First I discovered the latino district in charlotte where I had lunch at an el salvadoran/honduran place that was really good and I made it about halfway through the meal before the waitress discovered that we weren't spanish speakers and she switched to english.Learning activities for cognitive development I think thanking her for bringing the food in portuguese probably gave it away.

Then back in south carolina went to a bar with a ton of different taps and met a mexican-american guy who is from tucson here visiting his daughter who is a nurse married to a jewish/gringo nephrologist (kidney doctor and I had to ask).Learning activities for cognitive development he was in his 60s or so and is 2nd generation mexican born in the phoenix area. I told them I was doing research* and I wanted to know the state of the spanish knowledge of his offspring (third generation).Learning activities for cognitive development he said it was bad and the doctor said how he spoke better spanish than his wife but some of the other kids apparently speak it like gringos.Learning activities for cognitive development they both agreed that spanish is on the rise and thought that bilingualism was growing and that the US would become bilingual. The doctor thought it and a good thing and said about his father-in-law "you'd be surprised who he voted for".Learning activities for cognitive development the guy was a trump supporter. First mexican-american trump supporter I've ever met but we didn't really talk much politics. He basically though didn't believe in "handouts"--one of those types.Learning activities for cognitive development he said monolinguals get suspicious that bilinguals are talking about them behind their backs when they switch to spanish which I thought was interesting.Learning activities for cognitive development really nice guy though. Told my brazilian friend to "watch out for this gringo" (about me) when they left. But he was just joking. 2nd generation older mexican-americans I've discovered are some of my favorite people but sample size is everything there.Learning activities for cognitive development

I admit what I said doesn’t stand all that well on its own, but you’re taking my comment out of context. My point was that immigrants do compete for employment with natives and that has a negative impact on some native workers’ wages and jobs.Learning activities for cognitive development some people want to pretend that’s not the case, or maybe they just don’t know, but saying things like immigrants are only doing jobs that natives don’t want to do is just false.Learning activities for cognitive development the fact is immigrants are employed by the millions in plenty of occupations, trades and doing jobs that natives were perfectly fine doing, and they’re seeing immigrants doing those jobs for lower wages.Learning activities for cognitive development likewise if some traditional job requirement or pay wasn’t contingent on being bilingual and now they are, which plenty are, that puts natives at a competitive disadvantage.Learning activities for cognitive development sure people can say that’s all for the greater good of the economy or the immigrants themselves aren't to blame, but they can’t say immigration doesn’t have a negative impact on a lot native workers because it does.Learning activities for cognitive development that was my point.

I admit what I said doesn’t stand all that well on its own, but you’re taking my comment out of context. My point was that immigrants do compete for employment with natives and that has a negative impact on some native workers’ wages and jobs.Learning activities for cognitive development some people want to pretend that’s not the case, or maybe they just don’t know, but saying things like immigrants are only doing jobs that natives don’t want to do is just false.Learning activities for cognitive development the fact is immigrants are employed by the millions in plenty of occupations, trades and doing jobs that natives were perfectly fine doing, and they’re seeing immigrants doing those jobs for lower wages.Learning activities for cognitive development likewise if some traditional job requirement or pay wasn’t contingent on being bilingual and now they are, which plenty are, that puts natives at a competitive disadvantage.Learning activities for cognitive development sure people can say that’s all for the greater good of the economy or the immigrants themselves aren't to blame, but they can’t say immigration doesn’t have a negative impact on a lot native workers because it does.Learning activities for cognitive development that was my point.

You’re mixing a lot of things together here. On the one hand, for so called low skilled jobs, of course more people means more competition, but in those jobs, at least the ones I’m familiar with, only speaking a foreign language is a huge disadvantage, because it makes it hard for the owners to communicate with their employees.Learning activities for cognitive development so if that was your point, I don’t know why you chose to talk about english-only speakers vs immigrants who speak no english. Your second point makes no sense relative to the post to which I was responding, either, because in your second part, you are talking about english only versus bi-lingual english speakers.Learning activities for cognitive development so the post to which I responded makes no sense if either of the above was were the points you were trying to make.

"If U.S. States were independent countries, california would be the second largest receiving country for international migrants in the whole world (after russia) with its 8.5 million foreign-born as of 2004.Learning activities for cognitive development moreover, its proximity to mexico and a porous border generated extremely large flows of uneducated mexican workers (documented and undocumented), at a growing rate, during the last three decades.Learning activities for cognitive development with one third of its total labor force made up by immigrants, two thirds of its uneducated workers coming from abroad and a rapidly rising foreign-born population, that grew by 40% in the last 14 years, surely native californians (particularly the unskilled ones) must have suffered the most from the negative effects of this ”immigration crisis” on their employment opportunities and wages.Learning activities for cognitive development

The present study, that analyzes employment and wage data in california over the 1960-2004 period, seems to say otherwise. On one hand, immigrants do not seem to increase the tendency of natives with similar skills (education and experience) to migrate, or to otherwise change their likelihood of losing their jobs and dropping out of employment.Learning activities for cognitive development on the other hand, the impact of immigration over the 1990-2004 period has been negative on the wages of previous immigrants and positive on the wages of U.S.Learning activities for cognitive development natives, revealing a good degree of complementarity between U.S. And foreign-born workers that benefits (rather then harms) native workers’ productivity."​

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It's just that immigration has been such an important part of the US economy for so long that the impact is already baked in by the time you get to the years investigated.Learning activities for cognitive development at some point in the past immigration would have had a negative impact on the wages of native workers, but the sectors impacted have already adjusted to immigration, such that new inflows affect prior waves of immigrants instead of native workers.Learning activities for cognitive development

I’m sure you’re aware of the back and forth with borjas on this issue so I won’t belabor the points. But what you’re saying seems like a decent synthesis of the debate.Learning activities for cognitive development there’s certainly a lot to be said with the complimentary angle but the issue of labor supply and demand is relevant as well. So while sr. May not have seen his job or wages affected much, the ability of jr.Learning activities for cognitive development to get the same job and achieve the same outcome has been lost in a lot of sectors. The same sort of thing has played out in regard to imports and manufacturing jobs.Learning activities for cognitive development

My only real point in all this – since I believe we should ‘pay it forward’ and continue our current immigration rates irrespective of where they're coming from or what color they are - is that while we in the aggregate may benefit by getting more-better goods through either low-skill immigration or cheap imported labor, some of us are paying for it either today or in terms of future prospects; and we in the aggregate just need to be honest about it; and rather than hurl blame and insults at the affected maybe focus more on what we can do to transition them into or create better employment opportunities.Learning activities for cognitive development