Since the beginning of time, man has been migrating to diverse locations in search of adventure, knowledge, a better future or because their fugitives. No matter what the reason for their migration, it brings positive and negative impacts to the region to which they migrated to. These impacts have created much discussion and arguments amongst countries with high percentage of immigrants.
There are people that resent immigrants and are convinced that they are responsible for the crime in their neighborhoods. There may be immigrants that do more harm than good, but there are locals that play that same role. The reason that there may be a higher percentage of immigrants involved in crimes is because they are in a foreign area where they are less recognized or known. This is mainly applied to those that migrate because of legal issues.
Many immigrants are just in search of a better future. Take Nicaragua for example. Most Nicaraguans immigrate to Costa Rica because the economy in their country is so bad. Lots of these immigrants have left their families and the comfort and love of their homes, in search of work and ways of sending money home to their loved ones. Yet in many cases they are mistreated and marginalized just because they are poor foreigners. Meanwhile they are also the ones who do the jobs that locals do not want such as hard physical labor under the scorching sun.
Other types of immigrants such as athletes are praised and welcomed to the point of changing nationalities. An example of this is Pablo Gabas, an Argentinian who is taking up the Costa Rican nationality to play soccer for the national team. This is considered a positive impact of immigrants.
Another negative aspect argued is that immigrants take jobs away from locals. There will always be room for growth as well as demand and supply. This negative could be seen as a positive just by going back to what was mentioned earlier. Most jobs that nationals don’t want to do are done by immigrants.
There are more positive impacts to immigration in receiving countries than there are negative. Without it great minds such as Albert Einstein would never have gone to a country which offered him the opportunity to contribute to mankind.
