5 million foreign-born individuals (Gany, Herrera, Avallone, & Changrani, 2006). Approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants are residing in the United States. Despite.
the speculation about the financial cost of immigrants, Norris-Tirrell (2002) reported that immigrants cost Florida a mere $25 a year more than the average resident and that undocumented residents brought in more than $200 a year per person to Texas.
Employment of Illegal Immigrants .
The Immigration Act of 1924 set the national-origin quota system that restricted immigration of southern and eastern Europeans. The Act also pro-Immigration in the United States 791 inhibited the immigration of Asians. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 abolished quotas and opened the way for Asians and Latin Americans to.
immigrate (Menjivar & Bejarano, 2004). Throughout the twentieth century, there was a dramatic increase in the number of immigrants to the United States. More than 1 million legal immigrants arrived during that time as well.
as those who entered the United States illegally or who overstayed their nonimmigrant visas (Kwong, 2002).
Historically, immigrants have been recruited when laborers are in demand during times of economic expansion. Today, less-skilled immigrants are recruited to serve the needs of the decentralized and restructured U.S.
economy. Kwong (2002) suggests that U.S. employers prefer to hire new immigrants and undocumented aliens because they are the least organized labor available to them. In recent years, public opinion toward immigrants has been negative. However, according to Reid, Weiss, Adelman, and Jaret (2005), immigration does not increase crime rates and, in fact, some aspects of immigration lessen crime in metropolitan areas. Kwong (2002) argued that without immigrants, there would be no agribusinesses in California, no garment industry in New York City, and no domestic child care workers across the country.
