The+Team

Essential Question- How does illegal immigration affects the job market?

Challenge- To find out how illegal immigrants affect the American job market.

Guiding Questions- How illegal immigration could be good for the working class or the economy? How illegal immigration could be bad for the working class or the economy? What is the public opinion on illegal immigration and the working class? We are going to survey students and other people what their views on illegal immigration and illegal immigration labor are. We are going to research on illegal immigration. We are going to research the affects of illegal immigration labor in the USA.

Guiding Recourses:

[|U.S. Citizen Wages Relating to Immigration] This link shows that after many studies economists concurred that immigration has reduced the wages of United States citizens with relatively little education and few skills. But for the rest of the U.S workforce immigration does not reduce their wages.

[|Do Immigrants Cost The Government More Than They Produce In Taxes?] This link states that legal immigrants do not cost the federal government anything more than the average citizen. However, they cost local governments more than the produce in taxes. Illegal immigrants do however, cost federal and local governments more than they produce in taxes.

[|How Much Do Immigrants Contribute To The Overall Economy] This link shows the it would be impossible for our economy to be where its at without the work of immigrants.

media type="file" key="Cost of Illegal Immigration.3gp" width="300" height="300" media type="file" key="Do Illegal Immigrants Help or Hinder US Economic Growth.3gp" width="300" height="300"media type="file" key="south park-they took our jobs!!!.mp4" width="300" height="300" The first video says that illegal immigrants have an effect on our everyday life and on our society. Tax payers send about $12,000,000 to illegal immigrants through pubic school systems, and another $17,000,000 for anchor babies (children born in the United States to illegal citizens.) American tax payers have to pay for illegal immigrants healthcare as well. 30% of federal prisoners are not legal American citizens. They all cost more than $3,300,000 a day.

The second video says that the work that illegal immigrants do for smaller wages than legal citizens is complimentary work to the bigger and more important jobs in American society. It says that labor from immigrants help grow the economy, it sustains jobs for Americans, and they make us more productive. They do jobs that Americans don't want to do, even if they are the only jobs available.

The third video says that they took er jerbs!

These are our findings from the interviews that we conducted.

Solution/Action:

Do to the results of our groups survey, 83% of the population felt that illegal immigrants are taking American jobs. Also 64% of the public felt that illegal immigrants are not helping the American economy for the better. And for the question that should illegal immigrants be paid the same for the exact same amount of labor as American citizens 56% of the student population felt they should be paid equal. From videos and websites that we reviewed our group came to the decision that illegal immigrants do waste tax dollars from American citizens by educating illegal immigrants, providing them with health care and keeping illegal criminals incarcerated. However they positively affect the job market because they compliment the jobs of American citizens so that they can do the more important, higher paying jobs. Also, many of the jobs that illegal immigrants do many Americans do not want to do. In conclusion we think that illegal immigrants do affect the American taxpayer money, however they do positively affect the American job market.