Lately there has been a lot of legislature, mainly in the southern states, regarding illegal immigrants in the workforce. An example of this would be a law that has been passed in Alabama that makes proof of citizenship or legal residency a requirement even for simple things such as garbage pickup, dog licenses and flu shots at county health departments. Some politicians are justifying laws such as these based on the claim that the American unemployment rate is so high in part because illegal immigrants are taking job that unemployed Americans could be doing. Currently one out of every nineteen civilian workers in the United States is undocumented (Gleeson 561). In this paper I will try to explore the types of businesses that employ illegal
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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
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