This statement has come of truth in it, it is true that given the lower wages used by undocumented workers some citizens are getting paid the same wages. But I would also like to remark that these people are not professionals, they are in a big majority high schools dropouts or low-skill workers. According to George J. Borjas, a prestigious Harvard economist, about six percent of the wages of this group of people, who are US-born workers without high school diploma, have been dropping down. This group represents a large number of voters that probably helped our current president win the election. But in reality, are immigrants a real hassle to the United States economy? The answer is no, and here’s …show more content…
According to the free market think tank American Action Forum, this policy will cost the federal government about $4oo billion and will lower the country’s GDP by $1 trillion. What many of the supporters do not understand is that immigration has always meant money. It has been tested and documented that thanks to the immigration surplus in the workforce, the net wealth of Americans citizens has increased an estimate of $50 billion given that these immigrants pay more to the system than they take out. But immigrants not only affect the country economically, they have also brought competitive ideas and many other social contributions, which have resulted in merits for the United States. For instance, in the nineteenth century, King Camp Gillette, was an American businessman that invented the safety razor that we still use nowadays. Not going many generations back, we learn that his parents and ancestors emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630. From this example, we can learn that immigrants have also done many extraordinary things for the United States.
It is true that since 1990, the number of illegal immigrants coming to the United States has tripled, but out of the 11.1 million immigrants who were illegally in the country in 2014, eight million of them were in the workforce. Many of them pay social