Pros and cons of immigration

Pros of Immigration


Immigration leads to an exchange of cultural values. It results in an exchange of knowledge and expertise between two nations. Immigration serves as an opportunity to interact with people of other countries. It gives a platform for people from diverse backgrounds to come together and share their views.

Immigration brings in new opportunities for the people of different countries. It exposes the people of a nation to the atmosphere of another country that may be very different from one's motherland. Immigration has resulted in gifting the knowledge of one nation to another, thus resulting in the creation of new fields of education and newer career options.

Immigration results in an open global market. It gives a global perspective to the social and economic growth of society, thus widening the horizons of the development. Supporters of immigration believe that immigration has the potential of bringing about a global prosperity.

Cons of Immigration

Crowding is one of the basic disadvantages of immigration. The migration of people from one country to another leads to crowding in one nation. It implies an excessive use of the resources of one nation that may lead to an imbalance of the natural resources.

Immigrants may bring in diseases that prevailed in their country. Pathogens, viruses and certain serious infections have a chance of being transferred between countries through the immigrants. To reduce the risk of such transfer of diseases, many nations have started carrying out a screening of immigrants on their arrival. Reportedly, AIDS was transferred to the United States in 1969 through one infected immigrant from Haiti.

Those opposing immigration argue that the jobs and the wealth of a nation are its property and that allowing immigration implies the distribution of this property among the non-natives. Immigration implies the distribution of a nation's wealth to those who do not have a right on it.

The costs incurred in the provision of resources such as education and health facilities to the immigrants are a burden on the nation that hosts immigrants in large numbers. Critics say that the economic growth brought about by immigration is nullified by the costs that the nation's government has to bear in providing the immigrants with the resources.

Less educated immigrants are believed to increase theft, violence and other malpractices in a nation. The different kinds of people that migrate across national boundaries may put the nations' security at stake. Illegal immigration that has emerged in some parts of the world has proven being a curse to the nations' economy and their social welfare.