Immigration has been an unsolved problem for many years. Kenneth Jost, in the article “Immigration Conflict: Should States Crack Down On Unlawful Aliens”, analyzes the Alabama law about illegal immigration which is seen as racial profiling. Jost presents questions that comply with both sides of the illegal immigrant’s argument causing readers to think deeply about reforming the immigration laws or not. Many people had mixed feeling about the law. Some argued that it was unfair to immigrants. Others argued that it was the only way to fix the immigration issue.
The people that are against immigration fail to understand that the economy strongly depends on immigrants. If the 11 million people leave it would be a disaster to the United States economy…show more content… Sales taxes are sky-high and half of people’s taxes are freely given to the government. One way to fix this problem is letting immigrants become citizens. If immigrants aren’t granted citizenship and 40,000 to 80,000 get deported or return back to their country the “state income and sales taxes could take a $56.7 million to $265.4 million hit,” (Addy, 2012, p.233). Immigrants can decrease a states income and sales taxes because they’ll begin to pay taxes. Immigrants come to the US for a better life but Americans fail to see that immigrants are making their lives better as…show more content… A large number of Americans are unemployed because immigrants are taking their jobs. According to Sen. Scott Beason the Alabama immigrant bill passed has decreased the unemployment rate in Alabama from 9.1% in September to 8.1% in December (Jost, 2012, p. 232). Unemployed Americans have to depend on the government’s benefits, such as health cost and standard living, which causes the government to lose income. The Alabama immigrant law needs to stay as a law because immigrants aren’t being given jobs they’re taking jobs.
It may be true that the employment rate is decreasing but agriculture jobs are very hard to do and are low paying jobs. Many Americans fail to work in this field causing the “economic to doldrum” (Krikorian, 2012, p.234). According to Jeff Helms an Alabama Farmers Federation spokesman, in 2012, many farmers argued that they didn’t plant as much or at all because they had fewer migrant workers (Jost, 2012, p.231). Letting immigrants become citizens shouldn’t be a debate any longer. The economy needs migrant workers because they take on jobs that American fail to and bring more income into the United
