Illegal Immigration and Its Effect on AmericaIllegal Immigration and Its Effect on AmericaIllegal Immigration and Its Effect On AmericaThesis: Learning as much as possible about Illegal Immigration so that we may understand and try and find a reasonable solution.I. What Is Illegal Immigration?A. Illegal ImmigrationB. When did it begin?II. Toll of Illegal Immigration On AmericaA. Hidden Cost Of Illegal ImmigrationB. CrimeC. The Loss America Suffers For Illegal ImmigrationD. How Things Have ChangedIII. America Speaks UpA. Why Americans Are Prejudiced Against Illegal ImmigrantsB. Illegal Immigrants Tell Their Side of the StoryIV. What Can We do?A. Playing Your PartB. The FutureLeah WilloughbyMr. and Mrs. William DavisSophomore Research Project16 January 2007Illegal Immigration and Its Effect on AmericaIllegal Immigration is a very important problem today in the United States. It affects everyone, from the homeless to the wealthy. Illegal Immigration is when a foreigner crosses a national boundary in a way that violates the immigration laws of the country being left and the country being entered. Today, there are more than 20 million living in the US and an estimated 500,000 more arrive yearly. Many believe Illegal Immigration to be a relatively new problem but, in fact, it has been going on for hundreds of years. It wasn’t until 1924 when the US really began enforcing immigration laws.
One of the most controversial political issues of today is that of illegal immigrants from Mexico. Illegal immigration into the United States is a problem that should be stopped, as it is unfair to both Americans and to the people of the country from which they left. It is thought that the majority of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. are Mexicans. Roy Beck clarifies the situation by stating, “The national consensus is that the United States should be a post-mass immigration country has included most leaders of business, religion, labor, academia, and social work.” Illegal immigration from Mexico must be stopped by means of different policies and other methods of prevention, because the effects on both Mexico and the United States are predominately unfavorable.
One of the reasons Americans resent Immigrants is because of the toll it takes on our country. Let’s consider the cost of illegal immigration. As of 2006, 500 billion dollars has been lost just because of identity theft. Illegal Immigrants have to have some way of getting jobs so they steal social security numbers and create their own identity. When this happens all earnings by the real person are not matched with the social security number so they don’t get it and neither does the government. It is put into a file called the Earnings Suspense File and is never used. Also, Illegal Immigrants run up taxes like crazy. For example, when an Illegal Immigrant goes to the hospital it is automatically paid for and they don’t have to pay a dime. Lets see, free food (food stamps), free healthcare, free drivers license…..can you blame them for coming? By giving them all of this we aren’t exactly saying “Go Home!” With that kind of treatment even more immigrants will be calling America “home.”
Crime is another important issue. Any country in the world has crime issues but crime in the US has gone up dramatically since mass numbers of illegal immigrants began coming in. First, crime started increasing along the US/ Mexico border so, naturally, we beefed up the border patrol (Pacific Research Institute, Illegal Immigration and Crime). Ranchers on the U.S. side of the border began arming themselves because drug traffickers on mountain bikes carrying 100 pound marijuana loads were pouring over the border and riding through their property. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) also acknowledges that Mexican traffickers are sending tons of cocaine and heroin across the border. And, according to the New York Times Magazine, these Mexican traffickers are “often exploiting illegal aliens to carry the drugs.” The Times Magazine quotes a local police chief who says, “Theyre hauling drugs just down from my house.
Drugs are generally carried from states where they are being sold to other states, who are then shipped to my house and smuggled out to those states to sell the substances.„ • These are often sold in retail establishments in our states. They are in addition to being sold in retail establishments, ‟ so that would mean that drug trafficking can flow from places where the people who have access to the drugs are coming to us. This means that it is our responsibility to take steps to avoid the traffic of drugs from places where they are being processed directly from the state and/or country. and other things that do not have to do with a legal state. But the problem with this is that we do not have law enforcement. (and some states, like Arizona, do not have police. We need to take these measures, but we do not have the resources to do so, and many states have been very lax in protecting their people). And, as the Times Magazine says (emphasis in original):• California is one of only six states that have no law enforcement presence. • In Texas it’s a little more than 100%;⁎ • Arizona is one of only four states that has no police or administrative staff presence.⁙ • The states with police and police agencies include: Florida (where local police have no presence) Louisiana (where officers with no presence) Maryland (police have no presence) Missouri (police have no presence); • The only states with “police officers” is Virginia, where the police have no presence. • In Oregon, police are usually in charge of the state’s roadblocks, even when the state government seems to be in power.↦
But California’s criminal law does not go into effect until March 1, 1998, then it is only when that date comes. And, although the FBI claims that the current law goes into effect May 1, 1998, we know that the FBI has no way to assess whether a state has taken legal action in the case, even considering that the state itself was the one that had jurisdiction over the case. Instead, it is now presumed that there is no law enforcement presence in California and the law’s effective date does not yet exist. There are 2 other areas that we have not considered by California:• Maryland has not taken legal action against criminals;• California has not sued over the deaths of more than 20 people in the state of California, compared to the number of people who’ve sued about 100,000, and• It has not had a special state jurisdiction to defend illegal immigrants across national borders.⁗ and • And, although California has not been sued over the deaths of more than 20 people from the state of Illinois, it has tried on to do so by using its own special state jurisdiction to bring criminals down at the borders of the state of Illinois.↴ and (emphasis in original) • When people start the process to illegally cross a border, only the state will decide whether to sue, and what type of litigation is possible when that happens. ⁛ and, as one legal expert put it, “This is a good day for Arizona.”&⁜and, as I have said, that is exactly what the Justice Department did in the case when it decided to take an aggressive lawsuit for the death of John Kelly. For the State of Arizona, this is a very good day in the eyes of Justice Department.↻