Illegal Immigration By: Deilis Martinez (FGCU Intro to Sociology)

Many times immigrants enter into this country so they can find better work and wages to provide for their families. These are jobs that can be given to legal citizens, or illegals who have gone through with the necessary requirements to legalize themselves, but in turn are leaving citizens of this country poor and unemployed. In the United States there has been a major increase over the years in the numbers of illegals entering into our country and the US workforce, which then has increased the unemployment rate. Companies usually hire this immigrants because they’ll do the same work and american could, but for 1/10 of the price. Of course businesses are more than happy to get the work done for them at a cheaper price.

Another problem with illegal immigrants entering our country, is healthcare. These illegals are not checked for any diseases before they enter the US, so they have introduced many contagious diseases into our country. According to the Center for Disease Control, illegal immigrants account for at least 65% of communicable diseases in the United States. The citizens of the country then become more susceptible to diseases, sometimes even fatal ones.

illegals cost the taxpayers more than 10 billion dollars a year, for many reasons. Illegal immigrants and their families are entitled to free health care. This health care is paid for by us taypayers, and these illegals utilize the hospitals twice as much as american citizens do! Also, the illegals usually get paid “under the table” or very low wages, which means they either don’t  pay any taxes at all, or pay little taxes to the government. So, the citizens of america are paying for health care services that the immigrants don’t pay for, but use much more of! On top of them not paying taxes, they do not contribute much of their earned money back into the economy because they send most of their earned paychecks back to their families in other countries. These immigrants are putting a financial burden on american citizens in many ways.

Currently our US law requires that illegals have access to education in public school system grades K-12. Here in the US we have estimated about 1.2 million school-aged illegal immigrant children and 2 million american bord children. With those staggering numbers, that means more work is created for teachers here in america. The students will begin to outnumber the teachers, so the school system will find it necessary to hire new educators. But, this rise in students and new hire educators will cost the state millions of dollars for the new employees and keeping the public schools open.

Then, this cost for new teachers may eventually become too high and some will be laid off, which in turn will cause larger classrooms and a decrease in the quality of education due to the outrageous student per teacher ratio. And in some schools the budget is too tight, so they eliminate sports and after school extracurricular activites.

Illegal immigration isn’t always beneficial.

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