The Americans now are concerning about migration as well as the nation's economy. The concern is whether the immigrants will contribute to the prosperity of the America society or they just create more problems and difficulties for our society. People also worry about the budget that the nation has to provide for new immigrants. Do we, as a nation of immigrants, still have the capacity to absorb newcomers? Historian David Kennedy in his article "Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?" discusses about immigration in the United States, and he states that we still have the capacity to absorb new immigrants. The author supports his idea successfully by using historical evidences from history of immigration and evidences from recent studies.
In the introductory of his article Kennedy writes about a new source of immigrants that comes to the America in the nineteenth century. Those immigrants come from the nine none European countries called "the third world or less developed countries." He then compares the America's population gro
Kennedy also stresses the important of the contributions of the immigrants to the America economic development. He says "one of the things that underwrote the relative tranquility of immigration in the last century was economic growth. It allowed this society to avoid questions of redistribution." Kennedy also emphasizes the closed relationship between immigration and economic growth. Immigration provides the labors and helps develop the economy. He uses the results of many studies that focusing on southern California in which their conclusions come up with " immigration measurably added to the economic vitality of southern California." He also says that America now needs a new source of labor because we are now using up the labor forces include women. He gives us a finding by the economist Clark Reynolds of Stanford University, "for the United States to grow its economy at a compound annual rate of three percent between now and the year 2000..., we would need to find about 15 million more workers." Also with our low birth rate, we cannot provide enough worker for ourselves,
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