Economic effects of immigration are addressed by Kennedy, Chavez and Mills in their articles. Kennedy points out that although individually some of the immigrants do indeed end up dependent on public assistance, as a group they make a positive economic contribution (313). I tend to agree with Kennedy that “the large number of unskilled immigrants may in the long run retard still higher potential outputs, because the inexpensive labor supply that they provide diminishes incentives to …showed first 75 words of 766 total…

…showed last 75 words of 766 total…immigrants who have not worked enough from receiving SSI benefits. Immigration whether legal or illegal will always continue to be a problem especially if our laws and policies regarding immigration are not revisited and new one enacted. Truly immigration has both the positive and negative effects. What we should be concerned about is working on laws, policies, programs etc. that will limit the negative effects of immigration and turn it to our advantage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**