The United States more than any other country welcomes in its arms more immigrants and Texas, than any other state, lets in more foreign and domestic migrants. It’s almost half of all the newly arrived migrants residing in the mentioned state are born foreign. Amounting to over four million migrants, Texas has been considered as one of the top three states that has the most number of born foreign migrants living within its parameters. Texas immigration has been considered as both a consequence and a cause of fast state growth. The strength of the economy and business model (fewer regulations, low cost of labor and lower taxes) in Texas have enticed many workers and companies in the recent years. This inflow has become and …show more content…
This moment is the era when most small-skilled workers came into the state’s up and rose agricultural and oil areas. In the year 1986, the year of the oil bust and beginning recession, gave the motivation for currently beginning the diversity in the economy. This event was moving away from an economy based on commodities pushing Texas to begin attracting a wider range of immigrants both from other states and other countries (Orrenius, Zavodny and LoPalo, 1). Newly arrived migrants gave the strength and the ideas necessary to stimulate faster economic growth and development. The employment numbers in Texas grew twice as fast as the nation’s employment growth rate beginning in the year 1990 (Orrenius, Zavodny and LoPalo, 1). Even with the flow of highly skilled immigrants in the 1990s, big parts of the immigrants in Texas are still considered poor and dependent on the welfare programs. This migrant influx has caused the labor market results as improved more than an individual could …show more content…
This effect might be because the states are not taking charge of the immigration and its’ related concerns in the past years. These attempts are only answers to the failure of the national government to handle the undocumented immigrants. The key effect, however is that the proposed immigration policy in Washington will most likely have large recommendations on border security. There is no actual agreement on what composes a secure border yet. But, different states such as Texas have apparent opinions about that. The idea is to be away from the issue, and the conservative wing of the party should avoid using border security as the main answer to this issue (Payan, 18). They should instead create clear measures on what a secure border should be. The secure border should be defined more objectively and less subjectively. With this issue, state governments including that of Texas have much involvement (Payan, 18). As the state government move to create policies to secure the U.S. border, the national government should then touch the Border States to delegate actions on this concern (Payan,