The Role Of Illegal Immigrants In America

America is the melting pot of the world. In 1982 a man named Samuel Ellis bought an island. This island allowed for immigrants to come inside, be evaluated, and either be let into America or sent home. This is the time and place that the United States of America began to become the melting pot. Now 124 years later the immigration level is at an all time high, and it's beginning to hurt our people, our economy, and overall our country.

A question America is having to ask themselves at this very moment is should we or should we not erect a wall? In my honest opinion i do not believe that America should build a wall, but instead focus some of our attention in the U.S. citizens jobs, deportation of illegals, and harsher consequences for illegal immigrants breaking the law.

Every day more and more immigrants are coming into America illegally to find a better life for them and possibly their families. When they come with these intentions the must find a way to support themselves, so the first thing they do is acquire a job. Now that they have a job, and they are putting food on the table every night everything is just fine. Except for the fact that that money doesn't always get spent back into the economy. When the money …show more content…
There are a few ways how the legal immigrants actually do more good than they do bad, and most people probably don't even realize that. As for the unskilled legal immigrants, they tend to really compliment the skilled worker, instead of taking away from him like most people believe. In states with more unskilled immigrants the productivity actually when up instead of down. The boss no longer has to pay a skilled worker to do an unskilled worker's job in some instances which save him money in the long run. With cost lower for the boss, that means he could increase the number of jobs that he could plan