The controversy is mostly on illegal immigration, with over 11 million illegal residents in the U.S. Over 7 million legal migrants are recruited into important professional specialties. They also bring their relatives in, as in the case of Indians. (Swain, 16)
Though the Indian government does not give any special status to immigrants to the U.S. from India, there has been a spurt of immigrants from India to the Silicon Valley -- California. These immigrants are mostly selected for special skills and there are other immigrants who fill positions in services like nursing and doctors. The immigrants from India are mostly centered at Silicon Valley, the hub of computing and inventions. This is because immigrants from India come from some of the biggest and best electronics and engineering schools from India notably the IIT. These professional immigrants are often brought in by businesses themselves and are not a strain on the U.S. economy nor do they take over the jobs of the locals because they are employed in jobs that are highly specialized. The immigrants from India for example come equipped with a technical education and are mostly professionals who contribute to the growth of business and the U.S. economy in various ways. Neither the U.S. state nor business have social overheads over this population. The integration of the population into the mainstream production...
(Parekh; Singh; Vertovec, 30)
Results:
Sparring a very few incidences where immigration has benefited the country, there is a real problem with the immigration of kinds, the legal and illegal. Therefore the time has come for the government to ban immigration altogether, because the benefits of immigration which is yet to surface has become a political issue in the United States. Added to that, the United States has the most rapidly growing population in the developed world. (Swain, 55) Hence the Government must not only stop immigration but address the problem of deporting illegal aliens from the U.S. To solve the economic problems in this country.
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Parekh, Bhikhu C; Singh, Gurharpal; Vertovec, Steven. Culture and Economy in the Indian
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Waldinger, Roger David.; Lichter, Michael Ira. How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor. University of California Press: Berkeley, Calif, 2003.
