This was a very interesting article on Israel Concha, an undocumented immigrant that had been brought to thebIS from Mexico when he was a boy. By the time Concha was 30 years old, he was running a taxi business he had started and making $300,000. But he was also employing nine American citizens with steady, well-paid jobs. Concha is an interesting story but not unique. According to a study there are over 900,000 immigrant entrepreneurs (about 10%) of undocumented citizens that hire American workers. Their businesses account for over $17 billion and counting. Unfortunately Concha was detained and eventually deported, which cost the US hundreds of dollars a day, hundreds of thousands in the US economy a year, and multiple jobs for US workers. What is the solution here? Do the US policies need to be more lenient based on the circumstances?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/fernandafabian/2018/03/04/undocumented-entrepreneurs-how-deportations-could-hurt-the-u-s-economy/amp/
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This is one of those cases where you cant find the logic on deporting someone. This is someone that came to the United States when he was 2 years old and was not even his decision, he worked hard and created his own business from the ground up and the fact that he was providing jobs to Americans and that didn't stop the government from deporting him seems unreasonable. This is someone that has never been to Mexico and has lived his entire life in the United States since he was 2 years old, is he really not an American? He was even paying taxes and helping the economy by being a small company owner, but clearly, sometimes the laws make judges take unreasonable decisions that don't make any sense but have the laws to back them up. An argument could be that he is taking the "Americans" jobs, but he is doing the opposite and providing jobs for Americans that I'm sure are against this decision as well, since they have lost their jobs as well. Sometimes deporting immigrants doesn't bring jobs back to Americans, but it does the opposite.
There needs to be an easier track to citizenship for members of our society like Concha whose businesses are benefiting so many. Our deportation model is so dated and we are losing billions of dollars by not providing the tools for people to become a legal citizen after giving so much to this county, we owe this to these business owners.
I agree. It is clearly evident that undocumented immigrants impact the economy in a positive way. Not only from people like Concha who have established businesses that directly benefit American citizens, but also from the people that do the lower wage labor jobs that no one wants. I guarantee that those who say undocumented immigrants are taking American jobs, would not be willing to do all of those same jobs.
First of all I do think it is sad this individual got deported. However the taxi business is crumbling so his business was on the downturn of the product life cycle. However I think it is very interesting how much immigrant entrepreneurs contribute to the economy. However if these individuals are undocumented I am sure a large amount of them are avoiding taxes from the US government. I really don't think there is a perfect answer because there are trade offs to looser and stricter policy.
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