Illegal Immigration is a huge social issue today in America. The controversy surrounding this topic is normally heated when discussed among Americans today. There seem to be about three main views regarding illegal immigrants. One view is to let the proper authorities gather everyone up and send them packing. Another view is to provide them with paperwork in order to make them legal, this way they would be tax paying citizens like the rest of us working stiffs today. Finally there is the view to not do anything. The people benefiting from this thought process normally are your larger business owners who need illegal aliens to do work that most Americans will not. Also those businesses can hire these workers for a fraction of the cost of a legal American citizen. (And probably get more work from them, with fewer complaints.)
The view to gather everyone up and send them packing, is narrow minded and would not solve anything. Whether we like to admit it or not, we need those workers here to do jobs that none of the rest us of will do. Farming, landscaping, house cleaning, and construction are just a few industries that benefit from the use of illegal immigrants. Did you know (according to the World Bank,) that about 53% of the Mexican population lives in poverty? This means living on less than $2 per day. So of course many immigrants are going to take whatever job and salary they can get to help support their family.
Ok, let’s talk about the last two views. On one hand we give everyone paperwork and make them start paying taxes. On the other hand we turn our heads and do nothing. I don’t feel that turning our heads and doing nothing is the answer, nor do I feel that everyone should just get paperwork handed to them on a silver platter. It is a privilege to live in this country, and if it wasn’t, so many people would not be illegally crossing the border to get here to take low paying jobs that require manual labor. Issuing paperwork is something that needs to be done. We do need to have everyone documented who wish to live here. There needs to be a system in place that would make it beneficial for the illegal’s to become citizens, but equally beneficial for the U.S. economy as well. We need a program that would maybe tax the illegal’s harder for the first few years in order to make up for lost time; while still allowing them to becoming citizens and making a better life for themselves.
While this issue remains a heated discussion today, illegal immigrants are out there and working among us everyday. With that being said, a few questions come to mind. I wonder how the Native Americans felt when we came in and took over their land; and if they had a more sovereign system in place would we find our selves in the same shoes as the Mexican immigrants today?
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I agree with Snapp, we should totally do something about the illegal immigrants in this country. It’s a difficult issue for me being that my parents were illegal immigrants. They came in the amnesty of 1986, so they were very lucky. They have worked hard to assimilate into American society, something that some American people believe Mexicans can’t or don’t want to do. America is a great country, and it’s definitely a privilege to live here. I think that given a chance Mexicans can contribute greatly to our society.
Immigrants should be tested I believe that people illegally in America should prove that they want to live and that they can assimilate to our society. There are a lot of great people that can do a lot for this country, but at the same time there are bad ones. The point or purpose of these tests should be to find these bad people and send them packing. I hate to say it that way, but we already have our own criminals we don’t need more.
As far as taxes go, yes we should tax them. I pay a ridiculous amount of taxes and all because I have no dependants. They should share the burden if they want to share the jobs. Some folks that work for, lets say the restaurant business, those folks get taxed heavily and never see that money at the end of the year. So it’s a very difficult issue, but not an impossible one,
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