BENEFIT AND COST OF IMMIGRATION REFORM 1 The topic of immigration is becoming a greater component of public discourse with the upcoming United States presidential election on the horizon. The top potential US presidential candidates are taking aggressive stances on the immigration issues in America. This is expected given the degree immigration can impact local, state and the national economy. The main question to be asked is whether these impacts will adversely affect the economy or boost it to a point we have never seen in American history. We have to look beyond the horizon of political record and towards the facts of life in American. US presidential candidates are aggressively arguing very strongly on one side of
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These types of immigrants impose other costs and requirements of the community as well. Immigrants often fool the small school system with their children. In 2006, one out of every six undocumented Mexican immigrants was under the age of eighteen. How will a community manage to pay only the educational costs associated with teaching the children of these families, children that by their very nature are most likely to speak only limited English? These immigrants may truly embody the American dream. They are trying to flee the lack of opportunity, drugs, violence and political corruption that characterizes their home country (PRI’s The World, 2015). Immigrants sometimes pay excessive fees around $3000 per person enlisting the aid of smugglers to help them on their quest to come to America (Hunt, 2015). Upon arrival, these immigrants work very hard to improve their way of life. America seems like a factual paradise in what it can offer any citizen or immigrant. This is something that Americans have grown to expect, but how do rural school districts in particular even begin to try and communicate with the immigrant students that are being flooded into the system? The property taxes and such commodities received from a trailer that was likely abandoned and not registered in the first place is not going to generate the much needed funds. Needless it say, neither will purchasing a few bags of masa at the local grocery store. If America is providing the language interpreters, medical care and food stamps for the Mexican immigrants then we must provide French Creole interpreters for the Haitian immigrants and French for the African immigrants as well. Unfortunately, the list of “must have’s” only grows larger and larger as the immigrant population increases and diversifies. That list quickly becomes overwhelming in small rural
These types of immigrants impose other costs and requirements of the community as well. Immigrants often fool the small school system with their children. In 2006, one out of every six undocumented Mexican immigrants was under the age of eighteen. How will a community manage to pay only the educational costs associated with teaching the children of these families, children that by their very nature are most likely to speak only limited English? These immigrants may truly embody the American dream. They are trying to flee the lack of opportunity, drugs, violence and political corruption that characterizes their home country (PRI’s The World, 2015). Immigrants sometimes pay excessive fees around $3000 per person enlisting the aid of smugglers to help them on their quest to come to America (Hunt, 2015). Upon arrival, these immigrants work very hard to improve their way of life. America seems like a factual paradise in what it can offer any citizen or immigrant. This is something that Americans have grown to expect, but how do rural school districts in particular even begin to try and communicate with the immigrant students that are being flooded into the system? The property taxes and such commodities received from a trailer that was likely abandoned and not registered in the first place is not going to generate the much needed funds. Needless it say, neither will purchasing a few bags of masa at the local grocery store. If America is providing the language interpreters, medical care and food stamps for the Mexican immigrants then we must provide French Creole interpreters for the Haitian immigrants and French for the African immigrants as well. Unfortunately, the list of “must have’s” only grows larger and larger as the immigrant population increases and diversifies. That list quickly becomes overwhelming in small rural