Growing Roots Video

Immigrants cause a positive impact on our society.  One of the reasons for this is that they pay taxes while working jobs and do not receive benefits such as social security, food stamps, or free health care.  The impact of immigrants in Arkansas is $19billion a year.  This creates more benefits for native families.  Also they work many jobs that Americans do not want.  By doing this these immigrants help to keep some companies here which benefit all people in the state.  The only money truly lost is the money that immigrants spend elsewhere.  It is said that $.30 of every dollar earned by immigrants is spent out of the state.  Reasons for this are sometimes a simple fix in the fact of businesses not suited to help the immigrants here.  By fixing these problems this money can stay in the state as well which will benefit the state even more. 
Many cities in Arkansas have transformed as immigrant populations have moved into their areas.  Some rural towns are seeing a revival of their communities as a strong work ethic and a young population concerned about education and having a better life for their families is causing the towns to change for the better and everyone in the town benefits.
There is still an us verses them attitude towards immigrants in many areas.  This is a bigger problem for the natives of Arkansas then the immigrants.  If the immigrants receive too much hostility towards them they can move to another town or state.  If too many leave the state, the companies will follow along with many of the other benefits that immigrants create by living here.
In one town Pilgrams Pride Chicken factory built 2 soccer fields for the immigrants that have moved into the community.  These fields do not just benefit the immigrants, but any child that wants to play soccer in the community.  If it was not for the immigrants then these fields would not have been built. It is simple things like this that immigrants can help in rebuilding communities.
Children of other countries where education is a key factor, the children are learning more than their native language.  America seems to have n attitude of "it is our way or the highway." This attitude does not work in a global economy.  Communication has become easier with our technology, yet America is still behind the eight ball so to speak in preparing the next generation to take over.  Only teaching our children English and not looking towards the future will prevent native born students from excelling.  If an immigrant comes to America and later on has a child, that child is now a native American.  That child will grow up knowing more than one language and can surpass their counterparts just because of that one benefit.  The other is seeing their family with a strong work ethic, and so the child follows, but with the family pushing for their education, they will surpass us while we sit around and complain these immigrants taking our jobs, instead of preparing ourselves to handle our own lives. At one time we were immigrants here as well, we have just forgotten what that was like and have relaxed.  Now the new immigrants are coming in and we are sitting back asleep at the wheel.