Research and studies have found that throughout the past decade there has been an increased amount of money put into enforcing the border and improving it. The Border Control has quadruped the usage of financial cost, which in the early 1990s they used $750 million to the early 2000s $3.8 billion was spent (Cornelius, 2005). …show more content…
But they do not see the negative consequences they are causing not only for themselves but to their own communities who are legally here. They are competing with each other for jobs making it difficult for the legal immigrants to find work because the undocumented immigrants have already been hired. Undocumented immigrants are also benefitting from the services that the United States is not allowed to deny them such as having access to medical care and their children being able to attend public schools for free. “Which eventually they will be able to benefit from food stamps, cash welfare and disability benefits” (Orrenius & Zavodny, 2012). In which citizens pay taxes in order for those services to be given to the public (Matloff, 1996)