Facts About Immigration
Population and Education:Most immigrants populate the major cities of the U.S. For example New York, California, and Texas. Immigrants see that there are more jobs in the major populated cities. The Pew Research Center has found that among all of these Immigrants from ages 18 to 24 almost half of them are enrolled in college or earned a degree.
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Economy:Immigrants benefit the economy since they fulfill jobs that American citizens will not do. Immigrants buy goods and services produced by American workers which increases demand for everything and creates more jobs for native-born workers. Immigrants also have certain skills that native-born Americans could not perform. For example, in preparing the foods, from what they learned in their homeland. Low-skilled workers complement the work of skilled native-born workers by increasing demand for their labor and it tends to increase their wages. Highly skilled workers are receiving higher wages than unskilled native workers. Since there are many undocumented immigrants, there are enough workers to expand the labor force in a way because many immigrants fill jobs that native-born Americans would not fill. Empirical work on the economic effects of immigration has focused largely on wages. Studies have found a small, net impact on the overall wages of native-born workers and much larger distributional effects.
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