Immigration reform is a hot topic in the United States right now and there is a lot of talk on whether the law should be changed or not. Currently, the fourteenth Amendment grants anyone who is born or naturalized on united states soil legal status as a U.S Citizen. However, if the child was birthed from an illegal immigrant, the parent is not granted legal status until the child turns Twenty-one and is able to sponsor the parent for citizenship (politifact.com). Due to the fourteenth amendment, issues with immigration have increased and illegal aliens have abused this law by coming to the U.S only to have a child and leave, so later on they can be granted citizenship. This has created a snowball effect and has created a vast amount of debt and taken away job opportunities; therefore, there should be a reform of the law so that the Children born in the United states birthed by an illegal alien will not be granted United Sates …show more content…
Offering such a low salary in certain job fields turns away many American workers (farius.org). Which in illegal immigrants eyes this is a good thing, because this means more jobs for them. FAIR’s did a survey and came up with an estimated number of which eight point five million illegal immigrants are employed in the United States as of 2010 (fairus.org). The majority of people who are most affected by this are considered to be low-skilled American workers. Just in the construction business alone a total of seventeen percent of workers were undocumented for (pewhispanic.org). It is against the law to hire anyone who is considered to be an illegal alien and anyone who does so has committed a felony. Business can be raided at anytime causing a lot of them to loose