Topic > Impact of Illegal Immigration on the US Economy - 1174

each year. Mexicans make up half of the illegal population in America, while the other half of illegal immigrants in America are people from Canada and every other country in the world. No type of illegal immigrant is better than the other because they all do the same things: they don't pay taxes, they work illegally, and they take jobs from honest Americans. In the United States, 109,631,000 Americans are on welfare, fixed incomes, living in state housing, medical care, food stamps and many other types of welfare offered by our government. Nearly a third of the American population is on welfare, yet in our country there are approximately 8.1 million illegal immigrants who work illegally and do not pay taxes. They are also taking welfare away from us, which means depriving us of the food and benefits we get as Americans. Every year the illegal immigrant population literally takes food out of the mouths of our children because some Americans are unable to receive the care they need, due to the illegal system