Persuasive Essay On Illegal Immigration
Illegal Immigration: Mexico/America Border Fence Illegal immigration between the U.S. and Mexico border has been an ongoing problem, long over due for a resolution. Many ideas and possible attempts to prevent illegal crossing of the border have failed. California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico are a few states that are heavily impacted by the large mass of illegal aliens crossing over into America. Some Americans argue that illegal’s are taking advantage of government aide, are criminals, and take away jobs. Loss of jobs is of huge to concerns for Americans with the economic situation we are in today. Since there are no legal record of illegal immigrants there is no accurate reading of the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. There is an estimate of 400,000 to one million illegal immigrants crossing the 2,000 mile border between Mexico and the U.S. annually, out of these illegal aliens, only 1.2 million get caught by border patrol.(Global Security) The statistics
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They pay taxes through things they purchase from stores, and in their rent. However some say that isn’t as near as much as the millions of dollars we are paying to support all the illegal immigrant families on welfare. The latest attempt to stopping illegal immigration, is to create a series of impenetrable barricades. So far this isn’t an effective way of stopping illegal immigrantsbecause one in four illegal immigrants is caught while trying to make it across (Global Security). The new fences that will be used to barricade stop illegal crossing of the border, the wall will be extremely expensive as well, the cost of just building it is $2 to $3 million dollars, but that jumps to a substantially to $16 million when you factor in paying for privately owned property(Nevins, Dunn, 2008). Parts of San Diego where the majority of illegal immigrants go through, there is a wall being built. It was originally
They pay taxes through things they purchase from stores, and in their rent. However some say that isn’t as near as much as the millions of dollars we are paying to support all the illegal immigrant families on welfare. The latest attempt to stopping illegal immigration, is to create a series of impenetrable barricades. So far this isn’t an effective way of stopping illegal immigrantsbecause one in four illegal immigrants is caught while trying to make it across (Global Security). The new fences that will be used to barricade stop illegal crossing of the border, the wall will be extremely expensive as well, the cost of just building it is $2 to $3 million dollars, but that jumps to a substantially to $16 million when you factor in paying for privately owned property(Nevins, Dunn, 2008). Parts of San Diego where the majority of illegal immigrants go through, there is a wall being built. It was originally