The Pros And Cons Of Border Security

Cases involving illegal immigrants have been booming at an unprecedented rate in the U.S. since the late 1990s. To absolve this matter, border security has been enforced throughout the entire country with the objective to reduce the entry of illegal immigrants across the border. These actions include the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, increasing security at the national borders and screening. This whole initiative has reduced the number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. However, current findings have proven that increasing enforcement and investment in the current method of border security has given a huge negative impact to the nation. The U.S. government should not invest in nor enforce the current method of border security because it prevents the rapid growth of the U.S. economy, robs illegal aliens of their human rights, and, surprisingly, causes an influx in the pool of undocumented migrants in the country.
First and foremost, the enforcement of border security reduces the U.S. rapid economic growth. The entry of illegal immigrants has benefited society by increasing productivity of the U.S. economy. According to Giovanni Peri, an economist at the University of economically by incrementing the country’s pool of taxpayers. These immigrants have been contributing to the country’ monetary revenue through payroll taxes which cannot be overlooked. Stephen Goss, chief actuary for the Social Security Administration states that the presence of illegal workers in the country has granted the Social Security Fund almost $15 billion a year, alleviating the country’s burden to fund the retirement of baby boomers (as cited in Davidson, p. 3). The enforcement of border security that undermines these undocumented aliens’ economic contribution should be reconsidered as they have added the country to a bigger pool of taxpayers that benefit not only to the government, but also to the