Immigration Negative

“Immigration: Positive or Negative for the U.S. Economy”

There has been migration to the United States of America, ever since founded. Since the majority of American people are not from Native American descendants, it is safe to say that the majority of people in America are the product of immigration. The United States is a nation of immigrants, as reflected in its motto e pluribus Unum (from many, one). Ever since the United States was founded, it has had a magnetic force to all sorts of people from different parts of the world. People arrived to America to take advantage of, freedom of speech and economic opportunities. In recent decades, however, the increasing presence of illegal immigration has been troubling to many. Scholars have
What they are not telling us is that because many of these lawbreakers have little, if any skills they become a financial burden to the taxpaying American citizen through the use and abuse of Government services. Many illegal immigrants use the recent loopholes in our laws to help them gain citizenship. One way is to have American born children or “Anchors”, a term that is used to represent the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant on American soil. The child serves as an “anchor” that keeps the illegal parents grounded in the United States. This is due to the 14th amendment which granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States”, regardless of the circumstances in which they were born in the United States. In a CBS News segment, reporter Byron Pitts, spoke with an illegal immigrant mother who crossed the border with her husband, two daughters and yet unborn son. Reporter Pitts asked the mother (Fabiola) if many mothers cross the border specifically to bear children that will automatically become United States Citizens. Fabiola replied that "Yes,". "I know people who have done that. Things are much better here in the U.S. because they help children so much more." (cbsnews.com) Reporter Pitts noted in the report “It 's a "better" life ... that
Another area of Government services that many believe is abused, is the American public education system. The American educational system continues to have budget deficits; teachers are using their own money to provide needed supplies for students. According to some people the costs of having bilingual teachers to translate for the non-English speaking student, separate with the high costs of English as a Second Language programs are using up resources that should be going to American students. For example in Beaufort County, South Carolina a total of three billion dollars per year is spent on ESL programs. According to Associate Superintendent of Pitt County Schools, Worth Forbes, schools cannot ask the parents if they are legal or illegal because of the Supreme Court ruling, “Plyler vs. John Doe”. In this news segment the reporter stated that in the year (2008), 71 million in federal and state tax dollars funded ESL programs and also noted that in Pitt County alone there are children with ESL needs that speak 37 different languages. The immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, granted pardon to some 2 million illegal immigrants and attempted to impose “harsher” restrictions thereafter. America is known as a melting pot, and