Issue Research
Research Questions:1. What is the current state of immigration and equality with non American citizens today?
2. What inequalities or injustices live within immigration? 3. How long back does Immigration justice issues date back to? 4. What solutions provide ideas for solving immigration injustice? |
My Research:
What is the current state of immigration and equality with non American citizens today?
What inequalities or injustices live within immigration?
How long back does Immigration justice issues date back to?
What solutions provide ideas for solving immigration injustice?
- 43.3 million foreign people live in the US.
20.7 million naturalized US citizen.
22.6 million non-citizens. - Fewer than 1 in 5 immigrants live in poverty.
- Us born children of immigrants are more likely to go to college, less likely to live in poverty, and equally likely to become homeowners.
- Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the US born population.
- Unauthorized immigrants are legally entering the US and becoming long term residents.
- Many unauthorized immigrants are eligible for a green card but cannot adjust their status from within the country and face lengthy bars to re-entry if they leave.
- “Additional benefits to the U.S. economy and society more broadly could be obtained through legislative reforms designed to modernize the U.S. immigration system and provide unauthorized immigrants in the country today with a path to citizenship”(Michael D. Nicholson)
- Top cities in the world ranked by percent of their population that's forgein born
- 44% of London is white British.
- A quarter is forgein born and 300 different languages are spoken.
- 44% of London is white British.
- Migrants bring the entrepreneur spirit that helps economies grow and thrive.
- In US 30% of all small businesses have a key founder who is forgen born
- 13% of U.S. is forgein born.
- Immigrants contribute more in federal, state, and local taxes then they use in public assistance and services.
- Immigrants are paying more than enough in taxes to pay for the public benefits they get.
What inequalities or injustices live within immigration?
- New administration threatens to move the US to a more restrictionist environment.
- Increased immigration enforcement
- Restrictions on refugee and legal immigration resettlement
- Will impose fiscal costs
- Cost billions of dollars
- Could break up immigrant families
- Place endangered individuals in peril
- Many states pass legislation making it harder for unauthorized immigrants to live like a citizen.
- Arizona’s SB law criminalized unauthorized status and authorized state police to check the immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the United States without proper documentation.
- Many states are extending in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrants.
- Governments are good at putting roadblocks on the path on immigration.
- The process is set up for most to fail.
- There is a gap of students coming in and maximum of forgein skilled workers allocated visas each year.
- Higher immigration levels are associated with weak or statistically insignificant effects on natives wages.
- The falling wage induces more native workers to either drop out of the labor force or be replaced by immigrants.
- In many large cities the wage of local native workers was regressed on the number of or proportion of labor force participants who were immigrants.
- “Another possible weakening influence on immigration coefficients may have been the rapid exodus from high-immigration labor markets of those natives whose jobs were most threatened by immigrant labor.”(Gregory DeFreitas)
- “Today's foreign-born welfare recipients are often contrasted unfavorably with our hard-working immigrant ancestors who arrived in the days long before government entitlement programs.”(Gregory DeFreitas)
- Evidence shows that immigrants have been hired by firms that were cutting their skilled native force.
How long back does Immigration justice issues date back to?
- Around 9,000 immigrants were admitted to a legal permanent residence between 1981-93
- More than any 20 year span since the turn of the century.
- Research on a 1976 survey found the poverty rate of immigrants exceeds natives.
- Immigrants cost the country $947million in social services in 1991
- Paid county taxes of $139 million
- In 1989 Only 2% of working age immigrants received welfare benefits
- Natives got 3.7 percent.
What solutions provide ideas for solving immigration injustice?
- They should be offered permanent residence on graduation day.
- Some countries are creating simple tests and tasks to obtain residency in that country
- Caps on immigration are a fact of life.
- We can set thresholds for companies to try to meet to hire forgein born workers onto their payroll and offer tax incentives for those companies who meet a minimum threshold.
- Could allow companies to expand or simplify visa process and make it more fair
- Unskilled workers do suffer from immigration
- Lower wages
- Less opportunities
- Short term effects
- “As capital becomes ever more mobile, the only way to reduce labor migration is through improving living and working conditions in both sending and receiving countries.”(Gregory DeFreitas)
- “Coupled with more effective resettlement assistance for newcomers and with much-needed reforms in employment and foreign policies, this more humanitarian approach may offer a better means of meeting our international responsibilities in a world of frequent refugee crises, without worsening the economic prospects of U.S. workers.”(Gregory DeFreitas)