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In 2011, following the passing of Georgia’s anti-immigration laws, 40% of agricultural workers left the state and $140 million worth of crops were left rotting in the field because there were not enough workers to pick it all.

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In 2011, following the passing of Georgia’s anti-immigration laws, 40% of agricultural workers left the state and $140 million worth of crops were left rotting in the field because there were not enough workers to pick it all.

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The National Research Council found that immigrants pay ⅓ less money to taxes than native-born children.

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Today, more than 41 million residents in the United States were born in another country.  28% of those live in the United States illegally.

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Immigrants who return to their home countries also bring back skills they have gained while living in a country with more technology, says Norberto Giron of the International Organization for migration in Honduras.

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evidence 9 con The inflow of money from the United States makes up 15% of El Salvador’s Annual GDP (total income for the country). 

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evidence 9 con The inflow of money from the United States makes up 15% of El Salvador’s Annual GDP (total income for the country). 

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immigrants also send huge amounts of money back to their families, usually 1/10 of what they make.  This contributes more than $40 billion dollars to the Latin American Economy.

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Losing so much of the population has provided an Escape valve for these poor Central America Countries.  It has helped to keep unemployment from climbing higher as those who remain find jobs that may have been filled by the migrants who left.

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Oscar Escalada Hernadez, the director of the Casa YMCA that houses migrant children states “The effect of immigration has been family disintegration.  People are leaving behind the most important value: family unity.”

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Since 1990 there have been over 30 million immigrants, both legal and illegal have come into the United States.

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A disproportionate number of the 36,000 gangsters in Honduras come from families where the mother has migrated north.

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Evidence: between 2005 and 2010, nearly 1000 laws addressing illegal immigration were passed by State legislators.  These laws stop migrants from renting apartments, getting driver’s licenses, going to schools, receiving scholarships and tuition, going to college,  and securing jobs.

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Evidence: between 2005 and 2010, nearly 1000 laws addressing illegal immigration were passed by State legislators.  These laws stop migrants from renting apartments, getting driver’s licenses, going to schools, receiving scholarships and tuition, going to college,  and securing jobs.

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90% of Immigrants crossing into the United states now use a smuggler, up from 70% in 1993.

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In 2011, US immigration caught and detained 24,000 children, mostly from Central America.  Experts estimate that for every child caught there are two or three that are not caught.  This means more than 100,000 children came to the United States unaccompanied by a parent of other adult.

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A 1997 study by the National Research Council showed that immigrants lower the cost of nearly 5 percent of all goods and services everyone in America buys

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Many immigrants do not do well, causing more poverty and low income house holds.

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immigration has helped United states as a whole

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Immigration expert Jeffrey Passel says that nearly half of all Central American children who arrive in the United States after the age of 10 do not graduate from high school.

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In a 2002 study by the Public Policy Institute of California,  found that since 1993 the number of border patrol agents have tripled and the amount of $ spent of border patrol has tripled.  Even with this increase the number of illegal immigrants has grown more quickly.

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Is immigration to the United States helping or hurting the United States as a whole?

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