Part F Write a 250-word essay explaining your informed opinion about immigration policy and immigration reform. Consider the information you have gathered and brainstormed about throughout this task. Review the arguments supporting and opposing increased immigration. Do some additional research on your own. Then, make a claim in support of one side, explain your reasoning, and support your reasons with evidence and arguments from your resources. Immigration policy and reform should focus on being open and inclusive because immigration has good economic and social benefits. Open immigration policies bring economic benefits. According to the Foundation for Economic Education, 'By inviting competition into the American labor markets, artificially inflated labor costs could be eliminated and a greater level of labor efficiency could be achieved." This means that labor costs would go down while the output of the product would stay the same and may increase. If this were to happen in most industries, the US would experience a significant boost to the economy as a whole. Since the US operates on a free market economy where competition between companies helps keep prices low, this same principle can be applied to the workforce. If many workers compete for the same job, the competition lowers labor costs which help businesses grow and prosper. Open immigration policies also bring social benefits. According to UNIDOS US, immigrants are less likely than natural-born citizens to commit crimes. This a major benefit since immigration is correlated to the reduction of crime. By introducing more honest and hardworking immigrants into our country, we also reduce the amount of crime being committed. This is a major social benefit since many places like inner cities, which suffer from high crime rates, can become safer through the introduction of