The Pros And Cons Of Immigration And Immigration

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The United State 's current 11 million illegal immigrants need to be deported. For decades now the United States has had a huge problem when it comes to border security and immigration. There are currently over 11 million undocumented people in the United States and some evidence suggests that it is having disastrous effects on the economy. Whether they should be granted amnesty or even deported has become one of the biggest political conflicts, and recently has become an important topic for the upcoming 2016 presidential elections. On one side there 's an argument saying that granting such an incredible number of illegal immigrants amnesty would cost more money than it would make in the long run. The article, "Amnesty: Breaking the Social Security Bank " printed by the Federation For American Immigrations Reform states the evidence that if the illegal immigrants were to be granted citizenship, they would quickly become eligible to receive retirement funds from the Social Security bank in which most earned, while breaking the federal law and using stolen or fake SSN numbers.
This could be devastating because it could crash the Social Security bank and make it more difficult for hard working, …show more content…

Jeffrey Passel and D 'Vera Cohn point out in the study from 2010, which estimated the population of undocumented citizens by state, they found that in California alone almost 2 million jobs were taken by the illegal population (Passel and Cohn). Now at first glance this number is relatively small seeing how California 's total population is over 38 million. However when looking at the unemployment rate, which is roughly 6%, you can do some simple math and find that the amount of jobs taken by illegal immigrants is also right around 6%, so by deporting these immigrants it could potentially lower the unemployment rate

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