Immigration Reform and the Economic Benefits

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Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform:

According to the economic researchers, the comprehensive immigration reform will significantly help to reduce the nation’s deficit, spur more economic growth and also helps to create thousands of jobs every year (“OECD Economic Survey,” 2012). These reforms will also help to improve the financial stability of US Medicare hospital insurance and Trust Fund which usually pay for our many of critical health care services which are used by millions of American citizen who are enrolled in Medicare (“OECD Economic Surveys,” 2012).

The immigration reform will help US to strengthen its labor and employment laws, which are enforced by federal agencies (Anderson, 2010). When immigrants are not able to invoke their labor and employment rights, the overall effectiveness of employment laws declines. Currently only fewer employers are punished due to their unlawful employment behavior. However, as we intent to foster an environment that supports equity to all people (Wasem, 2012), such situations need to be avoided. Due to poor immigration laws, workers in America are usually more susceptible to workplace violations such as hour’s violations, poor unsafe working conditions and wages (Kaler & Rennert, 2009). But, with proper immigration reforms like border security, immigration modernization Act and economic opportunity, these problems could be addressed (Ashenfelter et al., 2012).

According to the Economist, comprehensive immigration reform will help to strengthen the American economy and even create more jobs (Ashenfelter, 2012). This will bring in more high demand and high skilled workers in the labor force, and thereby, increase capital investment and overall productivity. This allows more aspiring entrepreneurs to start their own companies in the United States. Also, the additional taxes which will be paid by the new and legalized immigrants, will help to reduce the federal deficit and strengthen social security in the USA (Crawford, 2011).

The immigration reform will also help a lot in recovering the California’s housing market. In turn, this will in a bigger way strengthen California’s technology, tourism industries and agriculture etc. (“OECD Economic Surveys,” 2012). Immigrants will significantly lead to increased home values in California brining more to economy (Kaler & Rennert, 2009). Not only does immigrant’s impact high skilled labor market, but also the agricultural sector as well. Currently, there are 81034 farms along California which usually sell approximately $40 billion in agricultural products. The non-citizen farm workers in this place are around 72.9% of all the farm workers in California (Ashenfelter et al., 2012). Also 36.7% of the business owners in California are immigrants and they usually generate $34.4 billion in income for California every year (Ashenfelter et al., 2012). Therefore with proper comprehensive immigrant’s reform the state will be in a position to earn more local tax revenue (Ashenfelter et al., 2012).

Conclusion:

Immigration reform is necessary in a country like USA as it helps the government to come up with proper means of enhancing the states security and making sure that only legal immigrant are in the United State of America. Proper immigration reform will help to improve the economic situation of the country as a whole since the government will stop losing billions of dollars due to illegal immigrants.

The reform will also help to increase and also strengthen the labor force in the country and also help to empower US labor unions to be a good capacity of protecting workers rights so that they may not exploited by the employers who take advantage of weak immigration laws. Many families in the country who had been waiting for a long time to be unified with their families will also benefit since they will have a chance of becoming full citizens and thus they will be able to enjoy equal rights as American citizens.

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