Thesis About Illegal Immigration

Illegal immigration is when people from other countries migrate across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of their destination country. This has existed in the United States for ages; people come from hundreds of different countries to better themselves. 49% of our countries undocumented immigrants are of Mexican background (Krayewski), when crossing the US-Mexican border these immigrants face dangers of heat, exhaustion, and corrupt humans; over six thousand people have died trying to get across the border in the past sixteen years (Jenkins). These people leave their friends, family, everything they know to risk their lives to make it over the American boarder only to be out casted and faced with false stigmas. Imagine

Many people believe that undocumented immigrants are stealing jobs from able Americans; however “Immigrant entrepreneurs create jobs for U.S. and foreign workers, and foreign-born students allow many U.S. graduate programs to keep their doors open.” (Anchondo). Jens Manuel Krogstad agrees and notes that “Unauthorized immigrants make up 5.1% of the U.S. labor force. In the U.S. labor force, there were 8.1 million unauthorized immigrants either working or looking for work in 2012.” This shows the undocumented immigrants only make up a little over five percent of the work force. Davidson also believes that undocumented immigrants don’t take jobs from Americans but in reality end up creating more jobs, he shows this in a research study “The single greatest bit of evidence disproving the Lump of Labor idea comes from research about the Mariel boatlift, a mass migration in 1980 that brought more than 125,000 Cubans to the United States. According to David Card, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, roughly 45,000 of them were of working age and moved to Miami; in four months, the city’s labor supply increased by 7 percent. Card found that for people already working in Miami, this sudden influx had no measurable impact on wages or employment.” (Davidson ) Immigrants don’t only make jobs for themselves but create a ripple effect, which creates jobs for creating places for them to live, places for them to eat, and places for them to shop amongst other things, which in turn increases the size of our