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Immigration
economy
Immigrants contribute directly to economic growth - boosting the population and increasing demand for goods and services.
Output in the economy is higher and grows faster with more immigrants, as they increase the number of workers and productivity.
immigrants account for 28% of high quality patents - a sign of underlying technological progress, linked to productivity and economic growth.
Immigrants also tend to have a positive impact on US finances - paying more in taxes than they receive in government services, when compared with native-born workers.
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On average, an undocumented individual has about 8% of their income go to taxes
universities found little to no effect on the wages and employment of native-born workers in the long-term by undocumented immigrants .They are also entrepreneurs who create jobs.
In 2010, undocumented individuals paid $13 billion into retirement accounts and only received $1 billion in return. immigrants have contributed up to $300 billion to the Social Security Trust Fund.
Studies have confirmed that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans and they are associated with lower crime rates.
Detention camps
Immigration authorities apprehended a record-setting 76,020 unaccompanied minors at or near the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2019 fiscal year
For the first time, unaccompanied minors and families accounted for more than half of border crosses.
The overall denial rate for all asylum seekers has climbed steadily in recent years, reaching about 72 percent in fiscal year 2020.
and most kids dont even get legal help.but because immigration cases are civil proceedings, they are not guaranteed attorneys
officials separated at least 4,300 families and recategorized the minors as unaccompanied children between July 2017 and June 2018.
Critics have decried the overcrowding of migrant detention facilities, alleging abuse and linking poor conditions to child deaths
The children arent entitled, to soap, toothbrushes or blankets. Because the detention is supposed to be short term. But they have been held for weeks.
soulutions
let the detention centers be open to the public, so they can expose it. Also so we can have more volunteers and organizations to help.
freedom for immigrants. tracks and uncovers abuses, like inadequate medical care, rape, or assult.
community based alternatives, to house immigrants, to help them start their new life.
education, on immigration, having access to the truth.
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we have done
Trump has pursued hard-line measures to deter asylum seekers, including expanding detention, increasing family separations, and pressing other countries to step up their own detention of migrants
zero tolerance policy
instead of letting adult immigrants await trial, they would be detained and criminally prosecuted.
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In Canada, the law allows the detention of migrant children only as a last resort.
Australia has gotten better from holding thousands of children in camps to fewer then 5, but there is not enough regulations on how long they can be held there. some for years
mexico has been under pressure from the Us to secure there borders however there facilities where not sanitary of safe either.5
education
Immigrants are more likely to have a master's degree or doctorate than the children of parents born in the US
However, nearly one in four immigrants has not graduated from high school - compared with about one in 20 people born in the US.
Because some people could come here and focus on making a difference, however other fall back into their old habits.
immigrants have tended to come from places poorer than the US, as people seek better circumstances. Output per capita in 1910 in Italy was roughly a third of that in the US, as is the case in Mexico today.
Many children hope to reunite with relatives in the United States, but others deliberately leave their families behind, fleeing domestic abuse, criminal gangs, or local corruption. Some migrant parents send their children across the border alone to avail themselves of asylum protections for unaccompanied minors.
ORR seeks to release children to sponsors, preferably parents, whom the agency screens for criminal history and fitness to provide care—though the pandemic halted nearly all such discharges.
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