Pros And Cons Of Immigration To The United States

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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of
“America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.”(James Madison). In this quote James Madison is explaining that America is indebted to immigration for what it has done for this country. Although immigration has helped this country right now it is getting out of hand and hard to control.The way it is getting out of hand is by immigrants coming into America are bringing bad energy with them, for an example they are bringing drugs, violence , etc. All these problems are affecting the government so much, they way which it 's affecting them is spending money on immigrants. Billions of dollars are spent every year toward these people, which this money should be used in another way instead of this issue. To solve the problem of immigration america can build a bigger wall along the border, increase the amount of border patrol officers along the border, or to allow immigrants to become U.S citizens.With only one of these solutions it would help this problem become less effective to this society. Adame 2 The issue of Immigration has been in the United States for many years. Immigration is when a person moves into another country permanently. For these people it 's very easily to cross or “jump” the border. People constantly immigrate to the united states illegally trying to escape their problems in their own country.They rather risk their life to come to America to build a better lifestyle. Immigration affects both those that immigrate to another country and those in the country that is being immigrated. The economy is greatly affected by immigrants because their low wages lower the economic value in the community. By the economy being lowered many jobs will have low paying incomes, making it harder for people to live on a single paying job. The problem of immigration greatly affects the people. According to FAIR’s article (Federation for American Immigration Reform) “Immigration Issues” “immigration has significant impact on education, jobs, poverty, healthcare, taxes, wages, and the environment”.(FAIR,1) Immigration is a problem because the population of the United States is growing at an alarming rate and soon the United States will be too crowded. FAIR also states in the article “Immigration Issues” “America’s experience with a low level of immigration shows that we do not need mass immigration to have economic growth.”(FAIR,2). This quote explains that the United States do not need more immigrants to enter our borders to help increase our economy. The mass immigration hurts the economy more than it helps, and immigration also contributes to hurting society in the United States. This is a problem for the residents of the United States because those that enter the United States illegally change society a great deal. Society is forced to adapt to the growing population of immigrants coming into our country and must adapt to this sudden change.This is also a problem for the community’s in which the immigrants move to and decide to live. If this problem is not solved
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Which is why the only logical solution is to make it easier for the immigrants to become U.S citizens. This solution would best help the economy and overall increase the moral
Adame 4 of Americans and of the immigrants. This solution is the most feasible because it can be carried out swiftly and effectively within the least amount of time. This solution is the financially possible because the cost it would take to make it possible for immigrants to become legal would be made up by the money they would be making and the taxes they would have to pay for everything that they would buy. This solution would also be legally possible because there is no law that prohibits the creation of new citizens of the United States. It is also morally possible because it would overall improve the society and the economy of the United States. By allowing immigrants to become U.S citizens, it is making them contribute to their new home and help make it better. Illegal immigrants are not payed as much as those who are citizens and that holds back the economy from growing and getting better, but if more people were to become

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