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Illegal Immigrants And Illegal Immigration

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Griffin Tritto
Politics Paper
5/1/17
Immigration
Through the past few decades, the rise of illegal immigrants has been both good and bad. The topic of illegal immigration has recently been brought up frequently by politicians, seeing the economic problems that have occurred. An “illegal” immigrant is somebody who enters a country without following the proper legal requirements to make them a citizen. Illegal immigration is not only taking place in the United States, but all over the globe. The United States has seen the most amount of illegal immigrants by far. A 2010 Census reported that there were more than 10 million immigrants living in the United States. Although many disagree, saying that that number is only an estimate, some …show more content…

There are parents who use the government health care and welfare checks on their own needs instead of the child’s. California governor Pete Wilson commissioned a study in 1994 to find the cost of these services given to illegal immigrants. The study stated taxpayer’s pay on average $4 billion annually for unemployment, medical, educational, and several other government services. That study was done in 1994, so it may be much more considering inflation.
With the debate of job security, there is the realization that is it even possible to stop illegal immigration? They come into the U.S via the Mexican border, Canadian border, and on cargo ships. There have been many ideas brought to light including building a wall along the Mexican border, to putting troops at the border to patrol it. “The power is there to do it”, said New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, “we just need to leadership to put it into effect.” Not only would this stop illegal immigration, but it would also increase the number of jobs available to blue-collar American workers. Recently many states and local cities have been trying to take illegal immigration into their own hands, including Hazleton, Pennsylvania, who released this statement:
“With so many immigrants, an estimated 10,000, moving from New York City to this small rural town, the mayor Lou Barletta and local lawmakers took action and passed a law stating that any business employing illegal immigrants will

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