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Debate over immigration and immigration policy is not new to the nation's history. For a long time, Congress debated legislation to control the immigration problem. As immigration rises and hatred grows more laws will be carried out trying to release some of the pressure. Immigrants offer cheaper labor to businesses. Immigrants do not get minimum wage, but instead they get paid lower, this gives the business an edge over other competitors.

Agriculture industries employ more undocumented workers than any other industry in the country because it cost less. Half of California's 700,000 farm workers are estimated to be undocumented. Thirty years ago 50 percent of farm workers in California were immigrants, and now it’s 92 …show more content…

While the National Guard and active-duty armed forces personnel are used more and more along the border. Local police forces are also being authorized to enforce immigration laws.

Possible solutions to the problems are helping illegal immigrants get into the country faster such as NAFTA. Some people say to computerize the I.N.S., increase the number of boarder patrol agents, and build a wall around the U.S. from problem countries. We know most of these solutions will work, but it takes time to get things to get passed thru the country.

Illegal immigrants may not like my opinion. I believe that illegal immigrants should deal with their problems in their countries, instead of coming here and creating more problems. If their country has a poor economy, then they should fix it. In the long run it would be good for them and their country. The illegal aliens that are already here should be deported.

Also they should not live and take up social services that legal residents use. For example if the immigrant hire for unemployment the country has to pay for them.

A majority of illegal immigrants that work here take the money out of the country, and into their families in other countries. Most of their net income goes outside of the U.S. economy.

While signing a landmark illegal immigrant amnesty by former President Ronald Reagan once said “The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can

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