Immigration

1. Introduction to immigration 

 

•       As of today there millions of immigrants coming into the United States, they are using ways to get around such as the Mexican border, the Pacific Ocean along with the other alternative routes. When immigrants come into the united states some of them are usually come legally with permission to visit family or to attend schools, however many of them decide not to renew their status visas because several of them have called the united states their home. They get jobs to help provide for their family such as sending money back to their homeland or putting their children to school.

  Illegal immigration 

•       Immigration officials feels as if illegal immigrants are bringing the economy down, there are over 5 million undocumented workers in the united states and there usually found in California, Florida and Texas as mention earlier they find jobs that offer low pay and they work under the table so they do not have to remit their tax information to the government.

•       However if the current job market had not been filled with illegal immigrants, jobs would need someone fill those positions and if you think about if jobs were to process all the immigrants arriving in the United States, it would cost them a lot of money. Immigrants are human beings too and shouldn't get shunned from being in the United States; they come trying to better themselves and families.

•       Although it can be wrong but immigrants help better the production in the united states, for example whenever an employer decides to pay illegals below minimum wage, it helps the costs of business goes down which then give back the price of goods.

  Statistics Globally  

•12.1 million illegals living in the country as of November 2018.

•Mexicans have been known to be the majority of undocumented population, which is 55%, according to DHS.

•It has been said that over 600,000 people on visas had overstayed in the United States.

•Over 14,000 were taken into custody on the southwest border.

•In 2014 while Obama was serving as presidents there was surge in minors crossing the borders to escape poverty and the cartel violence that’s currently happening in Mexico.

  California Statistics 

•       Home to over 2 million undocumented immigrants.

•       California work force includes 1.75 million undocumented immigrants, according to the PRC. They work in agriculture, manufacturing or construction.

•       However many undocumented parents have children that were born in the state of California.

•       Thousands of young people have gotten deportation relief and work permits through a program called (DACA) Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

  What are your views on immigration?

Terry Robinson

    I think immigration is very common topic in today’s world, some people have different opinions on it either good or bad. If you think about it immigration sort of helps the economy but it also can bring it down and with an increase in immigration, we as a people are forced to create more jobs and better opportunities for them.

Tiara Martino -

     Immigrants come to the United States to get a better life but it can be tough for them being in the U.S. especially now with trump as our president. He is making it really for them, they come to escape poverty or violence and have a better life / start over but instead he wants to deport them which isn't right because they aren't breaking the laws their just providing for their families.

 Works Cited:

• Robertson, Lori. “Illegal Immigration Statistics.” FactCheck.org, 10 Aug. 2018, www.factcheck.org/2018/06/illegal-immigration-statistics/.

•  Public Policy Institute of California. (2018). Undocumented Immigrants in California - Public Policy Institute of California. 

•  Immigration Hurts American Workers. 

 POLITICO Magazine. www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment