The Economic Impact Of Illegal Immigration

The United States of America, being a country founded by immigrants, is known all over the world as the land of great opportunities. People from all walks of life travelled across the globe, taking a chance to find a better life for them and their family. Over the years, the population of immigrants has grown immensely, resulting in the currently controversial issue of illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are the people who have overstayed the time granted on their US, visa or those who have broken the federal law by crossing the border illegally. Matt O’Brien stated in his article “The government thinks that 10.8 million illegal immigrants lived in the country in January 2009, down from a peak of nearly 12 million in 2007.”(Para, 2)

Ever since 2001, when the tragedy of September 11th happened, many citizens in the U.S. have a fear of allowing immigrants into the United States. Some citizens judge that immigration is an impending threat to national security, and that the U.S. should close the borders up for good. The U.S. should not consider that because everything negative that occurs in the U.S. is not due to immigrants. The government can stop illegal immigration right now, but would it not affect the U.S. more to do so? Restrictionists claim that large-scale immigration, legal and illegal has depressed wages, burdened government resources, and acted as a net drain on the economy. However, if immigration is stopped completely the reduction of workers would cause the inflation of money to decrease therefore, causing the economy to plunge downward. People come to the U.S. to escape persecution from their country, work and make a living. Third world immigration is not a threat to America’s way of life because immigrants work, immigrants participate, and immigration already responds reasonably well to America 's economy. Thus, if immigration is eliminated, the U.S. would have fewer workers and the economy would not flow smoothly because the immigrant workers make the jobs and economy better. America should allow immigrants because they are essential to the growth of the American economy.

The amount of money that comes out of your pocket for schooling, incarceration, jobs lost, and maintaining the medical system in the United States because of illegal immigrants may be more than people know. During the past few decades, the influx of illegal immigrants has risen dramatically. Illegal immigrants put a huge strain on our school systems, commit a disproportionate amount of crimes in this country and have taken many jobs that American citizens unemployed could do.

The number of immigrants entering the United States legally is greater today than it was at the turn of the century, so as the US economy. US economy has proved to be raised dramatically in the past few years. This made me think about Immigration and the US economy on a same page in my mind. Many questions started populating in my head such as Does immigration in some way affect the US economy? If yes, how? After doing some research, I found that Immigration plays an important role in the US economy. I’ll start with my own background, how this question is connected to me and what other people think about immigration. Next, I’ll talk about my research findings and the unexpected answers I got to my question. Are those answers same as people’s view. As a final point, I’ll talk about what I learned in the process of researching the impact of immigration on the US economy before concluding my essay.

There are millions of illegal immigrants in the United States, as Markon (2016) argues that the majority are from South and Central America, Europe, and Mexico. They form a population of between 10 million to 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. One of these illegal is my father, who came to the U.S.A in 1996 to work and tried to pay the numerous debts that he got in my country; in addition, my country had a large concern where there weren’t jobs and several banks had gone broke because of the change from Sucre to the dollar. At that time, my father thought the only solution was to come to get that money. My father, there are other undocumented immigrants that came from the same situation or for other reasons to this

A standout amongst the most intense discussions all over the United States these days is the topic of immigration. Immigration is the activity of coming to live permanently in another nation. In particularly, there are a huge number of issues surrounding unauthorized immigrants who remain in America. As a rule, the media likes to celebrate the negative parts of this issue to advance their own plan and outlook on the subject. In fact, illegal immigrants are not harming our economy in any way. These people really represent a critical support in the economy no matter how you look at it. Unauthorized immigrants have appeared to support the wages of the white-collar class families, do not profit from government welfare programs, they pay taxes on everything that they buy, contribute assorted qualities, and frequently are the source of the unfavorable hard working jobs.

Illegal immigrants in the United States have long been a subject of examine for policymakers and people in general. . The basis about them is that they do not pay taxes, they add to the costs of taxpayers and use up funds in resources meant for assisting citizens and legal immigrants. Hence, they are seen as a danger to the US economy. The genuine effects of illegal immigrants on the US economy are discussed by debating over the economic benefits as well as economic costs of these immigrants. The negative impacts, discussed first, presented the decreases in low skilled jobs’ wage rates for legal immigrants and citizens instigated by illegal immigrants, the social services such as educations and healthcare that they utilize and add to taxpayers. At that point in spite of the negative effects, the positive effects uncover advantages of low production costs, increases in the local market sales, undocumented tax generation, impact on growth and employment brought forth by illegal immigrants. These impacts, both negative and positive, are independently analyzed and weighed against each other. The discussion does demonstrate a slight net positive impact on the US economy in contrast to the normal belief about illegal immigrants.

Throughout the United States, we see people of different ethnic backgrounds everywhere, offering items and deals that intrigue and grab our attention. Immigrants are driven to leave their countries for many reasons, including escaping poverty, governmental problems, and family re-unification. The U.S. government should regulate the borders better, even though the problem is not too many people but that it’s the wrong people entering the U.S. Stopping illegal immigrants from entering the United States, could increase the number of hardworking immigrants who settle here. Immigrants provide helpful innovations and have a positive effect on the United States’ economy and other aspects of American citizens’ lives, while illegal immigrants hurt the economy due to not being taxed.

Recently the United States has experienced a large number of immigrants coming over to the country within the 2000s. In recent studies, there are about 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. The undocumented immigrant population has grown 27% between 2000 to 2009. Immigrants from Mexico make up 59% of the undocumented immigrants in the United States. These undocumented immigrants can help the economy and country grow. These undocumented immigrants do have some downside to them, which makes people question do they really help this country. Many people question if this is a good or bad thing for the U.S. economy or the country. Immigrants have helped the U.S. economy out a lot and propose more positives then negatives on

When talking about DAPA and DACA Estrada (2016, p. 3) said “ITEP projects that fully legalizing the current 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants would add $2.1 billion in state and local tax revenue each year.” These same immigrants and many more help the economy so much that American economist believe that they are the future economic engine of American and even the world. In history, we know that the foundations of which this country has been made off of was all thanks to the immigrant generations before any of us. The dreams of the immigrants from back then to now are for the most part the same, to be able to start over and live a successful life. The only difference might have been how much the immigrants today majorly impact our economy

When I did the research paper on the economic impact of immigrants in the U.S., I figured out that the immigrants have been vital to the U.S. economy and they continue to carry their legacy today. Both extremely talented and skillful, and low-skilled immigrants are fundamental force in shaping the U.S. economic nationally and locally. For example, the giant tech industries such as Apple, Google, PayPal, Space X, eBay and so forth have been started by immigrants or their children. They can stimulate the economy by generating new employment opportunities and selling products around the world. The benefit is that the contribution of the group has significantly improved the productivity and the GDP level as well. What if these founders were unable

Literature Review Counter argument: There are a lot of people who say immigration is bad for the U.S economy. It is true, Immigration does have an effect on the U.S economy. Many people say that immigration is bad for the U.S economy, because “immigrants are taking American jobs and are decreasing wages for the workers who are already in the market” (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2007). Immigration has many other disadvantages. Immigrants, like everyone else, take advantage of the public services like education, healthcare, and transportation.

Blackwell, Wiley. “The US Council of Economic Advisers on Immigration 's Economic Impact." Population and Development Review, 33. 3, (2007), 641. Web. Feb. 2017.

Everyone has an opinion on immigration. After Donald Trump generalized all immigrants on national television and said that they were all “rapists and criminals,” immigration is a hot button issue. Many like to say that immigration drives down wages for low-skilled, native born Americans. Others say that immigrants are taking our jobs, however, none of this is true. Immigration is beneficial to American economy.

The most of Latinos think that illegal immigrants help the economy by providing low-cost labor, while a significant minority of nearly a quarter (21%) said that they hurt the economy by driving wages down. However, almost twice as many native-born Latinos (28%) seeing economic harm from illegal immigration. They are originally from Puerto Rico (57%) and Cuba (50%) take a positive view of the economic impact of illegal migration than among Mexicans (78%) or Central and South Americans (71%). The Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth and virtually all Cubans are either U.S. citizens or legal immigrants. Both Puerto Ricans (35%) and Cubans (39%) are more than twice as likely as Latinos of Mexican origins