Issue: Illegal immigration/Border Control
Solution:
Illegal immigration is an increasingly huge issue in the United States. To solve this crisis or at least slow down the rate of illegal immigration, solutions with actions must be put into place. The first step would be to verify citizenship or legal residency for everyone. There should be a national database that can be accessed that would instantaneously verify this information. The federal government should employ Agents to go door to door to procure documentation from each person in a household to verify their citizenship or legal residency and then upload that documentation to the national database. If verification is not readily available, the person should be given 30 days to get the required documentation.
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First of all, figuring out exactly what kind of wall to build is an issue. Then, there is the issue of where to put the wall and how it will affect landowners. Another issue would be the manpower to guard the wall. And finally, perhaps the biggest criticism is the cost involved in building a wall.
Paying for this solution:
Paying for the solutions to illegal immigration and border control is not an easy task. One way to pay for new agents and a national database would to impose a fee on each person to be placed in the database. It would be a required fee, kind of like the fee you pay when your get your vehicle registration.
To pay for the border wall, fees could be imposed to go across the wall. However, before it is built, an additional import tax could be levied on foreign countries that provide products to the United States and these extra taxes could build the structure. Once the wall is built, if it is built so that it can provide either wind energy or solar energy, the money earned from the selling of that energy could be used to sustain whatever costs are involved with the wall.
Possible criticism of paying for this
The part of the proposal that I really like though is the fact that the Border Patrol would be doubled to 28,000 agents over time. There will be more people around to watch the fence, which should decrease this problem drastically.
C.)ii) Building the physical wall between two regions requires workers and materials; the government spends a lot of money building, maintaining and protecting this wall. Many countries can’t afford this; it takes away money from other important government spending programs. Not only do they have to pay for the physical construction of the wall but they also have to pay for border control salaries and people to regulate the gates. For Example, the United States estimated that it 28 billion dollars per year just to finish and seal the Mexican border each
Mighty Amado 43 says that “The construction of a border fence between the U.S. and Mexico would not only be an ineffective tool for controlling immigration, it would be an utter waste of government resources.” I agree with that, because it would just be a waste of taxpayers money just to build a wall that people could just climb over.
Illegal immigration has been a controversial topic over several years in America, but it has come to light in recent years because of the dramatic increase of Latino individuals crossing the southern border of the United States. This requires multiple people in multiple sections of our government, whether it is politicians, federal law enforcement agencies, or local police, to work together flawlessly to police and combat the current predicament in our nation. Throughout this paper, I am going to discuss the reasons illegal immigrants come to America, the effects it has on our nation, and potential solutions to effectively police and control the problem of illegal immigration along the porous southern border of the United States of America.
I believe the border wall can be built or enhanced in certain areas of the country, mainly in the most populated areas. I do not believe that is feasible or even necessary in certain mountainous or regions where there already natural obstacles in place. When you look at the things that could be done with the money such as pay down the deficit or fund health care for Americans and the fact that there is already border wall in place it makes no sense to try and further build out the border wall. All of this plus all of the environmental issues that go along with building a wall leads me to believe that the wall will not be successfully
A wall on the U.S.-Mexico border could benefit the United States in many different ways. Deporting illegal immigrants would also aid the U.S. immensely. The border between the United States and Mexico is about 644 miles long. Building this wall would be a huge task, but in the end, the United States would already be a better place. I believe that a wall should be built along this border.
A physical wall will never stop people from going to the U.S.. People from all around the world come, either legally or illegally, to the United States for various reasons. The most apparent reason, of course, is this country’s prosperity. Take California as an example, the 2016 minimum wage is 10 dollars per hour, with a designated work hour of 8 hours daily and 40 hours weekly (“Minimum Wage Laws in the States”). This indicates that, as long as one is hardworking, it is fairly easy to be much better-off than in his/her own country, compared to approximately 4.25 US dollars per day, after an approved increase, in Mexico, from which the most illegal aliens come (Schiaffino and Santo). A salary of four hundred dollars per week, which is roughly 1600 dollars per month, is very attractive especially for those aliens who are low-skilled and in poverty. When confronted by poverty or oppression, one would take all
A third of the border between the US and Mexico is already walled/fenced off and is one of the most patrolled border for two countries at peace. Building this wall is just a waste of money and resources, because no matter what there will still be people entering the country illegally.
While there may be some truth to parts of Donald Trump’s claims, such as the costs that have been incurred, but his overall plan is quite radical. The idea of building a wall across the entire southeastern border is extremely radical in itself. Trump compares the simplicity of such a wall to the 95-story skyscrapers he has built. Ali F. Rhuzkan has tackled the topic of the reality of a President Trump building a wall across the entire Mexican-American border in his article on the National Memo. Rhuzkan claims that the main problems with Trump’s proposed wall are not technical problems, but logistical ones. Rhuzkan points out that “Trump’s border wall, if built as he has described it, would be one of the largest civil works projects in the history of the country and would face an array of challenges not found when constructing 95-story skyscrapers” (Rhuzkan). Rhuzkan also points out what Trump’s wall would need in order to be functionally effective and also cost-effective. “A successful border wall must be effective, cheap, and easily maintained. It should be built from readily available materials and should take advantage of the capabilities of the existing labor force. The wall should reach about five feet underground to deter tunneling, and should terminate about 20 feet above grade to deter climbing” (Rhuzkan). Unlike Donald Trump’s wall, Ted Cruz’s idea for technologically supported fencing would be far more cost-effective, easier to assemble, and could also be
The costs of amnesty is far too high to be a real solution to the illegal immigration issue. “The Immigration Bill’s ‘$6.3 Trillion Price Tag’”, Robert Farley states that the cost of amnesty ranges from $6.3 to $5.3 trillion over the next 50 years.That’s about $126 billion to $106 billion per year. In “Trumps Deportation Plan ‘Prohibitively Expensive”, Dolla Estevez states that Trump’s deportation plan would require the federal government to spend “roughly $400 billion to $600 billion to deport 11.3 million undocumented immigrants and prevent future unlawful entry into the U.S. over a 20 year time period,” (Estevez). This is a much easier pill to swallow, as it will only cost $30
Other United States citizens argue that reaching to those measures to control Immigration could resume to massive disaster. The cost of building a wall, having the U.S. troop out on the boards would not only be excessively expensive, but would also take years for the United States Congress to undergo with the extreme measures and having the wall
The first thing the construction of the wall will impact is the economy. As most of us know today, the US is trillions
Any wall-building effort would cost billions of dollars and encounter a variety of obstacles. The border with Mexico is 1954 miles long. We currently have fences on 670 miles of it. A nearly 2000 miles Wall could cost as much as 30 billion dollars. The U.S. government would have to pay to maintain the wall, which could cost as much as $750 million a year, as well as a border
First of all, building a wall is a waste of effort. During the first year, the wall would keep the illegal immigrants out. Eventually, the immigrants would figure
At first, the governments experiencing cases of illegal immigration need to enforce their laws of immigration and to crack down on those employers that hire illegal aliens. The governments should decide to make it a felony act for employing people without undergoing the proper channels of immigration and checking the applicant’s background (Gaines & Kappeler, 2011). The only way of making illegal immigrants leave the countries under which they reside illegally is by making life difficult for them to keep on leaving there. For example, the governments should opt to ignore granting driver’s licenses, public schooling opportunities, food stamps and permanent employment to the people that reside in the states illegally. Choosing this option is essential because it is very hard to track and trace