borns don't want to do it, this allows Americans to work in high skilled jobs and get paid more than immigrants. As for claims that immigrants take jobs away from U.S.-born workers, studies find that immigrants bring different and complementary skills that meet demand for jobs that would otherwise go unfilled, such as agricultural work. Immigrants are also more willing than U.S.-born workers to travel as the labor market changes, stabilizing the national employment landscape. We must first understand why immigrants leave their home country to come to the United States. These factors are known as the Push and Pull factors coined by Lee (1966). Push factors are the unfavorable aspects of the country they live in that push them to migrate to their home country. Some push factors are insufficient jobs, inadequate working conditions, violence, natural disasters, forced labor, etc. Push factors are the things that immigrants are attracted to in the country they are immigrating to. Some pull factors can be better living conditions, better wages, more job opportunities, education, better medical care, etc. Neoclassical economic theory states that the main reason people emigrate from their home country is because of wage differences between the two countries. Immigrants see this opportunity and seize it. There's a reason these jobs are empty, it's because North Americans don't want those jobs, and so immigrants take them. In Georgia, officials passed an anti-immigration law, resulting in 11,000 unfilled agricultural jobs. Fruit and crops were left to rot, and some farmers faced labor shortages so severe that they nearly went bankrupt. Although immigrants make up the majority of the agricultural workforce, they are not paid adequately and work in harsher conditions than most
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