How do Immigrants affect our economy?
“They’re taking our jobs. They’re taking our manufacturing jobs. They’re taking our money. They’re killing us.” This is a direct quote from president trump, and sadly this is the general opinion on illegal immigrants that they are here only to steal our jobs and hurt our economy because they don’t pay taxes, they want to deport these people.
Illegal immigrants do not benefit our economy, that’s a huge mistaken fact. Illegal immigrants in Texas alone added $18 billion on the state’s economy and they paid a total of $12 billion in taxes(Un). Even after these facts, do we really want to deport these people? Deporting these immigrants would only hurt the economy of the United States. If we deport them, we are going to lose about 8 million workers which instead of helping our economy it would only hurt it. Instead of deporting them we should give them an easier path to citizenship. According to the article “Granting Illegal Immigrants a Path to Citizenship Would Boost US and State Economies” by authors Robert Lynch and Patrick Oakford if we gave citizenship to all the illegal immigrants our GDP over a span of ten years will increase to $832 billion.
Illegal immigrants help our economy and like most of us they own a house and pay taxes. So why do we want to deport people who are improving our economy? Giving citizenship to them would boost our economy by huge numbers.
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