Illegal Immigration Impact

In this research paper I will prove that illegal and legal immigrants are not burdens on the U.S. economy. I will prove this by providing facts on the positive impact to the United States educational system, the job industry, and public assistant programs. Immigrants pay taxes, shop, and buy real estate all of these are positive impacts to the economy. Immigrants that come to the U.S. for an education and graduate and become our doctors, scientist and computer experts are better accepted. They are contributing to the economy and at the same time benefiting the citizens of the U.S. How many natives want their doctors or scientist that have created cures for illnesses or that come up with the latest computer program to go back to their own
The natives that are high school dropouts are the most affected. However it is very small. According to Adam Davidson “The wages of low skilled high school dropouts are suppressed by somewhere between 3 percent and 8 percent because of the competition from immigrants both illegal and legal.” Davidson (2009) “Illegal Immigrants and the U.S. Economy” (para.4). Some economist admits for the normal high school dropout, if there were no job competition from immigrants that natives would get around a $25 a week raise. Illegal immigrants do take jobs that would go to natives. But illegal immigrants that work also create demand that leads to new jobs. There will be great economic benefit from the arrival of young immigrants into a mature workforce where a lot of retirements will occur in the next twenty
According to Camerota in 2004 17.4 percent of immigrants and their children that are eighteen years of age or younger have Medicaid and 12 percent of Americans. This is a 5.4% difference. Compared to the social security tax revenue generated by immigrants that they will never be able to claim this is not that big of a difference. If welfare is defined as cash assistant programs according to Camerota’s research immigrant use is almost the same as Americans. The point is that immigrants contribute tax revenue just like Americans and in this case use the welfare system just the same. Camerota’s research also states that more than one third of immigrant households in Arizona, California and New York used some type of welfare program. These are large immigrant states so this also needs to be taken into