Do illegal immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy or hurt?

Do illegal immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy or hurt?

Thesis Statement

The history of illegal immigration in the United States dates back to the first settlers who migrated from Asia. The European exploration and colonization brought a new wave of illegal immigration, which has fluctuated greatly over the centuries. Today, U.S. illegal immigration policy is at the center of political and economic debates that focus on some of the illegal immigration problems in United States. Of course its economics is affected much by the presence and activities of immigrants. Although many people think that immigrants affect the economics of US in extremely negative way, in reality, they do not.

I will try to explore the most common facts about negative effect of immigrants and show the positive influence of immigrants on the US economics. In order to prove that I can give the following evidences: Immigrants are the cheap labor force. Immigrants are mostly earn less than the wages provided by the government of US or earn minimum. So only few Americans will agree to work with such law wages while performing an unskilled job. Further we will talk about the Dream Act Bill that has been passed by US government for those dedicated individuals that are willing to pay their taxes, purchase homes, and overall contribute to the U.S. economy.

Introduction

Illegal immigration in America has been a topic of controversy since the beginning of 1800's during the mass Immigrations movement. Specifically, illegal immigration from Mexico has currently formed the basis of debate to advocates of stricter illegal immigration laws to prevent illegal immigrants and the opposition of anti-illegal immigration plans. Many US citizens feel that this issue needs to be addressed very fast and congress is under pressure to pass laws proposing a solution. Immigrants from Central America and Mexico in the United Stated have the highest rate of any other minority group (Peri, 2010).

This population usually referred to as Hispanics, get into America either illegally or legally. The number of illegal immigrants from South America and Mexico continues to grow rapidly which is because of the various reforms on immigration laws since the President Nixon era in the 1960s.These reforms have led to increase in population from less than 10 million immigrants in 1970 to a number greater than 38 million today, of which Mexicans accounts for the majority. The reasons behind this vast immigration include poverty, search for employment, reunions with parents and family, etc. It is important to take into account that it is very difficult for the US government cannot estimate with certainty the number of unauthorized immigrants in America, since they are undocumented (Peri, 2010).

Discussion

Currently the U.S. is experiencing acute shortages in the country, and the official authorities are forced to fill this shortage of labour force from abroad. According to official projections, for example, it was expected that the territory of the country in 80 years to come no more than 8-9 million illegal and ...