Illegal Immigration
Over 1400 illegal immigrants arrive in the United States from Mexico every day. Most of them are concentrated in a few larger states such as California and Texas. Roughly 10 million total illegal immigrants from Mexico alone are living in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been laid off due to being replaced with immigrant workers who will perform the same job duties for lower wages. Advocates that side with the illegal immigrants say that the immigrants fill jobs that Americans won’t. Another huge issue with illegal immigration is the war on drugs. Mexican drug cartels transport hundreds of kilos of cocaine, heroine, and marijuana into the Unites States across the border every day. Mexico has been widely unable to
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Some of the most common jobs that suit illegals best are cooks, construction work, housekeeping, grounds/maintenance work, and agricultural (farms with direct connection with the grocery market). The population of illegal aliens in America is estimated to be around 20 million , roughly the population of New York state. With this many undocumented people living and working off the books in the United States, the government is losing tens of billions of dollars in tax revenue around the country. This is money that can be used for so many things to help better the entire United States such as military spending, school budgets, and things all the way down to cleaner communities for the citizens. The author of the internet article “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration” stated that “The Center for Immigration Studies, which is in favor of some restrictions on immigration, recently issued a report looking at jobs and undocumented workers. One of its conclusions was that between March 2000 and March 2005, only 9 percent of the net increase in jobs for adults went to people born in the US.” American citizens are being out out of work due simply to the fact that the illegal immigrants will work for considerably lower wages than …show more content…
Mexico has the worlds largest and most complicated and intricate drug network, stemming from Mexico's widely corrupt government's inability to gain control of the drug trafficking and manufacturing within it's borders. Not only do the drugs cripple societies in Mexico and America, the drug cartels are vicious and battle for sales and territory all around the border and even into some more northern states as well. It seems that the drug violence increased greatly when Calderon took office in 2006. He made various statements and vowed to eliminate drug trafficking and end the war on drugs. This was met with drastic increases in drug violence in and out of Mexico, cartels grew and the war on drugs swelled even more. Police officers are bribed with large sums of money each day in order to overlook drug cartels and their operations to spread drugs around Mexico and the United States. As stated in the internet article “Mexico's Drug War' written by Brianna Lee, “Corruption and weakness in Mexico's judicial and police sectors have largely allowed the drug trade to flourish. The police are easily bought, in part because of their meager earnings (about $9,000-$10,000 a year), which fall below the average salary for public-sector
Some of the most common jobs that suit illegals best are cooks, construction work, housekeeping, grounds/maintenance work, and agricultural (farms with direct connection with the grocery market). The population of illegal aliens in America is estimated to be around 20 million , roughly the population of New York state. With this many undocumented people living and working off the books in the United States, the government is losing tens of billions of dollars in tax revenue around the country. This is money that can be used for so many things to help better the entire United States such as military spending, school budgets, and things all the way down to cleaner communities for the citizens. The author of the internet article “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration” stated that “The Center for Immigration Studies, which is in favor of some restrictions on immigration, recently issued a report looking at jobs and undocumented workers. One of its conclusions was that between March 2000 and March 2005, only 9 percent of the net increase in jobs for adults went to people born in the US.” American citizens are being out out of work due simply to the fact that the illegal immigrants will work for considerably lower wages than …show more content…
Mexico has the worlds largest and most complicated and intricate drug network, stemming from Mexico's widely corrupt government's inability to gain control of the drug trafficking and manufacturing within it's borders. Not only do the drugs cripple societies in Mexico and America, the drug cartels are vicious and battle for sales and territory all around the border and even into some more northern states as well. It seems that the drug violence increased greatly when Calderon took office in 2006. He made various statements and vowed to eliminate drug trafficking and end the war on drugs. This was met with drastic increases in drug violence in and out of Mexico, cartels grew and the war on drugs swelled even more. Police officers are bribed with large sums of money each day in order to overlook drug cartels and their operations to spread drugs around Mexico and the United States. As stated in the internet article “Mexico's Drug War' written by Brianna Lee, “Corruption and weakness in Mexico's judicial and police sectors have largely allowed the drug trade to flourish. The police are easily bought, in part because of their meager earnings (about $9,000-$10,000 a year), which fall below the average salary for public-sector