Illegal Immigrants In The United States

The United states has about 11 million undocumented Immigrants living in its cities and farmland. These immigrants work in numerous jobs across the country, the majority in physically demanding, low paying jobs in relating to agriculture, construction, and hospitality. The immigrants in theses fields provide many services and products that help the United States’ people. Agricultural products including items like strawberries and dairy products are produced through illegal immigrant labor and then sold to citizens and others around the world bringing in billions of dollars in revenue back to the farmers and local economy. The immigrants working laboriously in rough conditions also take jobs that others are unwilling to do, allowing for products
The immigrants in the United States are increasing their family sizes and educating children at a faster rate than native born citizens. Immigrant families are providing areas with little work and resources, a growing population to counteract the diminishing jobs at a rate of double the children of the native population (Williams). With this projection to keep on going the United States will not fall into a situation like Europe where the new generation is not producing children at a fast enough rate to combat the death of the elderly, which is leading to an economic and population crisis. The European population has a majority of adults and a smaller number of children which will result in a plethora of problems in the next decades. The immigrants into the United States and their growth rate here will help combat this phenomenon from happening in the Americas. Not only do the immigrants’ children and birth rate help with the future economic problems but they also help with filling jobs and producing jobs for American workers. The immigrants and their families come to the United States hopefully to become more educated, and in doing so, become more successful, economically, and
Immigrants are increasing new businesses in the United States, and “according to a study by the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative, from 2007-12 latino-owned net new-business formation skyrocketed 47% while non-Latino net new businesses declined by 2%” (Cisneros and Trujillo). With all these new businesses being formed by immigrants, the number of employees to run the new businesses are going up as well. This means new jobs for American workers and more money in the United States’ economy. Through the new jobs that the immigrants are producing and keeping employed, the unemployment rate goes down. Immigrants help the United States economy in other ways than just providing businesses, but also provide the country with, “business contacts to other markets, enhancing America's ability to trade and invest profitability in the global economy” (Williams). The immigrants and their businesses are also beneficial as they are able to help certain regions get out of economic recessions. According to Bill Gilmer, an economist for the Federal Reserve, the businesses that the immigrants build up create “diversification” in an economic downturn, and at the same time they create new “manufacturing, trade, and service businesses” (Williams). The businesses that immigrants make and bring to the economy have an overall positive