Jessica Gonzalez
Informative Essay
Presently, illegal immigration is one of the most debated subjects in
the United States. It is so controversial that many don’t know how to deal
with the massive amount of illegals in the country. Many Americans believe
that illegal immigrants hurt the U.S. economy. There are many anti-
immigrant groups that claim that illegals are stealing jobs and using
benefit from U.S citizens, while not contributing to taxes and social
security. Those claims support the idea that illegal immigrants have a
negative impact on the U.S economy.
Although it is impossible to deny that illegal immigrants have some
kind of negative influence in the U.S. economy, I believe that they do
provide many benefit. These benefit are so great they outweigh the
negative impact. One bene(t they can provide is taking on low paying jobs
that legal Americans don’t want to do. Every illegal immigrant that is
working for an employer that pays them a payroll check is contributing to
taxes and social security to the government. In addition, illegal immigrants
are major consumers; they purchase goods and services in the United
States just as much as any American. While many think that illegal
immigrants hurt the U.S economy, illegal immigrants bene(t the economy.
Several years ago I used to work for a company that hired temp
employees to do general labor for manufacturing. The manufacturing plant
would not agree to pay anything over minimum wages to these general
labor positions but was also not able to keep up with the hiring demands on
their own because no one would reply to their newspaper ads. They hired
the company I worked for to (nd employees for them. The plant didn’t really
care how my company found the employees or what paper work was
obtained; they just needed employees to do the job for minimum wage. Of
course the company I worked for only completed a veri(cation of work
authorization by looking a piece of paper that looked like a social security
document and an ID card that looked like a Green Card. We were never
trained to know if they were real or fake, and we had no kind of system that
we could input this information into and verify social security numbers or
resident alien numbers. Ninety percent of our temps were Hispanics, and I
