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Immigration not a TOC (Welfare (perceived strain on welfare system (Kremer…
Immigration not a TOC
Welfare
perceived strain on welfare system
Kremer 2016 showed that educated immigrants are far less likely to use social welfare
Immigrants are self sufficient, employed, contributing members of society
American Legal Council 2016 found that immigrants create an $85 billion subsidy for the U.S. Government via taxes paid minus welfare used
Immigrants do not use an unreasonable amount of social welfare, and are not responsible for extreme unemployment amoungst Americans
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 limits access to welfare benefits by requiring five years of continuous residency to become eligible
Khoo 1994 study found that only 10-11% of working age immigrants used welfare
Education System
Large influxes of immigrant children with limited education can place a strain on school systems
School systems like Salt Lake City's Granite School District are implementing new programs to help immigrant children learn English and "catch up" to native born American children
Wicks 2018 quoted a Granite School district employee saying that programs like Tumaini Welcome and Transition Center are extremely effective to help immigrant children learn basic skills, and they only last two weeks,
More time and money that is put into transition programs can have a positive return on investment to society
Lee 2015 qouted Barack Obama during a speech which he said "Money spent on these types of programs is well spent; for every $1 spent on education, $7 is returned to society via “decreased teen pregnancy rates, improved graduation rates, improved school performance and reduced incarceration rates"
Immigrant children will not place a strain on U.S. School Systems if effective, methodical transition programs are put into place and given proper funding to operate
employment
Greico 2015 noted that a majority of immigrants to the U.S. work jobs in agriculture and laboring
Some Americans believe that Immigrants are pushing them out of low skill/wage jobs that they have worked for generations
Basten 2013 study found that Immigrants create a cheap workforce that allows native workers fill more demanding jobs