With the many different groups of people coming to this country in search of a better
life, we should cut back on who we should allow to have citizenship. There are thousands
of immigrants coming to the U.S. every day. A lot of these immigrants are illegal aliens
coming to the U.S. to find jobs. Whenever we catch illegals crossing our borders, we
should send them right back and that would be the end of the story. Instead we are
bringing them to camps to wait until the government finds out what to do with them. With
so many immigrants coming over everyday, the U.S. lets people out of these camps and let
them into our society so we can fit the new people who are coming over here in the camps.
It is estimated that 4 million illegal aliens are living in the U.S. right now. That
means that the government has no idea who these people are or where they are. "Nobody
knows who these people are," said a Brownsville, Texas trailer-court owner Bob White.
"They could be terrorist, or bandits, or typhoid carriers" (Lamar 14). This is
why the U.S. government needs to spend more money and stop immigrants at the border. If
the United States didn't let any of these people in this country, we would still have
people without jobs. So its not like we need these people in our country. In Mexico 60
percent of its labor force is unemployed. So a lot of these people think that there are
jobs for them in the U.S., but there aren't.
In the first 4 months of 1988 400,000 illegal aliens were caught trying to cross the
border. That may sound like a lot, but 300,000 slipped through without being caught. That
means that over 40 percent of the people that try to get into this country illegally,
succeeded. If we get more agents on guard by our borders we could cut that number to a
tolerable level.
Some immigrants that come to this country legally that have a good education and can
work well are not a problem. The problem is that there aren't very many of these kind of
people that are trying to get into this country. Many immigrants are poor and just want
jobs to keep themselves alive or to support there family.
It is hard for illegal immigrants who can't prove that they are legal workers to find
jobs. Some employers know from the start that the person they hired is illegal and just
hire them because they will work for minimum wage or even less. To try to get voluntary
compliance to not hire illegals, the INS contacted 800,000 employers and gave warnings to
only 2,200 of these employers. Then out of the 800,000 employers who got contacted, the
INS only fined 100 businesses. Only one question comes to mind when you think about these
numbers, why didn't the other thousands of people get fined. Since it is hard for poor
legal immigrants to get jobs, they sometimes have to take hard, long, gardening type of
jobs. A lot of immigrants will do just about anything so they can eat and there family
won't starve.
Sometimes illegal aliens get fake I.D.s and the employer never knows they aren't
2 allowed to work. The Center for U.S.-Mexican studies at the University of California
in San Diego says that a quarter of illegal workers have purchased fake I.D.s.
The main problem that lets all of these immigrants come to this country everyday is
that we aren't doing much to stop them. But there is also another reason that these people
come to this country. Other countries are letting tens of thousands of people out of there
country and most of these people are coming over to the U.S. Moscow's emigration policy
lets out 50,000 people a year. Over the last seven years 100,000 Irish natives have come
over here on tourist visas and stayed after the time was up. Even though this is a problem
that these countries let out so many people a year, the U.S. should still just say no when
they arrive. As Mayor Bill Card says, " We have not been able to get the cooperation
and attention of the Federal Government" (Lamar 15)
When all of these immigrants come over to this country in search of jobs and can't find
any, sometimes they turn to crime. Deportable illegal aliens make up 26 percent of all
inmates in Federal prisons. 1 out of 4 illegal immigrants are in our prisons and we have
to pay for there stay there. If we get more security and never let these people get into
the country, it would save the government a bundle because they wouldn't have to pay to
keep building more prisons. The World Trade Center bombing just a couple of years ago had
immigrants linked in some way. This terrible incident would have never happened if they
were told to go back where they came from.
There has been argument though on how to get people to go back home. "We [the 3
U.S.] have no population policy" (Lamar 14) as a state department official commented.
These are the things America is going to have to work on over in Washington. The country
would be a lot better off if no one was allowed in. Though it is probably not possible to
stop all illegal immigrants to come, we can lower the number tremendously. Crime, the
economy, and unemployment would all benefit from keeping everyone out. " In some
fashion we've got to ignore the promise of the Statue of Liberty," Congressman Romano
Mozzoli says. " The U.S.'s moral responsibility to accept immigrants is not
unlimited" (Lamar 15).
