Pros And Cons Of Immigration In The United States

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Cons of Immigration in the USA
Immigration has always posed significant dangers to the American society. Indeed, the adverse economic and social impact that immigrants have to the nation is staggering the US economic growth. Terrorism is highly correlated to immigration and denotes to be a significant threat to the country’s internal security. Estimates show that around 12 million undocumented immigrants c live in America (Pekkala 10). Undoubtedly, these immigrants prove to be an economic burden to the nation. Immigrants cause competition on the available resources such as education and healthcare. The immigrants depicted to have a high rate of consumption which strains the government services. Dozens of hospitals in California, New Mexico Arizona, and Texas among other places have been forced to close down due to lack of resources. It is so …show more content…

A lot of the taxpayers’ money is diverted to funding education and healthcare of the immigrants. Pekkala reports that about $52 billion is spent by the government annually on the illegal immigrants. Many of the undocumented immigrants do not pay taxes while those who are illegal tend to pay low rates of taxes (Pekkala 15). Eventually, this becomes a substantial economic burden to the nation. For example, in the fiscal years 2010/2011, California faced a budget deficit of about $14.4 billion, and the annual expenditure on illegal aliens was $21.8 billion. Pekkala goes further to elucidate that the fiscal cost of immigration ranged between $11 billion and $22 billion yearly (Pekkala 18). The net effect of government expenditure on these immigrants results from the fact that they pay low taxes as they earn low wages and are disproportionately low-skilled. While the corporate reap the benefits of cheap labor, the spillover effects are pushed to the taxpayers culminating into a huge