Saturated Job Market
Ramanujan Nadadur, a researcher for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, points out the competition between illegal immigrants and American workers: “Illegal immigration also raises difficult questions about the American economy and how the country continues to seek low wage labour while at the same time providing opportunities for its citizens” (Nadadur para. 3). The willingness of illegal immigrants to work for low pay makes them a target for employers trying to save money. As a result, Americans in the same sector as these illegal immigrants are forced to either work for less pay or to become dependent on financial services asserts Adam Davidson in his article “Do Illegal Immigrants Actually Hurt the U.S. Economy” (Davidson para. 4). Either way, the native workers find themselves at a loss. They are exploited into working for less than what they deserve.
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Hurts Illegal Immigrants
Illegal immigrants do not always benefit from their decision to cross the border from Mexico. Salvatore Palidda, a member of the Anthropological Sciences Department at the University of Genova, argues that “The regulation of immigration is the buffer necessary to confront the perpetuation of the misconduct of countries a large part of whose economies aim to make a profit from the extreme exploitation of black market workers” in his report for the journal History & Anthropology (Palidda 64). Here, he brings up the point that more policies against immigration must be put into place because businesses prey on the willingness of illegal immigrants to work for low pay. Profit driven employers know that their undocumented workers cannot complain about their working conditions in fear of becoming caught and sent back. This leads to the topic of work benefits for these individuals.
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