How would a mass deportation of immigrants in the next five years affect the United
States’ economy? Immigration has become a very popular topic due to the recent 2017 Presidential Elections. There are around 11 million immigrants without legal documentation in the United States. What would happen to the economy if they were all sent back to their native countries? A mass deportation of immigrants in the next 5 years would bring down America’s economy by lowering the amount of money collected in taxes, dwindling the amount of jobs, and reducing crop production.
Deporting a substantial amount of undocumented immigrants would reduce the amount of money collected in taxes each year. Soergel says that in the United States, there are approximately…show more content… Fortune 500 companies are the companies in the annual list made of the 500 companies in the U.S. that make the most money (Estrada). In 2010, 40% of those 500 companies were created by the children of immigrants; in that same year, those companies produced $1.7 trillion and made jobs for 3.6 million people within the nation (Estrada). In addition, Estrada says that 28% of all business are immigrants and immigrants are also twice as probable to become business owners than American-born citizens. “On average,” Estrada says, “immigrant-owned small businesses each employ about eight employees and collectively provide jobs for about 4 million people in the United States.” A vast amount of immigrants own their own businesses and those businesses together accumulate a lot of jobs. Without millions of jobs created by immigrant entrepreneurs, the economy would be hindered. Jobless people don’t have money, unless they use financial help programs from the government such as welfare. If people had to use welfare because they didn’t have jobs, the government would be losing money because they would have to help the many people that were left without jobs. The people that didn’t use help from the government wouldn’t have any money. The lack in exchanging of money would be the sign of a weak economy if immigrants were
