...Immigration Reform Is Imperative John Doe University of Good Times Almost 350,000 immigrants sneak into the United States illegally each year. Typically these people immigrate to the United States in hopes of finding employment to support their families. Once here, about 70% of them will obtain employment. The jobs that illegal immigrants occupy are the lower end jobs, which hurt unemployment rates especially for the lower class. Illegal Immigrants costs the United States about 113 billion each year. These costs are spread out over our education system, medical care, judicial system, and more. The information presented in this research paper will address the seriousness of this issue. Illegal immigration has a negative impact on the United States in many ways. Immigrants have entered our country illegally and stolen millions of jobs, crippled a struggling education system, manipulated welfare programs, and drastically raised crime rates. Without immigration reform, the crippling effects of illegal immigrants will break this country. With illegal immigrants willing to work for less pay and in poor work conditions, they negatively impact employment rates. Illegal-immigration has a negative impact on the available jobs for U.S. citizens. People often protest that the illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do. However, that is not the case. They are able to work for low wages and in poor conditions, where citizens must follow minimum wage...
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...billion, that is how much money has been spent since 1996 on Illegal Alien Services. The United States accepts more legal immigrants as residents than the rest of the world combined. Furthermore there are 11.7 million or more illegal aliens residing in the U.S. in offense of U.S. immigration laws. Contempt for U.S. laws, its citizens, and its legal immigrants should not be allowed. Instead these criminals should be barred from enjoying the benefits of being a U.S. citizen. Because of some of our lax laws and the stance of some of the governing bodies of the United States, Illegal Immigration has become one of the biggest topics of controversy due to the history that America has as an immigrant country.Illegal Immigration is not the direction...
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...Illegal Immigration Illegal immigration has been a problem for the United States for a long time. This phenomenon is not new because thousands of 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; in one hand it provide 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. Every day thousands of illegals stream across the 2,500 miles of border with Mexico. According to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS, the total number of illegals in America from this source increases by 275,000 annually. Already the United States is host to an illegal population of 7 to 12 million, of whom the vast majority are Mexican or Hispanic in origin. These illegal and uninvited guests help themselves to jobs, education, welfare and unemployment compensation. The many whose wages are paid under the table pay little or no taxes. And they are easy prey for unscrupulous employers and politicians (Ted Hayes). The U.S. population...
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...amount of money. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) officials reported that it cost $12,500 to arrest, detain, and deport each person removed from the U.S. Immigration deputy director Kumar Kibble announced the cost at a House subcommittee hearing in 2010. Deportation is the legal process in which an alien, meaning a foreigner who is not a U.S. citizen is formally removed from the U.S. for a violating the U.S. immigration laws. The U.S. Citizenship and immigration Service (USCIS) is the government agency that handles lawful immigration into the U.S., a different agency known as the Executive Office for Immigration (EOIR) is a division oversees the court procedures when an alien is brought before an immigration judge. Deportation may have the greatest individual impact on those actually marked for removal, meaning sent back to their home country. The removal procedure begins with the Department of Homeland Security file a document called a “Notice to Appear” form I-862 with the immigration court after is served on the alien. An order for deportation is disruptive to illegal immigrant families. Parents and children stand to be separated from one another with long periods of time, and a family might be forced to move on without the deportee, because illegal immigrant lack of monetary means, also children could become wards of the state. According to the Pew Research Center, relieve from threats of deportation is more important for Hispanic illegal immigrants than obtaining...
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...Illegal Immigration Hurting The United States Name COM/220 June 20, 2013 Camisha Williams For centuries, the United States has welcomed immigrants from various countries and have become home to them. In the 1800s, immigrants were even essential for the building of the steam engine and railroad tracks (Schaefer, 2013). As time passed immigration has increased and laws regulating immigration have not been enforced causing over population of unskilled immigrants. While unregulated immigration has its benefits, which help organizations, like social security it does not negate the fact that they are straining resources and the economy. Poverty and Immigration The overflow of undocumented immigrants is cause for concern for many reasons. There are too many underpaid unskilled workers hired over native citizens. According to Opposing Viewpoints (2012), “wage and salary differences demonstrate how illegal and unskilled immigrants place downward pressure on wages by providing an incentive for employers to choose them over natives”. Immigrants are known to work jobs that most American’s shy away from such as agriculture work, factories, food preparation and cleaning services (Opposing Viewpoints, (2012). Employers rather hire unskilled workers because they can pay low wages, increase productivity...
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...the exchange of all kinds of goods between nations. The immigration is linked to this notion as it implies the motion of legal and illegal people to other countries. We will focus on the journey of immigrants to the US by showing the pros and cons of these trips. To what extent has the immigration always been a major issue in the US economically and demographically speaking but has also contributed in its construction ? I. The Immigration, a word known by the Americans since the discovery of the US Throughout US history, immigration has been the main source of an increase in its population. Most of the now-native Americans are the descendants of immigrants who came centuries ago. The US receives more immigrants than the combined total of the rest of the world. Many decades ago, because immigrants were needed as a means for obtaining labor, development, and achieving growth as a nation, the US borders became lenient (indulgent). There was a general trend of people immigrating from south (Mexico) to north (America), for many reasons including better jobs, wages, educations, and escape from local violence. In the earlier part of the twentieth century, the US government started irrigation projects, which further drew attention mainly from Mexico. After 1917, as a result of an immense overflow of immigrants, the government imposed a tax and literacy (fait) tests on the immigrants to stringent (strict) the immigration policy. Further restrictions created after World War I...
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...(US) have long been a topic of debate for policymakers and the public. The rationale 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 (the legal citizens). Therefore, they are perceived as a threat to the US economy. The true impacts 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. Then contrary to the negative impacts, the positive impacts reveal benefits 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 show a slight net positive impact on the US economy in contrast to the normal belief about illegal immigrants. There was a time when people came freely and settled within the land, but as societies became more civilized and community laws established, immigration became a point of concern for the advanced societies. They did not just want any person to enter the country and get settled. For this, a certain...
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...United States Immigration Policies The concept of immigration has been in the realm of the United States for as long as it has existed. Legal immigration has been welcomed in the United States. Immigration is not a new issue, for it has been a topic to debate on for quite a while now, the only difference is, the arguments have become more intense. Whether it was a warm or cold welcoming, the idea of immigration has continued to occur. Although the essence of immigration started centuries ago with Mass Migration, the excessive overflow of immigration peaked at Ellis Island in 1907, with about 1 million immigrants being processed. Today, the 2000 U.S. Census Bureau accounted 12 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the country. By 1925, Ellis Island became known as the primary detention and deportation-processing center. According to the Congressional Budget Office there are a number of reason whys immigration has continued for so long. For example, immigration is known to reunite families by admitting immigrants with families that are currently in the United States. Further more, our country admits specific skilled workers for their own benefits and protects refugees that are already in danger in their own country. The most important reason why immigration is currently progressing in the U.S. is because the idea of diversity is important. Now, there are three different types of admissions, Permanent, Temporary, and Illegal Immigration. Permanent admissions contain...
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...citizenship we are inviting illegal immigrants to flock to our country for a free citizenship incentives. As closing proposition I would like to deconstruct the opposition’s arguments stating that EVERY SINGLE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CHILD SHOULD BE GRANTED CITIZENSHIP. I would also like to crystalize my opening proposition’s remarks and in addition, construct some new arguments and offer some solutions. Granting citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants makes illegally crossing into America a goal Well over 300,000 babies are born in America EVERY YEAR to illegal immigrants. These parents sneak into America illegally. Totally ignoring our laws that we as LEGAL citizens are obligated to uphold. Totally undermining our citizenship by taking advantage of the benefits that America offers, all while not paying taxes and not adhering to our government. How do we punish these criminals? By granting their children immediate and full citizenship. They are afforded every benefit America has to offer. Food stamps, well fair, public education, healthcare, and every other government program we have. They almost will certainly be using these benefits because as an illegal immigrant you are not permitted to work in the US. It’s easy to see why immigrants are sneaking into America: if they establish themselves with a legal citizen baby they are afforded a better life here by taking advantage of our generous government. If we stop giving every baby born to illegal immigrants citizenship, we...
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...Immigrants in USA The effects immigration had on the American political institution. American politics changed greatly as lots of immigrants began on their quest for a better life in America. With many immigrants coming to American, politicians started seeking out ways to win the support of the immigrants as they were potential voters in upcoming elections. In the midst of immigrants coming from every part of the world, politicians began addressing major events from countries substantial immigrants came from. Many immigrants began running for public office because they would be supported by members of their own ethnicity. With larger quantity of voters, many immigrants were successfully elected into public offices. Immigrants were a key feature of commercial and industrial growth of America. Without Immigrants, America would be majorly impacted as many immigrants are working the jobs that many Americans don’t want to do for low wages. If immigrants were gone, much of the food we need to survive would be gone as many farmers would go bankrupt having to pay high wages to workers. The United States immigration law/policy doesn’t reflect American political values. The immigration policy takes away the rights of immigrant’s equal rights and opportunity to become citizens of our great nation. With this law/policy many citizens of different ethnicity are discriminated as being illegal immigrants when they are actually citizens of this country. Takes away rights of immigrants to...
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...Illegal Immigration from the South It is one of the most debated things in the United States; how should illegal immigration from Mexico be handled? Many people believe that illegal immigrants destroy the economy and that we need to take drastic measures to prevent it such as forcing people to carry federal identification cards, increasing the number of Border Patrol officers, or even building barriers on the border. I believe that we need to begin caring about and understanding why these people are leaving their homes to come into the United States. Many people believe that these immigrants are coming over and causing problems, but in reality, they aren't causing as many problems as we think. They are taking jobs, but they are jobs that pay...
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...Illegal Immigration “Nearly thirty billion dollars is the average dollar amount that illegal households cost the US federal government”(Illegal). Through all of America’s history, immigration has been a key factor in ways that are good and bad. The United States has been a country that has welcomed people from different countries with open arms, but recently this issue has become a national debate. Illegal Immigration has been an underlying cause of many of our nations problems today. Many citizens of the United States are becoming more and more aware of the impact that illegal immigrants bring to our country. Not only are they welcoming themselves into our country, they are also welcoming themselves to our jobs, our economy and taking advantage of our government’s flaws. All over the US citizens from all ages are trying to find jobs that will fit their lifestyles. What many people like to point out is the fact that illegal immigrants take the menial lower waged jobs that most legal Americans wouldn’t. This is very true partly because non-skilled subordinate pay jobs do not require illegals to show proof of citizenship; therefore, they have a way to get money to support themselves. This is obviously better for the employers financially, because then they don’t have to pay their employees as much, and they get to make more revenue as a company. In this case, many middle-class Americans are struggling, because most low-wage jobs do not provide the money lawful citizens need...
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...2013 America’s immigration dilemma Illegal immigration has always been at the forefront when it comes to the domestic policy issues that this country faces and it has divided the nation from deep patriotic Americans to those that have emigrated to the U.S and call it home; all the way to the halls of Capitol Hill along the political lines. The question that is on everyone’s mind is what to do with the millions of undocumented immigrants already settled here for years, mass deportation that would result in breaking up families or do we grant them amnesty and a path to legalization? Many presidents have come along and were not able to bring the lawmakers to the table and draft up a comprehensive immigration reform bill, a bill that would fix the broken immigration system, secure the borders to keep criminals and drugs out of the country and to help all the undocumented immigrants come out of the shadows towards legalization and be able to pay taxes and work and contribute to the economy. Many in Capitol Hill say they do not support any bill that does not address securing the borders first as a priority before any path to legalization that some equate to amnesty. The U.S is a country of immigrants many people say yet its current immigration system is broken and it is nowhere near to being fixed, the state of Arizona has taken it upon itself and moved ahead of the federal government and passed what is called an extremely strict and very controversial immigration law that has some...
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...Should Illegal Immigrants be Deported from The United States? An English writer and novelist, called Richard Rayner, once said; “The real point is that there isn’t any immigration crisis” (Dudley 22). An abundant amount of undocumented people cross the border everyday seeking a better way of living; for Americans, this is an issue that the U.S. has to face every day. Rayner asserts that undocumented people don’t present a national crisis. When illegals come to America, they seek for a job and, by law, have to pay taxes. If the United States actually held undocumented individuals as a threat to its economy and society, this country would not have made the amount of progress it has socioeconomically. Although citizens argue that they harm America, Undocumented people have actually boosted the U.S. economy because they have done more good than harm. One reason why undocumented people shouldn’t be deported is that they contribute to a richer diversity and culture. Illegals share their customs and traditions with everyone. Most of restaurants...
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...Sam Morrison Professor Butler English 111 12:30-1:45pm 3 May 2012 Illegal Immigration “Nearly thirty billion dollars is the average dollar amount that illegal households cost the US federal government”(Illegal). Through all of America’s history, immigration has been a key factor in ways that are good and bad. The United States has been a country that has welcomed people from different countries with open arms, but recently this issue has become a national debate. Illegal Immigration has been an underlying cause of many of our nations problems today. Many citizens of the United States are becoming more and more aware of the impact that illegal immigrants bring to our country. Not only are they welcoming themselves into our country, they are also welcoming themselves to our jobs, our economy and taking advantage of our government’s flaws. All over the US citizens from all ages are trying to find jobs that will fit their lifestyles. What many people like to point out is the fact that illegal immigrants take the menial lower waged jobs that most legal Americans wouldn’t. This is very true partly because non-skilled subordinate pay jobs do not require illegals to show proof of citizenship; therefore, they have a way to get money to support themselves. This is obviously better for the employers financially, because then they don’t have to pay their employees as much, and they get to make more revenue as a company. In this case, many middle-class Americans are struggling, because...
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