Illegal Immigrants are Taking American Rights essays

Illegal Immigrants are Taking American Rights essays Illegal Immigrants are Taking American Rights According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than eight million illegal immigrants were living in America in the year 2000. The Migration Policy Institute reported that number increases by five hundred thousand every year. The United States spends over 20 billion dollars a year to support needy illegal immigrants. The fight is on to end illegal immigration. The overcrowded dwellings, strained public services, school congestion, uncollected payroll and property taxes, disregard for and destruction of public and private property, crime and other unbearable living conditions brought on by people and businesses who disregard local ordinances and state and federal laws. By blatantly disregarding these laws, illegal immigrants eliminate benefits such as jobs, schooling, and public services away from deserving legal immigrants and American citizens. As each year goes by, the number of jobs held by illegal immigrants decreases the availability of employment positions for legal U.S. citizens. The employment securities Americans hope for is dwindling at the cost of nothing. As long as illegal aliens are willing to work at inferior wages and distressed working conditions, the wages of American workers are being depressed. Minority workers and those without a high school degree are especially being affected. At the turn of the century, it was estimated that the total number of American workers being displaced was roughly 730,000. $4.8 billion that could be paying the salaries of legal workers is being compromised to pay lower wages for immigrants unwilling to work under the conditions of their own countries. Virginia Abernathy, a professor at Vanderbilt University, says that It is indeed true that there are profits to be made by the importation of millions of low-skilled, low-wage workers into the country, but the profits are f or a few. They are for the employer.2 Therefore, th...