Texas Immigration Case Study

Considering all of the aspects analyzed, immigration provides for more income and future economic grows than expenses for the state of Texas. In fact, as the Houston Chronicle states, immigrants only through payment of taxes cover more than all of the expenses that the state affords to them. The total cost that the state spends on immigrants is a total of 1.15 billion $ a year; however, immigrants pay every year more than 1.5 billion $ in taxes [11]. If you add to this income all the benefits that immigrants grant to the economy of the state, the answer about their utility to the growth of Texas comes easy. Furthermore, there is a broad agreement among economist that in the long run immigration produces a small positive impact on the labor market of native workers. Immigrants do not reduce native employment, even if in the small period immigration slightly reduce it, because the economy need time to adjust [4]. The main area in which immigration can be said to benefit the state economy is by increasing the labor force and therefore the productive capacity of the state as a whole. Between 1990 and 2010, 40 % of Texas workforce growth was due to foreign workers migrating either domestically or from other countries [3:8].

However, with a more tolerant law regarding immigration those expenses could be drastically decreased followed by a massive improvement of economy over time.

Concluding the fear of immigration comes from many aspects that goes from political arguments to the fear of losing job or the social identity of the country. However, it is obvious now that immigrants not only create an economic boost for the society they are integrated into, they also often do the jobs that native people didn’t do like the low-class jobs, create more jobs in general for the country and can repay all the expenses that the state afford to let them part of this