Should Illegal Immigrants Be Made Legal Citizens?
As of 2013, eleven million immigrants are living in the United States of America (Immigration); however, their reasons for coming to America vary. Abuse by the government, poverty, and drug crimes are all reasons illegal immigrants come to America. Illegal immigrants travel to America to achieve their dreams because in their native countries all these problems make it hard for them to achieve their dreams. Illegal immigrants want to be accepted here in the US so they can achieve their dreams just like Americans can achieve theirs. Immigrants who migrated over to the United States have spent years building a decent life here and deserve citizenship and most importantly, respect.
Illegal immigrants do many necessary jobs in America that are undesirable to most Americans. Farm working, fruit picking, construction work, private babysitting, dish washing, and packing meat are many jobs that Americans don’t like to fulfill these jobs. In a survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal newspaper “44 out of 46 economists believed that illegal immigration to the United States was beneficial to the American economy.”(Immigration by the Numbers)
According to recent studies, eighteen percent of illegal immigrants are construction workers, seventeen percent work in hotels and restaurants, sixteen percent are in manufacturing, six percent clean and do landscaping, and three percent of the illegal immigrants are working in agriculture (The Shifting); however, Americans believe that immigrants are working mainly in agriculture.
Andrew Sum, an economist and the director of labor market studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts argued that if it weren’t for illegal immigrants, th...
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...s when immigrants are doing them a favor. Immigration lawyer Greg Siskind stated “if all these illegal immigrants disappeared from this country, the economy would collapse.” (Immigration Lawyer) Studies show that illegal immigrants help the U.S. economy grow by having cheap labor, while other studies show that illegal workers increase competition for low-skilled jobs. Illegal immigrants come to America and expect respect from Americans because illegal immigrants know that they are benefitting the economy just by working in a field or for a person who doesn’t care about where they come from.
Considering the statistics, it would be a very grand idea for America to give citizenship and freedom to illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants will continue to benefit the economy, whether they are legal or not, they know they are and will make a bigger difference in America.
The other aspect is that illegal immigrants have positive effects in the U.S economy by decreasing consumer cost. Most of the illegal immigrants came to the U.S to fill the secondary labor market; therefore products and services become cheaper because illegal immigrants work for lower wages, thus providing a kind of subsidy to American consumers. Nadadur Ramanujan in his article “Illegal Immigrants” states that, “Because illegal immigrants serves to allow businesses to minimize their cost of production in the secondary sector, it positively impacts income of all native workers by decreasing
It is said that immigrants come to this country for a better life, then that is what they should try to do for themselves. In most cases they just end up working low-paying, dead end jobs. If you come to america for a better life then you should put forth the effort to better yourself rather than just barely scraping by. Most immigrants tend to work the manual labor jobs that do not require a lot of other human interaction. “ While U.S. government mounds its huge effort to stop people from entering the country illegally, many American employers continually show their eagerness to give them jobs.” (Crest 72) Many immigrants use government assistance such as welfare and food stamps. Immigrants using government assistance tends to anger people because they feel like illegals are using the taxes that they pay to live their life while not paying taxes on their own. Trump suggests building a wall but I do not believe that will work very well at warding off the influx of immigrants, they will find other ways of entering our great country. Some argue that immigrants do the jobs that most Americans would not want to do themselves, at a much lower pay rate. Often illegals are paid under the minimum wage because employers do not have to register them as employees. Many illegals are often seen working in the construction business, gardening, roofing, concrete work, house cleaning, etc. This is because most of those are hard work or thought of as blue collar work that often does not pay enough to support a family. This being, they often have to work more than the average native born
Illegal immigration has many diverse effects on the United States economy. Some people argue that the negative outweigh the positive, but there is no doubt that immigrants do carry a critical role.
While tangible reasons exists for the need to cut on undocumented immigration, the benefits that illegal immigrants bring to the U.S economy still surpass the arguments against providing undocumented immigrants with legal status. The undocumented immigrants are found in all sectors of the U.S economy and their input needs to be recognized by providing them with legal status to work and improve the economy. They in fact, add circulation to the economy and many benefits that most of american-borns don’t see.
The lack of enforcement of immigration policies will cause the greatest impact on America’s economy. One of the most controversial topics is how immigrants affect jobs and wages. Many argue that immigrants help the economy by working for the people that will not, but in reality they are taking Americans jobs and legal immigrants that have earned their rights. The main issue is wages: illegal immigrants are desperate for jobs and will do anything. Businessmen will take advantage of this and pay them significantly lower wages. Cheap labor negatively affects other workers. Studies show that immigrants push down wages and may cause other workers to leave a certain industry.
First, immigrants come to the U.S. to work and bring valuable skills which help grow the economy despite the negative views surrounding their part in the U.S. economy. Since the 2008-2009 recession the view on immigration and its effects on the economy has been more negative than positive (Peri, 2012). A study done by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government found that about 50 percent of American adults believe that immigrants burden the country because they, “take jobs, housing, and healthcare”, while the other 50 percent believe that, “immigrants strengthen the country due to their hard work and talents” (Delener & Ventilato, 2008). Over the past decade, “over half of the increase in the U.S. labor force,… was the result of immigration-l...
While some argue that illegal immigrants burden the United States of America and its economy, others believe that they have become essential and are an important part of the US, economy. Illegal immigration has helped in the nation’s economic growth by enabling businesses to prosper, as the illegal immigrants have provided cheap labor and long hours of hard work. Businesses benefit from illegal immigration by saving a large amount of money since they are not providing insurance, both medical and retirement plans for their illegal workers. This results in a lower production cost for the companies and lower prices for goods and services for everyone. Although illegal immigrants may not contribute directly to the economy of the nation in the aspect of paying taxes like income tax, they contribute to the economy in the form of sales taxes by purchasing the supplies they need in the same way native citizens or legal immigrants do in order to survive and live comfortably....
Those who support immigrants being protected by the law believe that immigrants help the economy by creating lower wages which enables companies to make better profits. According to Becky Akers and Donald J. Boudreaux, immigrants “should be allowed to contribute to the United States economy in the Constitutional and legal precepts that guarantee all immigrants the opportunity to pursue life, liberty, and happiness in the United States” (22). If immigrants were not here in the United States, the jobs they do might not even get done by anyone else (Isidore 103). Immigrants fill up the jobs that many Americans do not want. “Specialization deepens. Workers’ productivity soars, forcing employers to compete for their time by offering higher pay” (Akers and Boudreaux 25). As researcher Ethan Lewis said, “Economics professor, Patricia Cortes, studied the way immigrants impact prices in 25 large United States metropolitan areas. She discovered that a 10-percent increase in immigration lowered the price...
Most of the jobs that the illegal workers do are consider dirty to the Americans, an example would be the agricultural sector. The Pew Hispanic Trust provides analysis to prove that most illegals in the United State are employed in agriculture of all types. The analysis also shows that the largest number of unauthorized immigrant workers are found in most 39 states, especially the District of Columbia where large number of illegal immigrants are involve in agronomy. The large amount of illegals working as farmers have helped reduce the cost of food and anything related has reducedImmigration is a growing topic in the United States with the more pressing issue illegal immigration. The term immigration is defined as the movement of people to
Many of these immigrants are seeking asylum or work in this country, and are willing to do the migrant worker and manual jobs that most Americans would not choose to do. When these tasks are performed, immigrants can be - and are - productive and useful members of society. With illegal immigrants, the demand of low wage workers will be fulfilled at all times, thus making for a much better economy. Since immigrants will choose rather unpopular jobs, they will make for a better business and more money. With the help of illegal immigration, the lives of poor migrants will be improved because there will be more help. These people are provided liberty and able to live a free
Illegal immigrants are makers, not takers. Many American citizens see these approximate 11 million illegal immigrants in a negative view and don’t want them living in their communities. However, many of these American citizens don’t know why illegal immigrants come here and what good they actually do to this country. Illegal immigration should be allowed because their quality of life is improved, they help the economy, and they bring job growth.
Every American has set high goals for themselves, leaving lower paying jobs available. Immigrants are just trying to survive, and are willing to take any job to accomplish just that. Americans have become spoiled, they get everything handed to them, they take things for granted, they forget about the ones that provide for them. Theodore Roosevelt once said “in the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person 's becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn 't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” Immigrants are normally shadowed by Americans, they do not have enough recognition for the jobs they do, they only get attention for the negative things they do. Just like Americans, Illegals have a mix of good and bad people, which should not affect the views on them as a whole. Illegal immigrants granted
There are 11.8 million illegal immigrants in the united states. An immigrant is An Immigrant is a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence. In the united states labor force about 5.1% is made up by illegal immigrants (5 facts of immigrants in the U.S). Part of this percent is because
Many people that do not believe that immigration helps the economy feel that way because they feel like immigrants workers take the native born workers jobs. Since immigrants are willing to work for lower wages than native born workers they feel that they will take more of their jobs or make their wages lower (Ezell, 2013). This is not true...
How this many undocumented immigrants live here is a little hazy because of our rigorous laws. There are two different types of illegal immigrants and knowing these two distinctively different types of illegal immigrants is of great importance. The first, are immigrants that travel to our country legally with a visa or green card but stay as their visas become expired. The other illegal immigrant is when a person illegally trespasses our border without asking for permission from the government and lives here. The first type of Immigrants are much easier to track and incarcerate because of the fact that the government already knows that they are in the country. However, the second type of illegal immigrant is much more difficult to find because the government is unaware of their