Comment #5 What Does Immigration Actually Cost Us?
In the New York Time’s article What Does Immigration Actually Cost Us? the author discusses the topic of immigration in America between the two parties. The new information about immigration that was just released from the National Academy of Science suggests that immigration in part does some good things and some bad things for the country.
Immigration does help the economy in the long run bringing in fresh workers to do jobs than, quite frankly, no native born Americans really want to do. On the other side, immigration does also take some jobs away from Americans but not as much as the Trump administration would like you to think. It takes away jobs from the “low-skilled workers” as the article put it.
I feel like this is a very good article because it brings out the truth about immigration. Right now there is a lot of confusion in America because you have Hillary Clinton saying that it’s good and Donald Trump saying that it is very bad. This article sums it up and shows that they are both kind of right, well more Clinton than Trump.
Some may say that the article makes Trump look bad but it’s not the New York Times’ fault that Trump says incorrect things at his rallies and on his website. I think the author did a good job on keeping a neutral approach to the subject of politics.
The lead also does well to emphasize the confusion of the two parties claiming different sides of the argument. It is short and intriguing at the same time but also very informative.