Pros And Cons Of Illegal Immigration

Do you believe immigrants should not come into the US? Would you close the doors on an innocent family coming to the US in order to help their family? I believe that not only should we allow them to come to the U.S for only their benefit, but I also think they could benefit us (the U.S) as well. First, what is immigration? Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. When people immigrate, they often bring their families, they don’t often get involved with the government although since they come illegally at times. The immigration of the families shouldn’t be looked as “harmful” because many families come here for their families, to help benefit their futures. As a matter of fact, maybe the immigrant is choosing

to come into our country in our to protect themselves and/or their families. Sure there have been terrorist attacks in our past history, but you also have to see that any U.S citizen could be capable of doing any of those as well. Immigrants aren’t always the problem, the cause as to why we have terrible events happen. Including that, every human being is entitled to having their individual rights, they are entitled to the rights of “equal protection under the law” as covered in the 5th and 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. These amendments are addressed to all, meaning illegal aliens as well, not only US citizens. These amendments are proof as to why I believe that every human being, whether they’re U.S citizens or not, they should all be entitled to having the same rights when they come and are in the United States. There are advantages as to why immigrants should come to the U.S: they help boost our economy, they don’t come to harm the United States, and they bring more diverse cultures into our country.
You may have heard about immigrants boosting our economy before, but you may have not been as educated on the facts. To begin with, the first point is that immigrants start businesses, many immigrants who come to the U.S start their own businesses. According to “Ten Ways Immigrants Help Build and Strengthen Our Economy”, by Jason Furman there have been statistics that prove 30% more immigrants most likely start businesses rather than non-immigrants. Not only this, but 18% of the small business owners in the U.S are indeed immigrants. Although in contrary to other claims, such as native-born workers losing their jobs due to immigrants, this doesn’t apply in all careers. Not all of the jobs immigrants start, many of the Americans don’t do those. In fact “How Immigration Affects the Economy and You” by Kimberly Amadeo she states, “But what hurts some workers helps consumers.” What this interprets into is that immigrants in fact lower the cost of commodities and the services for everyone. To explain this reasoning, they allow the cost of commodities to lower since they provide low-cost labor, which allows the companies to reduce the costs. Including, since immigrants provide all of these jobs from the businesses they make, and how they help lower the costs of our everyday needs I believe this is helping our country, instead of harming it.
To emphasize, immigrants who come to the United States do not harm us. I believe immigrants don’t hurt us, instead I stand by my point that most of them are actually coming for the well being of their families. Instead of just focusing on spending so much money towards deporting all the immigrants who come, the government should be determined on fixing other things rather than the immigrants themselves. According to they had mentioned the “Top 10 Pro & Con Arguments” about immigration. Notably, they had been stating out the point on how it’s inhumane and unrealistic that the U.S is deporting all the families that come, considering there are 11 million immigrants. Shouldn’t everyone have the opportunity to prove themselves? On this same website the formerly American Jewish Committee had said, “These immigrants should be offered a path to legal status and eventually earned citizenship.” I myself agree with this because every human being, whether they’re immigrants or citizens should be equally open to their opportunities of choosing to come to the United States or not and being able to prove themselves to becoming citizens.
With this in mind, not only with immigrants being in the US would this benefit the economy, but they would also bring more diverse cultures into our country.

Most compelling evidence, according to a website I had found it says, “...having mixed cultures in a country is a good thing. This is why they are in favor of illegal immigration because these immigrants bring in their culture and skills to the nation.”(Green Garbage Blog, 10 Critical Pros and Cons of Illegal Immigration). With this quote, it had interpreted into the reason why we should allow and keep immigrants in our country. Furthermore, many of these different cultures inspire our world today. In work environments, you need inspiration, new ideas of things to come up with. These immigrants allow us to see, taste(food for examples), and experience some of the cultures from all around the world. Without all of these immigrants, would we be outgoing in the things we make, eat, or have around us today? Not only this, but did you know that many of the founders/co founders of many of the resources we use today to help us are immigrants indeed. For example, Sergey Brin, who is the cofounder of Google is an immigrant. Never would you have probably thought in consideration that he was one of the founders of one of the most used websites we use today. With this in mind, would we have Google today or any other invention, if it weren’t for those

immigrants?
In the contrary, I understand that many people are scared about the terrorist attacks reoccurring if immigrants start coming in. Although, what good does it do to put labels on innocent people? In agreement, I know there may be some harmful people out there, but not every human being is an inadequate person. Including, just because they are a certain race, religion, or whatever it may be, this shouldn’t define the type of the person they are. In reference to our President Donald Trump, he had actually issued restrictions against only 6 countries. These countries had included Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Not all of these countries had been banned from immigration of their people, but the majority was 5/6! Additionally, this means the refugees in need of a place to go to, for safety, won’t have our country as an option. This puts the people in more of a chance of staying in that dangerous place instead, now what good is our country doing if we are not helping saving lives? And why is this? This is all because of their ethnicity. By not letting these innocent people enter our country you may think we are preventing terrorism from taking place, but indeed we are not. According to the itqanna.org website where it talked about “9 Pros and Cons on Illegal Immigration,” it had talked about how illegal immigration would provide more of an option for terrorism to exist. Although, not all of the immigrants seek danger in coming into the US, some of them come for the chance to have an opportunity of having a better life. Correspondingly, I see where people are coming from since the 9/11 terrorist attack and others as well. Although, one thing you need to keep in mind is that any person who lives in our country (an American so to speak) can be fully capable of doing these things as well. Not only the immigrants. Over the past months, there have been multiple school shooting across our country, who were Americans, these people all caused the deaths of many innocent citizens. Due to all of these shootings happening by people who live here, this should show that not only are immigrants or foreign people any different as a threat than any other person who lives in our country at the moment.
All in all, immigrants aren’t, and shouldn’t be seen/described as threats. By allowing these immigrants to enter our country, we can not only boost our economy, but also increase the different cultures we have in the U.S. Going on, if we do allow immigration, we can even help out the refugees in need for assistance if they need it or are even in danger as well. As shown above, when I talked about how the amendments relate as to why immigrants should come into our country, I had found another one along with that one. In depth, according to Article I of the United States Constitution, it had mentioned some of our basic civil liberty protections. Not only this, but also, one of them had been that the Congress cannot prohibit an immigrant from coming into the U.S, although they do have the authority of charging them money. Due to this civil liberty protection law, this shall be influenced into this situation and allow you to change your thinking towards immigration. Moreover, some of my family is actually immigrants themselves, for example, my mom was an immigrant herself. Not to mention, my mother is a citizen of the U.S, and also doesn’t cause any harm to our country. In fact, my mom actually helps in taking part of the common good of our city because she indeed is a caregiver who takes care of disabled elders. See, if my mother had still been in Mexico and she had wanted to enter, she would most likely be criticized or underestimated based on her ethnicity. I believe this is wrong and that we should be able to overlook people’s backgrounds instead of just judging because we never know, they can make an impact on our country in a positive matter. Maybe next time, think about all the benefits that will happen to you, maybe even your future, if these innocent immigrants we to get their chance at entering our country. “There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indian. No one’s illegal. They should just be able to come,” said Linda Ronstadt. Look at immigrants as people not intruders, take your decision into consideration because, I believe everyone shall get their chance to come into our country if they wish to.

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