The Article, “Yes Immigration Hurts American Workers.” The author of the article, George Borjas has a very opinionated view on immigration as a whole. In his article, he states that immigrants are the ones who are taking Americans’ jobs. His opening paragraph opens up with a summary about his studies and admits that he has been studying immigration for over 30 years. Trump has also used one of Borjas economic papers as a reference for the wall idea.
Borjas points out that immigrants value is slowly increasing based upon the amount of government assistance that they have. Immigrants gain more government financial needs oppose to natives. Immigrants also pay lower taxes than natives since they are new to the country. Borjas also points out that the “responsibility nationalist policy” also detriments natives. With conflicting views, policy fights can get violent which is why Borjas believes no one brings up the problem.
This article is overall a very opinionated piece. His word choice and anti-clinton views show that this piece has a right bias. His anti immigration statements like, “anyone who tells you that immigration doesn’t have any negative effects doesn’t understand how it really works” (Borjas).
Overall, I thought that this piece could have been written better if the author did not put all of his strong views on the table. Politic pieces that are written well are the ones that provide points from both the left and right side.
Borjas, George J., et al. “Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers.” POLITICO Magazine, www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216.