1) Polarization

A new Politico/George Washington University Battleground poll finds that 62 percent of those
surveyed support an immigration reform proposal that would allow illegal or undocumented
immigrants to earn citizenship over a period of several years.
Thirty-five percent oppose it. The national poll, conducted last week, finds more Republicans 49
percent support a path to citizenship than oppose it 45 percent. Democrats favor this
approach 3-to-1, 74 percent to 24 percent. And independents back it by a 26-point margin, 61
percent to 35 percent.
Hohmann, James. "Battleground poll: Most support path to citizenship." Politico 10 12 2012, Web. 5
Nov. 2013.
2)Privacy

With an estimated twelve million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. it has been suggested that a
national ID card would be the most accurate and convenient means to separate citizens
from immigrants and legal immigrants from illegal immigrants.
: National IDs would distinguish citizens from noncitizens.
"Americans Don't Want a National ID Card." Usimmigrationsupport.org. U.S. Immigration
Support, N.D. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.
3) Costs :

Ultimately, however, the Affordable Care Act barred undocumented immigrants from buying
insurance through the state-based exchangeseven if they have the means to do so. Failing to
extend this goal of inclusion to the millions of unauthorized immigrants living here will
undoubtedly compromise the systems ability to lower costs. Denying these individuals access to
insurance and blocking them from primary and preventive care alternatives means they often wait to
seek care until a medical condition has reached a crisis point. And although this cohort is younger
and healthier than the average, when they finally do seek assistance, they often go to the one place

required to deliver it: the far more costly emergency room.Even though bringing undocumented
immigrants into the health insurance system seems obvious from a cost-containment
perspective, efforts to deal constructively with this issue are proving to be virtually impossible as a
political matter. Indeed, one of the most virulent strains of opposition to the Affordable Care Act, or
Obamacare, was premised on claims that it would provide health insurance access to undocumented
immigrants.

Fitz, Marshall. "Time to Legalize Our 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants." The Center for
American Progress. 14 Nov. 2012. Web. 3 Nov. 2013.

4)House market prices

Immigrants often dont flood housing markets all at once so the rental prices do not increase nearly as
much as anti-immigration reform activists would have you believe.

Yi, Moises. The Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Look at the Housing Market.
University of California-Berkeley, n.d. Web. 6 Nov 2013.
<http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.169.9612&rep=rep1& type=pdf>.

Population growth continues to have a positive and statistically significant impact on rental prices
growth. The All Immigrants coefficient, however, while still negative becomes statistically
insignificant. The fact that the All Immigrants coefficient is insignificant is evidence that, if income
and poverty rate are held constant, immigrants and natives are no different in the way they
affect rental prices.

5) National

Security

Committee On The Judiciary United States Senate. "The Need For Comprehensive Immigration
Reform: Strengthening Our National Security." U.S. Government Printing Office, May 2005. Web. 6
Nov. 2013.

<http://www.gpo.gov.ezproxy.lib.usf.edu/fdsys/pkg/CHRG109shrg22411/pdf/CHRG-109shrg22411.pdf>.

It is a significant vulnerability to allow such a large population to live and work anonymously in our
communities, with no legal identities or other common connections to society. In fact, it is a terrorists dream.

6) Native Workers :
Peri, Giovanni. "The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from US States." .
National Bureau of Economic Research, n.d. Web. 4 Nov 2013.

We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment and hours worked by

natives. At the same time we find robust evidence that they increased total factor productivity, on the
one hand, while they decreased capital intensity and the skill-bias of production technologies, on the
other. These results are robust to controlling for several other determinants of productivity that may
vary with geography... Combining these effects, an increase in employment in a US state of
1% due to immigrants produced and increase in income per worker of 0.5% in that state.
7) Path is not priority
Shiner, Meredith. "House Democrats Rally Around Pathway to Citizenship, Schumer Says."
Roll Call. 07.09.2013: Web. 6 Nov. 2013.
<http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/house-dems-rally-around-pathway-to- citizenship/>.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said after a meeting with House Democrats Tuesday
that there is great unity around providing a path to citizenship as part of any House
immigration overhaul effort. Democratic members of the bipartisan Senate gang of eight met

with the House Democratic Caucus to discuss the legislation, which is expected to have serious
difficulties clearing the Republican-controlled House.
Conservatives have expressed reservations about approving a pathway to citizenship, no matter how
prolonged or regulated. But Schumer said House Democrats will not back a bill without a
pathway, even if that seems like the only way to get something passed in the House and to
a conference committee with the Senate. The Senate approved its immigration framework last
month, 68-32. Bring other things up to the floor but dont expect us to be helpful if theres no path
of citizenship also brought up to the floor, Schumer told reporters after the meeting. The bottom
line, in my opinion and I think the opinion of the entire caucus, is that without a path to
citizenship, theyll go to conference and say, Well, take our bill without a path to
citizenship. Theres got to be a path to citizenship and I dont think you can get Democrats
to vote for things without a path to citizenship. It was our bottom line from the beginning. Were
not abandoning that, House or Senate, Schumer continued. We had great unity in this meeting.
Everyone agreed.
8) Incentive for migration

Hinojosa-Ojeda, Ral. "The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform." CATO

Journal. CATO Institute, Winter 2012. Web. 6 Nov. 2013.
<http://knowyourvisa.com/pdf/the_economic_benefits_of_cir.pdf>.

Higher wages translate into more tax revenue and increased consumer purchasing power, which
benefits the public treasury and the U.S. economy as a whole. But IRCA failed to create flexible
limits on future immigration that were adequate to meet the growing labor needs of the U.S.
economy during the 1990s. As a result, unauthorized immigration eventually resumed in the
years after IRCA (despite an

initial decline), thereby exerting downward pressure on wages for all workers in low-wage
occupations.