The Labor Of The Silenced - 2579 Words

White Paper: The Labor Of The Silenced Shaan Hoda Period 5 Foreign Policy The United States of America: the land of opportunity! Ironically, that is quite the contrary to reality. For centuries, immigrants have traveled to the country to get work and live better lives. Yet, for many decades, immigration laws have been passed in order to limit the amount of immigrants pursuing employment. The motive for this action is generally due to the worry that illegal aliens will enter the nation and take away jobs from American citizens. The fact is, there are many particular jobs that the majority of Americans don’t wish to take. Agriculture work, medical science, and domestic service are three examples of fields that†¦show more content†¦Not only do immigrants create jobs and boost tax revenues, but they additionally make communities safer.[5] A study, utilizing U.S. census data and American Community Survey data discovered that for every thousand immigrants in a county, forty-six manufacturing jobs are created/preserved. In addition, the study ind icated that local housing wealth increased by approximately $100,000 for every new immigrant.[5] Considering these statistics, it is in the best interest for the United States to allow undocumented immigrants into the country and reduce the severity of the increasingly rigorous laws. Immigration to the United States is still, and has been a significant idea in American history. During the 1600s, people from the eastern hemisphere migrated to the U.S, such as the British and other Europeans, as well as Africans who were brought as slaves. Up until the early nineteenth century, the U.S supported open immigration in order to fill up its vacant lands. Yet in the late 1800s and onwards, the attitudes toward the new immigrants became very mixed, some still encouraging newcomers while others, called nativists, expressed hostility toward them. It was in the mid-nineteenth century when the first immigration law, the Asian Exclusion Act (1875), was passed primarily to restrict the importation of Asian