The Illegal, The Bad, and The Ugly ENC 1101 Professor Robin Rodgers October 26th 2011 Do American citizens ever think about how they pay for stuff that they never actually get to use or see? Do they ever have thoughts about unconsciously paying for someone to stay in our country illegally? Most likely we Americans don't even stop to think about these sorts of things and yet over 113 billion dollars of our citizens hard earned money is paying for illegal immigrants to be in our country. Illegal immigrants are a threat to America's economy in many different aspects. Anyone has a chance of becoming a citizen but not everyone is willing to.
Most of the things these immigrants do in the U.S. is illegal; avoid taxes, work illegally, live illegally, etc. The biggest problem with them is that a majority of them do not pay taxes. Households with an illegal immigrant as the head of the house only pay 1/3 of the federal taxes, or ¼ as much as a legal household. The debt that illegal immigrants cause to the economy is far greater than the good they do. As Steven A. Camarota tells in The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, “Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes.
I will be looking at sources to see if this was true. Source 1 states that this may be true for some people but not others. It was good for businessmen, speculators, retiring company directors. For them the source agrees that they never had it so good. However the source goes on to criticise the statement saying that it isn’t good for “widowed mother with children, the chronic sick, 400,000 unemployed and millions of pensioners without pensions.” Therefore I can infer that the source doesn’t agree with the statement as it states that there is a clear majority of people who don’t benefit within this time period, mainly the people who are benefitting are from the upper classes.
In order to concentrate on the good that immigration offers we have to defunct the negativity that many associate with immigration. Unauthorized immigrants use public support programs like welfare, unemployment insurance, and food stamps. NO. Unauthorized immigrants themselves by and large are ineligible for such programs because of their immigration status. Immigrants take jobs away from American workers.
Most illegal immigrants end up renting properties in depressed areas where otherwise it would be hard to find renters and as immigrants buy properties, commission is generated for real estate agents and brokers. Illegal immigrants contributive to social security are often not claimed so the government stays with the money which is more than 25 million dollars. Studies show that only 2% of Mexican immigrants have ever used welfare or social security and only 3% have ever used food stamps. In comparison, 84% pay income tax and none of them file a
The shutdown happened because our leaders failed to come to a compromise on how to spend our tax dollars. So instead of taking any means necessary to allow for the prosperity and well-being of their country, Republicans just sat on a pile of undistributed money and played the waiting game. Thankfully, Congress made a deal and got the economy back on its bumpy track. If Congress had failed to do so, however, the effects would have been catastrophic. The value of the dollar would be pennies, millions of people out of work, and the US missing a debt interest payment for the first time.
Over the past few years, our economy has faced unthinkable challenges including millions upon millions of Americans losing or has lost their jobs. For the past two years the unemployment rate has average around nine percent. Among the 26 million who are unemployed, at least seven million individuals are working illegally in the United States. Some believe that legal workers have to compete with illegal immigrants for scarce jobs. Good news is, congress have come up with a program that will eliminate unauthorized employment.
Even worse 24% of the nation’s poor in Mexico lives in extreme poverty, on less than 1 dollar per day. Approximately 104 million Mexicans fit into these categories. It is no wonder that so many Mexicans try to enter the United States illegally. Many of them know that they will make more in one hour in the United States than they would make in a day in Mexico. There is also the impact on our economy.
As each year passes, our country is being slowly smothered and choked to death by illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants who come into the United States without visas and proper documentation used this to their advantage; they get to apply for jobs and get to avoid paying government taxes. Whereas hardworking immigrants who go through the long process of being admitted to this country are being discriminated against because they are immigrants. As Frank Alfonso states in USA Today, “Coming into the USA illegally is similar to cutting in front of a long supermarket line. There are immigrants who wish to obey the law.
English 043 Professor Doreen Kiefer 12/15/13 “The Growing Need of Raising Minimum Wage” Have you ever wonder how many desperate unemployed American citizens there are in the United States seeking for jobs? Well there’re more than eleven million unemployed citizens desperately trying to make a living in this terrible recession. Not only is it affecting our economy but our businesses, and families as well. Even before the recession, our economy was rapidly shifting, with fewer and fewer middle class jobs and opportunities, with fewer and fewer middle class families, which has led to a low growing, low-wage workforce. As of the end of 2011, the United States needed to create roughly 10 million jobs to return to the pre-recession unemployment