Alien Rights

Paper Summary:

The author explores the arguments surrounding the issue of illegal immigration and discusses its positive and negative effects on the United States. The paper looks at the costs in terms of employment, national security, health and social spending and diseases brought into the country. The paper also examines the benefits to the economy that supporters of illegal immigration attribute to these aliens. The author concludes with the opinion that the United States should not tolerate illegal immigrants crossing the borders to take advantage of employment, health care and educational opportunities.

From the Paper:

"There are an estimated 12 million illegal aliens living and working in the United States. None of them have any real fear of ever being detained or deported, because it is doubtful anyone is even looking for them (Seper 2004). Explains one veteran Border Patrol supervisor in Arizona, "If they can get by us - and a lot of them do - they know they can go underground, find a job and disappear, particularly in the several cities and towns across the country that have large Hispanic populations" (Seper 2004). In fact, an estimated 1 million illegal aliens flood into the U.S., and few draw attention once they pass through the border region (Seper 2004)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Dwyer, James. (2004 January 01). Illegal immigrants, health care, and social responsibility. The Hastings Center Report. Retrieved November 18 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
• Edwards, James R. Jr. (1999 March 20). What Rights For Illegal Aliens? The Washington Post. Retrieved November 18 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
• Murphy, Dean E. (2004 February 23). Imagining America without illegal immigrants: the millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. have long been a source of controversy. But what would life be like without them? New York Times Upfront. Retrieved November 18 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
• Pinney, Marcus. (2004 March 22). A constitutional dilemma: the conflict of the Title VII alien exemption clause with the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Houston Journal of International Law. Retrieved November 18 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
• Porter, Lakeisha. (2006 March 22). Illegal immigrant should not receive social services. International Social Science Review. Retrieved November 18 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.

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