"WASHINGTON — Immigration will drive the population of the United States sharply upward between now and 2050, and will push whites into a minority, projections by the Pew Research Center showed Monday."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080211/lf_afp/uspopulationimmigrationethnic
The fact that immigration--mostly illegal immigration--is running rampant in the United States is a problem. I know that this isn't a problem of the United States changing as a whole, because I believe the character of the United States will remain static. However, we need to do something about this immigration problem. Immigration has its pros and cons.
Pros:
*Cheap Labor
*Immigrants are forced to start at the bottom, thus taking jobs potentially no one wants
*No labor laws can be imposed on illegal immigrants
Cons:
*Hurts the economy in numerous ways
*Forcing Americans out of jobs
*Outsourcing now is conveniently located in our own country
*Most illegal immigrants take the money earned in the United States back to their homeland
The fact that the population can change so dramatically because of immigration poses a problem to everyone. With an increasing diverse population, a race war can be imminent. I don't see how a race war is totally unfathomable. I mean, racism is still intertwined in the nation.
What do you think the potential benefits or downsides can arise from this issue?
+mspin
I feel that America is supposed to be the land of opprotunity where immigrants should be welcomed... it's cliche but whatever. Sadly the immigrants who want to come here for a better life are going to be punished for the immigrants who are here to do illegal things (drugs, sex trafficking).
I agree that there is eventually going to be a race war and it's just going to be fuel for the fire of racisim burning in American society already.
~*El Kc*~
I agree. I live in Miami, and in most schools white's are now the minority. However Miami is considered the melting pot, so I am not sure as to ratio's of races within schools/ workplaces.
I think that is cool because can you imagine living in a place where people of all different kinds of people live closely together? As for the immigration problem, Mike Huckabee's wife summed it up pretty well.
"I am glad I live in a country where people are trying to break in, rather than break out."
I agree that it takes the jobs from Americans. There needs to be an effecient and affective LEGAL process to which we admit immigrants. For the cheap labor, that is indeed a problem we need to fix. We need to find out how to stand on our own two feet without relying others to slave away for us.
There's my two cents,
luv, Monica