Controlling Immigration to the U.S.
Controlling Immigration to the U.S.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...
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