Undocumented Immigrants Research Paper
Should Illegal/Undocumented Immigrants be Granted Amnesty?
Yes, I think they should be granted amnesty since they are here in search of freedom, liberty and happiness.Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda is the founding director of the North America Integration and Development Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He praises the 1987 Immigration Reform and Control Act for granting legalized status to many undocumented Hispanic immigrants, who had resided continuously in the United States since 1982.according to the author, the reform freed the immigrant the need to hide from the authorities.it also give them a chance to vie for a better-paying jobs, built business, raised the wage floor of all workers and added wealth to the overall economy. …show more content…
By conventional wisdom, El Paso, Texas should have been one of the scariest cities in America, because of its high number of illegal immigrants and its proximity to the border of Mexico but that is not the case. There were just 18 murders in El Paso [2008], a city of 736,000 people. To compare Baltimore, Maryland, with 637,000 residents, had 234 killings. A 2007 study by the Immigration Policy Centre (IPC) found that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, are substantially less likely to commit crimes or to be incarcerated than U.S citizen. Amnesty will make them proud and law abiding …show more content…
In 2004 the Washington-based Centre for Immigration Studies published what many regard as the most objective and quantifiable study of the economic costs of illegal immigration. The study shows that the average illegal household cost the federal government is $2,739 more in federal outlays than it produces by of direct tax revenue, or in aggregate terms, a $ 10.4 billion federal tax deficit. Also a survey by the U.S Census Bureau in March 2005, statistics indicate that 29 percent of immigrant headed households use at least one major welfare program, compared with 18 percent for the native households. The statistics indicate that illegal immigrants drain the welfare system and therefore they should not be granted
Yes, I think they should be granted amnesty since they are here in search of freedom, liberty and happiness.Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda is the founding director of the North America Integration and Development Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He praises the 1987 Immigration Reform and Control Act for granting legalized status to many undocumented Hispanic immigrants, who had resided continuously in the United States since 1982.according to the author, the reform freed the immigrant the need to hide from the authorities.it also give them a chance to vie for a better-paying jobs, built business, raised the wage floor of all workers and added wealth to the overall economy. …show more content…
By conventional wisdom, El Paso, Texas should have been one of the scariest cities in America, because of its high number of illegal immigrants and its proximity to the border of Mexico but that is not the case. There were just 18 murders in El Paso [2008], a city of 736,000 people. To compare Baltimore, Maryland, with 637,000 residents, had 234 killings. A 2007 study by the Immigration Policy Centre (IPC) found that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, are substantially less likely to commit crimes or to be incarcerated than U.S citizen. Amnesty will make them proud and law abiding …show more content…
In 2004 the Washington-based Centre for Immigration Studies published what many regard as the most objective and quantifiable study of the economic costs of illegal immigration. The study shows that the average illegal household cost the federal government is $2,739 more in federal outlays than it produces by of direct tax revenue, or in aggregate terms, a $ 10.4 billion federal tax deficit. Also a survey by the U.S Census Bureau in March 2005, statistics indicate that 29 percent of immigrant headed households use at least one major welfare program, compared with 18 percent for the native households. The statistics indicate that illegal immigrants drain the welfare system and therefore they should not be granted