Illegal immigration is the act of entering a country without consent or documentation of the government. As a nation, the United States is known for prosperity, however, due to the current economy it cannot withhold everybody that wishes to enter the United States.Cartoon by John Hubbard.
By FEAR CHURCHWELL – Web Writer
Illegal immigration is the act of entering a country without consent or documentation of the government. As a nation, the United States is known for prosperity, however, due to the current economy it cannot withhold everybody that wishes to enter the United States.
Throughout the world, the United States is known as the land of freedom and opportunity. As a result, many undocumented immigrants cross the border illegally every year, searching for opportunities that were not available in their home country.
Although there may be far more opportunities in the United States than any of the other countries with large undocumented immigration rates, the United State’s economy is still struggling.
The people in the United States are already struggling to support themselves, as the unemployment rate of citizens and legal residents soars to new heights. At 14.4 percent, one in every seven Americans is unemployed. This introduces the thought of why undocumented immigrants should be allowed to take the scarce amount of jobs on the market.
With this unemployment rate, the original thought of the American people is that we cannot afford to lose many more jobs in our economy, and the last thing we need is for undocumented immigrants to taking scarce jobs. However, this is not the case.
“Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens,” American economist Thomas Sowell said.
Sowell makes a great point, Americans have grown lazy and typically turndown work opportunities if they don’t find the job appealing.
The lazy nature of Americans, and the current scarcity of jobs, undocumented immigrants are often left with no choice, but to take the most repulsive and rigorous jobs that this country has to offer.
Many undocumented immigrants must work hours upon hours a week just to support their families while some U.S. citizens don’t work and can support their families just through government checks.
If undocumented immigrants had the courage to cross a very secure border, risking penalties of imprisonment or death, then they were obviously determined to seek a better life and they should have the right to citizenship in the United States.
Obviously, the United States can’t let every single person in this country or allow all the undocumented immigrants to stay, but we should be generous with the fortunes that we are given.
“Conservatism is not about leaving people behind,” Sen. Marco Rubio-R-Fla. said, “Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposal that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers.”
As a nation, the United States should cut a path for undocumented immigrants to become citizens in order to grant them the equal opportunity to catch up to the nation’s society.
