In the blog post titled Immigration on the Texas, A State Of It's Own blog, the author agrees that it is good that people who seek a better life come to the U.S. but she does not agree they are doing it the right way and she also states that the mistake that immigrants make is not filing for there citizenship.
Unfortunately it's not as easy for all immigrants to just apply for citizenship. Many immigrants do not qualify for citizenship, because they come here illegally and they come here illegally because the U.S. does not easily approve visas to those who want to come here the right way.
Also not all immigrants get paid under the table. The Social Security administration estimates that 75% of illegal immigrants are on formal payrolls and get paychecks. A lot of illegal immigrants who currently obtain jobs in the U.S. are required to have a social security number, so what they do is provide fake social security numbers. By providing a fake social illegal immigrants get federal and local income taxes, social security and Medicare taxes taken out of their paychecks; and they also contribute by paying sales taxes.
They do not choose to run and hide, trust me if they could do it the right way and just get their citizenship they would, it's not that easy to gain citizenship here in the U.S. right now. I definitely do think that more steps should be taken to fix the huge problem with immigration.
