Legalizing illegal immigrants will benefit safety in the country for citizens and unlawful …show more content…
Many employees rely heavily on unlawful workers because of low pay. It is illegal for employees to hire unlawful workers (Fitz). Undocumented immigrants that are already in the country have a need to work to supply for their lives. All employers know that it is illegal by law that they can not hire undocumented immigrants. Employers knowingly hire undocumented immigrants because they know that illegal immigrants are at great risk to be deported, employers take advantage of this factor and exploit these workers. Companies that practice this act of exploitation, against illegal immigrants, are the reason why lawful workers complain that its because of immigrants that there are no open jobs. If North America would reform undocumented immigrants there wouldn 't be competitions between unlawful workers and lawful workers because every worker would be treated with the same respect. The industries that the United States rely most on undocumented immigrants are agriculture, construction and restaurants(Fitz). If we were able to deport half of these workers the country would take a toll downhill on the economy. The state of Georgia implemented the law H.B. 87 the state was calculated to have lost about 1 billion dollars because of a need of agricultural produce (Fitz). When this occurred a survey was taken, proving that immigrant workers were very necessary for the job, 56 percent of farmers said that they …show more content…
There are about 2.1 million students that are unlawfully in the United States (Fitz). Undocumented Students studying in public schools have a right for breakfast and lunch for free. The state taxes pay for these students lunch and anything else that the school provides free(Fitz). Schools do not reject undocumented students nor do the schools ask for legal status. Its when undocumented immigrants dream to enter a college after high school when they find a great obstacle. The federal laws block any way for students to have help to enter a further education like a collage or a university. Whats happening here is that tax money is going to waste because these students with great knowledge to eventually contribute to our economy are then stuck as poor individuals using more tax money in different areas to have enough to supply for themselves. Now there is a way that students can now contribute to the country, this option undocumented immigrants is a law called Dream Act. The Dream Act gives an undocumented student to be in the country with permission to work and keep pursuing their education. To receive the benefit an undocumented immigrant must be 16 through 35 years of age with no criminal record and a GED or high school diploma (Guzmán). The Dream Act now has benefited the country with money and with 1.4 million new jobs (Guzmán). Also this will facilitate undocumented immigrant