Immigration is Not Charity

The tough new immigration laws in some states are hurting everyone, this article shows both sides of those laws. - - Donna Poisl

by Alex Nowraste

The biggest misconception about immigration is that it is a zero-sum game--that there is a finite number of jobs which immigrants "take" from the native-born and that immigrants consume social services without paying anything in.

Several state governments--including Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina, and others--have bought into this myth, enacting measures to address what they perceive as problems arising from undocumented immigration. Yet anti-immigration laws hurt not only immigrants, but native-born Americans as well.
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