Immigration has always been part of the United States, is it time to end or greatly limit the inflow of outsiders? Whether legal or illegal, immigration is beginning to have a negative effect on the economy of the U.S. Each year millions of immigrants come to the United States in search for a new and better life (www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/waves_of_immigration.html). Immigrants are also taking many jobs from lower/middle class citizens. Without realizing it each immigrant who does not work and just lives off welfare is taking extreme amounts of money from American citizens who work and pay taxes. Illegal immigration is also a very serious problem that will take much money to fix. Immigration needs to come to an end, for the safety of the average American citizen.

Many immigrants who travel to the U.S. come from poverty and are looking to make money and start a new life. With this many immigrants are willing to work for cheap, even below minimum wage. Many companies will illegally hire these immigrants due to the fact that they cannot afford to pay American workers (http://www.brookesnews.com/030303immigration.html). In a recent study at UCLA Chicano Studies Researc

h Center found that American citizens make 11 percent less when working with new Hispanic immigrants (http://www.chronwatch.com/featured/contentDisplay.asp?aid=4092) “Putting it in a nutshell, using immigrant labor to expand the supply of labor will exert a downward pressure on real wage rates, starting with the unskilled and semiskilled. However, situations can emerge where capital accumulation has exceeded the size of the workforce to such an extent that increasing the labor supply will actually raise real wages. This is not the case in America”(http://www.brookesnews.com/030303immigration.html).

Unskilled immigrants who come to the U.S. looking for more money or a better life quickly realize they can survive off welfare. This is one of the largest problems today. America's taxpayers pay over some $45 billion each year to cover the total costs of immigration. Each year American taxpayers contribute millions of dollars to the United States government, and each year more and more immigrants are taking that money and living off of it. “Almost six years after the landmark 1996 Welfare Reform Act, the number of individuals on welfare has declined only slightly, and in at lea

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