Nowadays, United States is the country that has a variety of cultures, races, etc. mixing together by having immigrants in the country. United States is wide open for people to settle down on this land and on that time there is no process for immigrants. However, in the middle of 1840 until 1880, immigrants started to come in the U.S. such as Irish and Chinese because of demanding of unskilled and cheap labors. In the 1920, automation replaced the unskilled labors as a result immigrant’s policy having limited quotas for immigrants to enter the country. Though, some groups of immigrants are acceptable to enter the country without limited such as British, German, Scandinavian, and Irish, other groups of people need to have a Visa. In 1965 to 1990, the law is now open for immigrant’s base on skill and residential status more than nationality. Because of the limited in quotas to enter the country, illegal immigrants are skyrocketing as a result the United States’ economic is affected from them either directly or indirectly. Immigrants can contribute many benefit not only in local scale but also in national scale. First, Immigrants create many benefits in the local scale typically in education and business. According to “How One Small Midwest Town Has Turned Immigration into Positive Change” Mertens, R. (2015), a small town in rural Iowa is one of the examples that was given by Richard Mertens. Mixing of language used in class is interesting for people in town. Bilingual program is more popular than English-only classes that there is a waiting list for the bilingual program. This dual-language program starts in kindergarten that students learn in both English and Spanish. Moreover, the program is successful because people in town want their children to learn a second language while Hispanic parents want to remind their children about where they come from. Having immigrants not only benefit in an education, but also for economic. Because there is an increasing in Hispanic in the town, business owners are seeking out immigrants or bilingual employees in order to stay more competitive because these kind of people can communicate with their customers in both English and Spanish. In addition, immigrants can provide an inside of customers to the business owner. For example, Latin employee gives an information to a grocery business that now they stock supplies that Latin families wanted such as jalapeños, cactus, several varieties of green onions, and cilantro. Immigrants help this rural town avoids a decrease in population as many rural area experience and they contribute a variety of benefits to the town. Second, in national scale, immigrants contribute benefit to a country by fasten the flow of information, connect a network, and spread an American idea (Lexington, 2010), immigrants can speed up the flow of the information from one place to another. For example, immigrants alert their cousin, who live outside the country about the opportunity to do business by just calling. Moreover, immigrants can connect people together through ethnic networks. For example, according to Lexington, Sanjaya Kumar, Indian doctor, he received help from ethnic Indian entrepreneurs that introduced him to an Indian-American-venture capitalist. Another example, Andres Ruzo, founder of telecom firm near Dallas, was looking for expanding a business into Latino American. He was matched by a priest with Vladimir Vargas Esquivel, who also looking to expand into northward. Both of Andres and Vladimir trust each other because they respect the priest who matched them. Moreover, immigrants can help their employers doing business in their homeland. For example, Chinese
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However, this kind of situation make low skill labors improve themselves to stay competitive in the market. For example, in the past low skill labor might not try to learn new things because there was a demand in low skill labor and employers were willing to pay them in order to have employees to do their jobs. After too many immigrants enter to the United States, low skill labor market is expanded and becoming surplus. Immigrant have to improve their skills in order to stay competitive as a result their employers will have a high skill labors, who create more productivities than before. Therefore, employers can pay immigrants in the same rate as before but they have higher skill employees, which is good to overall
However, this kind of situation make low skill labors improve themselves to stay competitive in the market. For example, in the past low skill labor might not try to learn new things because there was a demand in low skill labor and employers were willing to pay them in order to have employees to do their jobs. After too many immigrants enter to the United States, low skill labor market is expanded and becoming surplus. Immigrant have to improve their skills in order to stay competitive as a result their employers will have a high skill labors, who create more productivities than before. Therefore, employers can pay immigrants in the same rate as before but they have higher skill employees, which is good to overall