Illegal Immigration and Its Negative Effects on Our Economy

The resent research indicates that illegal Immigration population is declining for the first time in the last ten years, as the nation undergoes a tough economy period discourages people from sneaking into the USA”. Illegal immigration has been on an all-time rise for the last 6 to 10 years, as the economy of the nation struggles to stay out of a depression.

I strongly believe that illegal immigration is having an adverse negative impact to our economic growth. It costs billions of dollars to tackle problems that come with illegal. With illegal immigration, there is a lot smuggling of drugs and other illegal things across our borders. The second issues issue is overstretching of our healthcare facilities. Many illegal immigrants may be suffering from diseases and this will forces hospitals to care for them but unfortunately, these medical expenses will be financed by USA taxpayers. Also, with the state of the economy of the nation, the government does not have the money to spend on deporting immigrants to their natal counties on trying to stop the immigrants in the United States. Another unique problem is that illegal immigrants agree to work for peanut wage and these are lead to greedy employers preferring to hire them. This has led to the increased rate of employment for U.S. citizens who want to work for better pay per day.

The number of illegal immigrants has reduced after the downfall of our economy and the recession. The reason for this will be associated with our county not having the economic glory it held in the past years and is becoming less opportunistic and motivating to immigrants. Also, it is becoming harder for an immigrant to get the job due to increased rates of unemployment. Hence immigrants are no longer motivated and are realizing that lives in their counties are also becoming better and better

Looking for money creates a serious problem that makes them do break many laws in order to get them and this is why a persisted immigration problem exists. From every aspect of illegal immigration, there is always money from the cost of illegal immigration to our country to the amount of money the illegal immigrants can earn once they get into our country. To stop illegal immigrant we have to educate them to strengthen the economies of their countries money.

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