Illegal Immigrants

Paper Summary:

In this article, the writer notes that an estimated 10 million illegal immigrants currently reside in America, having skirted medical check-in processes, perhaps occupying jobs that may otherwise be held by American citizens, and creating a drain on public resources. The writer discusses that approaches for dealing with the illegal immigrant crisis in America have varied widely, with some advocating giving illegal immigrants amnesty and others claiming they should be rounded up and forcibly evicted from the country. The writer maintains that the only real solution to America's current population of illegal immigrants is to legitimize their status and bring them in from the cold, but, in the long-term, legitimization is not practical. Illegal immigrants pose too many health, safety and economic concerns for the American border to remain permanently porous. The writer thus argues that America must get serious about building a border fence, deploying more border agents, or, preferably, both, in order to avoid the future implications of poor border security.

Outline:
Bringing Illegals in from the Cold
Stopping the Flow
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Granting amnesty to illegal aliens is a practical solution because of a simple fact often overlooked by deportation supporters -- rounding up and sending home millions of illegal immigrants is unfeasible. There are 10 million illegal immigrants in America today -- equivalent to 3 percent of the nation's population and 10 times the population of Maine -- and they are spread out. While illegal immigration is often considered a West Coast and Southwest problem, there are illegals in New York City, Chicago, the fruit-picking regions of the Northwest, and just about all spaces in between. The law enforcement effort required to deport 3 percent of America's population would be both cost prohibitive and impractical. Major cities, for example, routinely complain that they do not have enough police officers on the streets to fight crime, and if they turned their attention to illegal immigrants, they would be able to focus on little else. Quite simply, the mass deportation called for by anti-immigration hawks will never happen."

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