Impacts on Receiver Country (USA)

• Short term labour gap filled, often jobs Americans do not want.
• Labour costs reduced.
• Gain skilled workers
• Migrants can enrich culture of the area (food, language, music)
• Increased population means increased tax paid to the government which can be reinvested into services
• Discrimination against Mexicans
• Unemployment for Americans
• Shortage of affordable housing leads to areas of cities becoming slums
• Cost of providing services for migrants increase (schooling/healthcare)