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How To Decrease Illegal Immigration

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Immigration Essay
Adi Schierbaum

What would happen to Americans if someone who is not going to offer any significance to one's country is allowed to be in the country? To some, the U.S.A is home. If U.S lets someone in who is not gonna help our home why have them here? According to a poll on fairus.org 43% of Americans believe immigration in America. should be decreased While, 35% of americans believe that it should be remain at same level it's at right now. The last 18% believe that immigration should be increased in america. According to the heritage.org illegal immigration happens to be a massive scale in America. More than 10 million undocumented immigrants reside in the U.S. It shows the attractiveness to america, but it is also shows …show more content…

The first major problem is loss of jobs. According to cis.org the number of Americans working fell 1.3 million in 2013 . While the number of illegal immigrant workers increased by 5.3 million also in 2013. Illegal Immigration also causes stolen taxpayer resources. According to The Washington Times Americans for illegal immigration estimates illegal immigrants are stealing over $125 billion worth of taxpayer resources for americans each year. Also the last major problem illegal immigration has caused is increased numbers of crimes and domestic terrorism. According to cis.org 816,000 Immergrants were deported from the United States because of criminal activity or conviction. This study was from 1998 to 2007. Immigrants make up about one fifth of America's prison population.Think about this though. These illegal immigrants come from 3ed world countries where laws are not enforced like they are in the U.S. What the U.S should do is Strengthen Border Security. That's how the U.S could limit undocumented immigrants who want to enter the country. The new border security has to be intelligent. Finally what is the U.S going to do about the 11.5 million undocumented workers in this country? It's a really easy plan. The U.S has to improve the work visa program. The U.S needs to make sure that the visas are going to highly skilled foreign workers. According to a 2008 study by Harvard Business School, “The H-1B visa program for highly skilled foreign professionals has played an important role in U.S. innovation patterns” over the past 15 years. It is fact that the number of H-1B caps are higher due to “the direct contributions of immigrant inventors.” This means that the highly skilled immigrants have created inventions that have helped america. As everyone knows illegal immigration has its pros and cons. According to futureofworking.com illegal immergration helps boost the economy because the illegal

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