Obama created an executive order in June 2012 that let young illegal immigrants, who had arrived before 2007 and before their 16th birthday. This executive order known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) allowed these young immigrants to apply for a social security and a get a license. These children were brought into the United States by their parents; they grew up here as fellow Americans. These executive orders allowed many immigrants to study more than 740,000 people were approved to participate in this program. This allowed young immigrants to work and go to college and further expand their horizon to increase American economics and culture. That’s 740,000 young ambitious people working and studying; this of course would benefit the economy. This executive order was a genius move from the Obama administration; it gives a small sample on how illegal immigrants can help the economy if 740,000 people can help the economy, now imagine what 5 million immigrants helping the economy that would be substantially significant. According to the Center for American Progress the increase in the economy would be as such “As DACA and DAPA recipients earn higher wages—an estimated total of $103 billion more over the next decade—the U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP, will increase cumulatively by $230 billion over the next 10 years.” This is the projection if there would be a reform that would not …show more content…
These people are all fairly wrong, immigrants do not steal jobs from Americans, in reality it’s the opposite, earlier this paper talked about how immigrants create jobs for Americans. This quote is from The New York Times it says “We found little to no negative effects on overall wages and employment of native-born workers in the longer term,” said Francine D. Blau, an economics professor at Cornell University who led the group that produced the 550-page report. Immigrants do not steal jobs from Americans, another statistic that backs up a immigration reform is “High-skilled immigrants, especially in technology and science, who have come in larger numbers in recent years, had a significant “positive impact” on Americans with skills, and also on working-class Americans. They spurred innovation, helping to create jobs”. Another common argument is that America already gave a reform and that reform didn’t help the economy. That claim is old and washed up the year that reform was given mainly benefited workers in the fields, immigrants have expanded their jobs since then and immigrants have expanded there population in exponential increases. Another common argument against illegal immigrants is that they come and depleted resources like health care, welfare or other government based help programs, studies have