The reading on chapter 3 in One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the 21st Century states that “even when they are drastically underpaid, however, low-wage immigrants are greatly improving the quality of life of New Yorkers”. This made me think of my everyday life and the services that I have access to. How much differently would the economy of the United States have been if the 1965 change in federal immigration law had never occurred? Would U.S. born people have picked up the roles that immigrants now occupy?

Also the reading on chapter 7 in the same textbook speaks about the influence that  Jamaicans and West Indians seem to have African Americans already in the United States. Is there any other culture that is also influenced by the Jamaican and West Indian immigrants? What examples of this do we see?