Joshua Cervantes
Dr. Hill
Microeconomics
25 October 2020 Written Paper 8: Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are
not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or
naturalized citizens. Many countries around the globes struggle with the issue of immigration,
but the United States specifically has had immigration as a very controversial subject. Many of
the issues arise to due to concerns of political, social, legal, and economic reasons. However, the
biggest controversy comes out of the economic impacts of immigrants in our country. The main
reason that people immigrate to the United States is because of the economic gain that they will
receive. Many people believe that living in America is a dream and move here to prosper
financially. The opportunity for increased wages is the main driver in immigration because the
United States has a higher opportunity of pay. Most immigrants just want to improve their
overall standard of living. The word immigrant refers to two different kind of people that come
into a country. First, there are illegal immigrants who arrive in a country on a temporary visa and
then refuse to leave and then there are legal immigrants who have permission to work and reside
in the country. There are at least 40,000,000 immigrants in the United States and out of those
around 12 million are unauthorized. The US contains mostly Latino, Asian, Black, and European
Immigrants with most of the unauthorized coming from Mexico. The biggest question as far as
immigrants is, are they making a positive impact on our economy or a negative impact? The
answer is both. In some ways, immigrants bring a lot of money and work into our country, but
