To which side of the immigration debate does the following argument apply? immigrants who are willing to work for lower wages take jobs away from americans. no immigrants open borders

The argument definitely belongs to the anti-immigration side. The pro-immigration side uses a higher percentage of pathos and emotional arguments to justify their views. The anti-immigration side uses a higher percentage of logos and socioeconomic arguments to justify their arguments.

It is a proven socioeconomic fact in a capitalistic economy that a huge influx of unskilled workers who do not speak the local language or speake it very little are willing to work more hours for lower salaries than local workers who speak the language. Industrialist usually use them to apply pressure on workers' salaries in order to keep them very low, especially in industrial agriculture.

The Scientific Revolution started with the change in thought and belief between 1550 and 1700, starting with Nicholas Copernicus theory of the sun as the center of the universe and not the earth.

The advances in new instrumentation such as the telescope and microscope, brought changes to the old idea of nature, such as when Galileo observed the moons of Jupiter orbiting arround the planet on a predictable schedule, driving into conclusion that earth could no longer be the center of the universe or the focal point of god creation.

Studies of mathematical analysis now called the calculus also change the conceptual abstraction of the Greeks that was transformed by such mathematics, so the scientific idea of nature at that time was more represented by equations and laws.