Enforce The Written

Enforce What is Written According to statesmaster.com, Texas has the second largest number of illegal immigrants living in the United States, with at total of 1,041,000 and rising (U.S. Citizenship). With all of the companies hiring managers being aware of this, it becomes easy for these individuals to be hired and paid at lower wages, both being illegal. With most of these immigrants being paid under the table, not only is this considered tax fraud, but it ends up costing U.S. tax payers billions each year, resulting in higher taxes for everyone. These companies/corporations are aware that they are breaking the law, although they do not consider there to be anything inherently problematic about these reoccurring events, because hardly anyone is taking action to stop them. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) system must start enforcing these laws more efficiently not only because it is their job, but also because it shows society that our legal system does not follow the laws that they installed. Most of these immigrants are not well trained in all of the U.S. safety regulations due to language barriers, causing hazardous work environments and unfortunate amounts of liability. According to Chan, a publisher for New York Times, 21 of the 29 fatal construction accidents in New York City during a recent 12-month period occurred as a result of limited English proficiency (Chan 2006). Without the proper training (which can be difficult due to the language barrier) in certain fields such as construction and oil, it can create as previously shown, a very unsafe work environment, causing production to slow, which in the end costs each company more money as they are trying to catch up. According to Preston in a New York Times article there were About 11.2 million illegal immigrants living in the United States in 2010”, 8 million of them are currently in the work force and Texas with the second highest number of jobs filled by illegals. In the U.S. these small