This Monday, millions of Americans celebrated the Labor Day, a day which honors the American labor movement and recognize the contributions those workers have made to the U.S economy and society. For decades, immigrants and their families have played a crucial role of the labor force and economy in the United States. However, the broken immigration system somehow strangles the contributions of those immigrants, and then hide the significant benefits from American workers. Illegal immigration in the United States of started at 1920s. Thereafter to the 1980s, the phenomenon of illegal immigration increased dramatically. Although after an intense internal debate between the government and various interest groups enacted appropriate legislations,
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S. 744’s legalization provisions would greatly improve economic potential and lives of the currently undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Allowing these immigrants to reach their greatest economic potential and eventually will have positive economic effects on all American workers. Research from the Center for American Progress Kugler, .Oakford (2013) shows that “undocumented immigrants’ earnings will increase by 15 percent over 5 years when they receive legal status and by an additional 10 percent over five years when they acquire citizenship” Because with legal status and citizenship, enables those immigrants to fully participate in the labor force, find jobs that best match their skills, earn significantly more than they do when they are working without legal rights and receive full protection under employment laws, they no longer in constant fear of deportation. Their wage gains and resulting productivity ripple through the economy, because those immigrants are not only workers but also consumers and taxpayers. In particular, they will spend their increased wages purchase items like food, housing, clothing, cars, and electronics. In turn, that spending will stimulate demand for more services and goods which will create the need for more workers. In other words, it will generate more jobs for American
S. 744’s legalization provisions would greatly improve economic potential and lives of the currently undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Allowing these immigrants to reach their greatest economic potential and eventually will have positive economic effects on all American workers. Research from the Center for American Progress Kugler, .Oakford (2013) shows that “undocumented immigrants’ earnings will increase by 15 percent over 5 years when they receive legal status and by an additional 10 percent over five years when they acquire citizenship” Because with legal status and citizenship, enables those immigrants to fully participate in the labor force, find jobs that best match their skills, earn significantly more than they do when they are working without legal rights and receive full protection under employment laws, they no longer in constant fear of deportation. Their wage gains and resulting productivity ripple through the economy, because those immigrants are not only workers but also consumers and taxpayers. In particular, they will spend their increased wages purchase items like food, housing, clothing, cars, and electronics. In turn, that spending will stimulate demand for more services and goods which will create the need for more workers. In other words, it will generate more jobs for American