y Americans…Because our immigration policies…[do] not take economic conditions into account, we continue to import new workers even when many Americans are losing their jobs.” Reform (Cox 55). Lower-skilled workers, according to studies, are especially harmed by immigration. For example, if an immigrant comes to the United State looking for a better job and they are more educated, who is most likely going to get the job? The higher skilled immigrant of course, especially if the person is willing to work for less pay. Today’s employers are looking for better educated people to work for them and sometimes an immigrant will have what it takes, while the native-born lower skilled worker doesn’t (Cox 60). Immigration is commonly accused of taking jobs away from native-born Americans. They accept lower wages which keeps everyone else’s wages low too (Andryszewski 51). Immigrants do benefit Americans by taking jobs current citizens don’t want, especially those low-paying fields like childcare, housekeeping, and agriculture (51). But many people still worry about the economy. Between 1985 and 1990, ten’s of thousands of low income native-born Americans migrated out of states like New York, Texas, and California where huge numbers of immigrants were moving in (Andryszewski 60). The immigrants were taking away economic opportunity for low income Americans who were forced to move somewhere else that they could make a better living. Sadly, there is not much there can be done to keep this from happening unless there is less immigration.In 1993, when unemployment was very high, polls showed that two-thirds of Americans wanted immigration reduced and more than one-half thought that government service to immigrants cost taxpayers too much (Andryszewski 51). Immigration currently harms “middle-class taxpayers in high-immigration states who subsidize [fund] the average immigrant by $1,500 ...
