Immigration Myth-Buster Team# 5-1:30 by Valeria Lozano Chávez https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0 Hecho con una mente curiosa en-us 2019-10-21 18:48:35 UTC 2025-12-28 19:12:35 UTC hello@padlet.com immigrants take good jobs from the U.S citizens a01197834 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/404122444 2019-10-29 19:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/404122444 immigrants fill the jobs that Americans don't want a01197834 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405205429 There are so many ways that we can bust this myth, we can fill ourselves with facts and know the truth.
There has been some essays or books that agree with this fact. For example, as Brookings senior fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains in her essay "The Wall", it says that immigrants may not actually "steal" as Trump thinks, it also says that immigrants occupy jobs as a waitress, babysitter, etc.]]> 2019-10-31 19:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405205429 immigrants don´t steal Americans jobs a01197862 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405207951 They don't steal Americans jobs because not everyone would do the hard job and we most of the time we do the hard job also we suffer because we doesn't have our families close enough so that motivates us to work and make money for the family.

For both groups, immigration is not an employment issue. Members of the first group lose $4.00 per hour; those in the second group lose less than $4.00 per hour. Jobs are not stolen, they just become less lucrative. Immigration is not an employment issue.


]]> 2019-10-31 19:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405207951 Immigrants are contributing to the U.S economy a01570823 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405209970 Acording to the The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) "immigrants do not take away jobs from American workers. Instead, they create new jobs by forming new businesses, spending their incomes on American goods and services, paying taxes and raising the productivity of U.S. businesses." (ACLU, 2019)
 ]]> 2019-10-31 19:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405209970 immigrants don´t steal Americans jobs a01197862 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405210381 They also get paid less than a American would get paid that why we do the farm job or the hard job also we contribute a lot in the us economy.
First, working immigrants represent wage competition for working Americans. These Americans obviously lose. Second, those who buy these immigrants’ services gain — that is, both employers of immigrants and buyers of what immigrants produce gain. 

A simple numerical example shows that the second force outweighs the first, meaning that when immigrants allegedly “steal our jobs,” they increase the size of resident Americans’ economic pie! It’s when immigrants don’t work

]]> 2019-10-31 19:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405210381 Immigrants don't take jobs from Americans a01570952 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405211551 A U.S. Department of Labor study prepared by the Bush Administration noted that the perception that immigrants take jobs away from American workers is the most persistent fallacy about immigration in popular thought because it is based on the mistaken assumption that there is only a fixed number of jobs in the economy.    

]]> 2019-10-31 20:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405211551 if the Americans clean away the immigrants, there would be consequences a01197834 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405212962 There's a video, where it explains what the Mexicans are going through, and what they have to do to take care of their families.
There's a line that really moved me and it goes like this: "I believe the guys that come in here they know what they are headed for, they have a sense of loyalty to their family back home, and so they are willing to go to anything kind of condition to just help their family or themselves." You can see the video in here.]]> 2019-10-31 20:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405212962 It's all about the perspective a01570823 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405213392 Most of the U.S citizens only see the jobs that immigrants fill but not the ones that they are creating and the crucial increase to the economy that they bring with these jobs and with the payments of goods and services.]]> 2019-10-31 20:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405213392 Taxes contribute to the economy of U.S. a01570952 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405213580 Immigrants pay more than $90 billion in taxes every year and receive only $5 billion in welfare. Without their contributions to the public treasury, the economy would suffer enormous losses. 


]]> 2019-10-31 20:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405213580 Positive effects on the employment opportunities by the immigrants. a01570952 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405214939 Studies by the Rand Corporation, the University of Maryland, the Council of Economic Advisors, the National Research Council and the Urban Institute all show that immigrants do not have a negative effect on the earnings and employment opportunities of native-born Americans. A 1989 Department of Labor study found that neither U.S. workers in complementary jobs, nor most minority workers, appear to be adversely affected by immigration. ]]> 2019-10-31 20:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405214939 immigrants don´t steal Americans jobs a01197862 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405215717
The second group will be those with alternative earning capabilities superior to the now lower potato chip wage $8 per hour but less than what they were earning prior to the immigration $12 per hour. They also lose. But it will be less than those in the first group because they will be moving to their next best alternative job. 
]]> 2019-10-31 20:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405215717 how much does immigrants earn per hour a01197862 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405215978 When immigrants earning $8 per hour are substituted for $10 per hour American workers, it means Americans have the potato chips and $2 more for other things.]]> 2019-10-31 20:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405215978 Stadistics a01570823 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405216493 Immigrants pay more than $90 billion in taxes every year and receive only $5 billion in welfare. Without their contributions to the public treasury, the economy would suffer enormous losses. ]]> 2019-10-31 20:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405216493 Immigrants increase crime. a01570952 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405217240 Immigrants in every ethnic group in the United States have lower rates of crime and imprisonment than do the native-born.


]]> 2019-10-31 20:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405217240 Immigrants help power the economy a01570952 https://padlet.com/a01570952/punbsynup7i0/wish/405228254 Other research has also shown that immigrants protect native-born U.S. workers in further ways. Their demand for goods and services helps counter some of the ill-effects of automation on employment, for starters. And there’s also evidence to suggest that immigrants help improve wages. And though immigrants will remain a minority of the working-age population, they will become increasingly vital to expanding the workforce and without them and the taxes they pay programs like Social Security could suffer.

That said, there is reason to believe that not everyone is better off because of immigration. In particular, immigration over the past two decades has shrunk the typical high school dropout’s earnings by between $800 and $1,500 each year, according to George Borjas, a Harvard University professor.

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