The Boiling Pot Research Paper

Over the centuries, immigration has benefited the United States for the use of slavery, but what about for the economy or just the country itself? The US has been given the name, “The Boiling Pot,” because we have a lot of different races combined into one country. Have you ever wondered how the boiling pot could’ve just been some scrap metal if immigrants hadn’t come into the United States and built it a little? Some people think that immigrants just want to steal our jobs, but do they really? Maybe they just want a place to live and we, as a country, keep making stereotypes about things that aren’t exactly true. I think that immigration can have both positive and negative effects in our country if we look at the statistics and facts correctly. Immigration affects our country in a positive way rather than a negative way like most people think. Immigration happens when a person or people from a country migrate to a different country that isn’t necessarily like the one they lived in. Shockingly, as stated by Jie Zong in the article “Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States,” Jie says “The U.S. immigrant population stood at more than 43.3 million, or 13.5 percent, of
In the article “The Impact of Immigration on the American Workforce,” Steven A. Camarota states, “There is certainly a lot of anecdotal evidence and some systematic evidence that immigrants are seen as better workers by some employers, especially in comparison to native-born African Americans. It is certainly not uncommon to find small business men and women who will admit that they prefer Hispanic or Asian immigrants over native-born blacks.” This adds support to the argument that native-born employers would rather employ an immigrant instead of a native-black person. It shows that even immigrants are more valued than certain nationalities who were already born in the