Undocumented Workers

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The number of undocumented workers in the United States has increased since the rise of our economy. An undocumented worker is a person in a country, like the United States, without the right documents to be proven to be allowed in the country. Many reasons are blamed for the increase of these undocumented workers. Undocumented workers increased because the change in law of the United States made it impossible for foreign workers to go to the country (Zoltan). These laws made a chain of problems that the United States is still suffering today. One example of a problem is the decrease of American jobs. The problems of the United States caused by undocumented workers can be solved by supporting Mexico and other countries to make more jobs in their own countries, to reduce numbers of undocumented workers in the United States.

Undocumented workers are considered a problem to the United States, but they also provide benefits to the country. One of the points that favor the United States to having undocumented workers is their taxes without benefits. Undocumented workers pay a lot of taxes that could benefit themselves, but due to lack of documents these undocumented workers get no benefits. In 2007, the tax dollars received by the Social Security Administration from unknown people reached a record of $90.4 billion. Some of those people are identified as workers that only made mistakes in their paperwork, but the government believe that much of those people were undocumented workers (Lantigua). Tax Return is one of the benefits an undocumented worker is lacking. Meyer stresses that,” The IRS offers people who are not eligible for a Social Security number a special tax identification number, so they can pay income taxes owed from mon...

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