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= __ Option 1: Open Ourselves To The World __ =



Open Immigration is the theory of opening America to the world. The idea that masses of the world will not be limited by barriers or borders to live in the United States. Criticizers look at this practice as naive, and can see political and economic faults with open borders. Proponents see open immigration as a new way to energize the economy, and a system focused more heavily on human rights. Perhaps the only way to provide an unbiased look at open immigration is look at pros and cons for the strategy.

**Reasons For**


 * Ideas for pro-immigration**
 * The size of the American economy is a function of the number of people and their demand, and with more people inhabiting America, the more demand for product there is- which benefits everyone.


 * People and workers are the fuel of the American economy. If there is need for a scientist or a laborer, businesses would be best suited attracting the best workers in the world, regardless of where they live.

(http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/110/42566.pdf)
 * America does not have a great reputation abroad, and perhaps letting people of all cultures and nationalities in will increase this. Pro- immigration advocates say freedom should not be limited to any.


 * Open immigration could provide even more of a "melting pot" of cultures, that can bring millions of different people together.


 * There are many destitute countries, and a system where the country can be alleviated of their poor citizens is beneficial to everyone.(America's GNI is above 41,000. see here for more details)

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 * Ideas against open immigration**
 * One of the reasons to not consider open immigration in the United States is trying not to overload our schools, hospitals, and othere social services. If these necessary places are not available because of a huge population many poeple will suffer. In a school setting if there are tons of students it could sacrifice the smaller tighter communnity just like the one we have here at school. Also if there are a lot of students teachers are not able to help as many individuals. A hospital can only hold so many patients so if there were more people then the doctors and nurses could attend tons of people would not be attended to.
 * Another concern poeple have with open immigration is security. Ever since the terrorist attack on the twin towers on September 11th 2001 the U.S has been extremly weary of terrorists entering the country.

**Reasons against** Some consider open Immigration to be a bad idea for America. For example; Open immigration would deprive Americans of their jobs. Open immigration would also deprive the countries from which the immigrants came from of highly skilled workers. Open immigration would also allow unskilled workers to enter the U.S. when we offer them few opportunities.
 * **High levels of immigration will deprive American workers of their jobs while forcing government to spend more on the needs of immigrants.**

The more immigrants that are coming to the United Sates result in a job loss for native born Americans. The American economy cannot keep up with the number of immigrants coming into the United States therefore not enough jobs will be able to sustain the citizens. In an economic crisis, with a jobless rate of 9.8%, adding more people to a country already under stress wouldn't be beneficial.
 * **Open immigration puts more strain on jobs in America.**

Some say open immigration is not productive for other countries the highly skilled workers are immigrating from. If too many highly skilled workers immigrate to the United States then the country they are immigrating from could collapse and be unable to keep up with current day and developing technologies. It would not be able to create any advanced exports.
 * **Encouraging highly skilled workers to immigrate to the United States robs poor countries of their most valuable human resources..**

If we were to open our doors unskilled workers would bring more stress on the already weakening economy. The jobless rate would rise. Unskilled workers would also take jobs from Americans, they would particularly hit the low wage area. We would have too many unskilled workers and not enough high skilled workers which in turn would lead to an unstable economy. The graph above shows the increase in immigrants in the last 15 years (http://tucsoncitizen.com/rynski/files/2010/11/immigrantgraph-560x420.jpg)

**Bibliography**

**Lehman, Thomas. "Coming to America: The Benefits of Open Immigration | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty." The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty. http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/coming-to-america-the-benefits-of-open-immigration/ (accessed December 9, 2010). **

Tabarrok, Alexander. "Economic and Moral Factors in Favor of Open Immigration: The Independent Institute." The Independent Institute. http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=486 (accessed December 9, 2010). Lee, Dwight R.. "A Free-Market Case Against Open Immigration? | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty." //The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty//. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Dec. 2010. .

Masserli, Joe. "BalancedPolitics.org - Legal Immigration (Pros & Cons, Arguments For and Against)." BalancedPolitics.org - Free Balanced, Non-Partisan Discussion of Political & Social Issues for Debate (Pros and Cons - Decision Making Politics). http://www.balancedpolitics.org/immigration.htm (accessed December 9, 2010).