Many Americans are concerned about legalizing illegal
immigrants because they are afraid of them taking over all jobs, criminals
being on the streets, and people taking advantage of affirmative action
programs, According to Procon.com we can see there are more positives than negatives for passing an amnezty. First, most of the illegal immigrants come to the U.S. looking for
better opportunities and to work. Second, there are many business owners that
could not be successful in their countries because of mafia and insecurity for
the same reason they come to this country to invest their money and create
jobs. Americans are also worried about legalizing criminals and have them on
the streets that will not be a problem because one of the many requisites is a
background check.
In my opinion the US should legalize illegal immigrants.
From my point of view the U.S. is a business and it only has two options, to
win or lose money. If we pass an amnesty,
the country will benefit economically. Last year the Obama’s Administration passed
a law name deferred action; From August 2012 to
today the U.S. has help 199,460 illegal immigrants. For every application, the
government is charging around 500 dollars, if we multiply those two numbers we
get 99,730,000 million dollars that will go straight to the U.S. economy, if we
use the same equation for the rest 10,800,540 of illegal immigrants we get 5,500,000,000
dollars only to become legal residents, now to become U.S. citizens the fee is 680
dollars for the application. The government will be receiving 12,980,000,000 to
legalize illegal immigrants, on the other hand, the Government will spent more
money by deporting them according to Business Insider.
In conclusion, Illegal immigration is not going to stop any time soon that is the reality. There is a saying that I personally like “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade” if you don’t do anything with those lemons eventually, you are going to find yourself with 11 million wormy lemons; might as well take advantage and create a lemonade company.
In conclusion, Illegal immigration is not going to stop any time soon that is the reality. There is a saying that I personally like “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade” if you don’t do anything with those lemons eventually, you are going to find yourself with 11 million wormy lemons; might as well take advantage and create a lemonade company.
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ReplyDeleteOn March 29th, Christian Rivera published a blog entry titled, “Should We Make Lemonade?” In his text he conveys that the illegal immigrants are “life’s lemons” and the United States should take this opportunity to “make lemonade,” or in other words further strengthen the nation and its economy, rather than continue to let it hinder.
ReplyDeleteI couldn’t agree more with Christian. He mentions that “Americans are concerned about legalizing illegal immigrants because they are afraid of them taking over all jobs, [and criminals roaming the streets.]” However, we know very well that these concerns do not hold water. First of all, as illegals, they already have the jobs that would supposedly be taken over because they do not have to be paid minimum wage thereby cutting out any competition. If they were legal citizens, jobs would be awarded to the most qualified. In addition, they would pay taxes on any income they earn; something they are not able to do right now even if they wanted to. Secondly, the small percentage of immigrants who are in fact criminals could be tried in American courts and penalized accordingly. All we are able to do with them right now is deport them back to their respective country and repeat the process when they come back.
We are wasting precious time, money and resources impeding something that could be very beneficial to our nation. So needless to say, let’s make lemonade!
I agree with Christian's blog entry "Should we make lemonade?" He talks about the fact that the U.S. is a capitalist country and is about making money and therefore it would be beneficial to us to legalize immigrants just by the application fee alone it would benefit in making a profit.
ReplyDeleteNow i do however feel that there should be some restrictions to this before you allow any of them to become legal. Just how in the DREAM Act it states that they can't have been convicted of a felony or 3 misdemeanors, I believe these are some of the same rules we should follow before allowing them legalization. I also believe that they should provide proof of continued stable work or continued education or attempt to continue.
Its just a matter of making sense, this is something we should do and hopefully those in the country who are afraid of change will see that this is eventually going to happen or i at least hope so.