Argumentative Essay On Immigration

Around the world and especially in the U.S, immigration is a hot political topic. There is an overwhelming amount of controversy about who is right about how we should control immigration. There are many concerns people have with immigration and they range from, migrants taking away jobs from Americans to terrorism from people migrated to the U.S. Many people have a problem with the amount of undocumented immigrants but some want immigration banned altogether. I believe that immigration is a good thing and even is a necessity because after all, America was built upon immigrant workers. My problem with immigration itself, is more towards the immigration system, the system itself has failed, leaving some immigrants no choice but to migrate illegally

The bill stated that it would give a legal pathway for undocumented immigrants to get their citizenship. This bill sounds like a handful, and indeed it would be difficult to make it so that 12.5 million undocumented immigrants can obtain their citizenship, but it has been done before, in 1986 the (IRCA) bill was passed and allowed amnesty to the 2.7 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S at the time. Granted 12.5 million is a much greater amount of people compared to the 2.7 million people documented in 1986, but it would be worth the time and money spent the new Americans would be able to boost our nation’s economy. “It’s also a solution that 84% of Americans favor” (Hackbarth). But how would this improve our economy?, you may be asking, well it boils down to putting all the workers on a level playing field because immigrants have slowly lowered minimum wage because they were being taken advantage of by employers who knew they needed the money and could take advantage that fact. Putting everyone on this new playing field would increase the amount of minimum wage and lead to better job opportunities. Allowing immigrants this fair pay opportunity would give them the option for a higher education that they couldn’t afford before in turn creating more high-skilled workers. And with the increased economy, we could put more money and focus on fixing the immigration system than on hunting down the ones that had no choice but to immigrate