Illegal Immigration Research Paper

One of the most controversial topics in the United States, among government parties and citizens alike, is the issue of immigration. In a country composed of 316,128,839 citizens, 41,348,066 of those citizens are foreign-born (FAIR). While this number is less than ten percent of the entire population, it is believed that there are around 12 million more people living in the U.S undocumented. In other words, they are illegal aliens. The people who come to America, whether legally or illegally, come seeking job opportunities and the ability to support their family. Many come with hopes of finding new freedom that is not available to them in their homeland. Whatever the reason may be that these people arrive in copious amounts to the shores …show more content…
Immigrants come seeking employment and take job opportunities from citizens who have lived in the United States their whole life. Since 2009, 67 percent of the increase in employment has gone to immigrants both illegal and legal (NumbersUSA). This means that while time and resources are being focused on lowering unemployment rates, a majority of people that are being helped are not even native to the country. There is no problem in helping people from other nations earn a living and provide for their families and there is no problem in a large amount of workers being foreign-born. A problem occurs when the immigrant workers are chosen over an American for a job because employers’ believe that the immigrant will expect less benefits. A problem also occurs when a natural born citizen of the United States cannot find a job because there are simply no openings, due to the fact that jobs are steadily being claimed by immigrants. There is nothing wrong with welcoming others and helping them out, but the goal of the United States should first be to help its own …show more content…
While tolerance is something that many Americans could afford to acquire, it simply does not exist in the minds of most. Many natives to the United States, whether they realize it or not, have some form of prejudice against someone from another country. These issues typically come out in the workplace when two or more people are required to work together and cause endless amounts of problems. Examples of issues between co workers are the language barrier, differed expectations, and cultural differences. Many companies try to solve these issues with short term solutions such as operating bilingually and not requiring their employees to speak any amount of the other employees’ language and varying wages, typically providing the U.S native with a higher salary than the immigrant. Solutions like these, though, are not effective at mending the problems within the workplace and in time, only lead to more trouble for the native, the immigrant, and the company. The only real way to solve the workplace problems created by immigration are resource and time consuming, taking away from the efficiency of the