immigration reform
Pro Speech
(4 mins.)
At the age of five, Enrique’s mother, a woman struggling with poverty and two children to feed left him, and his seven year old sister in mexico to find work in America and support them. Eleven years later he set out to find his mother leaving behind his life in mexico and a pregnant girlfriend. it took him eight attempts a journey of 122 days and 12,000 miles across the mexican border. Although once in he was soon deported. Enrique is one of the other estimated 15,000 parentless children because of deportation. Not only is a path to citizenship an ethical obligation of the United states but contrary to the popular belief immigrants actually benefit the U.S. economy by complimenting contrary jobs. which brings me to contention one.
Contention one: Immigrants are a benefit to the U.S. economy.
Immigrant workers in the U.S. which account for 72% of all undocumented aliens here compliment the jobs of U.S. workers in fact they increased wages by up to 10% from 1990 to 2007 says giovanni peri an economist at the university of california also in states with more undocumented workers “skilled workers made more money and worked more hours; the economy’s productivity grew.” In addition to that a recent study from a republican group estimated that quote “reform could raise economic growth by a percentage point and raise GDP by up to 1,500 dollars per person and reduce the deficit by up to 2.5 trillion”. From increasing wages to improving productivity and raising gross domestic product it is evident that immigrants have no negative effect on the economy but in contrast have a positive one.
Subpoint A: It wouldn’t be cost effective or realistic to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S.
"We are not going to ship back 12 million people, we're not going to do it as a practical matter. We would have to take all our law enforcement that we have available and we would have to use it and put
(4 mins.)
At the age of five, Enrique’s mother, a woman struggling with poverty and two children to feed left him, and his seven year old sister in mexico to find work in America and support them. Eleven years later he set out to find his mother leaving behind his life in mexico and a pregnant girlfriend. it took him eight attempts a journey of 122 days and 12,000 miles across the mexican border. Although once in he was soon deported. Enrique is one of the other estimated 15,000 parentless children because of deportation. Not only is a path to citizenship an ethical obligation of the United states but contrary to the popular belief immigrants actually benefit the U.S. economy by complimenting contrary jobs. which brings me to contention one.
Contention one: Immigrants are a benefit to the U.S. economy.
Immigrant workers in the U.S. which account for 72% of all undocumented aliens here compliment the jobs of U.S. workers in fact they increased wages by up to 10% from 1990 to 2007 says giovanni peri an economist at the university of california also in states with more undocumented workers “skilled workers made more money and worked more hours; the economy’s productivity grew.” In addition to that a recent study from a republican group estimated that quote “reform could raise economic growth by a percentage point and raise GDP by up to 1,500 dollars per person and reduce the deficit by up to 2.5 trillion”. From increasing wages to improving productivity and raising gross domestic product it is evident that immigrants have no negative effect on the economy but in contrast have a positive one.
Subpoint A: It wouldn’t be cost effective or realistic to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S.
"We are not going to ship back 12 million people, we're not going to do it as a practical matter. We would have to take all our law enforcement that we have available and we would have to use it and put