Illegal Immigration

Illegal Immigration

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Illegal immigration
Illegal immigrants in the United States (US) have long been a topic of debate for politics and the public. The biggest problem 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 seen 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. In contrast 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.

Illegal Immigrants and the United States Economy: Is It that Big of an Issue?
Its unbillable for today’s society but bank then, 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 this societies. They did not just want any person to enter the country and get settled. For this, a certain designed protocol through which immigrants can be filtered, and those considered as safe, healthy, or valuable were preferred over the others. Hence, those immigrants who followed the procedure and were officially approved to enter the country were called legal immigrants, but the fences have always...

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