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Immigrant youth cannot access quality education due to a lack of school fees. They come from humble family backgrounds where their parents only meet basic needs such as providing food and shelter. Failure to access quality education make the immigrant youth work in low-income jobs. The minimum wage policy undermines the possibility of immigrant youth securing decent jobs as they lack the skills and knowledge required. The adoption of a minimum wage policy will limit the job opportunities to the immigrant youth and avail them to the members of the middle income (Foroohar, 2015). Therefore, immigrant youth secure low-income jobs because they have low levels of education.

Lack of employment opportunities for immigrant youth will facilitate them to engage in deviant social behaviours. The immigrant youth will form gangs that will cause insecurity in their areas of residence as they engage in robbery and theft. The involvement in criminal behaviours will cause mass imprisonment of the immigrant youth, hindering their ability to provide for their families. In addition, the immigrant youth will engage in drug trafficking, which increases the usage of illegal drugs. Drug abuse has detrimental effects on society members as men fail to meet parenting responsibilities leading to high divorce cases. The marriage breakups threaten the financial stability of the families as, in most cases, children are raised by a single parent who is unable to meet health and education needs (Foroohar, 2015). Therefore, failure to access jobs makes immigrant youth engage in unethical behaviours that lead to their incarceration.