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This 4-page paper discusses the link between immigration and unemployment in the United States. The paper contends that, for the most part, there isn't a link. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in the U.S. tend to look for scapegoats. And with immigration a hot-button issue for much of the 2000s, there tends to be the natural link between too many immigrants
and not enough jobs. A recent report in the Wall Street Journal, for example, points out that the U.S. government is
doing its best to discourage "the recruitment of foreign workers, from due ranchers and fruit pickers to lifeguards and computer programmers" (Kalita, 2009, p. A3). Additionally, the State Department is
asking J-1 visa sponsors (in other words, the ones that hire seasonal employers for hotels, golf resorts and summer camps) to cut down on foreign labor (Kalita, 2009).
The government has also banned companies receiving federal bailout money from replacing laid-off American workers with foreign workers through the H-1B program (Sacchetti, 2009).
The program typically issues around 85,000 visas per year for foreign workers (Sacchetti, 2009). But it attracted a lot of criticism in recent months when it was found that some
companies cutting jobs applied for foreign workers to take their places (Sacchetti, 2009). There is, as well, the emotional backlash from
the American public, many of which are convinced that immigrants (both legal and illegal) are stealing jobs, and driving up the unemployment rate. John, a 49-year-old Indonesian, who is college-educated,
has noted his belief that immigration does impact the employment rate, or rather, Americans think it does. As more immigrants enter the country, he notes, the unemployment rate among citizens
might increase. Samantha, a 21-year-old Asian-American woman from Los Angeles agrees, believing that immigrants are going to come to the United States for a higher pay, creating more competition among
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