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Illegal immigration

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Illegal Immigration

Illegal immigration is a problem that has been plaguing developed and rapidly developing countries for quite some time . Countries like the US have had to grapple with the issues that stem from the rise in number of illegal immigrants , which has increased from 5 million to a whopping 12 million in the past 10 years (Gordon H . Hanson , 2007 . Among these issues is the increasing effect of immigration on wages and public finances , as well as the potential security threats that arise from unauthorized entry into

the country (Gordon H . Hanson , 2007 . And , these problems are not limited to the U .S . alone . Many countries across the world have been battling this problem with little success . These issues have driven the recent concerns to set policies and regulations in place to curb illegal entry of people into a country

The Fiscal Effect of Illegal immigration

It has been found that illegal immigration is an imposing burden on the economy of a country . It impacts the federal budget to a great degree as Steven A . Camarota (2004 ) finds . In the U .S , an estimate of 26 .3 billion in costs was imposed by illegal immigrant households on the federal government in 2002 and only 16 billion was paid in taxes leading to a net fiscal deficit of around 10 .4 billion that translates to 2700 per illegal household (Steven A . Camarota , 2004 ,

.5 . In case these immigrants were offered an amnesty and paid taxes while using the same services as legal immigrants with equal education levels , they would have caused an annual net fiscal deficit of 7700 per household at a are

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staggering figures that indicate the huge economic impact caused by the unauthorized entry of people . Moreover , findings also suggest that the fiscal deficit is not being caused because of the immigrants ' legal status or use of services , but because of their low education levels and the resulting low income levels and tax payments (Steven A . Camarota 2004 ,

.5 . Statistics suggest that although the costs imposed by illegal immigrants on the economy are half of other households , their tax payments are around one-fourth of what other households pay (Steven A . Camarota , 2004 ,

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Issues Related to Employment

In the United States , the workforce being employed does not include just highly educated individuals like software programmers and engineers but also low-skilled workers in construction , food preparation , and cleaning services , for which the supply of U .S . native labor has been dropping (Gordon H . Hanson , 2007 ,

.4 . There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the native communities of the countries fighting illegal immigration are facing increasing unemployment problems . Additionally the economic impact of illegal immigration indirectly leads to employment issues among the native communities . Findings suggest that the immigration reduced the wages of native-born workers who don 't have a high school education by about 5 percent (Steven A . Camarota , 2004 br

.16 . Brian Doherty (2006 ) has described...

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