How Does Illegal Immigrants Affect The Economy

The United States, a country founded by immigrants, has begun to consider modern immigration one of the greatest challenges the United States has ever faced. Discussions have then since been re-thought and analyzed to fix the problem. New, upcoming, immigration laws jeopardizing the lives of eleven million illegal immigrants threaten not only the American society, but also today’s economy. Without illegal immigrants contributing to the well-being of the United States, the country risks losing hundreds of billions of dollars.

Illegal Immigrants contribute to thousands of American communities while living in the shadow. Illegal Immigrants work necessary, but undesirable jobs, so that American citizens are able to expand onto more opportunities.

Average consumption, wealth, and income for American citizens increase at a steady rate as illegal immigration grows. The levels of per capita real income and consumption both increase greatly with illegal immigration (Palivos 6). Because of them obtaining no legal papers, in order to survive, illegal immigrants are therefore forced to find jobs in secret from the American government, this allows their employers to pay them far less than an American worker, considering an illegal immigrant cannot go to the police, or a legal court to file a lawsuit against their employer. If illegal immigrants were paid the same as American citizens - “The wealth distribution of the domestic economy will deteriorate if the fine imposed on a firm employing an illegal immigrant is less than one periods labor income of a home unskilled worker” (Palivos 3). Meaning that in the eyes of experts of the economy, if illegal immigrants were given equal pay compared to American citizens, the economy would become highly unstable, creating a large split in wealth distribution, but also maybe even creating a downfall This split of pay occurs at the stake of the livelihoods of all Illegal Immigrant economically, but also socially. Unaware to their large, necessary contributions to American communities and the economy, more than 33% of the U.S population does not think a legal status should be given to illegal immigrants (Wright 6). This also includes DACA recipients, illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States by their parents when they were less than sixteen years of age. This belief can then lead to attacks, mostly led on by bigoted thoughts. There are two main categories of sorts of judgments, “Attribute-based and Categorical judgements passed on a prejudice of certain ethnic groups and religious groups suggest that illegal immigrants individual attribute will affect their way of living in the U.S” (Wright 7). Though