These "illegal citizens" are being paid to do the same job as you, are living in the same neighborhood as you, and are not having to pay taxes because they aren't registered in the country. ... Illegal immigrants come to the United States to take jobs that offer them greater opportunity, and they are often welcomed by U.S. employers who are able to hire them for wages lower than they would have to pay to hire U.S. workers. ... With their hard work, jobs are getting done. ... The Americans that work hard for their money are not pleased with having to pay taxes to pay off these im...

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Economics is a big factor that influences immigrants to find a way to come into the United States to find a job. ... Not only that but it will also help to the creation of 121,000 extra jobs over the next ten years. ... They wake up every morning for work just like you, they have to eat, pay rent, pay bills, and taxes just as any U.S. citizens would. Illegal immigrants have trouble finding jobs, but that doesn't stop them. ... Carla is not the only one, many people like her open their own business and make more job opportunities. ...

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Although illegal immigration is often considered a negative impact as Americans are being displace, these immigrants pay a major tribute towards the United States. Even though many immigrants come to the United States to work undesirable jobs, many businesses would not exist without their cooperation. ... Many immigrants work as janitors not only because it's an easy job, but local natives won't work these kinds of jobs as they do not pay enough. ... Even if many immigrants "have that essential human right to seek a better life" as Martinez mentioned (480), they pay a maj...

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When a job wage is cut smaller because an illegal will take the pay cut, this is causing issues for the average American because someone wouldn't want to settle for less pay because of immigrants aiming for the same job. When two people come in for the same job but won't take the price cut. ... The manager interviews both of them, the citizen with an education is a perfect candidate, but wants top pay for his services. The illegal knows basic skills, but was never trained, is willing to take low pay for his services. ... Usually with food stamps, it is required to show identification...

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Also an immigrant pays about 80,000 dollars more in taxes than he or she will earn in the time that they work in America. ... This causes problems in some cases if they are not able to understand what is happening in their job. ... This has caused many employers to put these people in lower paying jobs where they don't have to deal with many people so that the language barrier will not cause as much of a problem. ... With these stats there have been many immigrants who have started to sue their employers for discrimination in giving the good jobs with the higher pay. ... If we start h...

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Most of the time, immigrants come to the United States in search for better job opportunities, with the majority working in Arizona. ... However, when undocumented immigrants are deported, they stop buying groceries, they stop paying rent, and they stop paying taxes, which severely affects the state's economic status by adding billions of dollars in debt. ... Some people may argue that the massive number of illegal immigrants working in the United States has made it harder for American's to find jobs. ... In fact, it has been proven that undocumented workers don't "take jobs aw...

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Let's look at the question of jobs. ... Our children will pay the price of uncontrolled immigration. ... We are not doing a good job with our own poor, as we see more people without jobs. ... A common belief is that aliens fulfill many of the least desirable jobs. ... Actually, many Americans already work in these low-paying jobs. ...

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Once immigrants get used to the system they become consumers of Canadian public services and start pay taxes. ... Studies show that immigrants in Canada impose a burden $6,000 each by consuming more in services than they pay in taxes. ... The result of this is that firms will now pay a lower average wage and will therefore increase their demand for labor since the cost of hiring a worker declines. ... Immigration can increase competition for existing jobs but it can also create new jobs. ... Immigration generate jobs. 2. ...

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Another reason for foreigners to move to is the better job opportunity in the US. ... Although it seems like job opportunities are diminishing here in the US too, finding a job is more challenging in other countries. ... Proponents have claimed that illegal immigrants do not pay taxes and yet they use up many tax-based resources. ... After the person starts working, tax is removed from every single pay check the person receives. ... The problem arises when the amount of tax they pay is compared to the resource they consume. ...

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Welfare, though it can be good, is misused by many low class recipients and is too easily obtained for those merely looking for a way to be lazy and avoid getting a paying job. ... This is why many Americans do not go out and obtain jobs. ... Obtaining a job because of a disability is not impossible. ... Jackson pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 11 to 23 months house arrest, five years' probation, and was ordered to pay full restitution, court costs, and fees. ... It is important to catch the people committing welfare fraud and make them pay back or serve their punishment. ...

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For example, when the Lithuanian man lost his job because someone else had paid for it, he was incredibly homesick and couldn't find a job yet he continued to search and not to give up hope. His hard work and perseverance does eventually pay off, and he finds a good job with better wages, as is shown in the following quote: It [joining the union] has raised my wages. ... In my first job I got $5 a week. With the improvement of his job and wages, also came an improvement in his quality of life. ... On his trip to the United States, he worked on the boat he was taking over to avoi...

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They bring their families, which consist of sons, daughter, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and even cousins, and try to acquire jobs. ... Many immigrants lack the skill and knowledge necessary to maintain a job. ... They come over to our nation destroying are land and property they aren't to pay taxes on anything. ... (Hanson G.H., 2007) If a wealthy person is to hire unskilled laborers; he is more likely to go for illegal immigrants as he can pay them less as compared to what he will have to pay a legal immigrant or a local unskilled laborer. ... While many people suggest that even the ...

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This means a family cannot pay their bills, afford food, or basic necessities. ... It would give children access to higher education and better jobs, which would mean more taxable income. ... However, other police and sheriff departments complain that this process hinders their job by destroying the trust of law abiding immigrants. ...

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All citizens in the United States are required to pay taxes. ... Not only do they not pay taxes, educational dollars are also wasted on them too. ... Even though these aliens add to the super competitive job market, they are very diligent workers for such little pay. ... In reality now, illegal immigrants "take jobs Americans won't do" (Ruark 10). At most work fields natives and immigrants don't even compete for jobs; "they take separate jobs in separate sectors" (Ruark 10). ...

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The program was cut when Americans complaining that they were having their jobs stolen by illegal immigrants. ... If illegal aliens come to the United States looking for a job they will most likely receive one. ... A lot of jobs are being taken away from Americans for illegal immigrants. Stricter laws need to be in place, and more job sites need to be checked for illegal aliens. ... To save money while deporting illegal immigrants, the United States could also make the undocumented immigrants pay for their way back. ...

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Immigrants may have lived far away once before, but now they can easily take jobs away from Americans. ... From one perspective, angry critics of the immigration law reform argue that if it is more difficult for immigrants entering the United States, then the job demand wouldn't be as high. ... Due to the fact that bilingual citizens are in such high demand, the law, H1B, should be that their jobs are temporary and should not be able to work in the United States for up to six years. ... It is may seem apparent that immigrants are a great contribution to the US, but it is not as obvious ...

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They had no jobs, no food and rents were on the rise. Women, who were fortunate to have jobs, lost them in a declining linen industry. ... Some wealthier landlords were benevolent enough to pay for their tenants to emigrate to America and other English speaking countries. Many Irish boarded cotton ships headed for America and while a few were fortunate enough to pay for their own passages. ... When trying to find jobs the Irish were faced with quite a lot of discrimination. ...

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Consequently, they resort to low-income jobs working in the fields to earn an income. ... While working for these high-end companies, these workers barely get enough pay for them to survive. ... Since most of these workers do not have access to higher education, it becomes harder for them to find jobs. ... It is very rough in Mexico for these young migrants to find a decent fare job. ... When I'm talking about these migrant farm workers, I acknowledge and pride them for their hard labor, even with small pay. ...

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Texas became the first state to allow undocumented students to attend Texas universities and be able to pay in state tuition. ... The third option, creation of a legalization program, would require unauthorized immigrants to pass criminal background checks and pay fines, fees, and any back taxes they might owe. ... Even though they get hired in places that not even the average American would want to work at, they still get money taken out of their pay for taxes as if they were legal citizens but do not receive an income tax check. ... Americans today use illegal immigration as a scapegoat for...

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Immigrants from these Latin American countries were racialized together as being a threat to taking jobs away from citizens. A recession tends to trigger this type of reaction because of the scarcity of jobs. Along with being racialized together, Mexican and Central American immigrants are economically positioned to take the lower echelon jobs. ... These immigrants from these countries "toil in predominantly low-paying jobs that would seem to offer little more than day-to-day survival (Lopez et al. pg. 294)." ... Gutierrez states, "the fact that the U.S. economy is generating a high pro...

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In the book Ashes of Roses, it was not common for women to get high paying jobs and earn a lot of money. Elsa believed that Rose would not find a job because she was a child and a girl. ... This was true because jobs for girls were very scarce and the ones that were available treated workers differently because of their gender. When Rose was able to find a job, she was given opportunities at places where women were subjected to being judged. ... For example, in the book, he had invited her to come to his shop at nighttime and get her pay, but things didn't go as expected. ...

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Economic prosperity continued after the war as more Americans had jobs and work wages increased. ... However, by the 1920s, there were growing fears by the American public that these new immigrants were a threat to their American values because they were taking away jobs from American citizens since they were a cheap source of labor and their cultures were inferior to that of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. ... They would simply pay weekly installments on the product purchased and also pay interest. ... As the men were heading off to war by the millions, jobs were open to everyone and anyon...

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Contrary to popular myths, immigrants do not push Americans out of jobs. Immigrants tend to fill jobs that Americans cannot, or will not fill. ... Immigrants buy goods as well as sell goods, so the number of jobs expands as the number of workers expands (Lehman). ... For instance "Immigrants earn at least $240 billion a year, paying more than $90 billion in taxes. ... The agencies themselves must also do a better job communicating with each other. ...

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The history that was made by the people of hundreds of nationalities, who came to the United States to seek a new life style, a new job and a new home. ... Whites saw Chinese as competitors for jobs. ... The Chinese were faced to pay the immigration taxes, and laundry operation fees, passed by legislation in order to limit the success of the Chinese workers (Daniels 52). ...

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This can be shown when immigrant labor substitutes for local Houston labor, Houstonians may move as wages fall or grow too slowly and job vacancies can be filled by illegals. ... Illegal immigrants tend to stay concentrated in some specific low-paying jobs that have become identified as traditional migrant or illegal workers" jobs (Cornelius 1976; Gill and Long 1989; Taylor 1992). Migration networks provide information and combine with constraints on job search and acquisition to produce this concentration (Massey et al. 1987; Kossoudji and Cobb-Clark 1996). Illegal workers are usually agricul...

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