Advantages Of Immigration Reform

Pretty much everybody in the United States would benefit from immigration reform, and if illegal immigrants are legalized. This statement also includes the individuals who insist they should all be deported.

Everybody agrees that people should not be illegally in the U.S. Everybody also agrees that you have to document the people entering and leaving the country, but people who are against immigration reform should consider that legalizing these people will benefit the whole country, the military, Social Security, the economy and the education.

But the most immediate beneficiary of an immigration reform would be to the business sector. This is so because the unemployment rate is below 4.5% and 10 percent of the work force is actually un-documented.

With so few people out of work now, there would not be enough available workers to replace the ten percent of undocumented workers if they were to be suddenly deported. Also the U.S. birthrate is low, the population is aging and the workforce is shrinking.

If farmers can't hire enough workers in order to plant or harvest, they would close, and more U.S. food would be imported along and it would also be more expensive. Hotels, motels, restaurants and landscape companies would close as well. The factories that could outsource their work overseas would do that, rather than close, but many would be obliged to close. This would lead to unemployment of the legal workers employed at those companies.

A major benefit of immigration reform would be to Social Security. Fifty years ago, it took twenty workers in order to keep enough tax money flowing in to keep a retiree on Social Security. Considering the actual trends, by 2030 there will only be two workers to cover each retiree. Any country needs a steady supply of young workers coming into the system and immigration reform would allow the young immigrant workers who are already in the U.S. may represent the answer to the Social Security funding problems of the future.