Read the following two articles about immigration
Immigrants Sent $140 Billion From U.S. Back To Homelands in 2016 (Links to an external site.)
and
Without immigrants, the US economy would be a ‘disaster,’ experts say
As a group, compare the language used to describe immigrants, the economy, and money in the two articles. What picture is created by the language used in each article. What ideological position does each article support? How could social practices be affected by the language in the articles?
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In both articles, the writer describes immigrants, the economy, and money in the same way. Both articles discuss how immigrants have interfered with the U.S economy by offering cheap labor hence spending their remittances in other countries such as Mexico, China, and India. The first picture by Neil Munro in the article “Immigrants Sent $140 Billion From U.S. Back to Homelands in 2016” demonstrates well how there are many jobs in the United States, but the economy is going down (Munro, 2018). That is because many immigrants who come to the U.S offer cheap labor making it hard for university graduates from the U.S to get substantial jobs. The picture shows a money transfer booth where immigrants sent their remittances to their home country. The U.S government has been trying to end immigration
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