How Does Illegal Immigration Affect The Economy

Imagine you are an American who works hard everyday to support your family, feed them, and put a roof over their heads just to barely get by. Now, imagine some of that money being taken away from you and given to someone who doesn’t work at all. That is what is happening in the United States right now. There are 11.7 million illegal immigrants living in America. The rise in numbers of illegal immigrants in America has doubled in the last five years and has led to concerns about how this is affecting the economy. Illegal immigration is a problem for the American economy because it costs working taxpayers money to support them, they lower the wages for American workers, and the cost for their education, criminal justice, and emergency medical care is significant. Illegal immigration cost working taxpayers money that goes to the immigrants. The federalization for American immigration for Reform said that illegal immigration actually costs taxpayers around 113 billion dollars every year on the state, federal, and local levels. Most immigrants …show more content…
The illegal immigrants have actually lowered the minimum wage for some. The labor economists have concluded that the U.S. citizens who do not have a high school diploma earn lower wages than they use to due to immigrants. This change affects about twenty-five million people in America. For example, an illegal alien comes to America for better opportunities and the American employers are happy to see them. They are happy to see the aliens because they can now pay the illegals a lower wage than they could if they hired a U.S worker and pay even lower wages. Understandably, a person would want to come to America to create a better future for themselves and their families but, those people need to do it the right way and earn their living according to American standards. Illegals need to become legal and then the wage for everyone would be the