Explanation:
Immigration is a major problem facing the U.S. today. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants flock to this country every year. Some legally, others illegally. Some are escaping from religious and political oppression while others come to seek out the "American Dream". Either way they are causing nationwide problems. Non-English speaking workers take jobs away from American people because they will work for cheaper wages. Illegal immigrants receive welfare and health care and the money to fund this comes straight from us, the citizens of the United States. Some limitations have to be put on the number of immigrants allowed each year and much stricter border patrols must be installed. Harsher punishments and frequent checks are necessary to keep corporations from hiring illegal aliens. We need to do something about this problem before its to late.
The number of legal immigrants should definitely be lowered to a much more reasonable number. Right now, an average of over 600,000 legal immigrants are granted access to the country. I believe this number should be cut in half. We need to focus on problems facing American citizens, such as poverty, AIDS, cancer, and unemployment. We don’t need 300,00 more people to deal with, we have enough problems with the currents population.
I don’t think certain ethnic groups should be give preference over another group but I think educated workers who can speak English should be granted passage before a poor worker who is coming over here to pick lettuce for minimum wage. The educated people are the immigrants that will cause this country to flourish and they are the ones that should be encouraged to migrate to the U.S.
With some many problems facing the U.S. now, we need to worry about ourselves and try to get ourselves on track before we can worry about saving the world. If we can get our economy going and take care of poverty in our cities, then we can begin to help out the countries of the world. I’m not saying that we should completely cut them off, the poorer places should receive some financial aid, but the majority of our problems lie inside our borders and those are the ones we should be most concerned about.
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Illegal immigrants are sucking up hardworking American taxpayer’s money. They are gaining benefits like welfare, public education and health care and the money that funds those benefits comes straight from our wallets. These people are not tax payers and our not helping to deal with American problems.
One of the main reasons that we have such a problem with illegal immigrants is because companies continue to hire them. The U.S. government needs to crack down on these companies to make sure that they are not putting these people to work. After watching news clippings on how easy it is to "sneak" across the border, its no wonder we have so many illegal aliens living in the U.S. It is not the fault of the border patrol guards, but the fault of the U.S. government for one, not having a enough help, and two, not enough barriers. People can basically walk over the U.S./Mexican border without being seen or caught. If they are caught, they usually return the next day. I
Another privilege that should be taken away from illegal aliens is automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. If the kids are not citizens then they will not be eligible to attend our already over crowded public schools and further discourage people from coming over.
People take sneaking over the boarder as a joke. They can laugh about being caught because nothing can be done and since there are so few guards there is little risk of getting caught. By increasing border guards, cracking down on phony passports and pleas for political asylum in our airports we can stop illegal immigrants from coming over and receiving benefits that they do not deserve. Once we have that problem taken care of we can work on setting up fair legal immigration policies.
