Why Is Illegal Immigration A Good Thing

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Illegal Immigration Is illegal immigration a good thing or a bad thing? A lot of people have their opinions. Some say it’s a good thing and some say it’s a bad thing. There is plenty information out there supporting both sides of the argument. In this essay I am going to talk about how illegal immigration can be a good thing but also can be a bad thing for some people. A lot of people say illegal immigration is a bad thing. I agree with them to a certain point. They say it’s bad because of all the drug trafficking going on on the border today. I agree with those statements. I agree with the border patrol stopping all the drug traffickers that try to smuggle drugs into this country. Border Patrol has been doing a great job at trying…show more content…
I also agree with people saying that immigration is a good thing. The facts that people use to argue that illegal immigration is good is that a lot of the people that migrate to this country come to work hard and achieve the American Dream. They come into this country and do most of the jobs the American citizens don’t want to do. According to a report that Univision Television made most of Georgia’s immigrants left the state due to the immigration laws, that led to farm workers not having workers to pick their crops. Some American Citizens went to work since it was a job opening. It was reported that more than half of the works left after an hour or during their lunch break. They interviewed the American Citizens that left and they all said that the job was too hard. They work in the fields, clean people’s houses, and do construction to name some of the jobs they do at low income…show more content…
Although they are illegals they still pay taxes, and pay for the homes that they live in. They also spend their hard earned money on other products that contribute to the country’s economy. They contribute to the economy by paying taxes by using false social security numbers and don’t receive any money back due to the fact that there is no match with the number and the person filling those taxes. According to www.chron.com it was reported that in 2003, alone, the U.S. made $57.8 billion on taxes that illegal immigrants filed and they didn’t receive any of that money

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