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h care away from U.S. born citizens. The Republicans are not for citizenship, but are in favor of immigrants that maintain a legal status. To have a legal status, you need to speak English. Immigrants must also attend a University and graduate in a science, technology, engineering or math field. The U.S. would then encourage these graduates to remain in the U.S. and stay as a permanent legal status. There would no amnesty for immigrants that are currently in the U.S. Businesses would also have to use E verify (a free service that compares information from an employee’s Form I-9 to data from the U.S. government records) to verify if an employee is in a legal status to work in the U.S. These are two separate views which are currently at battle between the Democrats and Republicans. Americans want an action taken, but at this point it is a chess match between political parties that we will need to sit back and wait for the result.

Immigrants come to the United States for a couple of reasons. The country they are coming from is inferior economically, and immigrants will come to the U.S. for the superior economics. The more you work, the more you make. The earning opportunities are much greater in the U.S. Immigrants will make more money compared to other countries. They come secondly to escape political or religious prosecution. The United States has long been the world’s leading country of refuge, providing protection to victims of political, ethnic, and religious asylum (Hipsman, 2013) The other main reason they come to the U.S. is to reunite with family that has already come to the U.S. either through visa’s or illegally.

There is an income impact from immigration. The demand for labor here in the U.S. is more than most countries. The reason is that the United States has a better infrastructure that enhances the production of labor. The U.S. also has better and advanced technologies that offer better job opportunities. If you take a country like Mexico, you can compare their demand for labor to the U.S. The demand for labor is much weaker in lesser developed countries then it is in the U.S. Technologies are less advanced, infrastructure is less developed. Machinery and equipment is more abundant in the U.S. than it is in Mexico and less developed countries.

Although we can specify income gains and losses to domestic born workers, we cannot say what will happen to the total wage income in each country. This will depend on the elasticity of labor demand. The example for this is that demand is elastic, the wage decreased in the U.S. will increase total wage income. The opposite of this would be if the labor demand is inelastic, the same wage decrease will cause total wage income to fall (McConnell, Brue and Flynn, 2013).

With the influx of immigrants there are some issues that come from it. Living in a border state to Mexico, you can see the illegal immigration first hand. When illegal immigrants are used for labor that others won’t do, they are paid cash for their services. There is a stigma for a lot of U.S. lower class individuals who won’t take these lower paying jobs. They complain that the jobs don’t pay enough, or is menial work, but will be the first to complain when the immigrants are taking these jobs. Illegal immigrants will gladly do those jobs in order to provide for their families. The money they make in the U.S. is much greater than they would have made in their own