Why Should Illegal Immigrants Be Allowed To Stay

The number of illegal immigrants who come into the United States each year is staggering, and the numbers just keep on increasing. Three million illegal immigrants come into the United States every year. (Bush 2009) This has been an increasing problem, and one that greatly affects the United States and its citizens. More and more immigrants are coming in to the United States each year, and we as a nation should truly reevaluate our immigration

People such as Donald Trump don’t realize the immense affect deporting people will have on the economy. According to an article called, “Trump’s new deportation rules could cost the economy trillions” by Bryce Covert, there is estimated to be 12 million immigrants in the US. Seven out of twelve million are workers who contribute 3 percent of the GDP. In other words 3 percent of the GDP is equal to $5 trillion in economic growth over a ten year period. Deporting all immigrants will cost an estimated price of $4.7 trillion. According to a research from Ryan Edwards and Francesc Ortega at the Center for American Progress, without undocumented workers, the GDP (gross domestic product) could potentially reduce by 2.6 percent in about a decade. In regards to deportations, the government would have to hire 15,000 more border patrol agents and build new detention centers. Let’s not disregard the fact that Mr. Trump also wants to construct a bigger wall which will cost billions of dollars. Considering that the US

Illegal immigrants cost the United States billions of dollars each year in things such as welfare and healthcare costs; illegal immigrants are not even supposed to have

United States the land of the free, that is until illegal immigrants come to the United States

Not just in money but in resources, we use more resources to deport or capture undocumented citizens than we can really afford. According to Senator Schumer, Upfront magazine 2016, “ Without reform, our immigration laws threaten to tear apart families and force our government to expend precious resources to deport millions.” What Senator Schumer is making clear is that the government is spending too much money on resources to deport undocumented citizens when instead they could find a way to make some if not all undocumented citizens a path to citizenship. Some people might argue that if undocumented citizens cooperated with the law or government there wouldn’t be an issue. This might be true but maybe if the government didn’t assume that all undocumented citizens are criminals and deport them instead of giving them a chance at citizenship, there would also be no issue. The key point is that instead of focusing on kicking undocumented citizens out, we should be focusing on making it possible for them to stay as legal

According to Jens Krogstad and Jeffrey Passel, senior demographers at the Pew Research Center, there were 11 million illegal (undocumented) immigrants living in the US in 2014 of 320 million and that number is growing by 700,000 a year.

“We should be able to refuse immigrants. There are a lot of illegal’s that are taking jobs that actual Americans need in the current economic conditions, plus they cause our taxes to go up because we have to pay for their health insurance and they might need welfare so they get all the money taken from our pay so they don’t have to work. They should have to speak English too, if I went to their country, no one would be taking care of me and making sure that I can find the bathroom, or feeding my kids with their money” (Aquino 2016).

Illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in America. According to the dictionary definition, an illegal immigrant also known as an illegal alien is “a foreigner who enters a country without an entry or immigrant visa, especially a person who crosses the border by avoiding inspection or who overstays the period of time allowed as a visitor, tourist, or businessperson”. From Renewing America, the U.S. immigration debate “Immigration has been a touchstone of the U.S. political debate for decades, as policymakers must weigh competing for economic, security, and humanitarian concerns. Congress has been unable to reach an agreement on comprehensive immigration reform for years, effectively moving some major policy decisions into the executive and judicial branches of government, and fueling debate in the halls of state and municipal governments. Meanwhile, the fates of an estimated eleven million undocumented immigrants in the country, as well as rules for legal immigration, lie in the balance”(Felter and Renwick). There are many arguments that support allowing illegal immigrants into America, because of this immigration has been a controversial issue for over so many years. According to SIRS knowledge source, some would argue that “unauthorized immigrants should be detained and deported for flouting the law”, but on the other side, people would disagree with these accusations because, but “the vast majority of unauthorized immigrants are hard-working individuals in search

Immigrants aren’t given the rights that they should be. Throughout history, immigrants haven’t been given the opportunities they deserve. When certain races came to America, they were always unwanted. New immigration process would benefit many people.

In fact, this is not taking into account how much mass deportations would cost taxpayers. Currently, Homeland Security does not have the personnel to go through with mass deportation. The United States currently has the ability to only deport 400,000 people every year. Currently there are 5,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workers devoted to deportation; Trump plans on raising that number to 90,000 in order to speed up the process of deportation. This would cost American taxpayers somewhere between 100 to 300 billion dollars in the end (Salisbury 2014).

Immigrants come to America chasing hopes and dreams of someday having a life of wealth. The United States has this imagine that everything will be better and all your problems will be solved. However, in the last century we’ve had a raise of Illegal Immigrants in the country.

Crime is another factor that creates controversy with illegal aliens. Some illegal aliens become involved in drug trafficking, rapes, murders, and other crimes. Their involvement reduces the sympathy American citizens show toward them. Many police departments use up their resources investigating the crimes committed by illegal immigrants. This leaves less officers available to assist U.S. citizens. According to the Center for Immigration Studies (2009), about thirty-three percent of crimes committed by illegal aliens are for trafficking drugs. In the same study, eleven percent of them were arrested for assault (Vaughan & Camarota, 2009). Caroline May (2015) from BreitBart News describes in her report that 37.6 percent of federal sentences in 2014 were given to illegal immigrants. In 1980 our federal and state prions held 9,000 criminal aliens, that has now gone up to 55,000. The cost to keep them in prison is estimated at $1.5 to $1.6 billion per year.

If the United States were to deport all undocumented immigrants about $2.6 trillion would be lost. Also over five years it would cost 285 billion to just deport all the undocumented immigrants. Immigrants make a big positive impact on the United States through the work force.

The cost of immigration has run from $30 billion to $50 billion a year. America's need for immigration ended a century ago. The huge immigration flow harms both our country and the countries that are sending immigrants here.

a Statistics show that illegal immigrants cost the federal prison and court system over 1 billion dollars each year.