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Arguments to restrict immigration on the grounds that immigrants will take domestic jobs ignore the fact that immigrants, once employed, will earn and spend money on goods and services, creating new jobs that will more than make up for the old ones they took.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
(A) The immigrants will not send most of the money that they earn back to their hometowns.
(B) Studies show that large scale inflow of immigrants invariably leads to an increase in the incidence of crime in that city.
(C) The immigrants will not subsequently get their families to also join them in the new city.
(D) Immigrants generally tend to save most of the money that they earn.
(E) Opponents of immigration are not opposed to immigration for reasons other than loss of jobs.
Official Explanation
Answer: A
The argument assumes that the immigrants will spend money in their city of immigration thereby helping create jobs in the city, but what if the immigrants did not do so? The argument obviously assumes that this will not be the case. A states this and is the assumption in the argument.
(A) The correct answer.(B) This is extra information and not an assumption.
(C) If the immigrants do so it will be a good thing because they will spend even more money in the new city.
(D) This would actually make the argument fall apart. The assumption has to be the opposite of this.
(E) The motives of the opponents of immigration are outside the scope of the argument.