Immigration Laws

Immigration Laws

There are many immigrants that risk their lives crossing the desert, who are willing to work in the fields, pick fruits or do menial jobs that most Americans won't do. It's very sad that the people who are governing this wonderful country feels the need to remove immigrants, people that obviously came here for work to better themselves and their families. Immigrants are foreign-born persons entitled to live and work permanently in the United States and, after five years, to become naturalized U.S. citizens. Immigration laws should be revised so they can allow the less fortunate from struggling countries an opportunity for a better life, increase culture and diversity, while improving the overall image of America internationally.

Population growth is crucial to a healthy economy, and at present rates, immigrants and their children will account for 60 percent of U.S. population growth in the next forty-three years. As the baby boom generation begins to retire, immigrants will play a crucial role in filling the country's human capital deficit. Within twenty years, immigrants and their children will account for most of our labor force growth in the U.S.

Contrary to the popular misconception that illegal immigrants are exploiting the nation's economy, studies have shown that undocumented residents actually contribute more in taxes than they cost the country in social services, and that overall, immigrants increases the income of U.S. residents by maximizing the extent to which the economy takes advantage of domestic resources. For instance, in 2006 the Texas Comptroller's Office estimated that the approximately 1.4 million undocumented immigrants in the state paid $500 million more in taxes than they received in government services. Undocumented residents also contribute to the US economy by consuming goods and services. Economically, the United States need immigrants, and will need them even more in years to come.

Since arrivals were first recorded in 1820, the United States has accepted 66 million legal immigrants. Eleven percent of these immigrants have been from Germany and 10 percent from Mexico. Two centuries of immigration and integration. The U.S. immigration system recognizes 800,000 to 1 million foreigners a year as legal immigrants and during that same period admits 35 million nonimmigrant tourist and business visitors and has another 300,000 to 400,000 unauthorized foreigners settle.

During the 1990s, there were often contentious debates over immigrants and their children as beneficiaries of the U.S. educational, welfare, and political systems, or, more broadly, over whether the immigration and integration system served U.S. national interests and at the same time enabled immigrants and their children to integrate successfully. U.S. immigration policy was not substantively changed by the September 11, 2001, acts of terrorism,