Illegal Immigration Pros And Cons

The United States is a country that was built on immigration. The first settlers, Native Americans, represent less than 2% of the total population; the remaining 98% of the population are immigrants or decedents of immigrants. Today, the US still has the highest immigration rate in the world with 757,434 naturalizations in the 2012 fiscal year only (US Naturalizations 2012, Department of Homeland security). People try to immigrate to the United States for many reasons. Some people immigrate because they have been granted a refugee status or asylum and other people immigrate to fulfill their dreams. Immigration has an effect on the American society and economy. The US cannot survive without immigrants.

June 2012 was a year with a huge break through on illegal immigration, and the fight to set the decision right. Opportunities to improve immigrants careers, schooling, and lives, who were born in the United States and plan on staying are on the rise. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was created to provide immigrants with an opportunity to stay in the States “legally,” but continue their lives through education if graduating from an U.S. high school, going to college, serving in the armed forces, and eventually gain citizenship in the United States. Many U.S. citizen have many thoughts and views on illegal immigrants and immigration in general, and the pros and cons to having DACA support illegal immigrants to stay in the country. There is a huge decision in process currently in 2017 that is putting DACA in risk from being a Federal Program that would end up effecting many immigrants. Threatening deportation and the possibility of losing everything that DREAMers have worked up to and for and are continuing to work towards is at a huge risk of just being thrown away. Keeping DACA and protecting the DREAMers is important because mentally and physically they are just as much of a U.S. citizen as anyone else born in the U.S.

An American citizen who visits other countries is somehow automatically protected, held to certain regards and given certain liberties, which sometimes the “Citizens” of those countries do not receive. Americans can travel to just about any country without a visa or any form of legal documents. Aside from a passport, they can choose to reside in that country simply because they want to without any form of backlash, ill treatment, or fear for their lives. They get some of the better jobs pushing the locals out of those positions. Therefore, illegal immigrants in the United States do have some constitutional rights that citizens have.

The U.S. immigrant population stood at more than 42.4 million, or 13.3 percent, of the total U.S. population of 318.9 million in 2014, according to ACS data. Between 2013 and 2014, the foreign-born population increased by 1 million, or 2.5 percent.

Do undocumented immigrants affect the economy, job, healthcare, and safety of the United States of America? First of all, the government spends a ton of money on illegal immigrants every year, and people of the United States pay that money through their taxes. With that in mind, according to FAIR “At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens.” (O'Brien, 1). Second, everyone dreams to live in a country that there is no terrorist attack, kidnapping, and other “things” that makes a place or a country unsafe. But unfortunately, all the undocumented aliens that come to the United States every year makes the possibility

Many people don't care that there is illegal immigrants in the U.S., but it seems to be a big topic in running for president. To me some have good ideas and others screwed their heads on backwards.

Immigration is a very debated topic in the United States right now. Conservative citizens believe that people who enter the country illegally, or without proper documentation, have no right to stay. The federal government has laws set in place to prevent illegal immigrants from staying in their borders for too long such as taking away their right to work and ensuring that businesses do not hire these people. The government wants to have accountability of its visitors so that it can keep their citizens safe. Texas borders Mexico for approximately 2000 miles and many of the illegal immigrants come through there to work in Texas. Many Texans will eagerly jump on the bandwagon and declare that illegals must be deported and the border should be

Illegal immigration has been a problem for the United States for a long time. Illegal immigrants have come into US through either the Mexico border, the Pacific Ocean, or through many other ways. Some people have entered the country legally through a visit visa, but then have stayed illegally and are working in various places. Illegal immigration is a double-edged sword; on the one hand it provides the local economy with cost benefits as the illegal immigrants are not paid so much, while they are more productive. On the other hand, these illegal immigrants do not pay taxes and their employers also do not pay their taxes. There are both pros and cons of illegal immigration and this paper shall take a look at some facts pertinent to illegal immigration in the United States. With so much immigration happening it can be viewed as a social problem perspective and it depends if the immigration affects us for the better or the worse. Also, honestly in time of 2017 illegal immigration is a problem that should addressed at this period of time.

The number of legal immigrants in the United States grows each year. Migrationpolicy.org says, “in 2000, 31.1 million immigrants lived in the united states. 42.4 million immigrants lived in the United States in 2014.” The Immigration Act of 1952 ensured that America has procedures in place to apply for legal residency or even naturalization. However, the act has been amended so many times that legal immigration has become more complicated. Some argue that the number of undocumented immigrants entering America is directly related to the complexities associated with our immigration laws; but if you needed to get away from a gang, dictator, bad economic issues, or your family was in danger wouldn’t you just come into a country even if you were breaking laws? In the 2016, presidential election major party nominees took radically different stands. Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, offered an immigration reform plan that included pathways for full and equal citizenship, extension of the affordable health act and the promotion of naturalization by waiving the associated fees. Says www.hillaryclinton.com. While the Republican nominee, Donald Trump’s plan would allow for construction of a border wall. www.donaldjtrump.com says; detain and deportation of undocumented immigrants and create an biometric entry-exit visa tracking system.

Between 1990 and 2006, immigration to the United States drove up wages for native-born Americans without high school diplomas by 0.6%. This is because immigrants are not only employees, but consumers, they circulate money back into the economy by purchasing goods and services. By doing that, businesses are more profitable and can

There are over seven billion people in the world today. Out of that statistic, there are 11 million people that are illegal immigrants. They are migrating from their mother country to find a better way of life for them and their families. Even though not all of these "illegal aliens" are bad people

There are a lot of arguments whether or not illegal aliens should or should not be allowed into another country. People have to realize that the main reason for illegal immigration are for their freedom and/or more job opportunities to allow people to have the ability of supporting their families or even just their self. However, not all illegal immigrants want to come just for jobs but to break the law and sell or take things to earn money. (icof.infobaselearning.com/articles/global-issues-and-world-politics/state-immigration-laws.aspx?sr=1&tab=1&hd=2199)

Immigration is an increasingly hot controversy in southern California; there have even been various rallies recently with many supporting a path to citizenship and others arguing that we need to close our boarders and prosecute violators. Immigration is the spotlight not due to money, but because it affects problems like race, the role of government, national identity and change. There are more advantages than disadvantages on supporting illegal immigration and supporting an amnesty.

Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s theory of the Metaphysics of morals, explains actions, nor consequences affect our goodwill it depends on whether we fulfill our duties. Many of us do the best we can fulfil our moral obligations, anything we do has an impact morally. Illegal immigration is one of the largest problems the United States is currently facing. Is it morally right to deport those who face daily challenges to give their children a better life? Nevertheless, unfortunately deportation levels are increasing, leaving children without parents, and ripping families apart. Hypothetically speaking, is illegal immigration unethical?

Illegal immigration is a major problem which most of the developed countries face in the current economy, and it has been major political problem for the political parties in America (republicans and democrats) and over years each party has a different agenda to discuss the problem. Illegal immigration can be defined as a movement of people from a source country to the destination country without any legal documents and violates destination countries immigration laws. People have moved across lands over years to escape a war situation or to get better facilities in a different country. Countries have defined immigration laws to restrict people to enter their land without proper documentation as illegal immigration social and time