What i meant when i said that illegal immigrants have the same rights is just a methaphor for the pursuit of happinness. The problem is here and it wont go away. Today it is believe that there are 12 million of unducomented persons in the US (Pawlick and Finley). What to do with all those people?. It is very unrealistic to think they all will be deported. All these people not only live here but contribute to services.Research shows that illegal immigrants contribute more in taxes than they cost the country in social services . One example of this is how in 2006 in the State of Texas 1.4 million of undocumented immigrants paid in taxes 500 more millions in taxes, more than they received from the govement (Pawlick and Finley). Another good example is the research on California.
" Since undocumented migrants generally have low rates of service usage, however
this chilling effect has affected documented more than undocumented migrants.
From 1987 to 1992, for instance, 60 percent of legal immigrants surveyed by the
Mexican Migration Project used a hospital but between 1997 and 2002 the share had
fallen to 42 percent. Over the same period the percentage with children in U.S. schools
fell from 35 percent to 19 percent, and food stamp usage dropped from 15 percent to 5
percent. Welfare usage remained roughly constant at 8 percent to 10 percent. Tax
payments, meanwhile, rose from the already high level of 90 percent to reach 95
percent between 1997 and 2002 " (Massey).
This comes to show that most of these people are more likely to contribute than to take away from this country .Furthermore it is also suggested that by the research that legalizing the 12 million of undocumented immigrants would rescue social security. Also undocumented immigrants would save money on tax payers because they will be able to acces services like in hospitals, where most of the time undocumented people have to pay full price to see a primary physician. This would translate in to savings to the taxpayers (Pawlick and Finley). All this research also shows that today we are in the same plate economically ,illegal or not illegal. Immigrants shouldnt get blame as free loaders. Perhaps Goverment,American Corporation and greed should be the blame.
Massey, Douglas S. "Illegal Immigrants Do Not Drain Public Services." Opposing Viewpoints:
Welfare. February (2008). Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Web. Web. 28 Jan.
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Pawlick, Peter and Laura Finley. “Point: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrant Is a Practical and
Just Solution.” Point of View: Immigration Restrictions (2009). Point of View
Reference Center. Web. 28 Jan. 2010.
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With your statitstic on texas ok thats sounds legit yet the statistic I found was the average, meaning all across America. And im not saying that the illegal immigrants are free loaders. What Im saying is you need to cherrish the hard work people have done to get to America and become American. If you "give out" citizenship it drops the value of it. Just like handing out money (bail out) drop the value of the US dollar. If the illegal immigrants make average less than 30,000 a year they wont be paying much in taxes anyways. Also any job you work at there is a person who had dertermination and greed to succseed in the free capital world to create a bussiness which employees you! If there wasnt a person who had greed there probly wouldnt be a job for you or me. Also if rich greedy people dont have money to buy the expensive things I create at my job how will my job stay in bussiness and keep me employeed? But i do agree with one thing you said. Perhaps we do blame the government for dumping so much money into other contries and worthless non lucritive programs that help people who dont want to become a citizen and also the bankrupting program called sociol security which for your information was suppose to be a temporarry thing.
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