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PA315Group3ImmigrationProject1.pptxImmigration
Topic/Issue/Problem
•The united states is the largest home of immigrants among the developed nations.
•Although the cultural effects of immigration is a matter of debate and controversy, the economic implication of immigration is clearly set out.
•The major economical implication of the influx of immigrants in the country has been that they have taken up all the jobs.
•Immigrants causes the government to overstrain in provision of goods and services
•Successive regimes in the country have not been able to deal with the problem of immigration because of several underlying issues.
•the united states is a country of rights and in the past years there have been a great debate on the rights of immigrants. It has becoming a problem to deport immigrants without an outcry from the civil society.
•Illegal immigrants are subjects that still holds controversy between the ranks of democrats and republicans casing this matter not be solved once and for all .
Business Centric Solution
From 1996 to 2011, the business startup rate of immigrants increased by more than 50%, while the native-born startup rate declined by 10%, to a 30-year low. Immigrants today are more than twice as likely to start a business as native-born citizens.
More than 20% of the 2014 Inc. 500 CEOs are immigrants.
Immigrants create companies, create value, and they create jobs--619,631 of them over the last 3 years.
In 2010, immigrant-owned businesses generated more than $775 billion in sales.
Immigrant founders started 52% of all new Silicon Valley companies between 1995 and 2005.
immigrants now start more than a quarter of new businesses in this country.
H-1B visas
An H-1B allows the holder to work in the U.S. for only up to 6 years.
The current annual cap for H-1B visas is set at 65,000, with an additional 20,000 reserved for foreign nationals graduating with a U.S. master's degree or higher.
SOLUTION: Congress should enact a legislative reform that includes a pathway to citizenship, then more unauthorized immigrants could participate in the formal economy.
Government Centric Solution
Tax Credits for Illegal immigrants who overpay
A system or network to have states and local governments communicate to document all immigrants.
Provide a pathway to citizenship for all Illegal Immigrants. This would increase GDP by $1.2 Trillion over 10 years and create 145,000.
Proposed Merit System vs. Modified Merit Plan
The Social Security Administration estimates that unauthorized immigrants contribute a net of $13 billion in payroll taxes annually
In 2013, immigrants added $1.6 trillion to total U.S. gross domestic product.
Providing a pathway to citizenship for all unauthorized immigrants would increase GDP by $1.2 trillion over 10 years and create 145,000 jobs annually
The 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants living the U.S. today contribute $11.64 billion in state and local taxes each year
Providing a pathway to citizenship for all unauthorized immigrants would increase GDP by $1.2 trillion over 10 years and create 145,000 jobs annually
Equities
Government
•Must provide an opportunity for earned legalization for the 11 million undocumented people in the U.S. willing to make themselves right with the law.
•Must strengthen border security by developing new border security metrics.
•Must provide a solution for Deferred Action Recipient Relief Act (DACA).
•Must not reduce family-based immigration in order to increase employment-based immigration
Business
•Must create a new visa system that is market-based that will help grow our economy.
•Strengthened employment system that will not result in an increase of regulatory requirements.
Third Way
Team’s Decision: a modified merit-based plan.
One can only move forward
Provisional waiver through which one is not forced to leave
Courses without exams
Points for taxes & safe driving
Removal of time limit
Major Change
· The United States’ history is strongly rooted in immigration, that is why it is important to correct the system and not leave it ignored any longer.
· The changes we are proposing will require an immense amount of reform and those translate into revising infrastructure. (Jobs will be produced and funding will be required). Hence the fees that are put in place.
· This new Merit plan is intended to prepare immigrants to one day become productive U.S. citizens.
· The biggest challenge that this plan wanted to overcome was simplifying the process. What we found as a group, was that our biggest threat was just how tough, and complicated a process like this is.
· The goal is not to have people live in fear, but instead offer the support needed for them to lead better lives and engage in the responsibilities of being a U.S. Citizen.
