Stop Illegal Immigration

A wall may protect americans from those who fail cross the border illegally, but what will protect citizens when they succeed? In today’s society, many have argued over how the government should handle the problem of illegal immigrants that continue to infiltrate the borders and laws. Recently, officials created laws that changed border security. Some citizens believe that the country should welcome anyone who wants to enter. However, others believe that the government needs to add more immigration laws. These viewpoints have a rational and solid argument, the government should hire more individuals to secure the borders even more and have a more effective way of immigration control.

There has always been an issue regarding illegal immigration into the United States that has caused many solutions in response. One of these solutions has been to build a wall to create a physical border between Mexico and the United States. However, with the current lack of clear legislation regarding immigration, a wall will not be effective in managing illegal immigration. In response to the issue of immigration from Mexico into the United States, a physical wall along the border is ineffective due to immigrants still being hired after crossing the border and their willingness to risk their lives to leave Mexico. To begin, there is no point in building a wall to keep people out when there are jobs waiting for them once they cross the border.

Immigration is a cornerstone of America and is the basis for the founding of the thirteen colonies. There are very few families that did not originate as immigrants to the country at some point from the first settlers to modern times. However, the issue of illegal immigration, particularly from Latin America, has grown in recent years and must be addressed. There is an estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States mainly overstaying visas or crossing over the border illegally. My solution to the problem of immigration is to reinforce the southern U.S. border because the initial problem must be solved before attending to current migrants. The economic effect of migrant labor is an overall net gain, which must be redistributed to the places with many immigrants. Finally, the current undocumented

This article is related to the public policy topic because it deal with one of the most important issues of immigration. It is related to the American government because it is their responsibility to make policy regarding immigration. There are over 11 million illegal immigrants in US right now, and if we talk about deporting them it seems nearly impossible because we don’t have enough resources. It becomes a government duty to solve the problems related to immigration, whether it is a legal or

Our border system has flaws that need to be fixed, especially in this day and age where our fear lies in terrorism and violence.

America, the greatest country in the world. Beautiful, prosperous, and technologically advanced are all qualities that come to mind when a person thinks about the United States. But no matter how great a country may seem, there is always a problem gnawing at it, wearing it away. For the United states one of the main things eating through the greatness is illegal immigration, mainly across the Mexican border. Several proposals have been made to protect the Mexican border such as deportation of the current illegals, the creation of a wall, and increased security around the border. Although all of these may be valid points, I believe some would work better than others.

The United States has hit a crossroad with illegal immigration. Either the government can reform laws and secure the border, or the government can allow illegal immigrants to cross the border with work visas if the illegal immigrants are seeking work. As the country grows larger, families are seeking security from the government. The U.S. border should be secured because of the amount of drugs that are flowing in with illegal immigrants, violence that follows, and the effect on the U.S. economy.

Although a border wall may make it more difficult for people to cross into the US illegally, it can’t completely prevent it. All it takes is an unsupervised hole in the wall for people to pass through. So, there are better ways to prevent illegal immigration. Instead of spending 25 billion dollars on building a wall, why don’t we focus on higher security measures on the border. For example, there could be more surveillance on the border and a more in depth immigration process could be established. So, even though a border wall would make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to pass through, establishing higher security measures could be just as productive and less expensive as

Although the issue with illegal immigration is prominent, the solution is not as clear. Some say the annual quota of 20,000 Mexicans should be raised (Anderson 65). This does not help the fact that there is a 5-9 year wait for over 1 million immigrants to enter the country legally (Anderson 57). "Most illegals are of working age and looking for jobs" (Anderson 57). They don't want to wait years to get a job. Otherwise, there would not be near as many people crossing the border every year. Some people call for a border fence in order to lower the number of illegals (Marcovitz 27). In 2006, Congress began a $2.5 billion project to fence nearly 700 miles of the Mexican border (Marcovitz 27). Many are still pushing for the entire border to be fenced off (Marcovitz 27). Currently, only about one third of the border has been fenced, and over 1,000 miles still remain open (Marcovitz 28). The fence is patrolled by border officers. In 1992 there were about 3,500 border patrol officers. In 2010 that number had grown to over 20,000 (Marcovitz

As an American citizen, we live by the American Dream. The American Dream is the right of life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Should something like this be shared with those of whom are not native to America? The United States has done nothing, but pass laws that are not working on keeping Illegal immigrants from crossing the border. We have to make sure that the American people are what come first. Keep illegal immigrants from crossing the borders to let the people of America keep their jobs and more importantly their safety. There has been an increase of lost jobs, the lives of many Americans and crime rates.

The federal government should not take steps to tighten border security because immigration benefits the United States economy and promotes the success of businesses.With about one million immigrants entering the US each year, immigration helps the US achieve many goals, creating a healthy, advanced nation. Immigrants are held accountable for trillions of America’s GDP, which is how the United States measures the success of the economy. Immigration is essential to the success of the United States since diversity in society, wealth in the economy, and businesses revolve around immigrants.

The United States of America, a country created by immigrants, is currently facing what some consider to be an immigration crisis. As of 2012, there is over eleven million undocumented illegal aliens living inside the United States. Both the American public and the lawmakers elected to represent us are divided on the issue. Some people view the influx of immigrants crossing over the border from Mexico to America as a good thing while others view it as a disaster waiting to happen. Regardless of ones view on immigrants coming over, most people are in agreement with the idea that we must change the way we are currently dealing with illegal aliens.

Illegal immigration has become a huge issue in the United States, it is estimated that there are about twelve million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. today and that number is growing larger every day. This issue has caused multiple social, economic, safety, and law issues within the country. The state and federal government is using billions of dollars on things such as school, welfare, and medical and receiving minimal or no money in return simply because they are giving out the money to illegal immigrants who do not pay taxes to help fund things. Even though illegal immigrants help the economy, take low paying jobs, and improve the overall image of America, the U.S. must not allow any persons who enter this country illegally to

Every candidate has been asked and given their standpoint on how to “fix” this problem, a few of the ideas mentioned are impractical while some might just work. For example, it has been mentioned more than once by more than one time on the republican side that the candidates will “build a wall… [and] make Mexico pay for it”. This idea is not only ridiculous, and unrealistic, it has also been said by the Mexican government that they will in fact not pay for such a thing. There is a construction running along most of the border currently, yet we are currently having this problem. In fact, recently a video has been found of two Mexican citizens climbing the current fence, and once being discovered forced to climb back over. Which they did in under twenty seconds. Building this wall will just cause the citizens to become more creative in their attempts to cross the border. It has been said that “building a thirty foot wall will only create a market for thirty one foot ladders,” and this is true. These citizens will not be stopped because there is a wall in front of them. Not even drug trafficking will be stopped by this, as there have been many accounts of people using slingshots, a good throw, and even a cannon to launch goods over the

Being here as an illegal immigrant is a huge problem. Tax payer’s money pays for their medical bills, the jails, and deportation back to where they came from. Our jobs and identities are being taken away as well. Coming to the United States is seen as an advantage to get ahead in life for most other countries. When they take advantage of breaking the system it effects the citizens more so than it does them. There are several people who came here and worked hard to get their citizenship the legal way. When it seems the government is letting them get away with breaking the law it attracts more people to come here illegally.