employers’ reasoning for hiring illegal immigrants is wrong and unjust, as supported by the theories of Immanuel Kant and John Rawls. Looking past the immediate injustice of the issue, we can see that this hiring is wrong because it has a negative impact on America in many aspects. United States employers paying under-market wages and benefits to undocumented workers depresses wages for all American workers, and thus these greedy companies make huge profits at the expense of these illegals and the working citizens in the United States. Also, a report of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration in 2011 showed that illegal immigrants received $7.3 billion more from 2005 to 2010 from the IRS than they paid in federal income taxes (Schulkin 1). Our country is currently experiencing a massive debt, and I do not think it is appropriate solely looking at the issue in a factual manner that we allow illegal immigrants into our society or work place.
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.
citizens would have jobs. Illegal immigrants steal jobs from Americans because they are willing to work for cheaper salaries. The United States has already started to crack down on illegal immigrants more than in the past. Proof of this is that on April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed S.B. 1070 into law.
Opponents also typically insist that undocumented immigrants lower wages and labor standards by offering their cheap labor and by being willing to work under very harsh conditions (“Lower wages,” 2008). This, increases unemployment and affects the living conditions of the working class and poor Americans (“Amnesty,” 2009). Thus, according to opponents, a comprehensive immigration reform would reward “criminals” who, not only broke the law, but also exploit the US economy, degenerate society, and compete against natives for work opportunities that are running scarcer as more people continue to come to the US. Legalizing the millions of undocumented immigrants that currently reside in the US would send future immigrants the wrong message that it is acceptable to enter the US illegally and that they will, in the future, be similarly forgiven (“What is wrong,” 2005). Finally opponents complain that legalizing undocumented immigrants would be very unjust for both, those that went through the long, legal process of receiving a visa, and for those that are still waiting to receive one.
Enforcement of immigration laws will require additional measures beyond a border fence should restrict the illegal entry. Many of the stakeholders are poorly educated, unskilled workers. They fill the sort of jobs that most native-born Americans will not take, at least not for the same price. List possible competing values and goals that could be at play? Competing values and goals: The illegal immigrants view the United States as
The 18th amendment contributed to the rise of organized crime because it created a lot of underground business. From killings to people living in poverty, that’s what the prohibition caused. If people really thought that prohibiting alcohol to be sold leally were going to help the way that people lived during this time, they were wrong. A lot of people were against the law, they argued that if they banned alcohol legal businesses were going to go broke and that was not going to help the economy get better. But alcohol was not the only thing breaking families apart they said, after the war, soldiers would come home and find themselves in a whole, struggling to find jobs.
At the same time, it gives the companies using them, a big advantage on their revenue, because the staff charges become lower than the companies who has legal labor. For the companies who take advantage of the illegal immigrants, there is a big pro with very cheap labor, but they also take a huge risk, if it is discovered, they would end up with a huge bill, and other punishments. A con to the United States is that they would not be paying taxes, so the government would not get their income from them, and at the same time, the illegal immigrants’ lives a life in a bad environment. They could eventually end up being blackmailed to pay some of their already low paycheck, so in the end, it would simply not be worth to live the life of an illegal immigrant. From that we can conclude that there in the end are not really any pros being an illegal immigrant.
The United States has had a proud history of accepting all people with the desire to better themselves and fulfill the American Dream. The most often used argument against illegal immigration is that it is detrimental to the overall economic feasibility of the United States. Although many illegal immigrants pay taxes and improve local economies, it is much better in the long term for US immigrants to be of legal status, as this would eliminate many problems currently faced by them. For example, if the current system legalized all immigrants, it may be even better for the economy as well as for their human rights, because there would be no more black-market smuggling economy. This move would also allow, “immigrants to have higher productivity
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.
There is also the impact on our economy. Because so many businesses have chosen to use illegal aliens, if the United States deported them all at once it could create a negative economic impact due to our dependence on illegal