Undocumented immigrants is a foreign-born individual that doesn’t have legal rights nor are they documented to continue to live in the United States, however they can obtain a tax identification number and work in this country. …show more content…
Illegal immigrants are non-citizen who have entered the United States without permission from the government or have stayed past the date on their visa or proper legal documentation stating that their citizen of the United States. In the article “what Americans want to do about illegal immigration “by Sara Kehaulano Goo from the website PewResearchCenter she had clearly proven her statements with statistic’s and charts. In one of her charts she has shown that a survey that was taken in May of 2015 shown that 72% of people say that they should be able to stay in the united states, 27% said the no they should not be allowed those stay in the united states, while there was a small 2% percent that didn’t know or have an opinion on the topic of immigration. Her article continues on with statistics on immigration, she stats that “in 2012, at least 4.5 million U.S.-born children lived with at least one un authorized parent, some 4 million unauthorized immigrant adults lived with their U.S.-born children” (Kehaulano Goo 3)
In Jens Manuel Krogstad’s and Jeffrey S. Passel article titled “5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S.” from PewResearchCenter
I don’t agree with his statement in regards to classifying individual that come into this country illegally.
When looking at the definition of what and illegal immigrant is, it is precisely that a person that has not entered in the United States as undocumented immigrants of foreign descent that doesn’t have legal rights nor are they documented to continue to live in the United States. How much plain can this be, or are we simply looking at this one group of races that have entered into the United States undocumented. Let’s take a look at other foreigners that have entered this country illegally or undocumented. According to the Demographics of Immigrants in the United States Illegally in 2012 approximately 7 million illegal immigrants came from Mexico, approximately 2 million from Central and South America, and 1.2 million from Asia (Procon.org). Do we hear about the other foreign born illegal immigrant as much as we do the Mexicans, the answer is no. Why is that many feel that they come to take jobs and services away from American which is simply not the case? They are working jobs many American refuse to do, and as far as the services, yes it is taxing our state funding, but no more than what
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