IMPACTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES

THE IMPACTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES

Immigration refers to the movement of people from one place to another country .There are two theories of immigration that are push and pull factors , push factor include economic, religion, wars and political reasons while pull factors are mainly of social reasons.

In modern world society there are two ways of Immigration which are legal and illegal system of Human immigration. In regard to this topic I particularly base in Illegal immigration in the United States of America which is main concern in a recent Public agenda of the country. Illegal Immigration is known as the movement of alien (non citizen) who has entered the country without government permission or stayed beyond termination date of a visa. There are several factors that influence illegal immigration in the United States such as availability of jobs, good standard of living among the people, advanced social services, freedom and hospitality of U.S.A as well as presence of decent infrastructures. There are several negative and positive effects of having illegal immigration/immigrants into United State.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS

I. Economically,

Unemployment, uninsured, and unbenefit Tax. In recent years we have seen a big number of illegal immigrants coming to the United States and work without legal permits while majority are ready to be paid low wages down the table compare to the local US citizens in different sectors of economy for instance in local factories, construction and in agriculture fields, in this case Americans cannot find jobs and lead to increase in un employment in the country It is clear that majority of illegal immigrants do not have proper documents to work in the United States as fact that majority of them they work down the table without paying local state and federal tax therefore in this aspect government does not receive direct revenue from them .Illegal immigrants due to lack of proper documents many of them cannot access insurance and other necessary license to improve or secure their lives such as life insurance , personal properties coverage and medical insurance therefore its difficult for the US insurance companies to access and get customers and obtain benefit/profit from them

II. SOCIALLY,

Culture Destruction,

Millions of illegal immigrants are coming from different countries of the world and have different culture and values that make them different to local citizens; they come with customs and roles that destruct tradition American values negatively , for instance in the state of Florida where it considered to have a big number of Hispanic Immigrants, we then see the spread of Hispanic language and decline of English as a local language within the state as fact that illegal immigration affect Old American culture.

Existence of Immoral Behaviors

Illegal immigrants are human like any other man once they have different behaviors some of which are immoral to the society in general like prostitution, violence, crime hence all of this are harmful to the American community.

Spread of Diseases

Illegal Immigrants comes from different parts of the world and some of them carry diseases like HIV Aids, flu, Skin Infection and Tuberculosis that can easily be transferable especially to the local residents as fact that it is dangerous to the health of the country.

Over Population

Illegal immigration is the modern factor contributed towards increase and growth of population in most parts of United States especially in big cities and towns where majority of them are located.

POSITIVE IMPACTS,

Economically,

Source of cheap labor

Illegal immigrants are considered to be cheap in labor perspective due to the fact that they are easy and able to receive whatever little for payment and therefore its beneficiary to have them in labor industry and back up to the country in terms of labor supply.

Tax earning

In directly illegal immigrants pay tax by buying and consume American products as every day customers; buying of local foods, clothing, entertainment products like radios, television and e. t .c in this case they contribute local tax indirect form.

Socially

Promotion of culture

Illegal immigration promotes and encourage culture heritage particularly within Hispanic American heritage as result of increase in Hispanic immigrants in most cities and States of America like state of California and cities such as El Paso in southern Texas.