Immigration In The Workplace Essay

Immigration is a very controversial topic in today’s society. One of the most overlooked areas is the American workforce. The reason Immigration is very damaging to the Americans workforce is because the employers are replacing Natives with immigrants who will work for a lower income. In today’s workforce, there are Employers intentionally replacing natives with immigrants who will work for a cheaper wage.

There are times, when an Employer will replace a native with an immigrant to have an easier exploited and cheaper work place. In some cases, the displacement of Natives with immigration comes from an intermediary. The intermediary will pass on the jobs to subcontractors who hire immigrants for the low wages. As a result, this subcontractor

of unemployment from 2000 to 2005 can be attributed to undocumented immigrants, and that jobs disappearing from U.S. born adults aged 16 to 24 and African Americans who has no college degree. It scenes to be that in the employment loss surrounding the age 35 and men without college degrees is due to the more outflow of illegal immigrants into states.”2

In 1980 there were a group of tomato crop pickers that were picking tomatoes for $4.00 an hour in San Diego County. The crew were switched to illegal aliens who would work for a lower wage of $3.35. As a result, a lot of the veteran crop pickers who did not want to work at $3.35 were replaced from the tomato fields.4

Occasionally, immigrants find themselves in the same situation as the natives. For example, in California raisin grape industry of, Mestizos (the Spanish-speaking population of Mexico) were interchanged with lower cost Mixtecs (the indigenous people of Mexico). According to a study, the Mixtecs "have pushed the Mestizos out of the