In 1986, President Reagan signed the Amnesty Bill into law. This law promised to grant legal status to illegal immigrants who were currently living in the United States. He also promised to secure the border and penalize employers who hire illegal immigrants. Today, a new proposed amnesty will benefit about 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the US, and the number keeps increasing, it also promises to secure the borders. Amnesty is a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction. In the case of the United States, amnesty forgives illegal immigrants from breaking the immigration law, driving and working without proper documents, and rewarding them by granting them Citizenship and all its benefits. Amnesty will cost the government trillions of dollars on benefits such as medicare and social security benefits, food-stamps etc., that people who came to the U.S. legally are barely getting. Just as in 1986, amnesty failed, there are chances that it will fail once more; the number of immigrants will increase, the U.S. economy will drop dramatically, demands for jobs will increase as well as unemployment rates, and education opportunities will fall because of the increase of population in the U.S. Amnesty will not help the United States if is passed into law, it will bring recession once more.
The Essay on Education for illegal immigrant children
Each year there are uncountable numbers if students who face numerous problems to attain the higher education,as of higher out state fees and negative prospects for employment.north Carolina education authority estimate about fifteen hundred children of illegal immigrants graduate from high school each year. These students have fewer opportunities for higher education and piles pf barriers to ...
As our economy faces critical challenges, the new proposed amnesty will not help to increase the Government economy. Instead it will bring the deficit higher. To approve the new proposed amnesty, tax payers will have to contribute trillions of dollars in comparison of how much the U.S. will be getting from all newly documented immigrants in taxes. According to Heritage Foundation Policy Expert, Robert Rector, the cost to approve amnesty was estimated at$2.5 trillion dollars in 2007. Today these number might be higher because the cost of health care policies has increased dramatically over the past few years. In addition, the newly documented immigrants will be getting more help from the government for education, healthcare and low income housing. According to The Washington Post Editorial “Hispanics in North Carolina…contributed $756 million in state taxes while costing about $817 million in public education, corrections and health care.” The U.S might be offering good opportunities for undocumented immigrants, but to get these opportunities, there will be price to pay; according to research officer and senior Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Pia M. Orrenius, amnesty will entail loosing the benefits of having relatively cheap and flexible workforce and there might be a negatively impact on competing workers; therefore, many small businesses will be forced to close.
In addition, many undocumented immigrants will come with many health problems, they will do anything to get whatever help they can from the Government. There’s a program, called Supplemental Security Income, “[Which] is SSI, is funded through the payroll taxes of Americans. But you don’t have to be an American to receive SSI payments. Like food stamps, Medicaid and almost every other form of social insurance that America has developed to help its citizens, SSI is targeted by people from other countries as a tool to materially improve their lives without work.” (Hayes) If illegal immigrants are already taking advantage of the tax money that we, taxpayers, are contributing, what will they contribute to the crisis once they become legal?
In 1986, President Reagan promised to secure the borders once and for all, but instead, it became more porous and more immigrants started crossing the borders. The number of illegal immigrants crossing the borders increased three times the number from before the 1986 amnesty reform was approved. according to Passel, senior demographer at Pew Hispanic Center and expert on immigration to the U.S., as of March 2010 an estimate of 11.2 millions of immigrants were living in the united states during, working and driving without proper documents. They were working in farms, factories, and in the food industry. Most of these undocumented immigrants hold jobs that legal documented or native-american born citizens should have. As a consequence to that issue, we have many unemployed people looking for jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) the net for unemployement has not changed much since September 2012. Statistic shows a 7.1% of men, 7.0% of women, 25.5% of teenagers, 13.8% of blacks, and 9.6% of hispanics are currently unemployed. Once amnesty is approved, these number are projected to increase. The solution to this problem as stated “… we need to turn off the jobs magnet that encourages illegal immigration. We should expand E-Verify, a Web-based program that quickly identifies illegal immigrants working here and protects jobs for legal workers.”(Smith) might help preventing more illegal immigrants from crossing the borders. Another solutions that Republican’s are arguing about is the Red Card, while most immigrants are not here seeking permanent citizenship or residency, the Red Card will give a chance to work legally and then go back to their country. “One path would deal with permanent-resident, green-card status and citizenship and would fall within the responsibility of the federal government.”
The Term Paper on Giving Amnesty To Illegal Immigrants part 1
Giving Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants Thesis: This paper will argue that amnesty should not be given to illegal immigrants because it economically hurts American budget, might provoke labor market crisis and raise crime level. The emergent features of illegal immigration make immigration policy inherently complex. It obviously is not simply a matter of a resident group keeping outsiders out or ...
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The Term Paper on Should Mexicans Be Granted Amnesty
Should Mexicans be Granted Amnesty (1) It is estimated that there are about 12 million illegal immigrants live in this country, which mostly consist of Mexicans. Many naive people in U.S. suggest that illegal immigrants need to be given a chance of becoming American citizens. Political populists exploit this topic to raise their rating among Hispanics. One of them is Senator Edward Kennedy, who is ...
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