Analysis Of Pia Orrenius And Madeline Zavodny's Article

In Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny’s article, “The Economics of U.S Immigration Policy,” Orrenius and Zavodny state that Americans’ are split between those who believe immigrants (legal and illegal) positively impact the economy and those who believe immigrants negatively impact the economy. Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny’s argue that the United States needs to implement an “immigration policy that addresses the concerns” about low-skill, unauthorized “immigration’s labor market and fiscal impacts” (954). The article may appeal to experts or those who have a higher interest in immigration due to the academic diction and the genre of the article, while discussing the public concerns with immigration, how immigration impacts the economy,

Throughout the article, Orrenius and Zavodny try to stay unbiased throughout their article by using facts and statistics to mention both sides, the pros and cons, of each subtopic. They restate their main points and suggest ways in which the United States can improve their economy while satisfying its natives and foreign-born population. Although they stay unbiased for a majority of their paper, Zavodny and Orrenius use some of their opinions in the suggested reform and the conclusion paragraph. The author’s gain the audiences’ confidence to place their opinion in the last two paragraphs because they were able to give enough information throughout the article to support it. Because this article is an academic journal, it adds to Orrenius and Zavodny’s credibility because it shows that they hold expertise in the field of economics with an emphasis on the research of immigration. Orrenius, an Assistant Vice President and Senior Economist, and Zavodny, a Professor of Economics, may be perceived by their audience as successful and knowledgeable making them a person of

The thesis discusses how researchers are divided on whether low-skilled immigrants impact the labor market and discusses how economists agree low-skilled immigrants fiscally impact the economy negatively. After the thesis, the authors then split labor market and fiscal impact into two separate discussions and explain each in detail to further support their claim. In the labor market effects paragraph, Zavodny and Orrenius support their claim in their thesis about researchers being divided by explaining the process researchers use to explain whether or not immigrants effect the labor market. After explaining the research process, Zavodny and Orrenius then sum up the facts presented in the article to further explain that immigrants actually help the labor market. In the fiscal impact paragraph, a paragraph about how immigrants might impact taxes and tax payers, they go into detail to support the claim of immigrants and how they negatively impact the economy fiscally. The authors explain to their audience how to find the fiscal impact of immigrants then explain, using statistics, how they fiscally drain taxpayers. Zavodny also explain how the state and local government bear the troubles immigrants have on the economy