The Pros and Cons of Illegal Immigration into the United States

No one wants to leave their country, but war, famine, and employment can cause people to migrate to find a peaceful place to stay. More than a million undocumented immigrants migrate to America every year searching for jobs and safe places for their families to stay, Because of this, every undocumented immigrant in America should be granted citizenship. The U.S government should allow the immigrants who are here illegally to become U.S citizens. Many of the undocumented immigrants do their best to assimilate, pay their taxes, and contribute to American traditions and culture. Their contributions to our country have done so much for the people, we should be honored to have them.

Today one of the biggest issues in America is illegal immigration; these people travel from all over the world, and illegally cross national borders onto U.S soil in desperation to find a better life. Immigrants come to America in hopes of fulfilling the American dream, being free and safe from their original home lands. Most immigrants are illegal and come by the millions each year, which lead to many controversial disputes. The overflow of immigrants caused many citizens to question if these illegal immigrants are damaging America in various way and also by bringing in crime, drugs, and terrorists. Others state that immigrants truly aids the economy “Indeed, some sectors of the economy might have a hard time functioning without illegal workers. (Katel 395) Many citizens believe illegal immigrants are taking jobs, and abusing government benefits, however many argue that these immigrants in fact contribute to a stronger economic stimulus, take unwanted jobs, and some even create jobs for Americans.

Illegal immigration has been around ever since borders were created to divide the world. The reasons for illegal immigration, stretch from escaping unstable governments, seeking job opportunities, and making money. In the United States, most of the current illegal immigration comes from Mexico and Latin America because of poverty and the lack of jobs (Poroy)(Wilson, Armstrong). The United States provides many cheap labor positions in construction and farming where business owners are looking for immediate workers that will get the job done. Unfortunately, illegal immigrants cost the U.S. government around $11.4 billion to $20.2 billion each year due to the use of America’s goods without paying all their taxes(Amadeo). Fortunately, over the

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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.

Although the term “illegal aliens” has quite a stigma around it, there are many Americans that believe the immigrants coming to our country are doing more good than harm. These immigrants often do not pay an income tax, but everything that they spend their money on is still taxed, so they do add to the United States tax revenue. Also, they increase the amount of cheap labor available in the states and cause more money to be circulated around in the economy. With companies using this cheap labor, they can use the money they save to sell to a wider market and possible for a cheaper price. This, in theory, could be a very positive outcome of illegal immigration. Along with the possible boosts to the economy that they are believed to provide, they also seem to directly coincide with the idea of the

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.

of America’s prison population. This poses a dangerous situation for the American people. It is estimated that 4.5 million illegal immigrants drive in the US on a regular basis. This means these are unlicensed drivers with no insurance. We don't even know if they have the ability to read road signs. This is a danger for everyone driving on the road. 23% of illegal drivers were stopped of some type of traffic violation and 43,000 of that 23% have warrants or were convicted with drug related crimes or in the violent crime category. Our prisons are filling up with illegal immigrants. Even though illegal immigrants only account for 3.5% of the national population, they account for 36.7% of all federal sentences which lead to jail time or deportation. This basically says one in every three illegal immigrant is a convict or likely to be one. Nationally they are responsible for 74.1% of all drug possession charges. This also leads to violence with the distribution of drugs. Many of these drug cases have to do with gang members from the Mexican Cartel bringing drugs from Mexico to the US. Now not all illegal immigrants are criminals or have bad intentions but they are more likely to be by statistics. Obviously we can't stop all crime but it would be a huge step forward if there were no illegal immigrants here to add to the

Undocumented Mexicans come to the US to work and make money. Studies have shown that they pay more in payroll taxes and local taxes than the cost of public services that they require, i.e. public schools and hospitals. Despite this, many state politicians have demanded that the federal government compensate the state and local governments for these services.

There are many immigrants that work hard to provide for their family and will take any job they can find (Kenny, 2014). However, many of them still rely on welfare to provide for their families, even with their jobs, because they get low paying jobs (Kenny, 2014). Many cannot get higher paying jobs because they do not possess the more advanced skills that are learned through schooling. This affects our country because the people of the United States are helping to support them through tax dollars, and they are taking jobs from Americans that are out of work. Illegal immigrants that use this system of pay do not deserve to have welfare because they are here illegally. They have not followed the laws of our country so why should they be rewarded by getting healthcare and money. Plus, many times they bring crime along with them, which does not help our country in any way. It degrades our country and causes more problems. For instance, if they are put in jail instead of being deported, then the people of the United States continue to pay for them in prison. Many are deported every year, but more continue to

During this survey 51% of Americans believe they are competing over jobs against the undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. with job permits. Less than 40% didn 't believe this was an issue, others weren 't sure about it.The common methods of traveling are by land, sea, and air (airplane). Every method, even the easiest one (airplane), contains an unlawful doing, for example coming by air needs FAKE identification. Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and other countries, come to America escaping the high amount of crimes and poverty, like homicide, gang activity, robbery, rape, homelessness, lack of jobs, corruption of the government, etc. Homicide is common in central american countries. El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have the highest amount of homicides, each day about 43 to 45 people die from these occurrences. According to studies done by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, more than half of the children of Central America cross the border because of safety concerns back home. Most of the children 's home countries are full of gang violence, drug dealing. Research done by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection state that Central American children prefer to risk their lives in the border than back in their home countries. Although most of them come from dangerous countries doesn’t mean all of them are the same. Most of these countries don’t have available jobs, and if they do, their pay doesn’t prevail for a whole week.

Thirdly, criminal activity in communities in the US is of concern. Specifically, the approximately 11.7 million illegal immigrants account for less than 4% of the overall US population (330 million). However, illegal immigrants account for 13.6% of all offender sentences, 20% of kidnapping sentences, and 16% of drug trafficking sentences (Zimmerman).

Immigration started with Spanish settlers in the 1500’s and eventually moved on to French and English settlers in the 1600’s and so on and so forth. Nearly 1 million immigrants arrive in the United States annually. Though you may see this is as a bad thing, there are actually so many pros to immigration. One of the main pros, though, is that immigrants are taxpayers, consumers, and job creators. The United States benefits from these things in multiple ways such as getting new homes and stores.

Most immigrants that come to this country give us a sense of fresh air. Not only do they come motivated and to innovate but they do jobs that Americans don’t want to do : some areas include field, construction, and factory jobs. This country was built on immigrant and by law the government can’t discriminate based off gender ,race, or ethnicity. This was based on a Stanford law review. Some Americans may challenge the view on immigration by insisting that immigrant that come are criminals and drug dealers. This fear stems the fear of change. Today I will talk about a brief history of immigration, some common misconceptions, the benefits of immigration, and finally I will talk about why some American disagree with immigration in order to prove that the benefits of immigration outway the liabilities of immigration.

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