Arguments Against Illegal Immigrants

Immigrants, both legal and illegal, often have prejudice brought against them by citizens who know no better. An ongoing message in Aviva Chomsky's, “They Take Our Jobs!”: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration, is that many people hold to be “ not against immigration, but against illegal immigration” (Chomsky 53). Many Americans believe illegal immigrants to be criminals and they should pay for their crimes. In a case study of the Philippines it was shown that a nurse’s salary in the Philippines is around “$2,000 a year, while in the United States it’s around $36,000 a year” (Chomsky 145). Trained professionals are suffering and still denied U.S entry. On the other hand, some countries are simply so bad immigrants can't live in the conditions. In Colombia the “largest open-pit coal mine” (Chomsky 195), destroyed farming and those lives whose
To deal with the large numbers of undocumented immigrants in the country they propose mass deportations. However the feasibility of these deportations are often overlooked. In early years the director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Julie Myers estimated “to detain and remove 12 million people would cost at least $94 billion, more than twice the entire Department of Homeland Security 2008 budget” (Hatch 9). This estimate does not include the cost of relocation and the cost of court hearings. Altogether the costs would be even greater than these predictions. Despite tremendous costs, deportations of such magnitude would also have an impact on American communities. With the deportation of 12 million adults this would estimate “for every two adults deported after the recent raids, one child was left behind, the majority under the age of five” (Hatch 11). Mass deportations don't only have an immense physical cost but also an immense emotional cost as