Jeffery David Whippo Shares the Pros and Cons of Legal Immigration in US

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Jeffery David Whippo Shares the Pros and Cons of Legal Immigration in US Immigration has always been a formidable engine of economic and demographic growth for US. Besides, the immigrants contributed substantially, providing labor for the industrialization and electrification of the country. Various young and highly educated people are on the move and they would like to come to US. According to Jeffery David Whippo, this legal immigration would bring strong opportunities for economic growth. Moreover, the misalignment between restrictive laws and economic incentives has also caused the population of undocumented immigrants to expand rapidly. A large group of immigrants is made up of a young, highly educated worker, mainly scientists and engineers. Another large group consists of young workers little education who are employed in highly manual-intensive occupations. They all migrate to US for economic reasons. Consequently, with the availability of more workers, shares Jeffery D Whippo, various firms expand their productive capacity and build more establishments. The immigrants do not crowd out the existing firms over the long run, rather they increase the size and number of firms providing investment opportunities. The immigrant workers are more willing than the natives to move in order to find jobs. Combined with the complementarity of immigrants to natives, this mobility helps reinforce productivity growth in strong labor markets. However, Jeffery David Whippo further states that what about the illegal aliens who come over the US-Mexico border and commit additional crimes such as rape. Those are the human traffickers who assault or rape the females. Apart from this, concerned about the drug trafficking, legal immigration can be a threat to security and public safety.


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