up to a supervisor position by learning more skills on the job. Now he is a supervisor on a multimillion dollar condominium project (151). This is an example of how some immigrants can succeed in our …show more content…
Immigrants play an important part in America’s workforce and over all in America’s economy. But just as there are pros and cons to everything, immigrant workers have a negative effect also. They are doing jobs that the American unemployed people could be doing, even if Americans do not want to do these jobs. Some states have devised harsh immigration laws that aim to take almost all rights away from immigrants, and ultimately make them return to their original countries. These laws may end up hurting the states economies more than they help