Research Journal #3a

I have narrowed my topic down. I am going to research and write on the economic impact of immigration. This topic will allow me to dive deeper into the positives and negatives of immigration while learning all that i can about this topic! I started looking around on Wikipedia and found some great information. Wikipedia started me off with some basic points on this topic. This includes social security, taxes, health care, education, and the work force. One astonishing statistic was that illegal immigrants payed over $321 dollars in out-of-pocket health care related issues in 2000. It gave me a general basis for what i am going to research. Upon further research I found a website published by The Academic Press that released a debate in 1998 on immigration. This can be found here;The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. There was some interesting information found here. One thing that stood out to me was in a poll from this press release how many immigrants polled wanted to live in California. I know it is a nice place to live but the number was astonishing! My initial research can be found on my delicious account!