Immigration

Immigration has a negative effect on the country for various reasons. One main reason is that illegal immigrants take jobs of the citizens already here. Also, immigration increases crime rates and creates more violence activities. Last, the country is overpopulated, not like China, but it’s growing every day. So having more illegal immigrants come into the country will just make the matter worse.

To begin with, illegal aliens come to the united states to take jobs that offer them greater opportunities. Some employers hire them for wages lower than they would have to pay to hire American workers. This kind of employment is illegal under a law enacted in 1986, but some employers ignore the law and hire illegal workers in the underground economy (Passel). The illegal alien workers are mostly persons who sneaked into the country; nearly all Mexicans or Central Americans who enter from Mexico. There is also, however, illegal entry across the border with Canada, with apprehensions by the border patrol od more than 6,000 aliens in 2010, These overstayers are estimated variously to between one-third and 40 percent of the illegal immigrants population (Confer). So if illegal immigrant workers had been kept out of our country, the employers would have had to pay higher wages to attract American workers. Also, there would be more jobs for Americans and better opportunities for them to find jobs easily.

Immigration increase crime rates and creates more violent and criminal activities. A survey shows that more than half of illegal aliens have had purposely damaged or destroyed property, committed a theft, sold or helped to sell drugs, attacked someone with the intent of hurting them or got into a serious fight in the past ye...

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... Labor productivity rises as companies adjust to larger workforces and invest in employees (Bandow).

Works Cited

Passel, Jeffrey S. and D'Vera Cohn, "Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010," Pew Hispanic Center, April, 2014.

Confer, Bob. "Illegal Immigrants Take American Jobs." Illegal Immigration. Ed. Noël Merino. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Current Controversies. Rpt. from "Unemployment and Illegal Immigration." New American (19 July 2010). Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 30 April, 2014.

Camarota, Steven. “Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue” November, 2008. Web. 30 April, 2014.

Massey, Douglas. “US illegal immigration may be increasing, study shows.” September 2013. Web. May 3 2014 .

Bandow, Doug. “Immigration Benefits The U.S., So Let's Legalize All work.” September 2013. Web. May 4, 2014.