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L1 1.They tend to acknowledge the more recent immigrants only in retrospect. The immigrants have to wait until they have proved themselves by working, raising a respectable family, achieving citizenship, and maybe even winning a Nobel Prize. 2.The present wave of Hispanic immigration and European waves are similar in roots. But there are two important differences: the European waves were legal whereas the current wave is illegal. The numbers are also different. The current wave is much larger in scale. 3.The evidence shows that the new immigrants behave in positive ways similar to their predecessors. They are family oriented, they value education, and their children are learning English. Overtime, they are intermarrying among growing numbers of other ethnic groups. They are people of faith. They are energetic, looking to move up in life through better jobs–they work hard and for long hours. 4.They often take jobs many Americans simply no longer wish to do. By and large the most recent surge of immigrants is made up of people who are young and mobile, and who work in the least desired sectors of the U.S. economy such as agriculture and service industries for relatively low pay. Today, only about 10 percent of white males leave high school, and high school graduates won’t take the menial jobs that many immigrants are happy to take on. So for the most part, the new immigrants and native Americans are not competing for the same jobs. Even when they do compete more directly with low-skilled U.S.-born workers, the job preference is different. Immigrants find work in agriculture, while less educated natives often end up in manufacturing. 5.Immigrants at both the low end and the high end of the skill sets are needed. More immigrants are needed because the retirement of the 80 million baby boomers will increase the burden of supporting the non-working seniors and more immigrants will help reduce the burden. 6.Family reunification should be supported to the extent of holding