Persuasive Essay On Unauthorized Immigration

When people hear the words ‘unauthorized immigrant’ the first thing that comes to their mind is people who are out to steal jobs from citizens, and cost taxpayers billions for social services. And usually the most proposed solutions to unauthorized immigration is that we should either deport them or build a wall on the Mexican border to prevent them from returning. But we should ask ourselves, how much of this is really true? And if the solutions proposed would really be effective? To begin with let’s break this down by misconceptions. The first one is people believe that unauthorized immigrants are lawbreakers who steal jobs from citizens. But is that really true? Scholars for the most part dispute on whether unauthorized immigrants actually affect the wages of native workers. And a lot of the results may depend on the methods used. However, it seems that an increase in unauthorized immigrants may actually decrease wages because increasing the supply of labor would in …show more content…
The solution proposed by many people and politicians is to either deport the unauthorized immigrants or build a wall on the Mexican border (which I believe is a huge waste of money). Starting with mass deportations, the cost to deport approximately 11 million people or above is way more than we could imagine. First the government has to apprehend, detain, process and transport those millions of men, women and children. And even with a fence, there still would need to be large sums spent to keep the deported from returning. According to the American Action Forum, the price tag for this undertaking would be in the range of $420 billion to $620 billion. Thus the cons of sending back all those people outweighs the pros of sending them back. We could build a wall around the Mexican border, but I can’t see how that would benefit anyone, as it would be even more of a waste of money as people could just easily cross over, making it all the more