Illegal Immigrants Free Education

Children of illegal immigrants are entitled to a public education. Every child in the United States has the right to an education, and nothing changes that. Children of illegal immigrants are people, just like children born in the America, we have the same rights. Declining them an education implies that they are not people. This

I am an 18-year-old student currently residing in Indiana. I’ve been living here with my family for the past eleven or so years, ever since we moved in 2004 from California, my birthplace. My parents both originate from Central America. My mother is from El Salvador and my father is from Mexico, so I’m a mix of Salvadorian, Mexican, and American. I was homeschooled by my parents for most of my adolescent life, mainly by my mother during my infant years. As I grew up my father took charge of my education from kindergarten to middle school. When it came time for highschool, I decided to attend a public school. My first endeavour in the public education system was with an online school known as INCA(Indiana Connection Academy). I eventually found

The last 10 years of U.S. economy can be seen by the impact of immigrant reform in different scenarios. In 2013, undocumented immigrants have been granted legal status; citizenship has helped to increase the U.S. GDP and would accumulate by an additional $1.4 trillion compared to the 10 years in between the 2013 to 2022. This earning will give a chance for the Americans some additional earnings of $791 billion at the same period as a personal income, in which the economy would create job opportunities, about 203,000 new jobs per year. In these years the undocumented immigrants will earn about 25.1 percent more than the current earnings of the immigrants. These earnings show that they will be contributing significantly to the federal, local, and state taxes which will add to tax revenue in 10 years with $185 billion to $116 billion for the USA federal government as well as $68 billion to the state and local government (Stuart Anderson,2011).

Another controversial assumption made by advocates who want to see a change in birthright citizenship is that unauthorized immigrants and their U.S. born children place a drain on many social resources. When an unauthorized immigrant has a child born in the U.S., that child has access to all the social resources that U.S. children born to legal citizens are entitled to. It is believed that undocumented immigrants do not pay taxes and come to America with the sole intentions of living on welfare. Evidence provided by the Social Security Administration, contends that there are taxes that cannot be matched to workers’ names and social security numbers. This is also known as a “suspense file” and it has grown by twenty billion dollars in recent years. Migrants and undocumented immigrants contribute more in taxes and social contributions than they will ever receive in individual benefits (Van Hook and Fix 2010). Immigrants earn about $240 billion a year, they pay about $90 billion a year in taxes but only use roughly $5 billion in public benefits (Van Hook and Fix 2010). In

There are around 11.7 million illegal Mexican immigrants living in the United States. Today many of the teenagers of those immigrants are obtaining a free access to college education. [How are the illegals obtaining (getting) access to the free college?] On average a college education would cost a legal citizen going to a four-year college, which doesn’t include books, transport, and personal expenses can range from $107,000 to around $370,000. For example, there is a teenager named Indira Esparza, an illegal immigrant, graduated from University City in San Diego, California. She was able to secure a spot attending an expensive and exclusive private school, that is for the elite, with a full scholarship, $10,000 and other material. Esparza does not have to pay for books, transportation, and

But amazingly, the flow of foreign-born is so large that immigrants currently account for a larger share of labor force growth than natives (“U.S. Immigration and Economic Growth: Putting Policy on Hold”, 2003) When you do the math, it makes a good deal of sense to spend the little that we do—if not more—to keep them healthy (Karvounis, 2007). Care for undocumented immigrants represents a tiny fraction of the nation’s health care burden. They receive minimal care; some pay taxes. Between one half and three quarters of undocumented immigrants pay taxes and some work “off the books” jobs as well (What Immigration Reform Could Mean To The US Economy, 2009). Illegal aliens provide as much as 7 billion dollars a year to the Social Security Fund although they cannot claim benefits for this program (Immigrants’ Economic Contribution, 2009). Further still, undocumented workers pay sales taxes where applicable and property taxes—directly if they own and indirectly if they rent (“Undocumented Immigrants as Taxpayers”, 2007).

In a tight decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot deny undocumented children the right to have public education because it would violate their 14th amendment rights. These children lacked responsibility for their status as undocumented, and in the ruling was found to be innocent victims of a status that is beyond their control. The courts state that

I strongly agree that a child of an illegal immigrant should be able to get an education because at the end of the day, they’re just normal kids who would love to receive an education. And their parents would love so much to see their child grow up to do to the career that they would want pursue, wouldn’t you want your child going to school to get a education if you were a illegal immigrant?

This documentary tries to bust myths about immigrations like: undocumented immigrant workers do not pay taxes, most immigrants are in the United States illegally and that immigrants take away jobs from Americans. It showed that these workers pay sale taxes, consumption taxes and property taxes at the state and federal levels. 20 million of the 31 million immigrants in the United States are legal and about 45% of them got into the county legally. American born workers dropped my 1.8 million between 2000 and 2005 crating a vacuum that was filled by these workers (Lloyd, 34).

Many might argue that immigrants do not pay enough in taxes to cover the public services they receive from the government at the present time. According to Maria Santana on CNN MONEY, illegal immigrant “Collectively, they paid an estimated $10.6 billion to state and local taxes in 2010, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). Illegal immigrant in most states does not qualify for welfare, food stamps and Medicaid. What most people seem to forget is that illegal immigrants do not even get any benefit from their daily job, some have no name or record if anything was to happen in their line of work. Some employers see them as dispensable with no question. Yet, these same employers take out taxes, Medicare and other

Wooldridge generalizes that all the undocumented immigrants are unemployed and their children cost taxpayers a lot of money every year. I strongly disagree to that because, a recent estimate by researchers at the Pew Hispanic Center puts the number of illegal aliens in the work force at a number of 8 million out of an overall population of 11.2 million illegal aliens, that is 74 percent. This implies that majority of these “illegal immigrants” or aliens are employed at the various sectors of the US economy as opposed to what Wooldridge insinuated. These employed “illegal immigrants” pay tax to the United States Government but Wooldridge thinks that these immigrants

Illicit immigrants originate from another nation, so financial issues can emerge when there are excess measures of emigration. Such a pattern can destabilize outside nations and diminish the ability of U.S. firms to fare products to those countries. In 2010, the normal unlawful immigrant family unit receives around $24,721 in government advantages and administrations while paying some $10,334 in taxes. This produced a normal yearly financial shortage (benefits got less expenses paid) of around $14,387 per family unit. This cost must be borne by U.S. citizens. Under current law, all illegal immigrant family units together have a total yearly shortfall of around $54.5 billion.

Are Children of illegal immigrants entitled to a public education? Yes, as a matter of fact, they are! Their parents work for minimum wage and still pay taxes, therefor their child should be able to attend public school. How many Americans don’t work and live off the system, but yet their child still gets a public education?

Children of undocumented immigrants are entitled to public education, because the U.S. constitution guarantees that migrant children and children born in the U.S. have equal educational opportunities. European immigrants migrated to the United States without question of their legal status, and were able to easily blend in, however, in the current time, race plays a great part in how people perceive undocumented migrants. Children are the future of our country and their education shouldn’t be determined by their parent’s legal status. I plan to use this article to explain how immigrants are treated differently than they were in the past, and how race may play a role into it.

Immigration laws have been a subject of debate throughout American history, especially in states such as California and Texas, where immigrant populations are high. Recently, some citizens have been questioning whether we should continue to educate the children of illegal immigrants. While this issue is steeped in emotional controversy, we must not allow divisive "us against them" rhetoric to cloud our thinking. Yes, educating undocumented immigrants costs us, but not educating them would cost us much more.