How does Illegal Immigrants affect the US?
The term illegal immigrant is familiar to Americans, but it still has different meanings to others. Based on the dictionary, illegal immigrant or undocumented immigrant defines as a foreigner who enters the U.S. without an entry or immigrant visa,especially a person who crosses the border by avoiding inspection or who overstays the period of time allowed as a visitor, tourist, or businessperson. Since US immigration policy was released, there are always a lot of mixed opinions about allowing for illegal immigrants to live and work in America. Undocumented immigrants have also affected the US in all the dimensions of life; especially, the illegal immigrants affects population, workforce, and social. …show more content…
The reason is that unauthorized immigrants are living and working illegally; if a conflict occurs and need government to solve, these workers will be arrested and deported. By great amount of undocumented immigrant workers and self-interest of business, there are some conflicts arising about based on this problem. According to Kenneth Jost, Advocates of tougher enforcement say undocumented workers are taking jobs from U.S. citizens. However, many business and agricultural groups say migrant workers are needed to fill jobs unattractive to U.S. workers.There are many conflicts about wages overall including those of U.S.born worker,too. Research by George Borjas and Lawrence Katz of Harvard find that immigration reduced the wages of U.S. born-workers by 4.7 percent because the law supply of demand mention that a larger supply of labor (more immigrants or undocumented immigrants) will lower wages .Otherwise, “Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri, showed that wages for this group increased, albeit slightly”(Robinson, Eugene, and Ruth). With the same opinion of Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri, The Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project show that ”immigrants raise the overall standard of living of American workers by boosting wages and lowering prices, one reason is that immigrants and U.S.-born workers generally do not compete for the same jobs; instead many immigrants complement the work of U.S. employees and increase their
The term illegal immigrant is familiar to Americans, but it still has different meanings to others. Based on the dictionary, illegal immigrant or undocumented immigrant defines as a foreigner who enters the U.S. without an entry or immigrant visa,especially a person who crosses the border by avoiding inspection or who overstays the period of time allowed as a visitor, tourist, or businessperson. Since US immigration policy was released, there are always a lot of mixed opinions about allowing for illegal immigrants to live and work in America. Undocumented immigrants have also affected the US in all the dimensions of life; especially, the illegal immigrants affects population, workforce, and social. …show more content…
The reason is that unauthorized immigrants are living and working illegally; if a conflict occurs and need government to solve, these workers will be arrested and deported. By great amount of undocumented immigrant workers and self-interest of business, there are some conflicts arising about based on this problem. According to Kenneth Jost, Advocates of tougher enforcement say undocumented workers are taking jobs from U.S. citizens. However, many business and agricultural groups say migrant workers are needed to fill jobs unattractive to U.S. workers.There are many conflicts about wages overall including those of U.S.born worker,too. Research by George Borjas and Lawrence Katz of Harvard find that immigration reduced the wages of U.S. born-workers by 4.7 percent because the law supply of demand mention that a larger supply of labor (more immigrants or undocumented immigrants) will lower wages .Otherwise, “Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri, showed that wages for this group increased, albeit slightly”(Robinson, Eugene, and Ruth). With the same opinion of Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri, The Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project show that ”immigrants raise the overall standard of living of American workers by boosting wages and lowering prices, one reason is that immigrants and U.S.-born workers generally do not compete for the same jobs; instead many immigrants complement the work of U.S. employees and increase their