Immigration

While immigration is a huge problem here in the U.S., I do think that people overlook that a good percentage of immigrants actually benefit the country. My family is from the Philippines and my mom and most of my aunts specialized in the medical field solely to come over to the states. Like the title of Michael Clemens' article, I do believe that immigrants are an engine of prosperity, especially when they specialize in high demand areas like the medical field. Even if they aren't coming here for high demand jobs it does shut off that opportunity for them to use whatever skills they have here and lowers job creation.

I'm not really up to date on the issue of immigration and I think the latest I heard about it was the law passed in some state where if you looked like an immigrant they could stop you or pull you over to check you? Was this just a myth or was it really put into effect? Also what exactly is Obama's policy intending to do? Instead of  using money to protect the border between Mexico and the U.S, does he want to use that money and help Mexico's economy so that there are better jobs over there so they have a less pull factor to coming to the States?


Who do you think is poor in the United States and globally?I think that minorities generally tend to be more poor than the average american. Factors such as language, education, and skill come in to play big time. I think that over the years education has began to improve in a lot of countries, however it's still going to take a lot to reach the standards that America requires.
What do I think should be done? I definitely think that education should be a priority and countries should start having a curriculum that will not only help them in that country but everywhere.
**For some reason, I'm not able to get access to the film so I'll come back and update.**