Over the fence To a new life

Over the fenceTo a new life

By Kiara Jones

Paul Zhen

Jose

Michael

Why is the presence of illegal immigrants a pro or a con for the United States and its work force?

Should they be allowed to stay?

Illegal immigrants These people that are called illegal’s

have no record of residence in the US, no green cards or identification what so ever. These people come from all around the world to make a better life for themselves and their families by working in the US. The question we ask is “ Is it really good or bad to have these illegal's here working ?”

Quick United states has the most illegal immigrants in the world, counting 15

million in the year 2008.

The cities with the most illegal immigrants are California, Texas and New York.

There were approximately 7.7 illegal’s employed in the United States in 2008

In Arizona day laborers cannot impede traffic to seek work, and immigrants are forced to carry identification to prove they are legal.

For every 100 illegal immigrants that find work in the U.S., 65 American workers are displaced.

In 1986 the government congress granted amnesty to 3.1 million illegal's.

Facts continued Each year more the 1.3 million illegal

and legal immigrants settle in the United States. Which means they will compete for jobs with native born Americans.

Corporate companies such as Wal-Mart and McDonalds hire illegal aliens

Pro’s Illegal immigrants don’t make much of an impact on unemployment

rates.

even though the illegal's take jobs no one wants, they also create demanding new jobs because they are people too, they need people to cut their hair, make their food, they need public transportation and they also have other needs.

Illegal immigrants fill in a lot of the much needed jobs that other Americans wouldn’t even think of doing. This benefits to the U.S.

Illegal immigrants do not claim social security benefits they contributed to. Which saves the country money.

Farmers use illegal immigrant services to plant and crop much less expensively.

Pro’s Illegal immigrants pay sales taxes to the

companies and manufacturers they buy products from.

For those illegal's that can bypass the real estate systems, they buy properties from real estate agents which they get commission from.

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Con’s

Illegal immigrants which work in the US basically have no rights what so ever. They have to accept much lower pay rates, they do not have any insurance policies,

they can speak little or no English making it hard for them to communicate. With all these factors in place they can be mistreated, placed in unsafe and undesirable work conditions which their employers choose to place them in. these illegal's can not complain about their work conditions in fear that they will get written up and deported. This is a huge problem for illegal's in the US and it is also a con because it gives the corporate or family owned companies a bad reputation.

Illegal immigrants compete with other low skilled working Americans for jobs. Since the illegal's accept a lower pay rate it displaces the Americans who are looking to work. It is unfair to the Americans trying to find jobs.

With the rise in illegal immigrants in the US, it creates over populated areas which also result in a less likely chance to find employment.

Another con to the us work force caused by illegal immigrants is that they cost tax payers billions of dollars a year flooding the work force and schools, with out having to file taxes.

Con’s With out the illegal immigrants the need for workers in cities

would rise, which means pay rates would also rise. Since that the pay rates would increase, workers would move into those cities which would result in the wages dropping again.

If illegal immigrants were forced out, some say the economy and the American work force would come to a stall because illegal immigrants take part in the movement of the work force and the economy due to their job positions and their work efforts.

another thing that is bad for the us is that the individuals we call illegal immigrants who try to work here also commit felonies, crimes, introduce more drug trafficking and other things to hurt the economy.

25% of the federal prisoners are illegal aliens.

High school drop outs High school drop outs

would benefit from the elimination of illegal immigrants. Economist say that the presence of illegal immigrants suppresses the wages of low skilled high school drop outs. Some where between 3-8%

Economist also say if there were no job competition with illegal immigrants and legal immigrants the average pay in a week for high school drop outs with jobs will increase about 25$

Rough estimate by NPR

Illegal immigrants working on crops.

Illegal's sealing some cement.

Pro’s vs Con’sThere are surely enough pro’s and con’s to debate whether

illegal's should be granted amnesty or documents to stay in the U.S. to work. There are many points that must be considered. If the illegal's were banished all at once from the U.S. the economy could come to a stall meaning there would be a huge need for workers in major cities. For that time the economy will snowball and pick up eventually. Also if the illegal's were banished there would be less crime in the United States. Another interesting fact is that if the corporate companies who hire illegal didn’t have any illegal's to hire this would result in high product costs because of the higher rate of pay a legal American would require. It is a clear fact in corporate retail companies the products are cheap because the employee’s are receiving a lower rate of pay. An example would be the corporate giant Wal-Mart

Team opinion and answer My team has come to a conclusion that having the

illegal’s working in the U.S. is good and also bad. Our reasons consist that it is good because the illegal immigrants take low wage jobs at even lower wages. Those jobs some Americans do not want. These low skilled, low paid illegal immigrants keep the economy flowing by taking these jobs. This is also a good thing because they also pay sales taxes and contribute to social security without claiming the contributions. These immigrants that work in farms and produce allow farmers to sell their crops at a lower price, which benefits to the communities all around the nation.

The bad issues about having illegal's working in the U.S. is that they take jobs away from low skilled citizens who are poor or very low class, this increases the unemployment rate in some cases. Having illegal's working is also bad because it is completely illegal for a corporate company to hire illegal’s. this ruins the reputation of these companies and give them headline risks. Having illegal's working is also bad because a lot of the illegal's that come here to work are criminals or will commit crimes in the future. With the cut in illegal's the crime level will drop significantly but so will the economy.

Should these illegal's stay working

or get deported?

Group AnswerWe have came to a conclusion that banishing all illegal's from

the United States should not be address so roughly. If they were all deported our economy will drop. So our answer is two sided, we should keep the illegal's working but it is also bad because they take work away from lower classes citizens. Our solution was keep the illegal immigrants that have clean records and grant them amnesty plus a visa. This type of a system will take time to settle since it is very hard to trace these records back to their home countries since they possible have no identification. The other part of our solution was to only deport those who have committed crimes and have had criminal histories.

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http://www.citizensforlaws.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=101

http://www.illegalimmigrationfacts.com/

http://www.endillegalimmigration.com/Illegal_Immigration_Facts_&_Statistics/index.shtml

http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/illegal-immigration.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5312900

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/01/news/economy/immigration_economy/index.htm

http://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000842

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration

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