A Defense of Immigration

      
 In response to Francisco Gomez' "Crisis Down South!"
            I agree with your views on immigration. Immigrants tend to complement the native workforce, rather than compete with it. Legalization of immigration would actually help create new job opportunities for Americans. Increased legal and illegal immigration in the past fifteen years has not increased the number of people living in poverty in the United States. In fact, the number of people living in poverty
decreased during this period as U.S. economic growth expanded, and native-born Americans
attained higher levels of education and new job skills. Legalization combined with a new
worker program would likely continue this trend, creating additional middle-class job opportunities for native-born workers.The notion that immigrants are taking Americans' jobs is generally absurd. With Mexican aliens so eager to work, they tend to take jobs not needing much prior education. Native citizens of the U.S. often times have more thorough education, and will therefore seek jobs that require this higher education.