Entitlement Of Immigrants

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Add Page Number in header ^ Illegal Immigrants and the Concept of Entitlement {Good APA Title Page} Michelle MacNabb South University Online An illegal immigrant or alien is a person who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa. (http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/illegal+immigrant). “Illegal aliens” come to the United States, from Mexico for instance, expecting to be able to live here, work here and be treated as citizens of our country, without actually going through the citizenship process. While there are penalties in place for the hiring of illegal immigrants, there need to harsher penalties placed…show more content…
The first positive effect is the contribution immigrants make to this country through the work that they do. They perform menial or undesirable tasks, such as fence building, harvesting crops, day labor for independent construction businesses, lawn service work, road construction, and even planting seedlings for the forests during the winter months. Legal immigrants also aid our country’s economy by engaging in activities as scientists, professors, research and various medical personnel, which benefits everyone involved. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5312900) A second positive effect that immigration has on this country is the cheap labor that many of them provide. Because most of the illegal immigrants come from countries less prosperous than the United States, they are willing to work for less money than the American citizens are willing to work…show more content…
The first negative effect I would like to point out is that illegal immigrants take jobs from the citizens of the United States. They come here, poor and destitute, willing to work for almost nothing therefore people hire them in order to save money on labor. While the labor may be cheap it is taking away jobs from the American people. Recently a new Pizza Hut was built in our town. At the time I was helping out a homeless man. Although the contractor was paying illegal Mexicans to work for him, he would not hire this man, an American desperately needing work. It was a very sad thing to see, and is just another example of how illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from our own

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