The United States has such a diverse population, and for that reason, we are a melting pot. Even though we have a variety of different people in the united states; immigration reform always comes out as one of the most popular topics in the politics here in the United States of America. Many people assert that immigrants are needed because they take jobs that American citizens do not want to do. For that reason, they say they should be given the opportunity to stay. Still, there are always two different opinions on each topic. We have other people who say that immigrants should be sent back to their country right away because what they are doing is illegal and that the immigrants are only trying to steal the American citizen’s jobs and, steal from the country by getting away from not paying taxes. Although, there are a lot of people who feel the undocumented should not be allowed to stay; there are also many others who support the idea of immigrants staying.
The scale of the undocumented has stretched immensely in our country, that a reform of the immigration is absolutely required for the American society. It really is not sustainable for a vast part of the society’s life to have an unbalanced and unlawful component; it is needed for substantial digits of these people who are undocumented to have their lives and endowments legitimized and normalized. The first dispute I want to discuss is that the undocumented will take over all the jobs or leave many American citizens unemployed. This is due to the fact that many Americans request better salaries in comparison to the illegal immigrants. “felbab-brown explains that many of the jobs occupied by undocumented workers in the United States that are physically demanding jobs that Americans do not want”. Even though some Americans might be in great need for employment, there are still so many that do not want to take jobs that are hard physical work or low salary; for example, brutal heat condition jobs like plant and harvest fields, or digging canals and waterways in the coldest weathers. Regardless of how physically hard a job can be, illegal immigrants are content as long as they can make a living to support themselves and their family; even if It means long days of low salary jobs.
Not only that but, some come into this country with literally nothing. No money, no family, nothing besides the clothes they have on and somehow, they still manage to find jobs even if it means sweeping fast food places parking lots and sleeping in the bushes just for food instead of waiting on someone to give them anything without any effort. This is why it is necessary for them to be permitted to stay so that we have plenty of hard-working people in those lines of work. In the absence of the immigrant workers, a lot of the American economic life would endure hardship. Another thing that is said about immigrants is that they do not have a positive effect on the economy because they take the benefits that belong to American citizens and that they also do not pay their taxes. This is big misconception about many immigrants, most immigrants pay taxes for benefits like social security, welfare, and Medicaid and can’t even use them. Also, according to the chamber of commerce in 2016, a bastion Reaganite conservatism, released a report concluding that “immigrants significantly benefit the U.S economy by creating new jobs and complementing the skills of the U.S native workforce.” These undocumented workers are proving that they are here not to steal, but to work and contribute to this country by paying taxes that do not even benefit from. There has been research from “The Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy, and the most recent IRS data, from 2015 shows that the agency received 4.4 million income tax returns from workers who don’t have social security numbers, which includes, a large number of undocumented immigrants. That year they paid $23.6 billion in income taxes.
The undocumented deserve equal rights not only because we all human beings but, because we are all descendants of immigrants. “another way of indicating the importance of immigration to America is to point out that every American who ever lived, with the exception of one group, was either an immigrant himself or a descendant of immigrants”. Besides us all being descendants of immigrants the undocumented risk their lives leaving their country in pursuit of better opportunities or trying to get away from the dangers of their own country. For example, the caravan from Honduras has been all over the news. Many people from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua are fleeing their country due to the poverty and gang threats and poverty. “they made the decision to leave their home countries, assessing that the danger was outstripped by the danger of facing gang death threats or feeding a family on $5 per day”.
