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The opposing thought to that is that low skilled Americans lose up to 50% of wages because of those jobs given to illegal immigrants. How immigrants impact the wages of people who are born U.S. workers would depend on whether they compete for the same jobs, or do they actually complement each other. People that are not able to get jobs because of the illegal immigration that are now losing wages are now needing welfare and other assistance to survive.

This brings about the effects of immigration on the U.S. tax system and the misconception of paying taxes. Most believe that illegal immigrants do not pay taxes for working under the table. Studies show that in reality most immigrants do pay federal and state taxes because they do live in the United States. Immigrants pay taxes, in the form of income, property, sales, and taxes at the federal and state level. As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 and $140 billion a year in federal, state, and local taxes (Anchondo, 2008). Undocumented immigrants pay income taxes as well, as evidenced by the Social Security Administration's 'suspense file' (taxes that cannot be matched to workers' names and social security numbers), which grew by $20 billion between 1990 and 1998.” There is no real way to track who pays and who doesn’t do to the fact there is no clear cut way to see who cheats the system and doesn’t pay taxes. With the increase in illegal immigrants, there is also a need for government funded services like welfare, education, Medicare and also the amount the average taxpayer will pay.

There are always going to be winners and losers in the battle for immigration. When people from Mexico enter into the U.S., the Mexicans get increase in wages compared to what they would get in Mexico. This also increases the output of the U.S. The work done by the person from Mexico in the U.S. will decrease the output from Mexico. If you decrease the wage rate in the U.S. it will also reduce the wage income of the Native born U.S. workers. The decreased wage rate wouldn’t effect the immigrants as much because it is still more than they would make in their country they left.

There are ways to help curtail the immigration issues and the loss of money, jobs and increase in taxes. The quota of letting legal immigrants into the U.S. could be curtailed. The U.S. government encourages a high level of legal immigration through the high quotas. The quota at this time is to allow 65,000 high skilled workers in specialty occupations to enter in the U.S. and work continuously for 6 years. These are high tech workers, scientists and professors. The quota could be cut in half to ensure that more jobs are available for U.S. born citizens. This would help keep highly educated U.S. persons within the U.S. for jobs, and also allow highly educated individuals from other countries the opportunity to venture here for jobs. We don’t want what is called a “brain drain”.

There are also policies that can be put in place to help the negative impact of illegal immigrants in the United States. There are three main changes in policies that might reduce or eliminate the fiscal costs of illegal immigration (Camarota, 2004). One set of options is to allow illegal aliens to remain in the country, but attempt to reduce the costs they impose. A second set of options would b