Immigration Reform Movement

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Significance of 2006 Immigration Reform Protests Immigration Reform Protests gathered couple of million people in the biggest immigration protest of all time. Protests came out because of government change of policy towards immigrants, increasing penalties and classifying immigrants, as well as anyone who helped them as felons. These protests were contrary to anti-immigration protests that happened during 19th century and at the beginning of 20th century. The protests got plenty of attention from media, government and as well as from American citizens. These protests are important because immigration shouldn’t be considered a crime, but step towards American dream for immigrants. Immigration should not be characterized as an immoral and …show more content…
For instance, food industry is one of the most significant branches of industry, and this type of industry contributes largely to the USA economy. The considerable number of immigrants works in the food industry, which means that if those foreigners are deported back to their original countries, food production in the USA would notably decline. Additionally, newcomers, even the undocumented ones, pay their taxes, and that is influential to the USA economy. In Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy February 2016. report it is stated ‘’"Undocumented immigrants contribute significantly to state and local taxes, collectively paying an estimated $11.64 billion a year. Contributions range from almost $2.2 million in Montana with an estimated undocumented population of 4,000 to more than $3.1 billion in California, home to more than 3 million undocumented immigrants’’(Gee, at all 3). This proves immigrants are not a burden to the USA economy. Largely, there is a misbelief that foreigners take Americans’ jobs. Immigrants usually do the labor work, and only highly exceptional ones get employment in science, engineering, medicine or law fields. National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine states ‘’...These positive estimated effects on native wages and employment are consistent with high-skilled immigrants’ being complementary with natives… or with skilled immigrants innovating sufficiently to raise the productivity of all workers (Blau, at all 218). Highly-skilled immigrants can highly benefit both the economy and the diversity of the United States. Immigration protests of 2006. had many results and consequences, some are felt even